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Environment takes into account both physical and emotional factors, and the average number of hours worked each week; income considers mid-level salary and growth potential; outlook measures potential for employment growth and income growth, as well as unemployment rates; and stress takes into account 11 different factors including travel, deadlines, and interaction with the public.

Gross Domestic Product growth, which is, generally, the measure of goods and services produced in the economy, has hovered around 2 percent, not the 4 percent the Fed and other monetary experts believe is necessary for an economic expansion.

CNBC Rapid Update will offer new measures of how much an economic report changes the outlook on Wall Street for US growth forecasts.

In another field of opposition, Rome has been calling for new EU policies — particularly measures promoting growth — and an end to German hegemony.

We can account for this difference by measuring employment growth relatively to the overall level of employment in each country.

By measuring the size and growth rates of these rims, they were able to determine the length of time it took for an explosion to happen once the decompression phase had begun.

Management believes that organic growth is an important metric for measuring the operating performance of our business as it helps identify underlying business trends, without distortion from the effects of FX movements.

That pursuit of innovation is precisely the kind of behaviour that is a marker for long - term success, as measured by revenue growth, going public or being acquired and rolled up into something larger.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

After accounting for the impacts of measures and adjustments, the Sales Tax revenue base is projected to grow at an average annual rate of 4.3 per cent over the forecast period, roughly consistent with the average annual growth in nominal consumption of 4.0 per cent over this period.

For young companies, the Quick Ratio is purely a measure of growth, and therefore isn't nearly as interesting as looking at the Quick Ratio of more mature companies.

Unadjusted career average earnings will result in a smaller denominator than career average earnings that are adjusted to reflect wage growth, as in the C / QPP benefit rate calculation, and both are likely to be lower than a measure of best average earnings for people whose earnings are high relative to average earnings for limited periods of time.

But a continuation of favorable economic growth and low default levels — which we expect — and measured Federal Reserve tightening — which we also expect — should support more narrow high - yield bond spreads for some time to come.

Depending on a variety of metrics that measure a company's growth and development — for example, how it is acquiring and retaining customers, its revenue streams, and the amount of money it spends each month — the seed round may be followed by others.

Further, for our main measures (inflation, home price changes, and earnings growth) we also report the time series of forecast uncertainty.

The growth in asset purchases, whether measured in absolute terms or relative to GDP, is truly enormous, and is no doubt responsible for much of the shock and awe that UMP has attracted.

There are a multitude of reasons as to why this occurs but it's a powerful enough force that many investors have done quite well for themselves over an investing lifetime by focusing on dividend stocks, specifically one of two strategies - dividend growth, which focuses on acquiring a diversified portfolio of companies that have raised their dividends at rates considerably above average and high dividend yield, which focuses on stocks that offer significantly above - average dividend yields as measured by the dividend rate compared to the stock market price.

Instead of measuring the liquidation value of a company, it measures its zero - growth value, which is a better baseline for equity investors.

Earnings and earnings growth rates are the least reliable of all fundamental measures here, and should not form the basis for evaluating stocks.

It's important to understand that the USCI isn't a random concoction of data, but rather the gold standard for measuring current economic growth, as it summarizes the key coincident economic indicators used to determine the official start and end dates of U.S. recessions; namely, the broad measures of output, employment, income and sales.

Since earnings growth for the S&P 500 has never grown faster than about 6 % annually when properly measured from peak - to - peak or trough - to - trough, we're talking about a long term total return of about 7.2 % if - and it's a big if - P / E ratios were held at current extremes forever.

Figure 1 shows this value - destroying behavior in action for GE (GE) by comparing between the amount of money spent buying back shares and the price to economic book value (PEBV), a measure of the growth expectations embedded in the stock price.

For most of the public, the reputation of the Federal Reserve will continue to be measured mainly by our success in promoting economic growth with price stability, rather than by our interactions with educators and students.

As such, an equal measure of growth will generally result in a premium return for investors.

On balance, we do not believe that the November 2012 Update fiscal forecast was credible and coupled with the slowdown in economic growth in 2013, the possibility of a balanced budget for 2015 - 16 is seriously at risk, unless additional significant restraint measures are implemented.

For example, the dollar as measured by the Federal Reserve's broad trade - weighted index fell in the second half of the 1980s and soared in the 1990s, but both decades saw robust growth.

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This measure may slip for a time as we drop off some of the high quarterly growth rates from our calculations, but we think growth will remain robust over the next 12 months.

