Sentences with phrase «average level over»

Note that the average level over the eleven - plus years that I was able to get data is very close to zero.

Measured in real terms, variable loan rates are as much as 1 percentage point below their average level over the past five years, and up to 2 1/4 percentage points below their average since the early 1990s (Graph 65).

The rate has averaged around 36 basis points, about 25 basis points above its average level over the analogous year - ago period, when the target range was zero to 25 basis points.

Not exact matches

To the average reader of a business magazine, these may seem like ridiculously simple questions, but Lusardi and Mitchell's research over the last few years shows that, in general, you can not count on even this base level of knowledge about how money works.

TD expects international potash prices to average close to their current level of US$ 305 to US$ 320 per tonne over the next two years, but said they will be volatile.

When examining the IWM over the past two years, Nathan noted that group is nearing a key technical level at its 200 - day moving average.

In 2016, employers gave retirement matches averaging 4.6 percent of worker pay more than double the level of 2009 and a large increase over 2015 s 3.8 percent,...

Over the same time period, average condominium apartment selling prices remained in line with 2012 levels, it said.

The average yield on the 10 - year Treasury note over the past 30 years is 4.834 percent, still well above current levels.

Only 35 percent of HR professionals rated their organization's bench strength — the supply to fill critical leadership positions over the next three years — at any level of strength (slightly strong, strong, or very strong) and, on average, only 43 percent of positions could be filled by an internal candidate immediately.

Generally this suggests about the same low level of layoffs in April as for the previous eight months (employment gains averaged 253,000 per month over that period).

However, over longer horizons a constant cash rate assumption may be less plausible, particularly when interest rates are far from average levels.

If the severity of the downturns is reduced and the economy operates with a smaller output gap, then the level of income over time is, on average, higher.

In the process of doing so, the 40 - week moving average subsequently transforms from a paramount support level to a major area of overhead resistance that is tough to push through (especially when the 10 - week moving average begins to roll over as well).

At the current level of 5.5 per cent, the cash rate is in line with its average over the low inflation period since 1993.

New jobs need to continue to average 200,000 a month for another year to lure them back, and nominal wages must actually increase over and above 2 % to get back to 2012 and all the way until 2020 to approach levels of 2008, and again that's allowing for half of the lower participation for retiring boomers.

The Australian dollar has remained in a relatively steady range over the past couple of years, at levels that are a little above average against the US dollar and about 10 per cent above average in trade - weighted terms.

The inflation target in Australia is defined on average over the [business] cycle, which, if taken literally, suggests that it may be interpreted as a price - level, rather than an inflation - rate, target.

If the starting point is the annual level of employment for 2014, employment would need to be 1.2 % per year on average, similar to that recorded over the June 2009 to September 2015.

Thankfully, economist Josh Bivens, who wrote about all of the above for CBPPs full employment project, figured out that if x were, say 1 percent — i.e., if average compensation grew 1 percent faster than productivity growth — it would take over eight years for the gap to get back to its pre-recession level.

The expectations component of the survey generally remained stable as well, although the average likelihood of applying for all types of credit over the next 12 months decreased slightly from their June levels.

With $ LULU below key horizontal price support of the $ 60 level, its 40 - week moving average, and recently below the 10 - week moving average as well, the stock could suffer a pretty ugly sell - off over the next several months if broad market conditions continue to deteriorate.

It seeks (1) to provide a level of current income that exceeds the average yield on U.S. stocks generally and (2) to provide a growing stream of income over the years.

What we were really providing investors was a level of discipline that few individual investors can muster over time — by adopting a long term asset allocation strategy and using low cost investment vehicles, our long term performance was always going to be better than the average individual investor who tends to time markets and chase performance, with little understanding of the costs they are incurring.

What we find here is that the 10 - month change in our economic activity composite is significantly, though imperfectly, related to employment growth over the following two months, above or below the average level of job growth over the preceding 10 months.

First, make sure in budget planning that the debt level averages around 30 per cent of GDP (roughly where it is now) over the next four years.

