This announcement comes two days after fast-food conglomerate Yum! Brands, which operates Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco Bell restaurants, attributed better-than-expected third-quarter earnings to increased sales in mainland China.
That is better than expected and was attributed to better-than-anticipated results at AXA's life insurance business and its property and casualty unit, the company said.
David Johnson, the chief of the Census Bureau's household economics division, attributed the better-than-expected poverty numbers to increases in full-time workers over the last year.
It attributed the better than expected forecast - issued ahead of an investor day - to good growth from BA and the group's Spanish budget airline Vueling, which it took over earlier this year, as well as a recovery at Iberia.
To what do you attribute these better-than-expected sales?
But I attribute that better-than-expected performance to the fact that there has been increasingly more focus, even more this year than in recent years, on a very select list of large cap growth companies.
Khan has generally been an unimpressive performer on television and in the House of Commons, but it seems that there is more to him as an operator and organiser – although it is generous to him to attribute Labour's better-than-average vote in London in the general election to his skills, and "he never loses" sounds to me like hubris.
Specifically, an object pi is said to dominate another object pj if pi is no worse than pj on all quality attributes and better than pj on at least one quality attribute.
The company and several analysts attributed the showing, better than that of many competitors at a time of economic uncertainty, in part to ING's geographic breadth -- it does business in 65 countries -- and to the diversity of its businesses.
But they did indicate that further price cuts would be introduced during the current quarter to maintain BlackBerry sales Shaw Wu, an analyst at Sterne Agee, said he attributed RIM's better than expected financial performance to its success at collecting payments on outstanding bills.
Larry Sabato, a longtime Virginia political chronicler, attributed Cuccinelli's better than expected performance to Obamacare.
