That way, channels are measured sequentially one at a time and they are all delayed slightly in time. This is fine for most applications but when the phase relationship of multiple channels is important, the time delay can cause system-level problems.
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We expect earnings to improve sequentially in 2006 predicated on higher copper and zinc price realizations.
Revenue increased year-over-year and sequentially. In particular, our international business continues to perform well, growing over 18 percent year-over-year.
Tobacco operating fundamentals sequentially strengthened from the first to the second quarter, and third-quarter performance generally retained that stronger momentum. Results are also particularly encouraging, in our view, given Kraft's continued weak and disappointing overall operating performance... Philip Morris USA is delivering an improved balance of market share and operating profit performance.
From the fourth quarter to the first quarter in the last two or three years, Yahoo has been sequentially flat. To see a 13-percent sequential jump in revenue is very strong. We think Yahoo is executing very well.
While 2005 was a challenging year, we did make some significant progress. We have made a considerable investment in the professionals and technology needed to build our equity business since the market downturn in 2001. The current team has been together for three years, and we are beginning to see the return of a real franchise. Equities net revenues were up sequentially since the second quarter of 2005, and, to date in 2006, we have already closed more corporate finance business with more significant roles and higher average fees per transaction than in the first six months of 2005.
The terrorists in the September 11 event had the patience to plan (and) the foresight and the understanding of the infrastructure that could be used to simultaneously or sequentially disrupt the infrastructure electronically and that could cause a major regional failure in this country. There's no question that that's doable.
Our third-quarter revenue growth was particularly impressive because this quarter is traditionally our seasonally slowest and has typically been down sequentially from the second quarter.
It looks like a miss on desktop with revenue in the Americas down 3.5 percent sequentially. That's unusual. Certainly this is a miss.
VITAS generated revenue growth of 18.8 over the prior-year period and 5.4 sequentially. Gross margins were 22.9 in the fourth quarter of 2005, a decrease of 60 basis points when compared to the prior-year quarter. The fourth-quarter 2005 gross margin includes 1.6 million in start-up losses, which is 0.1 million higher than the 1.5 million in losses from programs classified as new starts in the prior-year period. Central support costs for VITAS, which are classified as selling, general and administrative expenses in the Consolidating Statement of Income, totaled 14.1 million, including 0.1 million in OIG legal expenses. Excluding the OIG expenses, central support costs increased 7.8 when compared to the prior-year quarter and increased 2.5 sequentially.
Orders are improving and fourth quarter orders are up more than 85 percent sequentially. According to management, order timing should continue to improve and revenue levels for global sales are expected to increase for the fourth quarter.
We expect that average selling prices for the second quarter of 2006 will be flat to slightly up sequentially. We also expect that gross margins will continue to grow by between 50 to 100 basis points sequentially in the second quarter of 2006.
I feel that this is a potential disaster on several levels. They are reducing scholarly texts to paragraphs. The point of a scholarly text is they are written to be read sequentially from beginning to end, making an argument and engaging you in dialogue.
The global IT business sustained its momentum recording double-digit volume growth sequentially resulting in revenues (from the information technology business alone) for the quarter being 430.7 million dollars against our guidance of 422 million dollars.
We are pleased with the results of the quarter, particularly our ability to achieve revenue growth in what is usually a sequentially down quarter in our industry.