Sentences with phrase «ended rate of»

Consumer price inflation edged up to 2.3 per cent over the year to September, largely reflecting higher energy costs; the core measure has eased further to a year - ended rate of 1.2 per cent.

Deflationary pressures persist, though the GDP deflator suggests that they have lessened, with the year - ended rate of deflation easing from 1.7 per cent in the June quarter to 0.4 per cent in the December quarter.

The Swedish tax structure is favorable to businesses, especially when compared with that of China and the U.S. Sweden has a corporate tax rate of 22 percent — far higher than, say, Ireland's 12.5 percent, but lower than the United States» high - end rate of 35 percent.

Not exact matches

We'll all end up paying the platform «pipers» for the privilege and sometimes being gouged by the gatekeepers (like Netflix, which is raising its rates again), but honestly most of us won't really mind.

Unless something drastic happens, the era of low - for - longer interest - rate policy is nearing an end.

Its repetitive quality, like meditation, can lower your heart rate and lower cortisol levels in your blood... And yeah, meditation is cool and all, but having a finished product at the end of it is even cooler, if you ask me.»

Analysts think the economy is growing at a rate of around 2.5 per cent in the current January - March quarter, which ends this week.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy grew at a slightly faster but still anemic rate at the end of last year.

That's important because the ECB's liquidity is one of the biggest remaining supporting factors behind the global stock market rally, now that the Federal Reserve has ended its own «quantitative easing» program and has started to raise official U.S. interest rates.

To that end, Fortune combined Census population data with Bureau of Labor Statistics unemployment rates by metropolitan area to find how average unemployment rates fared for the 100 largest cities in the country.

«We expect the ECB to extend QE again towards the end of next year, ahead of finishing the program in December 2018, paving the way for a rise in interest rates in the first half of 2019,» said Azad Zangana, senior European economist with London - based fund manager Schroders.

The report also points out that Dreamers start businesses at more than twice the rate of the general population, in large part because they are used to making ends meet without help from the government.

Cut the top - end tax rate for small business owners to 25 percent, from a rate that's in excess of 39 percent.

Amy Poehler starred in and executive produced «Parks and Recreation,» which ended its seven season run on NBC earlier this year, always under the threat of cancellation due to low Nielsen ratings.

An R / X rated spectacle that started poorly and ended up in the bottom of the canyon.

Since the recession ended in mid-2009, the economy has been expanding at sub-par rates as a string of problems from higher gas prices to Europe's debt crisis have acted as a drag on the U.S. economy.

By taking steps such as moving the coupon field to the end of the sales process, Bonobos» rate of abandonment could fall 10 percent, adding about $ 20,000 a month in sales.

The summer started with a reasonable (if clumsy) attempt by the government to stop incorporated individuals from taking advantage of the lower small - business tax rate, and ended with people such as Arlene Dickinson, the investor and Dragon's Den star, talking about an assault on entrepreneurship.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, at the end of the first quarter of 2015, real hourly compensation was up 1.8 % over the previous year and jumped at an annualized rate of 5.5 % compared to the last quarter of 2014.

In order to come up with 10 names, we included six stocks with debt ratings as low as BBB +, which is still investment grade, albeit at the lower end of the scale.

This «recent stream of defaults» pushed the default rate of junk - rated bonds in the US to 3.9 % for the trailing 12 - month period ended in March, up from 3.4 % in December.

SPIN posited that, based on Spotify's publicly announced royalty rates of artists getting paid $ 0.006 and $ 0.0084 per single stream, that he'd need 287,176,547 streams of his 2002 hit single «Hot in Herre» if he's lucky enough to be on the high end of the payout system.

So there's almost more concern for locking in a long - term rate of income than there is for just maybe catching a higher yield at one point in the cycle in the front end.

If you've grown resentful of the never - ending 2015 election campaign, and you feel like punishing the next candidate you see, here's a suggestion: Ask him or her whether he or she thinks the Bank of Canada should continue using the core inflation rate as its North Star.

Shareholders» equity of $ 22.979 billion decreased 3 % from year - end 2017 due to the impact of higher interest rates on net unrealized investment gains.

Instead of keeping the money it doesn't need pay in claims, the company takes a fixed rate of its customers» premiums and donates any unclaimed money to charity at the end of the year.

