The company said total year-to-date sales for the 35 weeks ended Sept. 30 increased 17% to $1.635 billion.
Bradley Sertz, a spokesman for Audi, says the company considers itself in a good position, even though it's down 23% for total year-to-date sales.
Shares in Navient have fallen about 5percentt since Congress unveiled its plan on Dec. 16, bringing its total year-to-date drop to about 45percentt.
Still, the network continues to chase Fox News in across-the-board ratings, and at the same time must fend off MSNBC, which so far has enjoyed a 20percentt jump in total year-to-date viewers over last year--thanks in part to the popularity of its late-night "doc block," which often features grisly true-crime narratives and repurposed Dateline programming.
These invest in a variety of properties, meaning they have had a decent 26% total return year to date.
With Monday's flurry of transactions -- which also included a big oil-drilling deal and a large credit card disposition by Bank of America -- worldwide M.& A. volume totals $1.8 trillion year to date, a 31 percent increase over last year at this time, according to Thomson Reuters.
The two combined, at £511m, makes up the lion's share of the £696.6m total for the year to date – nearly half of the £1.4bn reaped last year.
In the first three quarters of 2013, Series A rounds have amassed $5.43B, nearly surpassing the 2012 total of $5.96B while year to date Angel investments of $545M are well under the $707M total of last year.
And it paid out a $2.4 billion dividend to G.E., bringing its total payouts for the year to date to $5.4 billion.
Technology companies announced 26,321 layoffs in July bringing the total to 101,044 for the year to date.
Ticket sales for the year to date total $2.06 billion, a 13 percent decline from the same period a year ago, according to Paul Dergarabedian, a box-office analyst for Hollywood.com.
