Sentences with phrase «for measuring point»

It is best suited for measuring point to point annualised returns of a single investment transaction.

Not exact matches

That drivers seem so eager to ignore those warnings could point to the need for even more aggressive measures.

Test - takers no longer will lose points for wrong answers, a feature meant to discourage guessing but that produced agonized complaints that the exam was more an exercise in strategy than a measure of college - readiness.

What makes it different is electromyography: electrodes that measure the electrical signals from your forearm muscles to tell, for instance, whether you're making a fist, pointing a finger or giving a thumbs - up.

At some point in the not - distant future, Griffith will have the most accurate tool around for measuring an individual's (or collective's) energy use as well as a gigantic pile of data, both of which will be commercially quite valuable as we are pushed toward a greener lifestyle.

Drivers for hire can point to an independent measure of their driving skill and customer service.

Equities analysts don't doubt that's the case, but point out that for such large, diversified companies, the gaming business remains a junior part of their operations (although they're huge by any stand - alone measure).

For example, a stock photographer can point to the number of downloads of his material and the ratings users have given him as a measure of his aptitude behind the lens.

Add on the jumps in market - based measures of inflation expectations, the chances of more Federal Reserve hikes, and other macro-economic data points and the moves for the economy have been dramatic.

The text separately pointed to possible medium - term measures to address emissions that could include low - carbon and zero - carbon fuels, improved energy efficiency for new and existing ships and possible market - based mechanisms to encourage the shift to lower - carbon fuels.

Announcing the report findings, commissioner for census and statistics Leslie Tang Wai - kong pointed out that the Gini coefficient - an index from 0 to 1 that measures the wealth gap - for households rose by 0.002 from 0.537 in 2011 to a record high of 0.539 last year.

A tokenistic mindset — let's get a woman, a minority and throw in some foreigners for good measure — misses the point: It's the combination of perspectives, experiences and skills that matters, as it helps curb groupthink and anticipate more curves in the road.

Ideally, we would look at a comprehensive measure of income that covers a long time span, allows us to compare before - and after - tax income at different points in the income distribution, and accounts for changes in the size and composition of households.

RBC's aggregate measure for housing affordability in Canada rose by 1.2 percentage points in the second quarter to 42.8 per cent, the biggest quarterly increase in six years.

With Greece at boiling point following the adoption of yet more internationally mandated austerity measures in the wake of parliament's vote to slash 25,000 jobs in the public sector, opposition leaders said it was wrong for Schäuble to be visiting at all.

During the middle of the 18th Century and well into the beginning of the 19th Century India produced far more textiles — and usually much cheaper and of better quality — than did England, but a number of measures aimed at undermining Indian textile producers and protecting British textile producers (tariffs that almost always exceeded 50 %, for example, and by 1813 were as high as 85 %) meant that at some point in the first half of the 19th Century the British textile industry had become the most efficient in the world and was able largely to eliminate the Indian textile industry from global competition.

Adjusting to the new systems also poses a challenge for all involved, as well as a fear of the unknown, especially with publishers keen to keeping proprietary measures as a selling point for advertisers.

There could be several factors that had investors on edge — including news that North Korea had completed a fifth nuclear missile test and the European Central Bank had declined to announce additional measures to help stimulate Europe's sluggish economy — but many strategists pointed to a speech Friday morning by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren, in which he said that «a reasonable case can be made» for tightening interest rates in the U.S..

One data point does not make a trend, but also take note of the fact that employment growth for June in the U.S. would bring the rolling average of job creation, as measured by the last few months, to less than 150,000.

RBC's housing affordability measure for the benchmark detached bungalow in Canada's largest cities in the second quarter of 2014 is as follows: Vancouver 81.8 (down 0.3 percentage points from the previous quarter); Toronto 55.9 (down 0.2 percentage points); Montreal 37.3 (down 1.6 percentage points); Ottawa 36.0 (down 0.4 percentage points); Calgary 33.6 (down 0.8 percentage points); Edmonton 31.7 (down 1.1 percentage points).

RBC's measures for Atlantic Canada dropped between 0.9 and 1.8 percentage points.

Direct marketing has always been well - suited for digital advertising; the point of the ad is to drive conversion, and digital is very good, not only at measuring if said conversion occurred, but also at targeting customers most likely to convert in the first place.

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During the second quarter of 2014, affordability measures at the national level fell by 0.9 percentage points to 48.0 per cent for two - storey homes, by 0.6 percentage points to 42.5 per cent for detached bungalows and by 0.4 percentage points to 27.4 per cent for condominium apartments.

A basis point, or bp, is a common unit of measure for interest rates and other percentages in finance.

At the same time, RBC's affordability measures for Saskatchewan fell between 1.3 and 0.8 percentage points, and stood close to their historical averages.

With the CFLP index for large enterprises rising 3.4 points to 54.4 in March, and the equivalent measure of small enterprises falling by 4.3 points to 50.9, the stronger CFLP measure relative to the Markit PMI may simply reflect this bias towards better - performing larger firms.

The difficulty here is that the underlying measures of capital and labor demand - capacity utilization, help wanted, bank lending, commercial paper issuance - are all still very tepid for this point in an expansion.

