Sentences with phrase «closest point of the year»

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The savings rate is close to the 25 - year average of five per cent, which doesn't point to a consumer debt apocalypse.

The research mirrors what a team led by Giovanni Chiodini from the Italian National Institute of Geophysics reported late last year, when they too modelled Campi Flegrei's activity and found that it's dangerously close to hitting a critical pressure point that could trigger another eruption.

The Australian bourse has clocked up its best two - day gain in over 33 years after the market closed four per cent higher, following the biggest point gain ever on Wall Street and news of the federal government's $ 10.4 billion economic stimulus package.

The S&P closed Monday at 2,012, after falling 31 points, and the Dowwas at 17,148, after losing 276 points in its worst first trading day of any year since 2008.

On the London Metal Exchange, it was nickel's turn in the spotlight as it soared 12 per cent at one point to a more than three - year high of $ US15, 875 a tonne, before closing up 7.5 per cent at $ US15, 275, its largest daily gain in 6-1/2 years, Reuters reported.

Dubai's main stock market and Abu Dhabi's index have closed at their lowest points of the year amid mounting anxiety over plunging oil prices.

According to a 10 - Q filed by Bank of America earlier this year, a 100 - basis - point increase in both long - term and short - term lending rates would boost its interest income by $ 6 billion, which is essentially double (if not more) what its closest peers, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase, would see in interest income increases.

In the last two years as the bull argument has been pummeled into reality by the surge in debt, the persistent failure of consumption growth to close the gap with GDP growth, and the sharp slowdown in overall growth, the mood abroad has turned increasingly bearish, to the point that many people are speaking about a China collapse and the horrible implications this will have for the rest of the world.

Nevertheless, I find it untenable that a quarter point cut in January was enough to close the output gap one year earlier than the Bank of Canada's models were otherwise telling them would occur in the absence of a small cut especially since only 15bps of that cut was passed through.

At this point, nine years later, the S&P 500 has set a series of inflation - adjusted record highs based on monthly averages of daily closes.

Taken from a helicopter view, strong sales to close the previous year led analysts to ask this question: Is a sudden downturn evidence of a fresh trend, or just Mother Nature's latest cruel twist?March's results would, thankfully, point to the latter.

That's close to a record low, and nearly a full percentage point lower than where we were at the start of last year.

Back in July of last year I pointed out that in a world where official short - term interest rates are close to zero, some short - term market interest rates are also going to be very close to zero, and that, in such cases, interest - rate dips below zero could occur as a result of insignificant price fluctuations.

As of November 12, 2015, the average rate for a 30 - year fixed home loan has risen to 3.98 % (with an average of 0.6 % fees and points at closing).

Your loan servicer will track your qualifying monthly payments and years of repayment and will notify you when you are getting close to the point when you would qualify for forgiveness of any remaining loan balance.

With weak consumer demand dampening investment, the economy is likely to shrink by close to 1 percentage point over the course of the year.

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).

On the other hand, the median score for consumers whose accounts closed before reaching two - year maturity is at least 42 points lower than at the time of the account opening.

As the Jesuit high school where I work began to wind down for the year, I reached a point where I needed clarity, something to bring calm to the chaos of the closing weeks and to center me in a reality more timeless than the NBA playoffs.

In recent years, though, Hawking has come closer to Gödel's point of view, going so far as to conjecture that a sort of Gödelian «incompleteness principle» might exist in physics as well as in mathematics.

What The New York Times calls the «blame Woodstock» explanation for the rise of clerical sex abuse cases in the Seventies, despite the paper's evident scepticism, can not be entirely discounted, since as the researchers of the John Jay College (hereafter JJC) pointed out in their latest report, «the sexual abuse of minors is a pervasive problem in society and in organisations that involve close relationships between youth and adults... No exact measure exists for the number of youths who have contact with priests in the Catholic Church in a year... [but] despite the media focus on child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, it is clear that these abuse acts are a small percentage of all child sexual abuse incidents in the United States.»

I discovered these places about fifteen years ago, and at some point after that I caught part of some public radio broadcast where people were discussing them and how good the food was, how close the taste came to the conventional, meat - based versions of the dishes, and the fact that they were usually made from seitan.

If we're accumulating more points every year, we're closing in on first place, because first place usually falls within a range of points.

He closed the year by scoring 30 or more in nine of his final 10 games, including a 44 - point performance against reigning league champion Georgia Stars.

Right now in point stats he is close to 5 - 6 other forwards on the team, all of them are, from a few, to many years, older than him.

His play dipped in the second half of the season as Oklahoma closed the year losing eight of 10, but this is still the first player to lead DI in points and assists per game since the 1950s.

- Winkler continues to improve after literally years of injuries - Minter looks to be a lefty beast, whether as a specialist, a setup man, or even a closer at some point - Newcomb looked good over 60 + batters.

Georgia, with a season high in points, has won three of four entering the last week of the regular season, but the Bulldogs showed why they've been so fickle this year, leading by 22 early in the second half before falling flat offensively and letting LSU pull within single digits in the closing minute.

