The percentage gaining a C grade pass was much lower - 37.9 per cent and 38.9 per cent respectively compared with an average of 61.7 per cent and 62.4 per cent.
The percentage gain is the largest since a 3.7percentt increase in 1991.
The company did not release a dollar figure, only the percentage gain.
So why do the percentage gains and losses tell such a different story?
In an article accompanying its report, the Chronicle noted that last year the percentage gains in contributions to donor-advised funds "outstripped the percentage gains of nonprofits like United Way and the Salvation Army that depend largely on middle-class donors".
While the percentage gain in the Nasdaq was reassuring, 14 of its top 15 days have come since March 2000, when the Nasdaq peaked.
The percentage gains in prices in the New York City area in the year that ended in October lagged behind the average increase statewide.
The percentage gain was the sixth quarterly increase in a row since the end of 2009, according to Kantar Media data, but it is the smallest of the six.
Nielsen Monitor-Plus, a division of the Nielsen Company, reported yesterday that spending for online ads increased 35percentt last year from 2005 — more than the percentage gains of the next four fastest-growing media categories combined.
"If we assess the effect of six weeks of HIT compared with as much as 20 weeks of traditional endurance training, the percentage gain in aerobic capacity is within the exact same range".