To alleviate the slowdown and offset the liquidity drain due to continuing capital outflows the People's Bank of China, the central bank, undertook further easing measures, cutting the reserve requirement ratio by a further 50 basis points to 17 % and 15 % for large and small banks respectively at the beginning of March.

My recollection is by this point in the book he'd had to substitute a proxy scaled market, and argue for the applicability of the measures over short time scales, so this suggests to me a major re-jig of my portfolio would be premature.

NetScientific PLC (LON: NSCI), the transatlantic healthcare IP commercialisation group, said today that its portfolio company, ProAxsis, had conducted its first sale of NEATstik ®, the company's point - of - care test for measuring neutrophil elastase.

For now, the main point is that the whiplash that investors are feeling with respect to the economy largely reflects the lack of distinction being made between leading and lagging measures of economic activity.

«Even though the consumption tax is scheduled to be raised by 2 percentage points, a number of measures to mitigate the burden, such as a reduced tax rate and an increase in welfare benefits for pensioners, and the provision of free education are planned to be implanted,» the report said.

It includes Systematic Equity Strategy factors to help managers measure sensitivities to potentially crowded trades as well as a comprehensive set of fundamental factors based on point - in - time data, essential for building and back testing investment strategies.

The Price Value of a Basis Point (PVBP) is a measure of the absolute value of the change in price of a bond for a one basis point change in yPoint (PVBP) is a measure of the absolute value of the change in price of a bond for a one basis point change in ypoint change in yield.

Either earnings have to grow much faster than sales, or sales growth has to come from things that aren't advertising, or the ad industry has to grow much faster than it did in the past, or you have to pick an end point for the year you are measuring to that is very near today - or, you'd end up with Google having a huge share of global advertising spending.

My point is only that rough approximations to measuring economic welfare strongly suggest that the time for viewing increase in gross product as the appropriate goal for national policy is ended.

The head of Poland's ruling party Jaroslaw Kaczynski announced the measures after an opinion poll showed a 12 - point drop in support for his right - wing Law and Justice party.

The point is that the desire for anything is not a criterion or a measure of its goodness.

While we must still admit that nature reveals to us only the answers to questions selectively focused by our interpretive structures, we may reaffirm that we are still in her leading strings, to reverse Kant's point, because reality is the first motive for the natural process of thinking as well as the final measure of its results.

In the parable of the Good Samaritan, where love to neighbor is, quite simply, doing for him what needs to be done, in the emergency, the good neighbor is both alien and heretic.28 And at this point, perhaps, some hearers who had assented so far might have had misgivings, even if they did not go to the lengths of those fanatical sectaries whose Manual of Discipline (found among the «Dead Sea Scrolls») enjoined them «to love all the children of light — and to hate all the children of darkness, each according to the measure of his guilt.»

Specifically, what is the minister's responsibility for measures that may lead to the point where the processes of reconciling can go into operation?

This is a major point because in all our clamour for merit, we end up either in despair, because we don't measure up or do enough, or proud because we think that we have done good.

The recently approved ballot measure in Michigan that approved the use of government funds for embryo - destructive research is a case in point.

i agre with Dave and then some - christians (and other folks who are serious in their beliefs too) are comical, believing and praying to someone who can't be seen, can't be proven... (this is from the point of view of an empiricist, who is able to measure things) Christians (well, me for sure) are hypocrits - believing in fantastic ideals and guaranteed to continualy fall short - that is a fairly comical notion, but nonetheless, one I enjoy to continue to strive for - setting high ideals and striving towards them.

At this point, any measure of attention given to these clowns is too much, but famed hacking collective Anonymous — who has picked fights with Westboro in the past — apparently decided enough was enough, and used their considerable Internet savvy to leaked the personal information of the members of Westboro's congregation online for anyone to see, write, call or even pay a visit to.

Oregon has been a major battleground for this issue: a ballot measure sharply restricting homosexual rights lost heavily in 1992; a scaled - down version was defeated by several percentage points in this election.

Of course, this is not all that Christians believe, or even the major part of what Christians believe, about Jesus Christ; but for our purpose, it is enough now just to admit at least that much, to see here life given in love to the point of complete surrender of self, to agree that the ages witness that this is healthy life, this is wholeness, and then to turn to oneself and ask the very simple but very searching question, «How do I measure up to that standard?»

23 This is but one of several tests for the presence of differential forces, and the test itself is described in very simplistic terms; nevertheless, the point illustrated is correct, namely that the presence of «differential» forces may be ascertained without the use of instruments which themselves involve established measuring scales.

What The New York Times calls the «blame Woodstock» explanation for the rise of clerical sex abuse cases in the Seventies, despite the paper's evident scepticism, can not be entirely discounted, since as the researchers of the John Jay College (hereafter JJC) pointed out in their latest report, «the sexual abuse of minors is a pervasive problem in society and in organisations that involve close relationships between youth and adults... No exact measure exists for the number of youths who have contact with priests in the Catholic Church in a year... [but] despite the media focus on child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, it is clear that these abuse acts are a small percentage of all child sexual abuse incidents in the United States.»