Sentences with phrase «average fell less»

The Dow Jones industrial average fell less than 0.1 percent to 24,448.69.

Not exact matches

The last time oil averaged less than $ 2 for a full year was 2004, which was also the last time gasoline at stations in some states fell below $ 1 a gallon.

And if that weren't bad enough, the city's projected job growth falls short of the national average, so this could indicate a less - than - stable local economy over the next 10 years.

The average value of gas powered VW and Audi models fell less than 2 % during the same period.

But the average one lasts less than two months and out of all of them, 80 percent never become a bear market (meaning the market falls 20 percent from its peak).

And among the approximately 1,000 firms that buy back shares and report R&D spending, the proportion of net income spent on innovation has averaged less than 50 percent since 2009, increasing to 56 percent only in the most recent year as net income fell.

A beta of 1.00 indicates that the fund's returns will, on average, be as volatile as the market and move in the same direction; a beta higher than 1.00 indicates that if the market rises or falls, the fund will rise or fall respectively but to a greater degree; a beta of less than 1.00 indicates that if the market rises or falls, the fund will rise or fall to a lesser degree.

«Our equity holdings have fallen considerably as a percentage of our net worth, from an average of 114 % in the 1980's, for example, to less than 50 % in recent years.

The February report, however, did contain some less encouraging news on wages, with average hourly earnings weaker than forecast, sliding 0.1 % month - on - month compared with January's 0.5 % expansion, and the annual rate falling 0.3 % from the previous month to 2.2 %.

But the $ 12,480 will now buy 355 less barrels of oil (down 77 %), 27 less ounces of gold (down 66 %) and, despite a massive fall in house prices of 15.8 %, only some 6 percent of an average family home (down 33 %).

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.

In theory, you'd think people who still had $ 1 billion would feel proportionately less pain than the average Joe whose stock portfolio fell from $ 300,000 to $ 100,000 and suddenly he can't retire.

The unemployment rate has fallen less in NSW than in the smaller states, and it is now above the national average for the first time since the early 1990s, whereas Queensland's unemployment rate has fallen almost 2 percentage points to be the lowest across all states.

As a recent study conducted by Pew Research Center makes clear — and this is supported by other studies including a significant study released last fall, «A Survey of American Political Culture,» by Dr. James Davidson Hunter, who wrote the book Culture Wars — White Evangelical Protestants are not, as the Washington Post famously called them in 1993, «less affluent, less educated, and more easily led than the average American.»

I average at least 11 pumpkin pies every fall, and have been known to devour an entire pie myself in less than 24 hours.

And when they cut their average from 2.1 turnovers per game through 10 to 1.4 per game over the final five, things more or less fell into place.

Individuals with free access to electricity fell asleep later, and slept, on average, about 45 - 60 minutes less each night than those who relied exclusively on natural light (de la Iglesia et al 2015).

The cost of home insurance continues to fall compared to a year ago, with an average combined building and contents policy costing 79 pence a day - less than a litre of milk — the Association of British Insurers (ABI) said today.

The cost of home insurance has continued to fall for the first quarter of 2015 with an average combined building and contents policy now costing 79 pence a day - less than the price of a takeaway coffee — the Association of British Insurers (ABI) said today.

That is still less than the six - cent - a-gallon decrease they recorded in the national average (AP)- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says a special legislative session may be needed this fall...

But hey since the average time to crime rate per the ATF in the US is 14 years, the number of felons buying their firearms from licensed dealers continues to fall 1994 14 % to 2008 5.96 %, and the poster child of all gun control laws is enforced less than 1 % of the time, alowing all but 13,024 felons out of just under 1 million of those rejected to go free and acquire their firearms from an unlicensed source is such startling evidence of how INEFFECTIVE our legal system is.

New research shows that an over-the-counter sleep aid helps people suffering from occasional sleep difficulties fall asleep in less than 20 minutes, on average, and improves their reported quality of sleep.

In the few days before and after a full moon, people took an average of 5 extra minutes to fall asleep, slept 20 minutes less per night, and had 30 % less deep sleep, as measured by the EEG.

