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How to use the word year-on-year in a Sentence?

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The economy is in trouble, with second quarter GDP growth likely turning negative year-on-year. A significant change of macro policy is necessary to turn the economy around, we will observe the actions from the government in the next few weeks and update our view accordingly.

Zhiwei Zhang

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's an unprecedented crisis in terms of its complexity, year on year the amount of funding has increased and yet we see humanitarian needs also increasing, so I think we need to change the model, reduce humanitarian dependence and focus more funding on early recovery and resilience efforts.

Syria Ramla Khalidi

Found on CNN
2 years ago

My back-of-the-envelope playbook is that we’d need a headline year-on-year number north of 5.5% to really set this market ablaze, we know inflation will be transitory – it’s a question of how long it takes for the year-on-year change to head back to 2%.

Chris Weston

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

We know inflation will be transitory – it’s a question of how long it takes for the year-on-year change to head back to 2%, a number below 4.5% on the headline print and we should see USD/JPY and USD/CHF under pressure.

Chris Weston

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

The consumer price index hit its lowest point during the coronavirus crisis in the same month last year. This, combined with strong recent price growth in some specific areas, meant that the year-on-year inflation figure was inevitably going to be big.

Cailin Birch

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I would say that energy consumption is going to make a very healthy recovery and probably continue on an above-historical year-on-year level.

Jay Tatum

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We saw a gradual return in user search activity to more commercial topics throughout the quarter, followed by an increase in spending by advertisers, this resulted in an improvement in year-on-year search revenue trends during the quarter, with search revenues essentially flat to last year by the end of June.

Ruth Porat

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It's a tough slap in the face for ByteDance as they were growing 50 % year-on-year in India.

Greg Paull

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We think this virus is likely to be one that comes back year on year and becomes like a seasonal virus and communities will become immune to it and that's going to be an important part of controlling this longer term, 60% is the sort of figure you need to get herd immunity.

Patrick Vallance

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Although the series of annual levels of CO2 have always seen a year-on-year increase since 1958, driven by fossil fuel burning and deforestation, the rate of rise isn't perfectly even because there are fluctuations in the response of ecosystem carbon sinks, especially tropical forests, overall, these are expected to be weaker than normal for a second year running.

Richard Betts

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Although the mobile market in general will soon enter a period of a strong year-end seasonality, demand is expected to keep trending down year-on-year due to persistent uncertainties in the global macro environment.

Lee Jong-min

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

There is the potential for Q2 U.S. crude exports to Asia to be higher year-on-year if the WTI/Brent spread remains in the range it has in recent months and with the lower freight rates, there are a few variables, though, with the ongoing U.S-China trade war and the potential for the waivers for Iranian crude exports to Asian countries to not be extended.

David Arno

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

2016 marked the first time in over two decades that malaria cases did not fall year-on-year despite huge efforts and resources, suggesting we need more tools in the fight.

Andrea Crisanti

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

By any measures you can see the number of children elevated blood lead levels have gone down. they’ve gone down year on year since we have been collecting data separately by housing type for children in New York City.

Health Department

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The big driver behind U.S. resilience is that tech has been strong, expectations are pretty high for the earnings season, with talk of 20 percent earnings growth year-on-year.

Rory McPherson

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Next year we will invest as much as we've done in the last 3-4 years. Because the activity is just doubling year on year, and there is a real need we can help address, so it leads us to invest.

Nicolas Brusson

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The recent bounce of construction commencements now points to a recovery ahead, indeed, our detailed analysis of government budgets implies that public capex/investment could potentially jump by 15 percent year-on-year in the 2016/17 fiscal year, which is well above our current forecasts.

Scott Haslem

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

They are quite strategic, they won't flip their portfolios around tactically year-on-year ... but we are seeing some fine tuning.

Alex Millar

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Shale productivity gains remain a key driver of our long-term deflationary outlook for oil prices, our analysis of shale productivity... (are) broadly in line with our expectations for 3 percent to 10 percent yoy (year-on-year) increases.

Goldman Sachs

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Shale productivity gains remain a key driver of our long-term deflationary outlook for oil prices, our analysis of shale productivity... (is) broadly in line with our expectations for 3 percent to 10 percent yoy (year-on-year) increases.

Goldman Sachs

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We and the industry are facing unprecedented headwinds, for example from interest rates, which have pressured net interest margins in all of our businesses and from macroeconomic and political uncertainties that have contributed to huge risk aversion among our clients, industry activity levels in investment banking advisory have slowed markedly year on year, and, while equity volumes in the US are buoyant, flat volumes in Europe and sharp declines in Asia do not favor our geographic mix.

Sergio Ermotti

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Chinese oil demand growth, the largest single contributor to world oil demand growth, may begin to flatten more quickly than some long-term projections indicate, this could result in world oil demand growth falling from its 2000-2016 trend of 1.1 million bpd year-on-year to only 800,000 bpd ... by 2024.

Deutsche Bank

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The economy is slowing down. This is true globally, this is not true for our market, we believe over the next five years, plus 10 percent growth year-on-year in already the world's second biggest market is a very cautious assumption.

Fabrice Bregier

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The momentum remains weak this year, with less than 5 percent of year-on-year growth in 2016, the global economic outlook is still sluggish, and Taiwan is losing out to Chinese rivals. A wild card is how strong the demand will be for the new iPhones Apple is set to launch in March.

Hsu Kuo-An

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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