Sentences with phrase «current decline rate»
The report concludes that the current decline rate of male teachers from 1956 to 2016 will escalate to the projected conclusion of no male teachers.
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«In the mid-term the rate of growth will see a gradual decline from current levels as China's economy continues to mature.»
This is a bit faster than our current estimate of trend growth in the Australian economy, so we expect to see a gradual decline in the unemployment rate.
Whatever the resolution, officials at the ECB on Thursday declined to change the benchmark interest rate and left it at its current record low of 0.75 %.
If on the other hand China's investment rate declines faster than its savings rate, its current account surplus will by definition grow, and the world economy will be worse off.
If the combination of the two causes the savings rate to rise, or to fall more slowly than the rapidly declining investment rate, the automatic corollary is a rise in the current account surplus.
Other positive developments in Q1 included a rise in the share of 30 - 60 day delinquent mortgage balances that transitioned to current and a decline in the rate at which current mortgages transition into delinquency.
We could take the $ 16 billion we have in cash earning 1.5 % and invest it in 20 - year bonds earning 5 % and increase our current earnings a lot, but we're betting that we can find a good place to invest this cash and don't want to take the risk of principal loss of long - term bonds [if interest rates rise, the value of 20 - year bonds will decline].»
Our view for broader and stronger economic growth this year, with only slightly higher interest rates from current levels, is favorable for equity valuations — especially after the latest decline in equity prices.
That said, the declining short - term trendline is still close to the current rate, and the most valuable cryptocurrency might be in for more sideways price action, before the Judgement Day of BTC in August.
I do not see a case for a further rate increase on current facts and remain very concerned that macroeconomic policy has inadequately internalized all the aspects of large declines in the neutral real rate and secular stagnation risks.
Also, it's worth noting that even under this more than doubling of rates from their current levels, these losses are a fraction of the 50 % declines that investors have experienced in stocks over the past two decades.
The number of new workers is declining, as are fertility rates, which only promise to exacerbate current demographic trends.
If our friends at Deutsche Bank are right in forecasting the US unemployment rate to decline from the current 17 year low of 4.1 per cent to 3.2 per cent by - late 2019, the US Federal Reserve are going to have a delicate balancing act as they lift the cash rate in trying to keep inflationary expectations under control.
Current rates of economic growth are likely to generate further declines in unemployment in the period ahead.
Moreover, a number of features of the US sub-prime market which have contributed to its current problems are not present in Australia, including large teaser rates, a marked decline in lending standards, and an originate and distribute model where the originator has a reduced incentive to care about the quality of the loan written.
In my view, investors who view current valuations as «justified relative to interest rates» are really saying that a decade of zero total returns on stocks is perfectly adequate compensation for the risk of a 45 - 55 % market loss over the completion of the current market cycle - a decline that would historically be merely run - of - the - mill given current valuations, and that certainly can not be precluded by appealing to low interest rates.
Similarly, we don't presently observe a year - over-year decline in industrial production, but note that the current rate of growth is already below the level that prevailed at the beginning of prior U.S. economic recessions.
With the dampening effect of the appreciation on domestic inflation still having further to run, our current assessment is that underlying inflation will decline to around 1 1/2 per cent during 2004 (assuming the exchange rate remains stable at around its current level).
I think these are some of the best shorts in the current environment where bond proxies ought to suffer and a secular decline in retail ought to hurt renewal rates on the underlying leases.
Again, empirical work suggests that, at current levels of approvals and credit growth, a once - only 10 per cent decline in approvals would reduce the monthly rate of credit growth by around 0.3 of a percentage point after about three months (Graph C3).
A clear result of the upward trend in consumers» share of GDP (Chart 4) and declining saving rate for a quarter - century has been the downtrend in the foreign trade and current account balances.
According to an outside report, if the Episcopal Church continues declining at its current rate, it will be dead within 26 years.
In Inventing American Religion: Polls, Surveys, and the Tenuous Quest for a Nation's Faith, I deal extensively with the history of polling and the current difficulties polling firms face, including not only plummeting response rates but also the public's declining confidence in polling.
In South East Asia, the current trend is showing declining total fertility rates (Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia).
