Sentences with phrase «from peak levels»

Although still a sizable chunk of change, the $ 875 million of equity raised in this year's second quarter was down from peak levels reached in the latter half of 2005 and early 2006 — including three consecutive quarters that surpassed the $ 1 billion mark.

But with both home prices and sales volume down from peak levels, the «more sides we can be involved in, the more tools, programs and systems we can put in place to benefit buyers and sellers,» he said.

«While the recession started roughly 10 years ago, a return to this level of single - family construction is no cause for alarm for two major reasons: the market has completely different underlying economics now, and housing starts in October 2007 had already declined by half from their peak levels in early 2006.»

The market is down 70 % from peak levels, with speculation in altcoins falling sharply over that period.

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal critiqued Bitcoin for having an unusually volatile quarter, with prices ranging from peak levels at $ 5,000 all the way down to $ 3,000 lows.

«Global warming needs to be reduced from peak levels to 1 degree (Celsius, or 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) as fast as possible,» co-author William Hare said at a briefing on the «State of the World 2009 ″ report.

And achieving any stabilization target — whether 2 degrees C of warming or 450 ppm or 1,000 gigatons of carbon added to the atmosphere by human activity — will require at least an 80 percent cut in emissions from peak levels by the end of this century and, ultimately, zero emissions over the long term.

By February 2014, according to a Social@Ogilvy analysis of more than 100 brand pages, organic reach hovered at 6 percent, a decline of 49 percent from peak levels in October.

The seemingly endless supply of notional gold coming from the sellers of synthetic is the strongest explanation for the extended, and in our view overdone, decline in the gold price from peak levels of 2011.

The market is down 70 % from peak levels, with speculation in altcoins falling sharply over that period.

This follows the more than 30 % decline in the Shanghai Index during the early part of July from peak levels in June.

Not exact matches

Although from 1972 to 1976 Americans produced nearly one million fewer babies per year than they had a decade earlier, maternity - ward traffic later rebounded to pre-Vietnam, pre-Watergate, pre-disco levels, peaking in 1990.

Some of the cuts were expected as the government seeks to reduce troops levels from a wartime high of 570,000, which it reached during peak fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Although the average level of after - tax income of the top 1 percent of households remains well below its 2007 peak, the percentage increase in their average after - tax income from 1979 to 2013 was five times larger than that of the middle 60 percent and four times larger than that of the bottom fifth.

In 2012, mining investment had increased five-fold from its level in 2004 (from around $ 20 billion to $ 130 billion), peaking at 9 per cent of GDP.

Large price spikes immediately before and after mid-day periods when both utility - scale and distributed solar generation reaches its peak level suggest a need for dispatchable generation sources to help cover ramping periods, when the need for power from the grid to meet load is rapidly changing.

So the sharp fall in oil prices has certainly been disruptive, but stabilization from distressed trough levels should be good for economic growth even if the price of oil doesn't rebound back to peak levels of above $ 100 a barrel in 2014.

I've noted before that while the bubble peak in 2000 was the most extreme level of valuation in history on a capitalization - weighted basis, the recent speculative episode has actually exceeded that bubble from the standpoint of speculation in individual stocks.

In particular, despite falling from the peak reached in the December quarter, capacity utilisation is still at a high level and financial conditions remain favourable.

The U.S. market may rise 2.4 % to 16.03 million from 15.65 million this year and to peak in 2017 at nearly 17 million before leveling off.

The manufacturing and non-manufacturing ISM indices, while down from the peaks seen in early 2004, are still at high levels and a number of other measures of business sentiment paint a similarly positive picture (Graph 3).

After a 10 % drop from its peak, GOOGL's share price of $ 1,070 gives it a price to economic book value (PEBV) of 1.6, which implies that the company's after - tax profit (NOPAT) will never grow more than 60 % above its current level.

Speaking of a system bulging with debt protruding from every crevice, Jim Quinn's Burning Platform featured a must - read article yesterday in which the author has discovered that the Loan - To - Value Ratio on Fannie Mae - issued mortgages is now at its highest level in history — nearly 10 % higher than at the peak of housing bubble 1.0:

The Nasdaq share price index, for example, which contains a high weighting of such stocks, is around all - time peaks, and up over 35 per cent from its level at the start of 1999.

Debt levels among elderly and near elderly have decreased from their peaks in 2010.

«The proportion of Chinese buyers in primary projects is expected to grow from the current around 5 % to around 10 %, compared with the peak level of around 35 % last year, while the proportion of corporate buyers is set to grow from the current around 10 % to around 15 %, compared with the peak level of 20 - 30 % last year.

Those figures represent trough - to - peak recoveries from depressed levels, not sustainable earnings trends that are appropriate for valuing stocks over the long - term.

