Sentences with phrase «accelerate the decline in»

The U.S. Treasury Department's floating - rate notes may generate strong investor demand given a scarcity of money - market securities and a looming debt limit that's accelerating a decline in bill supply.

«We see an accelerating decline in coastal species over the last 1,000 years, resulting in the loss of biological filter capacity, nursery habitats and healthy fisheries,» notes team member Heike Latze, also of Dalhousie.

Paying your obligations off early accelerates the decline in your utilization ratio, which then improves your rating.

Sadly, the crackdown feels like too little much too late, particularly given the accelerating decline in the porpise population, which is estimated to be fewer than 100 now mainly through acoustic surveys tracking vocalizations.

There is much that can still be done to reduce future climate impacts, and those efforts will depend far more on how quickly we can accelerate declines in the carbon intensity of the global economy than on what target we pick today for eventual warming.

The pattern of accelerating decline in Arctic sea ice has been to create an ever lower U shape in September.

The red «exponential» line best fits the accelerating decline in ice volume.

Lukovich and Barber; 4.6 million square kilometers; Heuristic The absence of a distinctive transition in spring of 2009, between cyclonic and anti-cyclonic circulation in the stratosphere (characteristic of years with record lows in sea ice extent), suggests that dynamical contributions will contribute to but not accelerate the decline in sea ice extent in September 2009.

Recession accelerates the decline in EU greenhouse gas emissions - News — EEA The exceptionally deep recession of 2009 affected all economic sectors in the EU.

So, scientists do not think that icebreakers play a significant role in accelerating the decline in Arctic sea ice.

So unless there is expectation of massively accelerated decline in the next decade, that 50 % figure won't hold up.

Since last year there has been an accelerating decline in activity, especially at the upper end of the price scale, being above R8m in Gauteng and above R18m in the Cape.

This fall was largely linked to an accelerated decline in 90 + past due loans, which dropped 20 % year - over-year compared to 11 % last quarter.

Not exact matches

Since 2000, wages have been stagnant or in decline for a majority of workers, a trend now accelerated since 2007.

Feelings about short - term economic prospects accelerated in January after declining sharply the month before.

According to Acadata and LSL property services and reported by Bloomberg, the average price of a house in London was down 2.7 % on the year in September, the decline accelerating from a rate of 0.7 % in August.

«After two quarters of slight improvements, pay TV subscriber declines appear to have accelerated markedly in 1Q17,» UBS analysts led by Doug Mitchelson wrote in a note Wednesday.

But the sales declines are only accelerating: in the first three months of 2014, North American revenue fell 21 % and Wall Street analysts are not expecting any better when Avon reports second - quarter results in late July.

Echelon is now focusing its growth on «smart» commercial & municipal LED lighting (although its fab-less chip business has apparently now stabilized after a long decline), and if the lighting business accelerates (and it could, due to recent sales force hires and new products), I think there's a chance it can hit a break - even annualized revenue run - rate of $ 40 million by Q4 - 2019 (pushed back from my earlier hoped - for timeline) at which point — assuming $ 14 million of remaining net cash (vs. an estimated $ 18 million at the end of Q2 2018) and 4.7 million shares outstanding (vs 4.52 million today), an enterprise value of 1x revenue on this 53 % gross margin company would put the stock in the mid - $ 11s per share.

That's too bad, because private equity is accelerating a decline that will be felt by millions in every major city.

Europe also joined the decline that was accelerated by a spike higher in the Euro, the European Central Bank is rumored to be confident with the market's rate hike expectations.

And our share performance has held while theirs has accelerated in decline.»

Emsi's article STEM Majors Are Accelerating in Every State, Just as Humanities Degrees Are Declining covers the rapid increase in the number of college student graduating with STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) majors.

In short, bad policy could mildly slow coal's decline, good policy could radically accelerate it, but no policy could stop or reverse it, short of nationalizing the energy sector.

Obviously, assorted crash analogs have by now gone out of the window — we already noted that the market was late if it was to continue to mimic them, as the decline would have had to accelerate in the last week of March to remain in compliance with the «official time table».