With $ EWS, notice that volume has been tapering off over the past two weeks, and the 10 - day moving average of volume is at its lowest level since March 2012.

A common criticism leveled at your analyses has been that you predicted, if the PRC maintained its current fiscal practices, growth would average around 3 % per year over this decade.

«While average selling prices have not climbed back to last year's record peak, April's price level represents a substantial gain over the past decade,» said TREB president Tim Syrianos.

But even if America's future average economic growth is as steep as optimists believe, say just over 4 % a year, the current level of share prices implies that profits will rise even faster.

If five years from now the yield simply returned to its level of a decade ago (and just in case you think I'm cherry picking, over the past 25 years it has averaged a 7.5 % yield and at the low in 1981 was twice that), bond investors would suffer a meaningful loss of capital.

Homeownership tends to encourage spending on durable goods and hence its depressed levels could explain why real U.S. consumption growth over 2011 - 2017 has been much weaker (by about half a percentage point annualized every quarter) than the pre-recession average.

Latin America Equity Fund allocations to Brazil and Mexico, which hit their highest level since mid-3Q13 and lowest since 4Q13, respectively, coming in March, rolled over during the final month of the first quarter with the latter seeing a small gain in its average weighting.

Commodity prices have changed little on average over recent months and remain at high levels; the RBA Index of Commodity Prices fell by 0.8 per cent in SDR terms over the three months to January to be 10.2 per cent higher over the year.

Non-mining investment, in contrast, grew by 10 per cent per annum, on average, over this period, and as a share of GDP it rose to around its average level since 1980.

At today's level of CAPE, we have to plan for lower average returns over the next 10 years.

Based on past relationships, and assuming crude oil prices remain around the October average level, this increase in crude oil prices would directly increase the CPI by a little over 0.6 per cent.

The Reserve Bank has moved early to raise the cash rate to levels that deliver interest rates for borrowers and depositors more like those that have been the average experience over the past 10 to 12 years.

Despite the exchange rate appreciation, prices in Australian dollar terms have also increased significantly over the year to be well above the average level of the past decade.

US corporate spreads narrowed modestly over the three months since the last Statement, from levels already well below historical averages (Graph 16).

It is the central premise behind inflation targeting, and central bankers — essentially without exception — assert that they have the capacity to affect or even determine inflation in the long term, but that they do not have the capacity to affect the average level of output, much less its growth rate over time, even though they may have the capacity to affect the amplitude of cyclical fluctuations.

The S&P has not had huge moves over the past year, and with an average SPX historic volatility of 8.6, an average VIX level above 15 might be difficult to maintain.

While this represents a 37 percent increase over 2016, it was the second - lowest investment level in the past 10 years, and is 15 percent lower than the past 5 - year average investment of $ 109.8 billion.

At its current level, the real trade - weighted index is around 3 per cent above its average over this period.

While the 25 basis point increases in November and December have brought the cash rate closer to its average level of the past ten years — a period in which the economy has recorded average annual growth of 3.9 per cent — the rate still remains slightly below the average over this period (Graph 66).

House approvals are well below the average levels observed over the past couple of years, and the Housing Industry Association series of new home sales — which are commitments to build — is below levels of a year ago.

On Thursday, the S&P 500 pushed to a strenuously overbought level, with over 90 % of S&P 500 stocks above their respective 50 - day, 20 - day and 10 - day averages.

Lending rates are also below average, reflecting both the level of the cash rate and the compression of interest rate margins over the past decade.

Profits after interest have tended to decline over the past couple of years, reflecting the impact of the 1994 interest rate increases and a tendency for corporate leverage to increase, but they remain at high levels compared with historical averages; they can be expected to receive a further modest boost as interest - rate reductions in the second half of last year begin to feed through into profit results.

For purposes of this paragraph, the term «general level of short - term interest rates» shall be defined as the average value over the preceding six - week interval of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's benchmark Broad Treasury financing rate on overnight repurchase agreements»