Sentences with phrase «called a rate increase»

It's called a rate increase and we know that Banner Life has announced that at some ages that can be as high as a 9 % jump.

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A study of increases or decreases in rates of a disease across years, calculated for groups of people, is called an ecologic study.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he had directed the Justice Department to propose a ban on devices that modify guns, such as so - called bump stocks, which increase the rate of fire of semiautomatic firearms.

Gordon is curious about an untested policy called «price - level targeting,» which would refocus monetary policy on achieving an absolute increase in prices over time, rather than the current emphasis on the rate of change.

The so - called smart money is focused on currencies over bonds in anticipation of the Fed's long - awaited interest rate increase.

These risks and uncertainties include, among others: the unfavorable outcome of litigation, including so - called «Paragraph IV» litigation and other patent litigation, related to any of our products or products using our proprietary technologies, which may lead to competition from generic drug manufacturers; data from clinical trials may be interpreted by the FDA in different ways than we interpret it; the FDA may not agree with our regulatory approval strategies or components of our filings for our products, including our clinical trial designs, conduct and methodologies and, for ALKS 5461, evidence of efficacy and adequacy of bridging to buprenorphine; clinical development activities may not be completed on time or at all; the results of our clinical development activities may not be positive, or predictive of real - world results or of results in subsequent clinical trials; regulatory submissions may not occur or be submitted in a timely manner; the company and its licensees may not be able to continue to successfully commercialize their products; there may be a reduction in payment rate or reimbursement for the company's products or an increase in the company's financial obligations to governmental payers; the FDA or regulatory authorities outside the U.S. may make adverse decisions regarding the company's products; the company's products may prove difficult to manufacture, be precluded from commercialization by the proprietary rights of third parties, or have unintended side effects, adverse reactions or incidents of misuse; and those risks and uncertainties described under the heading «Risk Factors» in the company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10 - K and in subsequent filings made by the company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission («SEC»), which are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.

Another measure being studied is to remove a mechanism that currently increases interest rates as time elapses — the so - called step - up margin interest rate.

And, because flex workers are better qualified to help customers, they generate more income per call through increased sales conversions, greater average order sizes and higher customer satisfaction rates.

Giving a recipient more than one call - to - action reduces rather than increases your response rate.

«The reason I am calling is to save you money, lower your rate, show you a way to increase sales.»

Asked about the trend of media companies becoming less inclined to license TV shows to Netflix — for example, Hulu won exclusive rights to NBC's «This Is Us» — Sarandos called out as an example teen drama «Riverdale» on The CW, which saw its ratings for season two increase 400 % versus the first season.

Some investors are now making calls that the euro zone's central bank could end its massive bond - buying program by the end of next year, with a potential rate increase in the fourth quarter.

It also found the program actually increased jobless rates in B.C. and Alberta., which Kenney calls home.

«At the December meeting the median participant called for three rate increases in 2018,» Powell said Tuesday in response to a question during his testimony.

The question lingering on investors» minds is how many rate increases the central bank intends to implement until the end of the tightening cycle, and if it was willing to raise rates above it its so - called neutral rate.

The Update incorporates the October average private sector economic forecasts and an increased «adjustment for risk» for 2011 - 12 to 2013 - 14, as well as an increase in employment insurance rates of only 5 cents (employee rate) for 2012, rather than the 10 cents set in legislation As a result, the balanced budget target is delayed from 2014 - 15 to 2016 - 17, prior to the inclusion of the Targeted Strategic and Operating Review Savings (now called «Deficit Reduction Action Plan Saving Target»).

In the US and Europe, deflationary pressures increase the ability of central banks to loosen monetary conditions, and because too many economists assume too easily that what is likely to be true in the US must be true everywhere, deflationary pressures in China are unleashing calls for lower interest rates and greater credit expansion in China.

By comparing the rates at which each country's diverse boards outperformed male boards with the country's GDP, the firm estimated what it called the «opportunity cost,» or the increase in business profits the country might have earned if all businesses had at least one female executive directors.

Swanson backed the calls heard from others for increases in welfare and EI rates, and expressed hope that some of the bail out money could go to creating new housing and infrastructure.

The incremental fiscal stimulus of about $ 2 billion for increased employment insurance benefits and limiting the rate increase in EI premium rates to 5 cents in 2011 saved 5,000 jobs (no wonder increases in EI premium rates are called job killers).

Call extensions have typically increased clickthrough rate by 6 - 8 %.

In Powell, he'll select a former private - equity executive who favors continuing gradual interest - rate increases and sympathizes with White House calls to ease financial regulations.

After almost a decade of slow growth, we may finally be returning to what one might call «the old normal»: faster economic growth coming together with the return of increasing costs, inflation, rising interest rates, and greater volatility.

