In the first three months of this year, the commission's model predicts growth of 0.1-0.4%, not far off the region's quarterly average of around 0.5%.
Figure 1 in the accompanying power point file (from the April 2011 Digital Storage Technology Newsletter, Coughlin Associates, www.tomcoughlin.com) shows historical quarterly HDD average sales prices (ASPs) from Q4 1998 through Q1 2011.
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This time, the average quarterly growth rate since the trough of the recession has been 0.35%.
One way to step back from this is to simply take the average quarterly growth for the past six months, which appears to have been 0.3%.
Lloyds TSB Scotland's report also found that the Scottish House Price Monitor, a quarterly index of average house prices adjusted for location, property type and season, fell from 290 to 287 between November 2012 and January this year.
Our quarterly revenue grew at average rate of 30% per quarter in 2005 and 2006.
When you run the company that stamps out the chips that power most of the world's PCs and servers--as Intel Chief Executive PaulOtelliniPaul Otellini does--you've got a whole lot more riding on your quarterly results than the average tech company.
In the three months ending July 2011, the quarterly price index for the average domestic property in Scotland fell by 3.7%.
The bottom two rows of the table clearly show that the return of the total portfolio (which, in this simulation, was rebalanced quarterly) exceeds the weighted average of the individual portfolio components.
As for Intel, their batting average on forecasting even quarterly revenues accurately is truly spotty.
Intel, in its latest quarterly earnings reported better than expected average selling prices (ASPs) for its notebook and server processors, led by a fast ramp up of its new Core product series and Nehalem EX series.
Behind-the-scenes factors, such as hedge-fund liquidations seemingly triggered by quarterly withdrawals, pushed the Dow Jones industrial average down 3.0%, or 300.11 points, to 9, 655.39.
However, in order to take advantage of the sharp increase in iron ore prices in the past few years, miners decided to move to a quarterly contract system, whereby the contracts would be priced based on the average price in the preceding quarter.
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It is the third consecutive quarterly loss for Alcoa, a component of the widely-followed Dow Jones Industrial Average, but the company's improving fortunes cheered shareholders.
Financial analysis of building material dealersDuring its quarterly conference call Monday, Home Depot said building materials and lumber were among product categories that outperformed average company comparable-store sales, according to a transcript of the call by Seeking Alpha.
My proprietary analytics show semiannual value levels at 4, 449 and 4, 129 with monthly and quarterly risky levels at 5, 279 and 5, 410, which suggest that the Dow Transportation Average will not return to its all time high at 5, 627.85 set on July 7, 2011.
The five-week modified moving average rises to 11, 402 with the annual pivot at 11, 491 and monthly and quarterly risky levels at 12, 091 and 12, 507.
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Year-to-date the Dow Industrial Average (13, 488.43) is up 2.9%, still shy of my quarterly risky level at 13, 668.
The yield on the 10-Year U.S. Treasury note ended last week above its five-week modified moving average at 1.600 confirming a trend towards higher yields, which should rise to my semiannual and quarterly value levels at 1.853% and 1.869%.
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