"quarter" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- International Paper, for example, was the third-strongest Dow stock during the quarter, rising 8.4 percent, while Alcoa was right behind with a gain of 7.7 percent.
- The Dow Jones industrial average took back nearly a quarter of Monday's 70-point loss, rising 15.66, to 2,913.69, after soaring 25 points at the opening.
- Glancing back Peter saw the elegant new buildings of the Jewish quarter rising above the tops of the walls.
- These funds as a group rose by 17.67 percent in the year and 6.65 percent in the quarter, rising in December alone, on average, by 7.33 percent.
- Operating margins improved for the seventh consecutive quarter, rising to 15.1 percent from 8.8 percent in the year-ago period.
- That figure actually came in at 12.4 percent, with pro forma Ebitda in the quarter rising to $1.36 billion from $1.21 billion in the period a year earlier.
- Farm subsidies for the new entrants will start at just a quarter of the western levels, rising to parity only by 2013.
- Natural-resources funds, helped by higher oil prices, had a good quarter, rising 11.6 percent, according to Morningstar.
- Energy Net Doubles Operating earnings from the company's energy segment, including Marathon Oil, more than doubled in the quarter, rising to $338 million, from $166 million.
- But Seagram, the Montreal-based maker of liquors, wines and juices, said overall sales were flat in the quarter, rising only 2 percent, to $1.448 billion.
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