Sentences with phrase «below average point»

For example, PointSavers for categories 6 - 9 tend to have a below average point value but still higher than the standard reservation value.

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«All else equal, a man who is 25 pounds below average weight is predicted to earn $ 210,925 less across a 25 - year career than a man who is of average weight,» Judge and Cable point out.

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 %.

So were the average GMAT scores of its entering classes, which tended to range near 600, more than 100 points below the best schools, which typically report scores in the 700 - plus range on an entrance test where the highest possible score is 800.

That is, when debt service ratios are calculated using the discounted mortgage rates actually charged by banks (about 125 percentage points below posted rates), the average Canadian homeowner is paying just 25 % or so of income on mortgage payments, far below the 32 % benchmark used for mortgage - insurance qualification.

Yet the TD Economics report points out that it is actually below the 14.2 % long - run average for youth, going back nearly four decades.

Despite rising 0.3 points last month, the National Federation of Independent Business Small Business Optimism Index remains below its pre-recession average, mired in what the association's economists call its «recession range.»

With the economy either at or beyond full employment and the consumer price index — a measure of the inflation in consumer prices — at 2.1 percent, the real 10 - year interest rate is 0.4 percent, Jones explained, roughly 300 basis points below the historical average.

Historically, unemployment has fallen below 5 % before a market top, and a recovery will have been going on for an average of 58 months at that point.

But the average rate on the 30 - year mortgage has jumped more than a full percentage point since May and was 4.57 per cent last week — just below the two - year high.

Although their services are superior and more innovative than many of the personal job search services offered in the industry, they are offering their programs at two different economical price points well below market average.

Across the top 10, the average unemployment rate is 5.1 %, a full point below the average across all small cities, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2013 American Community Survey.

Frank Holmes of U.S. Global Investors points out that the price of gold bullion has rarely fallen below its 200 - day moving average over the past 10 years — like it has recently.

In 1970, Canada's manufacturing - to - GDP ratio was 6 percentage points below the average of members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

An analyst with Marketwatch points out that Apple's stock price action has produced a «death cross», in which the 50 day moving average crosses below the 200 day moving average.

In general, a drop in consumer confidence by more than 20 points below its 12 - month average has accompanied the beginning of recessions;

Points raised in the blog post include the following: - In Canada, public social spending as a percentage of our GDP is well below the OECD average.

As the article chart below shows, McKinsey is forecasting that the average annual equity returns over the next 20 years will be between 1.5 and 4.0 percentage points lower than they were in the past 30 years.

If we assume that disposable household income is currently half of GDP, eight years of real GDP growth of 6.9 % and real disposable household income growth of 7.7 % will only raise the household income share of GDP to 53.1 % in 2023, a little more than 3 percentage points higher and still below its 21st Century average and leaving China as dependent as ever on investment and the current account surplus.

We should also see a significant pick up in the number of stocks hitting new 52 - week highs versus stocks falling to new 52 - week lows... If anything, the only point of concern we have with the current buy signal is that the major averages (S&P 500, Nasdaq, and Dow) are still trading below their 50 - day moving averages.»

The U.S. sale from the reserve was expected at some point but the timing of the purchase shows that refiners need supply now because even with the increase in supplies this week, oil supply are below the average range for this time of year.

The salient points are (I) inflation is below target and expected to remain well sub-target for the next 5 10 20 and 30 years; (II) it has been well below target and Fed forecasts for a decade suggesting great skepticism about models that predict acceleration (iii) the 2 percent target is supposed to be an average so inflation should sometimes exceed it especially after a long shortfall (iv) if the 9th year of expansion with unemployment approaching 4 percent is not the time for above target inflation when will that moment ever come?

That said, the headline index pointed to only a marginal pace of improvement and the latest reading was still below the average since the survey began in late - 2010 (53.0).

A decline much more than 2 % below that average could provoke coordinated exit attempts by trend - followers, at valuations nowhere near the point where value - conscious investors would be eager to absorb those shares.»

Bitcoin is nearing a so - called «death cross» — the point when the 50 - day moving average falls below the 200 - day moving average, CNBC...