And in a two - week trial at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, published in 2014, volunteers who read on an iPad for four hours before bed reported feeling less sleepy, took an average of 10 minutes longer to fall asleep and slept less deeply compared with those who read paper books at night.

Experiments backed this up: Stable «spinners» had less drag on average than «floppers,» seeds that tumbled as they fell.

The price at which «everything becomes possible» If solar units could be installed for $ 1 per watt, the cost of solar energy would fall to 5 to 6 cents per kilowatt - hour, less than half the current average retail price in much of the country, according to DOE.

However, as the gap for all women shrank to 26 % in 1997, faculty women fell farther behind — as of last year they make 15 % less than the average man.

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.

Get enough sleep — if you have trouble falling or staying asleep, and average less than seven hours a night, there is a high chance that you are not producing enough HGH.

People also became less inclined to grant tenure to teachers, and, in those districts that scored below the national average, enthusiasm for teachers unions fell noticeably.

Utah's per - pupil spending fell by more than all but a dozen states during the latest economic slump, dropping the Beehive State — which already spends less per student than any other state — even further behind the national average, according to a new analysis.

However, though not terrible, the less efficient Forester models do marginally fall short of what rivals like the Kia Sportage and Hyundai Tucson can manage, with the least frugal Subaru's claimed 22 / 29mpg economy figures putting it at about average for a crossover of this ilk.

It's less likely to fall over backwards than your average laptop or netbook.

That runtime falls short of the tablet category average (7:06), and is less than the battery life on 7 - inchers Nabi 2 (8:05) and 2013 Nexus 7 (8:26).

On average, they took 10 minutes longer to fall asleep and displayed significantly less rapid eye movement (REM) sleep than the group reading printed books.

Our study shows that the average cost of home insurance in the city of Sioux Falls is $ 2,144 per year, which is $ 220 less than the state mean.

On average, someone with less than a grand to fall back on probably has absolutely nothing to fall back on.

Since its high following the ill - fated Dutch - auction tender in June, 2007, the price of [MGAM]'s Shares has fallen 66 % while comparable companies2, on average, are down considerably less.

In less than two weeks, the weighted average yield to worst of bonds in the index has fallen from 3.43 % to 3.10 % or a 33bp improvement.

Even though long - term returns may be higher on average for equity investments, there is a risk that the value of equity investments might fall at any time so your investment is worth less than the amount you paid for it.

«Our equity holdings have fallen considerably as a percentage of our net worth, from an average of 114 % in the 1980's, for example, to less than 50 % in recent years.

Hotels tend to be less expensive around this time of year, with rates averaging $ 275 compared with rates in the fall, when they can creep upwards of $ 300.

Winter months are rainy with the average amount being around 50 inches (130 cm), [20] Although rain falls in all months of the year, it is less pronounced in the summertime.

While it brings only an average - length single player shooter to the table, and graphics that fall short of the expectations laid out there by big - budget, triple - A «Hollywood» titles, it asks for less money in return.

During the Little Ice Age, the fall in average global temperature is estimated to have been less than 1 Â °C and lasted 70 years.

Model projections for precipitation changes are less certain than those for temperature.12, 2 Under a higher emissions scenario (A2), global climate models (GCMs) project average winter and spring precipitation by late this century (2071 - 2099) to increase 10 % to 20 % relative to 1971 - 2000, while changes in summer and fall are not expected to be larger than natural variations.

I used a 20 year rolling average to eliminate any Santer Clause trends (less than 17 years) from showing up in the graph as falling lines (hide the declines).

The increase is scheduled to take effect later this fall and will increase customer rates, on average, by 11 % (more for those in mansions, less for apartment dwellers).

One could argue that real SST measurements aren't quite so well - behaved, but it is possible to show (see Figure 11 of the HadSST2 paper, Rayner et al. 2006 for details) that the standard deviation of grid box averages falls roughly as one over the square root of the number of contributing observations and that the standard deviation for gridbox averages based on a single observation is a lot less than 10 degrees.

Coupled with the low and stable nature of electricity prices — which average $ 0.12 / kWh in the U.S. and can be significantly less for commercial and industrial users, falling to almost nothing when combined with local solar generation and storage — owners can expect to gain $ 200,000 or more in savings over a million miles based on fuel costs alone.