Sentences with phrase «average fell nearly»

The Dow Jones Industrials Average fell nearly 200 points in late day trading.

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Still, even if you take out the Obama Trauma, in which the stock market fell nearly 13 % following the current president's election in 2008 — and, to be fair, the country was in the middle of a financial panic — the average return in a month following the election is 0.4 %.

It also gradually phased out subsidies that kept retail fuel cheap, causing prices at the pump to climb by an average of nearly 25 % since 2014, even though global oil prices fell by as much as 75 % during that period.

The Dow Jones industrial average briefly tumbled more than 1,500 points Monday into correction territory, or 10 percent from a recent high, but closed 1,175 points lower after falling nearly 666 points Friday.

On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average initially fell a record 1,100 points before closing down nearly 600 points.

In that instance, the earliest warnings were from weakness in utilities and corporate bonds, but the percentage of stocks above their own 200 - day averages didn't fall below 60 % until the market itself was already down nearly 10 % from its high; less than two weeks before the crash.

Since the iconic iPhone maker was added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average on March 18, shares have fallen a massive 17 %, wiping out nearly $ 100 billion in market cap as investors have become increasingly worried about China's economy, slowing iPhone sales and mixed enthusiasm about the Apple Watch.

But Navy's scoring average fell by nearly two touchdowns per game in 1998, and the Midshipmen went 3 - 8.

The pay increases, as the state struggles with budget cuts and falling revenues, average 6 percent and are worth nearly $ 1 million on an annual basis, payroll records reviewed by The Post show.

«Average pay packets have fallen by nearly ten per cent over the last three years — eroding the spending power of households and eating away at the value of savings for those families still fortunate enough to have them,» he said.

Although the average consent rate within each donor service area, when accounting for the race / ethnicity and other factors among the eligible deaths, was between 75 and 80 percent, the consent rates fell below 70 percent in nearly a quarter of the donor service areas.

By the end of the Pleistocene, when the last great ice age ebbed, other human ancestors were gone, humans had settled the Americas and long - range weapons like spears and arrows were common — and the average mass of mammals had fallen from nearly 100 kg (220 pounds) to less than eight.

REUTERS — Oct 5 — The average number of monthly visitors to U.S. newspaper websites rose by nearly a third in the first half of 2006 (to 55.5 million: Nielsen / / Netratings), though print readership at some larger U.S. newspapers fell.

Among schools where high - SES students fall back around 0.2 standard deviations relative to the state average between third and fifth grades, there are some schools where low - SES students lose only around 0.1 standard deviation of relative ground, and others where low - SES students lose nearly 0.4 standard deviations of relative ground.

Nearly 100 years of research has estimated that after the summer slide, the average student loses a little more than one month's worth of skill or knowledge in math and reading by the time school resumes in the fall.

Then, after a year of coursework, including an average of nearly 500 hours of practice in schools, most can seek out jobs running their own classrooms by this fall.

If water were priced to reflect this scarcity, Trucost's analysis suggests that company profits would fall by nearly 27 %, on average — with certain sectors significantly more exposed (see Exhibit 1).

It's been accurate 10 out of the 13 times it has sounded in the past 50 years, and on those 10 occasions the market has proceeded to fall an average of nearly 20 % further after the Bear Alert sounded.

Ten - year forward average returns fall nearly monotonically as starting Shiller P / E's increase.

Houston's jobless rate fell nearly a full point during the year ended in November 2017, from 5.2 percent to 4.3 percent, still higher than the U.S. average.

In New York, the Dow Jones average of 30 stocks was up 17.33 points at 16,531.43, after falling nearly 400 points on Thursday.

Credit card interest rates drop to 14.87 percent — Feb. 25, 2015: Average rates on new card offers fell Wednesday for the first time in nearly two months, according to the CreditCards.com Weekly Credit Card Rate Report.

The national average annual percentage rate (APR) rose to 15.18 percent Wednesday after falling the previous week for the first time in nearly four months.

Credit card interest rates fall to 15 percent — Jan. 29, 2014: Average rates on new card offers dropped this week for the first time in nearly six months.

Average credit card balances fell by nearly 2 percent (1.7 percent total) in the first quarter of 2013, compared to the same time last year, according to TransUnion.

A year after finishing first in our rankings, Nintendo saw its average Metascore decline by nearly five points and its percentage of games receiving positive reviews fall from 56 % to just 41 %.

On average in the United States, the amount of rain falling during the heaviest 1 percent of rainstorms has increased nearly 20 percent during the past 50 years — almost three times the rate of increase in total precipitation.4, 5 The Midwest saw an even larger average increase of 31 percent, surpassed only by the Northeast (at 67 percent).4 Scientists attribute the rise in heavy precipitation to climate change that has already occurred over the past half - century.6

Nearly one year after Hurricane Sandy ravaged the East Coast, the 2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season has not produced a single land - falling hurricane in the U.S. Instead of having above - average storm activity, as the seasonal hurricane outlooks unanimously called for, the season has been quiet — notable for its inactivity.

The gift that is American energy is seen in some key numbers: domestic crude oil production reaching more than 9 million barrels per day last month, the highest level in more than two decades, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA); total U.S. net imports of energy as a share of energy consumption falling to their lowest level in nearly 30 years during the first six months of this year; gasoline prices dropping to an average of $ 2.47 per gallon last week, their lowest point since May 2009, according to the Lundberg Survey Inc..

The average number of workers at U.S. coal mines fell 10.5 percent to nearly 80,4000 employees from 2012 to 2013, a drop of nearly 9,500 workers, according to the agency's latest data.

The paper questioned whether climate change was dangerous for polar bears and whether the region was warming at all, even as NASA reported that the 2007 minimum sea ice levels were at an all - time low, falling to nearly 40 percent below the 1979 - 2000 average.

A prolonged, record - breaking, and unusually «muggy» heatwave enveloped nearly all of California for multiple weeks, and temperatures have only fallen back to average over the past few days.

As the Earth warms, the amount of rain or snow falling in the heaviest one percent of storms has risen nearly 20 percent on average in the United States — almost three times the rate of increase in total precipitation between 1958 and 2007.

Or nearly 24 % lower than the average premium for drivers in Cuyahoga Falls.

U.S. stocks fell hard on Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average shedding nearly 600 points on news of possible Chinese tariffs on U.S. - made goods.

Over the first week of January 2018, total market capitalization exceeded $ 800 billion for the first time, but over the following four weeks (January 8 - February 4, 2018) total market capitalization fell from $ 822.5 billion to $ 442.8 billion (as of February 4, 2018, based on the average figures from coinmarketcap.com), i.e. it was nearly halved.

Meanwhile, mortgage delinquencies have fallen to 5.88 percent — nearly half of their peak rate but still higher than the national average of about 2 percent, Freddie notes.

In fact, the latest NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ® survey found that residential companies» profit levels in 1993 — 94 fell by nearly 70 percent on average from levels reported in 1990 — 91.

Unless these challenges subside, RCG forecasts that affordability will fall by an average of nearly 9 percentage points across all 75 major markets between 2016 and 2019, with approximately 5 million fewer households able to afford the local median - priced home by 2019.

New research from the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) finds that while average spending in retirement falls in the first two years in retirement, nearly half (45.9 percent) of retired households actually spent more than they did just before retirement.