Or that your interest rate could increase over time (it's called a variable interest rate and some private loan options have them)?

As it had announced at the end of 2016, the ECB cut the size of its monthly bond purchases from $ 80 billion to $ 60 billion in April, but President Draghi also moved to quell speculation about an increase in the ECB's deposit rate later this year, which some critics had called for, even before any curtailment of the ECB's quantitative easing program.

Of the 15 officials offering forecasts on interest rate increases over the balance of 2018, seven expect three or more additional rate hikes while eight are calling for two or fewer.

This is partly why Freddie Mac has issued a 2016 mortgage rate forecast calling for steady increases.

Powell buzzed the trading markets this week with a call for multiple potential interest rate increases in 2018.

The IMF has called on the United States to put any interest rate increase on hold so as not to worsen the still extremely weak economic situation in Europe and developing countries, notably China.

Scotiabank and the Royal Bank of Canada on Thursday became the latest to announce a round of increases covering various terms of what they call special discounted rates.

Recently, after my credit card company increased my rate a couple of points, I gave them a call to discuss the matter.

According to Forrester Resarch, Lenovo has since seen a 20 % reduction in laptop support call rates, increased agent productivity, a shorter problem resolution cycle, an increased Net Promoter Score, and reduced support costs.

Reis» preliminary forecast for 2014 calls for office - vacancy rates to decline by roughly half a percentage point by year's end and asking rents to increase 2.8 %, the largest gain since 2007.

So if interest rates stay substantially low with few prospects for increase it's likely the issuer will call or buy back the bond before maturity.

Since 2016, the Commonwealth government has been forced to shut down 179 primary and secondary schools, increase the sales tax to 11.5 %, and «sharply [raise] electricity and water rates,» while calling for a $ 450 million cut to the island's public university — all policies that hurt the nearly half of Puerto Ricans living below the poverty line.

The expectation is that Powell will follow the Fed's already - announced normalization schedule, which calls for slowly reducing the Fed's $ 4.2 trillion balance sheet, by rolling off maturing mortgage - backed securities (MBS) and longer - term Treasuries, and gradually increasing the target range for the fed funds rate.

The change is less dramatic for what the Commerce Department calls «intellectual property,» but still the statistics show an increase, a 4.6 percent annualized rate of increase this year so far from 4.2 percent a year during that earlier five - year period.

Last month, The Lancet journal revealed the latest results from a study on abortion trends calling for a new response to the stagnant or increasing abortion rates of the developing...

Last month, The Lancet journal revealed the latest results from a study on abortion trends calling for a new response to the stagnant or increasing abortion rates of the developing world.

One way, I believe, to address the problem of under - reporting and increase the chances a concussion will be identified early on the sports sideline may be to rely less on athletes themselves to remove themselves from games or practices by reporting concussion symptoms (which the most recent study shows occurs at a shockingly low rate, [9] or on game officials and sideline observers to observe signs of concussion and call for a concussion assessment, but to employ technology to increase the chances that a concussion will be identified by employing impact sensors designed to monitor head impact exposure in terms of the force of hits (both linear and rotational), number, location, and cumulative impact, in real time at all levels of football, and in other helmeted and non-helmeted contact and collision sports, where practical, to help identify high - risk impacts and alert medical personnel on the sideline so they can consider performing a concussion assessment.

Increasing breastfeeding rates is certainly a noble motivation, but the tactics that have been adopted can be called into question, both on ethical grounds, and on performance grounds.

Citing a phenomenon called «risk compensation» - in which the use of protective equipment is thought to result in behavioral changes, such as the adoption of more dangerous playing techniques, which can result in a paradoxical increase in injury rates - they also fear that that making helmets mandatory could actually lead to an increase in concussion rates in the sport.

Breastfeeding booklet and proactive phone calls for increasing exclusive breastfeeding rates: RCT protocol.

Such systems are needed before the United States can consider matching the recent call in Britain to encourage and increase the rate of home birth.6

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has called today for students to pay more towards the cost of university, including increased tuition fees and higher student loan interest rates.

At 11 a.m., low - income NYers hold a protest calling on the NY Federal Reserve president to vote against any rate increases that impact black an Latino workers, 33 Liberty St., Manhattan.

Cuomo called for replacing automatic increases in the budget on various items with a more reasonable formula, contending that if education and Medicaid rose only at the rate of inflation, there would be only a $ 1 billion deficit.

The Fair Fix plan, as the mayor's office refers to it, calls for a 0.534 percent increase on the income tax rate for incomes above $ 500,000 for individuals, and $ 1 million for couples.

Obama also called for indexing future minimum wage increases to the rate of inflation — something liberal advocates, as well as Democrats in the Senate and Assembly, have called on Cuomo to do, too.

Adams had called on lawmakers to bring spending increases more in line with the rate of inflation in a March 10 New York Post column.