The pace of change in our economy and our culture is accelerating — fueled by global adoption of social, mobile, and other new technologies — and our visibility about the future is declining.

Further, the state sees its production decline accelerating though May and into the summer, given the drilling plans of Bakken producers like SM Energy, which planned to reduce its rig count in the play starting in May.

The annual rate of decline accelerated for the third month running to a severe pace, with the respective index at its fourth - lowest level in eight - and - a-half years of data collection.

In Wesfarmers department stores division, Kmart's sales growth accelerated while Target's decline slowed in the March quarteIn Wesfarmers department stores division, Kmart's sales growth accelerated while Target's decline slowed in the March quartein the March quarter.

In my view, the most likely accompaniment to economic weakness would not be a decline in nominal rates, but somewhat accelerated inflation (meaning that real interest rates might very well fall to negative levels), and possibly substantial weakness in the U.S. dollaIn my view, the most likely accompaniment to economic weakness would not be a decline in nominal rates, but somewhat accelerated inflation (meaning that real interest rates might very well fall to negative levels), and possibly substantial weakness in the U.S. dollain nominal rates, but somewhat accelerated inflation (meaning that real interest rates might very well fall to negative levels), and possibly substantial weakness in the U.S. dollain the U.S. dollar.

Since then, public investment in emerging economies — particularly China — has accelerated rapidly, unwinding this long - term decline.

While the above reflected a misplaced assessment by the lender of the borrower's ability to service the loan, the decline in underwriting standards which appeared to accelerate around 2006 reflected a conscious decision on the part of mortgage originators to lend to those who previously had been judged to be unable to service the loan.

«Tree damage is likely to accelerate the decline of the coconut production in the Philippines,» said Jason Wong, a research analyst at Euromonitor, in an email.

Bed Bath & Beyond's top - line trends in the fourth quarter were better than expected, but at the same time gross margin declines accelerated from 174 basis points in the prior quarter to 213 basis points, Benedict said in a note.

The pound fell 1 % after the announcement while yields on United Kingdom government bonds declined, aided in part by concerns expressed by the MPC that the uncertainty surrounding Brexit will continue to weigh on domestic activity, which has slowed even as global growth has accelerated.

In fact, exporting goods from Canada declined by 7 % over the same period as manufacturing growth from Canadian foreign affiliates grew by 20 %, and these trends are projected to accelerate.

it is easy to see a scenario in which the dollar would continue or accelerate its decline, a scenario in which the fed has to abandon its hopes of tightening and return to qe - infinity.

Was it the equity rout in Chinese shares that has accelerated the commodity price decline?

The rate of decline remained modest but accelerated slightly, reflecting a sharper contraction in France and slower growth in Germany.

However, Major General Manuel Quevedo has only accelerated the decline of PDVSA, which once held a reputation as one of the better managed state - owned oil companies in the world.

If you follow global financial trends, you would have noted the continual (and recently accelerating) decline in the slope of the US yield curve.

In early June, however, the Australian dollar's fall accelerated, causing it to decline even against the yen, which was itself falling sharply.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

Over five million manufacturing jobs were lost just during the eleven - year period following the turn of the millennium, which indicates that the decline has accelerated in recent years.

Similarly the decline of Christianity which began with the early Caliphate in Persia was greatly accelerated with the ruthless persecution of Christians by Tamerlane.

CCA is understood to have done internal modelling on the impact of the price rises, which could accelerate a multi-year decline in volumes for carbonated soft drinks, but has not released its forecasts.

Anheuser - Busch InBev's Bud Light bore the brunt of accelerating volume declines in US mainstream lager last year, new analysis has shown.

This decline in egg quality only accelerates after a woman turns 35.

Studies to date have examined familial clustering of risk behaviors linked with accelerated weight gain in children, psychosocial consequences of obesity in children, parenting strategies that promote active lifestyles in children, and developmental and contextual factors that explain declines in adolescent girls» physical activity.