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After six quarters of recession and ten quarters of rising unemployment, this levelling off in unemployment is relatively good news.
After a management shake-up and a switch to a strategy of less deeply discounted pricing, the company posted 13 consecutive quarters of rising profits.
Now, after four consecutive quarters of rising sales and profits and dropping costs and debt, investors, analysts, even competitors, are finally agreeing it is so.
After several quarters of rising credit losses stemming from the bankruptcies of Enron and other companies, the amount of corporate loans charged off by J. P. Morgan was lower than in the first quarter of the year and in the second quarter of 2001.
Its retail outlets have now posted eight consecutive quarters of rising sales.
After three quarters of rising investment at early through growth stage, VCs have cut back in the fourth quarter of 2017.
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The company has just completed its eighth straight quarter of rising profits, the stock price has bounced back from an all-time low, and the paternalistic culture the Wallaces fostered -- the company commuter buses, the free turkeys at Thanksgiving, the rides home for sick employees in the Wallaces' limousine -- is just a memory.
Tesco says its growth plans are on track after it reported a 10th consecutive quarter of rising sales.
Of course, a second quarter of rising earnings after six quarters of declines is good news, and the new administration's tax policies will certainly help earnings.
Oracle, whose hostile bid for rival PeopleSoft has been rebuffed by that company's board, said Thursday that its fiscal fourth-quarter net profit was up as it booked its second straight quarter of rising year-on-year revenue.
So long as they get one more quarter of rising profits, one more term in office, they don't care.
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