Sentences with phrase «decline rates mean»

IHS and IPIECA argue that decline rates mean the world will continue to need new oil and gas projects.

Not exact matches

The economy may be recovering and the unemployment rate declining, but jobs are still hard to come by these days, which means states need to work harder than ever to attract new investment.

This means that Pharma's IRR has been declining at a steady rate of about 0.9 % per year and is projected to hit 0 % by 2020.

Interest rates started to decline and whatever strict lending requirements banks and lenders had were all but thrown out the window — which meant almost anyone could become a homeowner.

If interest rates rise, long duration means TIPS prices decline, even with their inflation compensation.

As growth rates slow, the failure to cut out bad policies will mean continued stagnation or declines in living standards for some.

In the mean time we did see a slight decline in dividend stock portfolio, with another worsening of the exchange rate (how low can we go?).

This means you could expect a 1 % rise in interest rates to lead to something approaching a 17.1 % decline in TLT prices, but just a 7.6 % fall in the IEF price (this doesn't include the income earned on these funds).

If interest rates decline, however, bond prices usually increase, which means an investor can sometimes sell a bond for more than face value, since other investors are willing to pay a premium for a bond with a higher interest payment.

That could mean investors are moving money out of stocks and into bonds in anticipation of disappointing earnings; or that foreigners who are worried about their own economies are looking for a safer haven in the U.S.; or that expectations of future inflation have declined, allowing long - term interest rates to come down a little.

However, the decline in the real neutral rate means that any given setting of our policy rate will be less stimulative today than it was a decade or two ago.

... As the size of the balance sheet and the quantity of excess reserves in the system decline, the Federal Reserve will be able to return to its traditional means of making monetary policy — namely, by setting a target for the federal funds rate.

In my view, the most likely accompaniment to economic weakness would not be a decline in nominal rates, but somewhat accelerated inflation (meaning that real interest rates might very well fall to negative levels), and possibly substantial weakness in the U.S. dollar.

Since risk spreads for most borrowers have also declined this means that overall borrowing costs for rated borrowers, corporate and most governments, are low by the standards of the past few decades.

Productivity gains have been weak, the participation rate (meaning the percentage of the labor force in employment) declined to 62.6 % in June — the lowest level since 1977 — and hourly wage growth was flat in the same month.

An appreciation of the exchange rate means that: the increase in the domestic currency price of commodity exports will be less than the increase in world commodity prices; the income of the other tradable sector will fall; and real income gains flow to the broader economy via the associated decline in the price of imports.

Rising interest rates mean falling bond prices, while declining interest rates mean rising bond prices.

This means that the continuing decline in the unemployment rate should begin to translate into stronger inflation pressures.

Even so, that doesn't mean mortgage rates will go up because mortgage rates are more tied to the 10 - year bond yield which has been declining due to all the risk in the markets.

Multiple re-rating would imply 20 - 25 % downside from here, and any further weakness in leasing rates going forward ought to mean a further 10 % or so decline.

This is because higher interest rates generally mean that property prices could temporarily decline, and thus the cash yield on investment increases.

As smartphones decline in cost and adoption rates continue to rise, people will come to engage in political activity on their mobile phones more and more frequently — meaning campaigns will be seeking mere snippets of time from supporters on the go, but they may gain access with an unprecedented level of immediacy.

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

Following the reduction of moose using sport hunting, wolf number numbers declined, with wolf dispersal rates 2.5 × greater than the reference area, meaning that dispersal was the process leading to fewer wolves.

«It means that treatments and preventions are working,» says Valerie Beral at the University of Oxford, adding that an influential factor in declining mortality rates has been people giving up smoking.

The 11 - year (132 - month) running mean temperature (Fig. 3b) shows only a moderate decline of the warming rate.

So, any downturn in your aerobic speed (at a heart rate below your aerobic threshold) is a direct indicator that your aerobic base is either fatigued or in decline, meaning that your body is at the moment that much less capable of absorbing the stresses of high - intensity training.

«From a nutritional perspective, starting at age 30, our metabolic rate (meaning the calories we need) declines by 10 percent per decade,» explains Roberts.

These gains, coupled with the increased rate of card declines caused by the «credit crunch,» means that Mobile billing in the U.S. has been a real growth sector for us.

The difficult conditions caused some villagers to leave the mountains, and a declining national birth rate has meant that the number of students has dropped from thirty in 1967 to eight today.

A fall in the birth rate in the late 1990s will mean a «steady decline» in the population of 21 - year - olds until 2022, it adds, meaning the overall pool of graduates is likely to fall, resulting in fewer trainee teachers.

Lower school ratings this year reflect these tougher standards, and may not mean a school's performance has declined.

That means most publishers pay more to authors than what prevailing royalty rates might indicate, though there are reports that advances are declining.

A very good - to - excellent credit score is important in the approval process, so anything below a prime FICO score of 700 may mean getting saddled with inflated interest rates or declined for the loan.

I see lots of articles, however, saying to stay away from bonds because interest rates are about to rise, which means bond prices will decline.

This means that frustrated job - seekers are simply falling off the BLS» radar and are not even looking for jobs — the decline in the unemployment rate is largely illusory.

«Spending will create inflationary pressures, which should mean real rates are either low or declining.»

Mortgage - backed investments, unlike traditional debt investments, are also subject to prepayment risk, which means that they may increase in value less than other bonds when interest rates decline and decline in value more than other bonds when interest rates rise.

In the mean time we did see a slight decline in dividend stock portfolio, with another worsening of the exchange rate (how low can we go?).

This means that mortgage rates ROSE after the Fed had cut rates while many consumers were expecting their mortgage rates to decline.

Savings rates are declining, debt levels are reaching new heights and people are living beyond their means.

A low credit score will mean that you will face higher interest rates, or be declined credit altogether.

In fact, these rates are now beginning to return to normalized levels, which should mean that issuers will now turn attention to driving revenue growth, which has declined significantly over the past two years.

This means that as a result of the 2017 decline in the monetary inflation rate to near a 20 - year low, the die has been cast.

Which has meant continued decline in related AUME... and falling fee rates as currency managers struggle to retain mandates.

Now, granted: Over the last 5 years, AUME growth been impressive, but the continued decline in fee rates & the virtual absence of performance fees means revenue / earnings were stable at best (averaging # 20 million & 2.4 p per share, respectively).

In general, a low score could mean you're declined on a loan or receive a higher interest rate, while a higher score allows for lower interest rates and better options when it comes to things like getting a mortgage and borrowing money.

A key reason that these losses can be permanent is many fund managers actively buy and sell bonds, meaning they are highly likely to sell positions at a loss after a rise in rates, decline in credit rating or when a lack of liquidity may mean they have to sell at a lower market price.

That means a 1 % increase in overall interest rates might result in a 2.7 % decline in the price of a short bond, a 6.7 % drop in the price of an intermediate fund and a decline of 16 % in the value of a long bond.

DeBondt and Thaler attribute the earnings outperformance of the companies in the lowest quintile to mean reversion, which Tweedy Browne described as the observation that «significant declines in earnings are followed by significant earnings increases, and that significant earnings increases are followed by slower rates of increase or declines.»