Woods projected that the park district «s tax rate would decline next year to 74 cents per $ 100 of assessed value from the current 80 cents.
Labour party membership could disappear within seven years if the current rate of decline continues, a candidate for the deputy leadership warned yesterday.
The Finance Minister indicated that, the current debt to GDP ratio is about 71 percent, whiles noting that «for the first time in over 12 years, since the declaration of HIPC [Ghana assuming the status of a Highly Indebted Poor Country], we have seen the rate at which we actually accumulate debt decline.»
For the record, New Mexico had the weakest increase in jobs in the nation as well as the smallest decline in the unemployment rate, while Rhode Island and Mississippi tied for the worst current unemployment rate and Maine and Connecticut saw the smallest increase in inflation - adjusted state GDP.
Their findings, published in American Psychologist (September 2004), demonstrated that although those who declined enrollment in the Meyerhoff Program often attended highly regarded HBCUs and Ivy League institutions, they were significantly less likely than Meyerhoff students to pursue and complete science Ph.D. s or M.D. / Ph.D. s. «If current Ph.D. receipt rates of program graduates continue,» Hrabowski says in American Psychologist, «UMBC will in all likelihood become the leading predominantly white baccalaureate - origin university for black STEM Ph.D. s in the nation.»
Within 10 years, at the current rate of decline, a fully sequenced human genome will price out at less than $ 10.
The current study is therefore of importance, especially in light of an increasingly aging population worldwide due to increased longevity and declining fertility rates.
Does the rate of decline (slope) depend on the level (intercept)(i.e. is age - related decline determined by current cognitive status)?
Mass bleaching and mortality are identified as the current crisis to corals, and based on the current rate of increase in global CO2 emissions (now exceeding 3 % per year), most reefs world - wide are committed to an irreversible decline.
A long - term experiment revealed that growth declined and individual branches were damaged when the water was undersaturated with aragonite (Ω < 1)-- a condition that could be achieved in 2100, according to model calculations of the IPCC in case emissions continue to develop at current rates.
Such a growth rate would require a decline from the current high rate of growth.2
For example, Krueger (1998) uses data from the NAEP and documents test score increases over time, with large improvements for disadvantaged children from poor urban areas; the Current Population Survey shows declining dropout rates since 1975 for those from the lowest income quartile (Digest of Education Statistics, NCES 2012).
Because of tax and debt limits, educational districts could not raise tax rates or borrow more money using traditional Current Interest Bonds to compensate for the loss in revenue resulting from the decline in property values.
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When the Margin Closeout Value declines to half, or less than half, of the Margin Used, all tradable open positions in the account will automatically close using the current fxTrade rates at the time of closing.
Current mortgage rates have declined to an average of about 5 % for a 30 - year mortgage, pushing some homeowners to refinance or apply for a new home loan.
In the U.S. we struggled more as our savings rate declined to its current low single digit home.
Due to our current low interest rate environment all whole life insurance policy dividends have seen a dramatic decline.
Also quoting from the post at Accrued Interest, quoting from the Moody's report, «Moody's stated that the ratings review was prompted, in part, by concerns about the deterioration in ABK's financial flexibility since the company's $ 1.5 billion capital raise in March 2008, as evidenced by the substantial decline in the firm's market capitalization and high current spreads on its debt securities, making it increasingly difficult to economically address potential shortfalls in the company's capital position should markets continue to worsen.
The Committee now anticipates, based on its assessment of these factors, that it likely will be appropriate to maintain the current target range for the federal funds rate well past the time that the unemployment rate declines below 6-1/2 percent, especially if projected inflation continues to run below the Committee's 2 percent longer - run goal.
The Committee continues to anticipate, based on its assessment of these factors, that it likely will be appropriate to maintain the current target range for the federal funds rate well past the time that the unemployment rate declines below 6-1/2 percent, especially if projected inflation continues to run below the Committee's 2 percent longer - run goal.
I don't understand why I was declined, seeing that my current credit rating is good, with an Equifax score of 687 and a TransUnion score of 734.
The gradual decline in long - term interest rates over the last few years propelled many of the recent gains in real estate trusts and it's difficult to see how rates can go much lower than current levels.