Mortgage rates, which loosely follow the 10 - year Treasury, hit their highest level since the end of March, breaking out of a tight range where they'd been sitting for weeks.

The Federal Reserve Board voted Wednesday to raise interest rates, ending close to a decade of virtually free money — and that could mean financing challenges for startups and small businesses.

The trend for years has been falling rates — until the end of 2017, at least.

Such factors include, among others, general business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties; the actual results of current and future exploration activities; the actual results of reclamation activities; conclusions of economic evaluations; meeting various expected cost estimates; changes in project parameters and / or economic assessments as plans continue to be refined; future prices of metals; possible variations of mineral grade or recovery rates; the risk that actual costs may exceed estimated costs; failure of plant, equipment or processes to operate as anticipated; accidents, labour disputes and other risks of the mining industry; political instability; delays in obtaining governmental approvals or financing or in the completion of development or construction activities, as well as those factors discussed in the section entitled «Risk Factors» in the Company's Annual Information Form for the year ended December 31, 2017 dated March 15, 2018.

When countries with high rates of international adoptions suddenly put an end to the practice, officials usually cite examples of abuse.

The debut season of «The End of the F — ing World» earned laudatory reviews and a 98 % «Fresh» rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Here's the catch: If you fail to pay off the whole balance by the end of the interest - free period, you're on the hook for high interest rates against the original purchase amount — and not the remainder.

«While common wisdom has it that higher volatility necessarily signals a discrete end to the [bull market], it is often the case that higher vol is a natural occurrence in the «late innings» of extended rallies, particularly when the Fed is raising rates, as was the case in late 1999 - 2000,» he wrote.

We may eventually end up in a situation like that, not where you necessarily have sustained inverted curves, but where you see a more aggressive business cycle going through the front end of the curve, relatively stable long rates, and the reason for that would be that people are pretty comfortable that inflation is going to be reasonably grounded.

«A 1986 - style approach that promises upfront rate cuts to the wealthy is almost guaranteed to give middle - income earners the short end of the stick,» said Schumer, the third most senior Democrat in the Senate.

At the end of the year, several urgent fiscal issues will converge, including the expiration of lowered individual income tax rates enacted a decade ago under President George W. Bush.

The pan-European Stoxx 600 ended 0.08 percent higher with banking stocks leading the gains on expectations of a probable interest rate hike in the U.S. next week.

That could mean the end of multiple - choice rating forms and the beginning of real career development.

Next year is expected to continue the positive momentum, with a growth rate of about 2.5 percent and the end of international assistance scheduled for the summer.

«This (rating upgrade) would be really important amid the possible ending of quantitative easing,» Teixeira said.

The interest rate on 10 - year bonds was 1.79 % at the end of 2014 — about half as much as the federal government had to offer to get investors to buy its debt a decade ago.

The market is implying a funds rate of 1.83 percent at year's end, compared with 1.15 percent currently, a level that will be affected by this week's decision.

«We expect the ECB to continue net asset purchases until around the third quarter of 2018, while the Fed will likely begin reducing its stock of quantitative easing assets early in 2018... These opposite moves mean that the ECB's balance sheet could be around 20 percent larger than the Fed's by around end - 2018, assuming constant FX rates,» he noted.

Rosengren did not mention whether he expects a rate hike before year end, yet the message appeared to fall in line with that of Fed Chair Janet Yellen who said last month that the case was «strengthening» to raise rates.

«These issues are going to weigh much more heavily on customers at the end of the day as far as how they would rate their overall experience with the airline.»

The committee lowered its median estimate for the unemployment rate, expecting it to hit 3.9 percent by the end of 2018, compared with a September projection of 4.1 percent.

Much the year - end maneuvering noted by the Rockefeller Institute involved the country's millionaires and billionaires rearranging their finances to maximize the portion of their income that would be taxed in 2012, at lower rates, rather than in 2013, at potentially higher rates.

A year after that, at the end of 2014, Zenefits was at just over $ 20 million in run - rate revenue, and the goal for this year is $ 100 million.

A Dec. 9 Reuters poll showed the likelihood of a hike on Wednesday was 90 % with economists forecasting the federal funds rate to be 1.0 - 1.25 % by end - 2016 and 2.25 % by end - 2017.