When the sentiment index is more than one standard deviation above (below) its historical average, monthly returns average -0.34 % (+1.18 %) for the value - weighted market and -0.41 % (2.75 %) percentage points for the equal - weighted market.

With a PE of 12, several points below the historic average, you can get away with being right about either future earnings or future PE.

Cattle prices are trading below their 20 and 100 - day moving average as the trend is negative as we have dropped about 2000 points since late February.

They also warn that because of extended zero - interest policy by the Fed, security valuations have advanced to the point where prospective nominal total returns on a conventional portfolio mix are likely to average well below 2 % annually, with negative real returns, over the coming 12 - year period.

With the exception of 1986, and the 1987, 1990 and 2009 lows, which were moderately but not severely below longer - term historical norms, every point in this chart is «above average» from the standpoint the longer historical record.

PICTURED ABOVE AND BELOW: The City of Seattle is averaging about 750 new townhome and single - family home sales per year, but is witness to a diminishing number of sales at price points below $ 750,000, with no such new home sales occuring in 2018 below $ 500,000 — not surprisingly, the median home prices are riBELOW: The City of Seattle is averaging about 750 new townhome and single - family home sales per year, but is witness to a diminishing number of sales at price points below $ 750,000, with no such new home sales occuring in 2018 below $ 500,000 — not surprisingly, the median home prices are ribelow $ 750,000, with no such new home sales occuring in 2018 below $ 500,000 — not surprisingly, the median home prices are ribelow $ 500,000 — not surprisingly, the median home prices are rising.

Capacity utilization was at 76.4, two percentage points below the long - run average.

Nonetheless, at around 65 basis points, the slope of the yield curve remains below its medium - term average (Graph 67).

Bill's main point here is that with the exception of the 1973 - 1974 bear market, the downturns that ended at single - digit price - to - peak earnings multiples also started at below - average multiples.

The major banks» average 3 - year fixed housing rate is currently 6.60 per cent, 45 basis points below their average standard variable rate.

Small caps (Russell 2000) and to a lesser extent Nikkei and EM equities in stocks all have below - average vol and correlations today to S&P 500; makes index hedges cheaper, although the lower level of realized volatility means consensus is looking for an even better entry point to buy equity vol.»

Likewise, one finds that virtually every point of significant overvaluation was systematically followed by below - average total market returns over a 10 - 12 year horizon.

We would be more compelled if this was accompanied by a drop in consumer confidence of 20 points or more below its 12 - month average, which typically accompanies the beginning of recessions.

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).

On average, the harmonised measure has been 3/4 of a percentage point below the retail series, although the differential between these measures has widened recently.

Among the evidence that would shift our expectations in this regard would be: material equity market deterioration, further weakness in regional Fed and purchasing managers indices, a slowing in real personal income, a spike in new claims for unemployment toward the 340,000 level, an abrupt drop in consumer confidence about 10 - 20 points below its 12 - month average, and at least some amount of slowing in employment growth and aggregate hours worked.

This percentage is above the 5 - year average of 64 %, but below the percentage at this same point in time for Q4 2013 (86 %).

On either measure of real cash rates shown here, they are well below the average of the second half of the 1980s; they have declined since their most recent peak in 1995, but remain above the low point reached in 1993/94.

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).

However, it is still 20 basis points below the average for 2017.

«Buying a company below its historic average or intrinsic value (as that is how low quality businesses will often be valued when they are close to the nadir of their capital cycle) is a good starting point for any investment and has a track record of producing excess long - term returns» Marathon Asset Management

The USH traded in a below - average 2 - 20 point weekly range and settled up 16 - ticks on the week and down 10 - ticks on the session at 152 - 09.

He glorified something completely average about my husband and I — actually below average — to make his glorious point.

The two talking points that are likely to reoccur throughout 2017 are: 1) will (what we believe to be) a pretty much balanced market slip into undersupply if harvests continue to come in average or below, and 2) how will political events affect exchange rates?

After his production and playing time fell this season — he was averaging 11.0 points and 8.3 rebounds per game, both below his career averages, and had missed 17 games with injuries — he told the rebuilding Sixers that he wanted to play for a contender.