Sentences with phrase «average rose sharply»

The Dow Jones industrial average rose sharply on Wednesday, closing above 23,000 for the first time, after tech giant IBM reported better - than - expected quarterly results.

Not exact matches

The rise would have been even more pronounced except that the average workweek and the labor force participation rate declined unusually sharply (Charts 13 and 14).

Further reinforcing my thesis that the average household has largely reached a point of «saturation» on the amount of debt that it can support, the Federal Reserve reported that credit card delinquencies on credit cards issued by small banks have risen sharply over the last year.

Since the March agreement between major oil producers to cut production, oil prices have risen sharply; in October the crude oil price averaged US$ 22.63 per barrel, up from an average of US$ 12.00 in February.

If an aver - age household today produces more than twice as much labor in hours as an average household did 25 years ago, and receives only a fraction more in real income, then obviously the value of labor has fallen — even while the productivity of labor in the same period has risen sharply.

«Over the last decade we have made substantial progress in narrowing the gap between children from disadvantaged backgrounds and the rest - the average achievement for those pupils has risen more sharply than for others,» she claimed.

Alarmingly, unemployment after a postdoc rose sharply, from 4 % and 2 % in 2008 and 2010, to 10 % in 2012 — mirroring the current average unemployment rate in the European Union and slightly above that in the United States.

The long - term average rate of sea - level rise in Hampton Roads is about one foot per century, but that pace has accelerated sharply recently, which makes it challenging to gauge future rates of change.

«Our main conclusion is that geophysically - forced variability in wind and solar generation means that the amount of electricity demand satisfied using wind and solar resources is fairly linear up to about 80 % of annually averaged electricity demand, but that beyond this level of penetration the amount of added wind and solar generation capacity or the amount of electricity storage needed would rise sharply.»

During the expansion of teacher collective bargaining in the mid-twentieth century, economists from Harvard and the Australian National University found, the average, inflation - adjusted salary for U.S. teachers rose modestly — while «the range of the [pay] scale narrowed sharply.»

While summer maximums have showed little trend, the annual average Arctic temperature has risen sharply in recent decades.

Temperatures often rise sharply in May before the onset of torrential monsoon rains but scientists say average temperatures are only likely to rise in the years ahead as a result of global warming, with damaging effects on health and productivity.

«Climate science» as it is used by warmists implies adherence to a set of beliefs: (1) Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere; (2) Human production of CO2 is producing significant increases in CO2 concentration; (3) The rate of rise of temperature in the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented compared to the rates of change of temperature in the previous two millennia and this can only be due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations; (4) The climate of the 19th century was ideal and may be taken as a standard to compare against any current climate; (5) global climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing.

Because tree ring temperatures disagree with a sharply rising instrumental average, climate scientists officially dubbed this the «divergence problem.»

«Although the Earth's average surface temperature rose sharply by 0.9 degree Fahrenheit during the last quarter of the 20th century, it has increased much more slowly for the past 16 years» In the last 25 years 1980 - 2014 it has increased 0.9 F (0.5 C) too, but he didn't say that, and it is more relevant.

Monthly inventory is at a historically average level, down sharply from last year, which may signal a modest rise in prices on average.

Mortgage rates rose sharply last week, with the average rate for a 30 - year home loan climbing nearly 40 basis points.

Mortgage debt was up sharply in 2017, rising to an average $ 201,811 per borrower from $ 196,014 in 2016, which Experian says is a reflection of the quick run - up in home prices.