Sentences with phrase «average over the past decade»

The cost of federal employees has risen rapidly, with total compensation per employee jumping nearly 5 % per year on average over the past decade, says a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute.

Both the cash rate and other variable lending rates remain below their averages over the past decade (Graph 66).

In the September quarter, this deficit stood at around 3 per cent of GDP, somewhat smaller than in the previous quarter, but still around 2 percentage points larger than the average over the past decade.

The spread between 10 - year bond yields and the cash rate is currently around 45 basis points, compared with more than 100 basis points on average over the past decade (see the chapter on «Assessment of Financial Conditions»).

On the $ 500 million structural deficit created by the budget Walker signed Sunday, he said, it's «realistic» that Wisconsin will experience annual growth of about 3.1 percent, which is the average over the past decade.

The PE ratio for the S&P 500 currently sits at 21 versus the average over the past decade is closer to 17 (see chart below).

Land - use changes, such as deforestation and fires, comprised 11 % of total emissions in 2017, marginally down from the 13 % average over the past decade.

Minnesota mortgage rates have remained below the national average over the past decade.

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Over the past decade, public stock markets have outperformed the average venture capital fund and for 15 years, VC funds have failed to return to investors the significant amounts of cash invested, despite high - profile successes, including Google, Groupon and LinkedIn.

Chriss pegs growth in the contingent work force to structural changes in employment over the past decades, including a decline in enrollment in defined - benefit pension plans and growth in the average duration of unemployment.

Over the past three decades, companies less than five years of age have added an average 1.5 million new jobs annually, while older firms have tended to just shed jobs.

But van Beurden has been slimming down his portfolio of oil projects with the intent of keeping only those lean enough to make good returns in a world in which oil prices average no more than $ 40 a barrel, well below the average price over the past decade.

Biogen is among companies that have been singled out for criticism in recent months; the Wall Street Journal called out the company for hiking the price of MS drug Avonex — 21 times, and at an annual average rate of 16 % — over the past decade.

San Diego financial planner Andrew Russell points out that some of Bush's active funds with complicated investment strategies — like Wasatch Long / Short Investor (FMLSX), with average annual returns of 3.2 % over the past decade, and Wells Fargo Advantage Absolute Return (WABIX), up 4.7 % — have lagged plain vanilla index funds.

Over the past decade, as the value of the average Canadian home doubled, and tripled in some areas, rents remained stable or even declined.

For instance, we found that Canadian Pacific Railway paid an average effective cash tax rate of just 1.8 % over the past decade.

The raw figures tell the tale: net migration to Ontario, for example, has averaged 82,000 annually over the past decade, and reached 141,000 last year.

The ratio has previously been this low only six times during the past two decades; whenever that happens, stocks have rallied over the next year by more than 50 %, on average.

Of course, the move would also cost them billions in revenue — the FCC estimates that the average American household pays $ 231 in set - top box rental fees per year, a number that's only gone up over the past couple of decades.

«We can get a glimpse of what may be in store for the United States by looking at Japan, where in a somewhat frightening parallel, economic growth has averaged 0.9 % annually over the past two decades, and just 0.7 % in the 2001 to 2010 period,» BlackRock's paper says, though Koesterich adds that U.S. demographics are considerably better than Japan's.

On average, debt - to - equity ratios have been on the rise over the past two decades.

That's a downward revision of 0.1 percent, smaller than the 0.3 percent average adjustment over the past decade and much too small to change our understanding of how the economy as a whole is doing.

NerdWallet's 2017 household debt study shows that several major spending categories have outpaced income growth over the past decade; many Americans are putting medical expenses on credit cards; and the average indebted household is paying hundreds of dollars in credit card interest each year.

To conclude, over the past decade and in a very volatile world, Australia has achieved the inflation target, avoided a major economic downturn, seen remarkably little variability in real economic activity in the face of enormous shocks, experienced a fairly low average rate of unemployment, and had a stable financial system as well.

This scenario also assumes that Southwest's spending on working capital and fixed assets will be 4 % of revenue, which is the average change in invested capital over the past decade.

Over the past decade, the cleaning industry has grown an average of 6.6 % each year, making it one of the fastest - growing occupations in the United States.

This specification provides a clear benchmark as an anchor for long - term expectations — and the average rate of inflation over the past decade was 2.7 per cent.

Over the past decade, productivity growth has declined from a post-war average of 2 % to a growth rate of just 1 % annually, with growth of just 0.5 % annually over the past 5 yeOver the past decade, productivity growth has declined from a post-war average of 2 % to a growth rate of just 1 % annually, with growth of just 0.5 % annually over the past 5 yeover the past 5 years.

As seen in the table below, average venture fund sizes have more than tripled over the past three decades rising from $ 53.7 million in the 1980s to $ 179.7 million in the 2000s.

Local television news programming has shed audience over the past decade, but it still garners more viewers on average than cable and network news programs.

Again, getting back to Olive Garden, I mean obviously it's been discussed just the absolute average check of the brand, that the increases that have been taken in pricing over the past decade even to your own admission did begin to make you expensive relative to maybe what customers wanted to pay relative to the peers.

«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.

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.

Has Modern Portfolio Theory failed to deliver over the past decade because users employ long - term averages for expected returns, volatilities and correlations that do not respond to changing market environments?

CAPE essentially refers to the ratio of current price to average annualized earnings over the past decade.

While the appreciation of the Australian dollar over the past year or so has restrained commodity prices in Australian dollar terms, they remain close to their average of the past decade.

For reference, SENEA's invested capital has grown on average $ 54 million (4 % of 2016 revenue) per year over the past decade.

Employment has grown at an average annualised rate of 3.4 per cent over the past six months, compared with an average of 2.1 per cent over the past decade.

The company's combined ratio has averaged 95 % over the past decade, reflecting that Markel has been paying out only $ 0.95 in insurance losses and operating expenses for every dollar of premium it takes in.

Over the past decade, Southwest Airlines» average effective tax rate has been 38 %, which includes applicable state and local taxes.

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.

Over the past decade, household debt in Australia has grown at an average annual rate of just under 15 per cent.

The main impetus to this increase has come from China's demand for resources, with resource exports having grown at an average annual rate of 15 per cent over the past decade (Graph B2).

According to the Investment Company Institute, over the past decade, the average expense ratio of actively managed equity funds has declined 21 basis points.2 With participant protection front and center from a regulatory perspective, there is a lot more riding on the investment decisions made by plan fiduciaries.

The ratio of income payments to exports remains near its average over the past two decades, at 17.9 per cent.

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.

This is still higher than the average pace over the past decade, which itself was a period of rapid growth in credit in comparison with nominal GDP.

Fixed lending rates on housing and business loans have also risen over recent months in response to higher bond yields, although they too remain below the average of the past decade.

While the measured participation rate has been quite volatile over the past year, in recent months it has stabilised at around 63 3/4 per cent, a little above the average of the past decade.

Looking back through history, whenever value stocks have gotten this cheap, subsequent long - term returns have generally been strong.3 From current depressed valuation levels, value stocks have in the past, on average, doubled over the next five years.4 Not that we necessarily expect returns of this magnitude this time around, but based on the data and our six decades of experience investing through various market cycles, we believe the current risk / reward proposition is heavily skewed in favor of long - term value investors.