At home, the company's annual same - store sales growth in Canada — a measure of the performance of restaurants open for more than a year — have slipped from a high of six per cent in the mid-2000s to little more than one per cent last year.

That's partially because growth in real domestic investment is almost always associated with an expanding trade deficit (a regularity of the savings - investment identity - see Eating Our Seed Corn for more on this), and also because import growth drives other aspects of measured productivity growth, as explained above.

Continuously evolving security threats and growth in the air travel demand has been an area of concern for passengers that demand a hassle free experience such as long queues or intrusive security check measures.

One data point does not make a trend, but also take note of the fact that employment growth for June in the U.S. would bring the rolling average of job creation, as measured by the last few months, to less than 150,000.

The International segment reported a loss from continuing operations before income taxes of $ 1.3 million on a US GAAP basis and an underlying pretax loss of $ 1.0 million in the fourth quarter, versus a loss of $ 5.1 million for both measures a year ago, driven by the addition of the Miller brands, volume growth and positive pricing in Latin America and Australia, cost savings in MG&A, and cycling the substantial restructure of our China business in 2015.

It is not a perfect analogy but — except, of course, for the part in which analyses that use the number of bookshops as a proxy for literacy are widely ridiculed — it is nonetheless similar to what happens when the health of the Chinese economy is measured by the reported GDP data, or when second - order measures, such as the dependence of Chinese growth on debt, is estimated by looking at credit growth in relation to GDP growth.

Roadmap 2020 recommendations focus on six key areas: Measuring Economic Impact and Job Creation; Entrepreneurial Training and Support for Growth — including by entrepreneurial women of color; Innovation, Technology and Sustainability; Accessing Capital; Accessing Markets; and Building the Movement.

Minister Flaherty had done an excellent job of pre-conditioning on what to expect: a commitment to eliminate the deficit by 2015 - 16; no new «risky» spending; some funding for infrastructure and skills training; and further restraint measures to offset revenue losses due to slower economic growth in 2013.

The standard proxy for growth in debt - servicing capacity is GDP growth, but this is only valid in economies in which GDP growth data is a systems output that measures the underlying performance of the economy.

Basically, Mr. Flaherty is looking for suggestions on how to «strengthen our economy in the face of global economic threats»; with «cost - neutral or low cost measures», focusing on «more efficient and effective spending» that builds on the «government's belief of respecting taxpayers» dollars» and «encourages private sector growth and leadership».

Economic growth forecast for 2013 is comparable to that witnessed in 2012 while the incremental impact of restraint measures announced in previous budgets is estimated at about $ 5 billion, only slightly lower than that estimated for 2012 - 13.

A measure of home - price growth accelerated for the second straight month in March, rising faster than analysts expected and much faster than most b...

Value stocks, as measured by the Russell 1000 Index, outperformed growth stocks for much of the 28 years to the 2008 stock market crash.

Overall, however, the bulk of the evidence continues to suggest tepid economic growth with moderate but persistent inflation pressures, and the Market Climate for precious metals remains favorable on our measures.

That alternative, which Market Monetarists like David Beckworth, Lars Christensen, and Scott Sumner have been pushing ever since the Great Recession started, is for the FOMC to keep its collective eye, not on the inflation rate, but on the level and growth rate of nominal GNP — a measure of the flow of spending on goods and services in the economy.

More recently, wage growth has shown signs of stabilisation, with growth in the private sector wage price index unchanged for the past six quarters, while a broader measure of wage pressures, the growth in average earnings per hour, has picked up of late.

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Data through June 2012, released today by S&P Dow Jones Indices for its S&P / Case - Shiller Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, showed that all three headline composites ended the second quarter of 2012 with positive annual growth rates for the first time since the summer of 2010.

Absent growth, the only other option for restoring some measure of financial integrity and standard of living for its citizens is to enact fiscal and structural reforms and restructure the existing burdensome debt, with the long - term goal of putting the island on a sustainable growth trajectory.

Here are a couple of related ideas that are on my mind: ■ The fact that the UBC study measured higher percentage returns for BC at earlier stages of exit tells me that there is a problem with how the entrepreneurs and owners of tech startups (across all jurisdictions) perceive their chances of success through the later stages of growth.

Appeal was determined by the number of Google searches for property in the country in May 2014 and price growth was measured in both the short term (six months) and long term (12 month) using data from Knight Frank's Global House Price Index.

The re-assuring signs about China's economic growth, along with the absence of protectionist measures so far from the Trump administration, have helped create a better backdrop for many emerging markets in recent months.