Sentences with phrase «costs rise each year»

There is one clear winner as school spending costs rise each year: the United Federation of Teachers.

Relatively low mortgage rates and more affordable home prices in some housing markets are creating renewed interest in homeownership, especially among young renters who are tired of seeing their rent costs rise every year.

Because tuition costs rise each year, this gap is widening, and more people are found to have negative wealth as a result.

Funerals today are incredibly expensive, and costs rise every year.

Not exact matches

His market, the New York tri-state area, already has in place many of the provisions included in the health - care overhaul, including a provision that dependent under the age of 30 need be eligible for family coverage, and he's seen rates continue to rise over recent years, making him skeptical of the plan's ability to hold costs down for small businesses.

CHICAGO / SAN FRANCISCO, April 20 - As the gap between short - and long - term borrowing costs hovers near its lowest in more than 10 years, speculation has risen over whether the so - called yield curve is signaling that a recession could be around the corner.

By contrast, while the cost of older, branded pharmaceuticals continue to rise and contribute to increased spending, when discounting is considered, prices of these drugs increased, on average, 2.8 % in 2015, the lowest growth rate in years.

U.S. health insurer Aetna, which has agreed to be bought by CVS Health, reported a better - than - expected first - quarter profit on Tuesday as an adjustment for low healthcare spending late last year offset a rise in flu - related costs.

WellCare's net income rose more than $ 100 million in the third quarter of 2017 compared to the same time period last year thanks to stellar growth in its Medicare business and much lower - than - expected medical costs for its Medicaid plan holders relative to their premiums.

For years it had seen its drug costs rise under a contract with a different PBM.

Gas prices are rising at a rate of 1 to 2 percent per year, plus inflation; meanwhile, the cost of electricity generation is going down.

She's more concerned about the skyrocketing cost of rents in the city, which have risen 200 percent in the past three years, and where a modest storefront like hers can go for as much as $ 17,000 per month.

The consumer price index (CPI), released on Friday, showed the cost of living in America rising only 1.6 percent compared to the same month last year, significantly down from the most recent high of 2.8 percent in February and below the Fed's target of 2 percent.

Spirit Airlines — Spirit received a double upgrade to «overweight» from «underweight» at JPMorgan Chase, which noted the battering in Spirit's stock price this year and a more favorable overall cost structure amid rising fuel prices.

Net income attributable to shareholders in the quarter, based on a current cost of supplies (CCS) and excluding identified items, rose to $ 5.322 billion from a year ago, compared with a company - provided analysts» consensus of $ 5.277 billion.

The rising cost of homeownership is pushing more people to rent, and the vacancy rate in Toronto has tightened over the past few years to 1.3 per cent, according to CMHC.

Within the first two years of starting FedEx, founder Frederick Smith found his company so many millions of dollars in debt, because of sharply rising fuel costs, that he was nearly ready to declare bankruptcy.

Nickel miner Western Areas has reported a 37.5 per cent rise in net profit despite a small drop in revenue, with the company focusing on reducing costs in the year ahead.

CHICAGO / SAN FRANCISCO, April 20 (Reuters)- As the gap between short - and long - term borrowing costs hovers near its lowest in more than 10 years, speculation has risen over whether the so - called yield curve is signaling that a recession could be around the corner.

World stocks were in their biggest two - day dive in six months on Tuesday and commodities were also jammed in reverse, as rising U.S. borrowing costs cooled financial markets» euphoric start to the year.

Ten years ago, he wrote the original Master Plan, which included the development and sale of a luxury electric sports car, a lower - cost electric car, a mainstream low - cost car, and also the rise of solar roofs.

The cost of a university degree is continuing to rise every year, with the average student now owing $ 35,000.

Namely, the price is rising fast, pushed along by last year's high feed costs, drought, and rapacious Asian demand.

Back in the real world, my own healthcare costs have risen 400 % since I struck out on my own in business six years ago.

