Sentences with phrase «average of recent years»

The overall strength in demand for credit, combined with the fact that interest rates remain slightly lower than the average of recent years, continues to suggest that the current policy setting is not inhibiting the growth of the economy.

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Recent news that the top 1 % of Canadians earn an average $ 381,000 a year might make you envious.

These traders are «looking for the VIX index to continue declining from its recent year - to - date high and settle back nearer its 10.79 July / August average,» Ihor Dusaniwsky, managing director of predictive analytics at S3, wrote in a client note.

The 1,900 - kilometre proposed pipeline has been in limbo for more than seven years, awaiting a series of U.S. reviews that have dragged on more than five times longer than average, according to a recent Associated Press analysis.

A recent working paper from the University of Oxford reports that every Olympics in the past 50 years has gone over budget, with an average increase of 179 %.

According to a recent survey by Standard Media Index, which tracks national ad spending on broadcast and cable, TV upfront sales rose by an average of 5 % in May compared with last year — and cable on average saw a 10 % rise in upfront revenues.

And while various troubling social factors, including unequal access to health care and the impact of the opioid crisis, have stalled the growth of the average U.S. life expectancy in recent years, odds are that America's higher earners will live longer — maybe much longer — than they expect.

A year prior respondents on average said 15 percent of their sales would come from discounts, however in the most recent survey that number jumped to 26 percent.

While more people died in air accidents in 2014 than the average in recent years, the number of fatal accidents compared with the total number of flights was a record low, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

While some skepticism arose over the search fund model in its early days, continued success (and average returns north of 30 percent) has led to significant growth of the category in recent years.

A recent Bank of Montreal note pointed out the percentage of businesses reporting difficulty hiring in the Bank of Canada's business outlook survey is 25 %, well below the 15 - year average of 35 %.

The deaths of Brown and Garner made national headlines, but according to a recent report by the FBI, there was an average of 96 cases per year, from 2006 to 2012, of a white police officer killing a black person.

Wildfires have gotten worse in recent years because of climate change, and that trend is expected to continue as Earth's average temperature rises.

That said, Apple does have a history of building lower - cost devices geared toward the average consumer, especially in recent years.

In general, so - called value stocks — often defined as those trading at earnings multiples below the market average or their own historical norms — have tricked a lot of investors in the most recent phase of the current bull market, which has worn on nearly seven and a half years.

A recent study found that McDonald's was slower than ever in 2013, averaging 189.5 seconds, the slowest average speed of service for the burger chain in the last fifteen years.

In fact, new grads are projected to have higher salaries across all 10 degree categories ranging from business to humanities from just last year, when graduates earned an average of $ 51,022, according to a recent survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

Yet earnings as a share of national income have surged to near records, hitting 9 % in recent years, 50 % over their pre-2008, long - term average of 6 %.

Provided their salaries aren't disrupted, this year's 30 highest - paid players are set to earn roughly $ 258 million, or an average of $ 8.62 million per player, according to recent figures from CapGeek.com.

«Turning to more recent history, since 1950, the average intra-year drawdown for the S&P 500 during the first calendar year of a new Fed chair has been 15 %.»

According to company founder and Vice Chairman Steven Neelman, the health account industry is growing at an average rate of 20 percent annually, while his own company has seen its annual revenue increase about 40 percent in recent years.

Recent and current buyers are expected to pay through the years the equivalent of 420 to 450 weeks of labour time to finance their mortgages — that's eight to nine years worth of labour time at the average weekly wage.

This is the Adjusted Income Available to Common Stockholders for the most recent fiscal year plus Discontinued Operations, Extraordinary Items, and Cumulative Effect of Accounting Changes for the same period divided by the most recent fiscal year's Diluted Weighted Average Shares Outstanding.

Equity markets have appreciated sharply in recent years, and valuations, based on price - to - earnings ratios, in developed markets were not cheap relative to their historical averages as of late 2017.

These, and other recent data, are consistent with the Reserve Bank's central scenario for GDP growth averaging around the 3 per cent mark over the next couple of years.

Of course, in recent years, stock prices have grown much faster than earnings and dividends, driving the P / E far above its historical average and the dividend yield (D / P) far below its historical average.

What will make this recession worse than average is not the fact that a couple of additional industries are affected, but that the extreme speculation and excessive debt of recent years will propagate the effects of this downturn through the financial system.

Business investment has been a major driver of growth in recent years, expanding by 18 per cent over the past year, and at an average annual rate of 14 per cent over the past three years.

Looking at the recent past five years, Motley Fool found an average 401 (k) return of just over 7 %.

Oil prices have already dropped to around $ 80 a barrel and, according to a recent forecast by Goldman Sachs, could average only $ 75 by the second half of next year.

In 2016, the most recent year of available statistics, housing accounted for 36.5 percent of average annual expenditures at age 75, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

«The [U.S. Department of Energy] expects the Obama administration's recent drilling moratorium to cut U.S. production by an average 70,000 [barrels a day] next year, which is equal to only about 1 per cent of current OPEC spare capacity.»

A recent Fidelity Investments analysis of 401k participants who have salaries below $ 150,000 per year but $ 1 million or more in their accounts revealed that they save an average of 14 percent of their salaries.

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.

Although incoming BUDS candidates in recent years are physically fitter, the attrition rate still remains around the historic average of 75 %, thus leading psychologists to determine that it not physical might that prevails through BUDS.

Aldi, for instance, opened nine stores in Houston last spring, and in a recent press release announcing a major expansion to Southern California, the company noted it's been adding an average of 80 new stores every year.

(A recent study by three Boston University researchers found that patent trolls have cost publicly traded companies an average of $ 83 - billion annually over the past four years, more than a quarter of all U.S. industrial research and development spending during that period.)

One recent forecast for the Phoenix housing market suggests that home prices will rise at a more modest, but historically average, pace of around 3.5 % over the next year.

«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.

Much of the recent growth in margin debt has reflected an increase in the average loan size, which has risen by around $ 13,000 to $ 107,000 over the past year.

A recent study, published on Market Watch of over 15,000 consumers found that the average American will run out of retirement funds, other than state and occupational pensions, around 14 years into retirement.

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.

In a recent statement, they predicted that «mortgage rates will increase gradually through 2016 in response to monetary tightening, averaging 4.4 % for the year,» and perhaps reaching 4.7 % by the end of 2016.

Households» inflation expectations over the year ahead, as surveyed by the Melbourne Institute, have shifted up from an average of 3 3/4 per cent in the second half of 1998 to around 5 per cent in recent months (Graph 40).

A recent MetLife survey * highlighted how this choice shakes out when it comes to retirement: One in five retirees who took their pension or defined contribution plan, such as a 401 (k), as a lump sum depleted it in an average of 5 1/2 years.

The aggregate balance of ES accounts rose as high as $ 5.5 billion on 23 August, compared with an average balance of around $ 750 million over recent years (Graph 3).

It's a question that SCOR SE investors may be asking, after extensive recent turnover has caused the average tenure of independent directors to drop in half, to 2.7 years, since 2012.

HERERA: Mortgage rates were undeterred by some of the recent moves in the bond market, according to Freddie Mac, the average 30 - year fixed rate rose just slightly to 4.42 percent.

A recent study found that the average wedding last year cost $ 31,213, and 45 % of couples spent more than they budgeted.

Returns around 12 % pa over 25 years, clearly recent returns measured in sterling have been flattered by the relative strength of overseas currencies, (with a mostly global equity portfolio) Its interesting that since starting in 1990 my cumulative returns have always averaged around 12 % pa from 1990 (with the exceptions of major dives in 2001/2 and 2008/9).