The dumbest comment of the year on the radio had to be from Glen Healy who was telling Doug MacLean that the Leafs, who were going through a little rough patch (mid-season), had to watch out from the teams just below them like the Rangers, Islanders and Hurricanes who were creeping up on them, seemingly oblivious to the fact that the closest competitor in the Atlantic, the Red Wings, were over 15 points behind them at that time... I just shook my head...

His comments will of course split opinion, but given the style of play and culture at Man Utd under Sir Alex Ferguson, it's a major shift that continues to be a talking point even though Mourinho is closing in on two years in charge at the club.

Reports in Germany say De Bruyne is likely to undergo a medical with the Etihad Stadium outfit at some point this week and Wolfsburg's director of sport Klaus Allofs appears to be resigned at the fact the 24 - year - old will depart the Volkswagen Arena before the transfer window closes on September 1:

Near the close of his second year in the pros, McAdoo whirled here, there and everywhere to score 52 points and cause grave embarrassment to a proud defensive congregation of soon - to - be-champion Boston Celtics.

No one revels in our losing no one and to suggest it is just stupid beyond belief... It's been 12 f ****** years without a sniff at the title thats getting close to the worst run in the modern era... I.e. Post 1966... The point is wenger refuses to address longstanding gaps and weaknesses in squad by suggesting the spirit is good or cohesion is right or youngsters about to come good or his bargain basement purchases from ligue I are hidden gems... it's become tiring and time he should join the pensioner ranks and leave this job to someone with a bit of ambition..

@Nothing Changed i agree about 5 years ago, personally i'm finding our game exiting to watch with a strong belief that no mater what the score is we will win the game, obviously we don't win every game but the belief is there for me and i'm enjoying watching more then last season, we have to except that some teams in Europe are almost impossible to catch and City is coming close to that point of dominating years to come and only Man - U or Chelsea could muster up a small challenge, sad but unfortunately we have to face up to reality.

He's currently tied for a career high with 15.1 points per game and has done so by making close to 39 % of his three - point attempts, an element that he added to his game a few years back.

In eight of the past nine years, the winner of the big game has covered the point spread anyway, so there is a very good chance that will happen again here regardless of the closing number.

It is impossible to judge beyond a shadow of a doubt how many extra Premier League points Arsenal have earned with the former Chelsea keeper Petr Cech between the posts but after another stunning performance from the 33 - year old stopped Stoke City taking all the points at the Britannia Stadium yesterday it is clear that the Chelsea captain's prediction that Cech would be worth an extra 12 to 15 points for Arsenal is close to the mark.

Also deep in his core he does not want to change, he believes in himself and he is stubborn, reality check, he is there to stay, AW and only AW will decide when to leave ARSENAL; on his behalf he still manages to achieve the same feats year after year, due to an equal share of his prowess as a coach, yes we win to lesser teams, but also because of the weaknesses of his adversaries, we are closing on Man City and Chelski because they are playing like sheet and loosing points, the same for Pool, MANURE and SOTON.

It seems that despite Chelsea taking an early eight point lead, this year's title race is shaping up to be one of the closest yet.

According to Le Prof, the club has an insight for the player to make his first appearance of the season at some point in January, which will be coming up close to almost a year out of professional football.

As the season has finally drawn to a close, they decided to check out what the Premier League Team of the Year would look like purely based on Oulala points and Opta stats.

9 of the 12 Texas Tech games this year closed above 80 points, and it's the 15th total in all of college football above 80 + points this season.

So with the Gunners looking like we are closer to winning the Premier League title than we have been since the season of the invincibles over 10 years ago, Arteta knows that the manager must pick the team with the best chance of picking up all three points.

if you watch that match again you will notice ozil tracking back often pressuring the ball, this is not the ozil of last year, to me he was excellent today, give chelsea credit, the have a strong back 4, if you only need a point, its pretty close to certain, terry's interview was revealing, he said they played way to open in the 1st half, just decided to shut it down the second half, he praised arsenal as a very good squad on the ball, was a decent result, tired of loosing to them,

Almost 40 % of games have closed at nine or higher which is nearly double the amount at the same point last year.

link it back to the point i made earlier» this is rubbish, my point is that the premier league wasn't very competitive this year, Chelseas easy win giving proof to this point.What you've done is talk a whole load of rubbish about wins of 2 goals or more.A quick tip mate people judge the competitiveness of a competition by how close the top teams are, not the mid table ones

The standings would still be close with a 3 point game, but the last few games of the year would be even more meaningless for half the teams.

I don't think the league wants teams to finish with close to 150 points at the end of the year.

FSU has never closed with less than 20 % of bets in our database and hasn't closed with < 30 % of spread bets in nearly 10 years — the last time it happened was in 2008, a 30 - point loss to Florida in which only 24 % of bettors took FSU.

Our research found that over the past eleven years, teams who lost their previous game by at least 4 - points after closing as a favorite of at least 4 - points have gone 79 - 46 ATS (63.2 %) with +28.97 units won.