Richmond Federal Reserve President Jeffrey Lacker — a known proponent for raising rates and a non-voting member of the FOMC this year — said Tuesday there was a strong case for raising interest rates, arguing that borrowing costs may need to rise significantly to keep inflation under control.

On Friday the Labor Department announced that the core consumer price index (CPI)-- which strips out volatile food and energy costs — rose 2.3 % over the past 12 months, up from 1.8 % one year ago.

It could rise in the years ahead, when countries pull back their stimulus, and the cost of producing goods in China increases, but that's not a near - term issue.

But Yellen is offering guidance on how high borrowing costs will rise over the next couple of years.

Customer acquisition costs could rise further this year, GTM Research said.

The report noted that one area that has worsened in the last 30 years has been the rising cost of housing, which has been attributed to bigger mortgages and more debt.

Employee health care costs rose 6.9 percent nationwide last year, the highest one - year leap in seven years, according to the consulting firm Mercer.

This year, however, they have at least one holiday blessing to be thankful for: the cost of a turkey dinner and all the trimmings has risen only slightly from last year.

Of the 12 stocks with the highest level of short interest, nine have risen this year to an extent that has cost traders hundreds of millions of dollars, according to S3 data.

While revenues had grown each year since the company's inception, in 1986, margins hadn't because of rising labor and materials costs.

But other pay TV providers like Comcast (cmcsa) and Charter Communications (chtr) have indicated that programming costs are rising 8 % to 10 % a year.

«Core» prices, which exclude the more volatile costs of food and energy, rose 0.3 % month - on - month in December and rose 2.1 % when compared to the prior year.

Thanks in part to the low - cost uranium coming from Canada, rising prices made the Swiss subsidiary tremendously profitable — it earned $ 4.3 billion during the six - year period ending in 2012.

He'd thought the cost of his insurance would drop, but instead it rose precipitously, partly because Ezring had heart bypass surgery a couple of years ago.

To illustrate the issue, over the past 20 years, the cost of a new drug per year of a patient's life has risen from $ 50,000 to $ 250,000 after adjusting for inflation, according to Peter Bach, director of the Center for Health Policy and Outcomes at Memorial Sloan Kettering, who also spoke at the conference.

In Silicon Valley boardrooms, where «growth at all costs» had been the mantra for many years, people began to imagine a world where the cost of capital could rise dramatically, and profits could come back in vogue.

Over the coming year, lower energy costs (and other comodity costs) will benefit consumers and as oil prices rise, 80 % of U.S. oil production will move to breakeven then substantial profit.

Third, Medicaid expansion could cost Louisiana taxpayers up to $ 1.7 billion over the first 10 years of implementation, and the cost will keep rising.

To be fair, Netflix, the movie streaming service that costs $ 8.99 a month, has seen its popularity rise in recent years, particularly among the millennial generation as they unplug from traditionally expensive cable bills.

Aug 7 (Reuters)-- Shares of OnDeck Capital Inc rose as much as 17 percent on Monday after the online lender said it had made progress on a plan to cut costs and improve the credit profile of its borrowers, and expects to reach double - digit loan growth again by next year.

The ever - rising cost of corporate health care is expected to increase by 4.4 percent this year.

The figure shows clearly that the cash cost of a residential property in terms of weeks of labour time remained roughly constant all the way from 1970 to 1986, at which point housing prices in Canada (and in particular in the Toronto area) rose drastically during the next three years.

But with provincial deficits swelling from coast to coast this year, and rising health care costs expected to ravage provincial coffers in the coming decades, federal figures are starting to paint an increasingly misleading portrait of Canada's government debt situation.

Its costs have risen significantly as it warned investors, but its investments in Oculus and artificial intelligence could pay off big time in a few years.

Increasing this ratio to 0.7 % of GNI implies a tripling of the current cost to about $ 13 billion and rising every year thereafter.

Moreover, unit costs have been rising quite quickly given the fairly poor performance of multi-factor productivity growth over recent years.