Sentences with phrase «few years rates»

Within a few years the rate of routine episiotomies dropped precipitously and episiotomies are now almost solely reserved for forceps and vacuum delivery.

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Oklahoma has seen a massive spike in earthquakes in the past few years, registering 2-1/2 earthquakes daily of magnitude 3 or greater - a seismicity rate 600 times greater than before 2008, according to the Oklahoma Geological Survey.

Buoyed by uncommonly low interest rates, the industry has boasted of double - digit returns; the past few years, at least anecdotally, have been especially rich.

And they also supply a «rating outlook,» assessing in which direction ratings may be headed in the next few years.

The Federal Reserve's decisions over the past 12 months to continuously raise interest rates from the near zero percent level of the past few years have made it more profitable for big banks to lend money.

Private firms like Amur have proliferated in the past few years, which is hardly a surprise, given that Canada's stubbornly low interest rates have pushed investors into alternative asset classes, and residential real estate has generated stunning returns for investors and homeowners alike.

And lastly, if rates start hiking significantly, they will be breaking away from the trend registered in the past few years — the 10 - year paper hasn't hit 3 percent since 2014.

The minutes showed that Fed officials thought it may be appropriate to raise interest rates over the next few years faster than previously expected.

The employment rate for 25 - 54 year old men fell during the recession, recovered somewhat, but has been flat over the past few years.

If cutting rates by 500 bps over the last few years didn't spark a recovery then why would cutting from 25 bps?

Nielsen, the company whose name is synonymous with network and cable TV ratings, has been trying for a few years to expand its measurement capabilities to cover the rapidly - growing streaming entertainment market.

When those prices collapsed anew a few years later, the central bank dropped the benchmark interest rate back to its crisis - era setting of 0.5 per cent %.

The more complex debt market has worked wonders in the past few years allowing somewhat riskier companies like Valeant amass more debt, at lower rates, than they would have been able to past.

The German bank has struggled over the last few years due to weak earnings, a low - interest rate environment and penalties on past misconduct.

Critics have worried that the Fed has missed opportunities to normalize policy, but Yellen said «the risk of falling behind the curve in the near future appears limited, and gradual increases in the federal funds rate will likely be sufficient to get to a neutral policy stance over the next few years.»

Average five - year growth rate among the 2001 Inc 500 that had Venture - capital funding at start - up: 4,619 % CEO with an M.B.A.: 2,542 % CEO who took 5 days or fewer of vacation yearly: 2,385 % Open - book management: 2,283 % CEO who took more than 10 days of vacation yearly: 1,983 %

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.

Over the past few years, public pensions including California Public Employee's Retirement System (CalPERs) and California State Teacher's Retirement System (Calstrs)-- the largest in the country by assets — have posting mediocre returns due to low interest rates and growing retirement obligations.

The Liberals made a few big - ticket election campaign spending promises, but, on the tax side, they also indicated they intend to pad revenues over the next few years with higher tax rates for personal and corporate income.

Like Canada's provinces, each Brazilian state has its own distinct rates, and taxes are also filed monthly, creating unique situations when a fiscal year is stacked with monthly losses apart from a few profitable months.

Until a few years ago, advertising meant spending a small fortune on print ads, plastering your message on billboards or pushing your burn rate through the roof with a radio or TV campaign.

Janet Yellen has spent that last few years preparing investors for rising interest rates.

The rate of new entrepreneurs is the second - lowest among the best cities to start a small business, but it's been steadily rising over the past few years.

A few years ago, the notion of negative interest rates was a purely academic discussion.

«After a few years, the hiring rate of these companies drops off very fast.»

There's been a lot of hand - wringing over the past few years about the declining rates of entrepreneurship in the United States.

What if oil stayed at just $ 60 a barrel for a few years, as the Bank of Canada assumed in January 2015 when it cut interest rates?

Just a few weeks after the market finally had come around to the Fed's way of thinking that three quarter - point rate hikes would be appropriate this year, the day's trading changed sentiment.

Nevertheless, the latest gain in earnings left them up just 2.1 percent from a year ago - in the same tepid range they have been in for the past few years and well below the 3 percent or more economists say the Fed would want to see before lifting benchmark interest rates.

The plans themselves have been adapting to the low - return environment over the past few years by hiking contribution rates from both employees and employers.

While at the beginning of 2011 trading in euro - dollar futures was still foreseeing a return to typical interest rates over the next few years, that view has given way to expectations that rates will remain low for a decade to come.

Still, few observers think Mozilla can continue to win converts at the astounding rate of the past two years.

While interest rates have been historically low for the past few years, a consequence has been that banks became stingy when it came to making loans.

With $ 43 billion in sales and a growth rate of about 8.4 % last year, according to the Organic Trade Association, organic food is one of the few places that the consumer packaged goods industry has experienced growth.

A few Fed policymakers worry the U.S. economy, which has delivered strong job gains but worryingly weak rates of inflation, could be stuck on a low growth path that requires low rates for years as well as new policy tools.

The economy may be healthy enough for them to raise interest rates, but the new 0.5 percent to 0.75 percent target for the benchmark fed funds rate, up a quarter point from where it had been, remains far below the historical norm — and, by all indications, the Fed still expects rates to stay low for at least a few more years.

Interest rates will inevitably rise, as the Bank of Canada keeps pointing out, and the federal government has instituted numerous changes over the past few years that will make a home purchase more difficult for first - time buyers.

«Pocketing raises through automatic contributions was one of the biggest factors allowing me to increase my savings rate from 35 % to 65 % in just a few short years.»

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

«Policy makers will continue to watch this metric, but rising interest rates and better income growth should stabilize, then nudge this ratio lower over the next few years.»

«Most informed investors believe that when interest rates go higher, as they are expected to within the next few years, condo prices will be hit very hard,» says MacKenzie.

Moerdler: We could manage raises in a few years if we maintain MDY's growth rate and profitability.

Senior writer Cat Clifford breaks down a new report from the Kauffman Foundation which found that the rate of new entrepreneurs starting a business each month rose from 0.28 percent in 2013 to 0.31 percent in 2014, reversing a downward trend over the past few years.

The ACCA allows manufacturing companies to depreciate, for tax purposes, the value of newly purchased equipment and machinery at the accelerated rate of 50 per cent per year, reducing their taxable income in the first few years of owning the asset.

There are a few hundred microlenders throughout the United States and while they often charge slightly higher interest rates for loans than banks, they've helped 250,000 - 300,000 small businesses each year and lent more than $ 2 billion nationwide during the past 10 years, according to the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO), the trade association for microlenders.

In the last few years, PG&E's base rate went from around 13 cents per kw to around 19 cents.

Reliable data on business creation and destruction, even at the national level, has only been available for the past few years; until relatively recently, economists didn't even know that the startup rate was declining.

They require fixed - rate interest in the first few years of the loan followed by variable rate interest after that.

Equities really have had the best of all worlds these past few years, with earnings growth in the double digits and financial conditions remaining very accommodative, despite the recent rise in both short - and long - term interest rates.1 The combination of rising earnings growth and benign financial conditions is a powerful set of tailwinds which usually drives stock valuations higher.

Progress in a few areas has been solid: slashing of bureaucratic red tape has led to a surge in new private businesses; full liberalization of interest rates seems likely following the introduction of bank deposit insurance in May; Rmb 2 trillion (US$ 325 billion) of local government debt is being sensibly restructured into long - term bonds; tighter environmental regulation and more stringent resource taxes have contributed to a surprising two - year decline in China's consumption of coal.