On a 10 - 12 year horizon, we expect the total return of the S&P 500 to fall short of 1 % annually, and given that more than that amount is likely to represent dividends, it follows that we expect the level of the S&P 500 Index to be lower 10 - 12 years from now than it is today (recall a similar outcome after the 2000 peak).

The ACCI - Westpac and NAB survey measures of hiring intentions eased in the March quarter from recent peaks, but their levels are still well above long - run averages.

• A proxy for the resistance level is used (i.e. the percentage difference from the closest peak in the past) because, at least psychologically, it can be an important factor for traders.

The unemployment rate has been steadily declining since late 2009, from a peak of 10 % in October 2009 to 5.4 % in April; correspondingly, both consumer indexes increased from historic lows to more normal levels in this period.

Unconscionable conduct (agrees with NFF that they have not provided protection and support reforms «to provide transparency in the supply chain» and recognise that «certain classes of suppliers... are predisposed to suffering from a special disadvantage...»; misuse of market power (legal framework must «level the balance of market power in negotiations...», «ensure transparency in the transmission of market prices» and «not allow for final market risks to be borne by the primary producer» and provide «transparency of contract processes» - specifically, Canegrowers supports effects test and a process giving ACCC greater power to «regulate anti-competitive behaviour and impose penalties», shifting «the decisions framework from the judicial system to a regulatory system» which would make it more accessible to small producers); collective bargaining (notes limits of Sugar Industry Act (Qld); authorisation and notification approval costly and limited and not a viable alternative - peak bodies should be able to «commence and progress collective bargaining with mills on behalf of their members» and current threshold too restrictive)» competitive neutrality (mixed outcomes - perverse outcomes in the case of natural monopolies - suggest remove «application of competitive neutrality provisions to natural monopoly essential services»)

From peak - of - season fruit pies nestled in an irresistibly crunchy crust, to cookies that positively melt in your mouth, author Alanna Taylor - Tobin offers more than 100 wholesome treats utilizing easily accessible alternative grains and flours for every taste and baking level.

With its mountain - themed decor and Alpine specialties, the restaurant features unusual seating in a gondola from a real ski lift with views of snowy peaks and rocky slopes, along with a lower - level sports bar area and upper - level sun terrace, love seats and lounge chairs.

That does seem a bit long even for a player of his ability and Spurs could do well to cash in and make a decent amount from a player who may not have more than a couple of seasons left at his peak level.

Giroud has gone from lower level french football to the premier league in about 5 years, I can see him improving for another 2 seasons and that may put him at Van Persie's peak level (and that without all those injuries and rapid decline).

how can he not do well when the alternative striker demonstrates that he no longer has his heart in it to perform at peak level — its likely we'll see (less outputs from alexis) optimum outputs coming from lacazette.

Even though Clowney took a big step forward last year, he still had plenty of room to improve if the further away he got away from that microfracture surgery, the closer he got to his peak level of performance.

But my main problem with the Jumperoo, apart from it making me hallucinate when I was at peak levels of tired, was that it took up about 90 % of our house.

As HCG levels and hormones fluctuate wildly, emotions peak and dip, sometimes even from minute to minute.

On average, alcohol levels in breast - milk peak at around one hour after you've had a drink, and steadily drop off from there.

Continued Spending Discipline in Agency Operations: While certain financial maneuvers artificially lower the rate of total spending growth from 4.1 percent to 1.9 percent, the Executive Budget does continue spending discipline in agency operations.10 For example, full - time employees remain level at 182,565 after peaking at 199,916 in fiscal year 2009, and outside of a few targeted programs, agency costs are held to current levels.

In victory, the Conservative vote has fallen progressively from its highest level to date, of 55 % in 1931, to a post-second world war peak of 49.6 % in 1955, to 41.9 % the last time it won a majority of seats in an election in 1992, to 36.1 % in 2010.

* Foreign Reserves have peaked at $ 40b, the highest level in about four years, and up from $ 24 billion just a year ago, even though when we came in, the price of oil had crashed woefully.

It now stands at 64 %, the lowest level since 1986, down from a peak of 71 % in 2003.

Drawing on PM2.5 data from five diplomatic posts in China, a 2015 study in Atmospheric Environment revealed previously unknown variations in PM2.5 levels; for instance, in Beijing the particles tended to peak around midnight and bottom out in spring, because of weather patterns.

According to figures from the World Bank, the Chinese economy's carbon intensity — the amount of CO2 emissions relative to the size of economic output — has decreased by almost 70 per cent over the past three decades (see «Peak planet: Carbon dioxide intensity «-RRB-, and a further 20 per cent reduction from current levels is promised by 2020.

The supplements contained peak X at levels ranging from 3 % to 14 % of L - tryptophan supplements whose traces were found in people who died of EMS in 1989.

Lead author, Dr Richard Dodds, Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellow at the MRC LEU at the University of Southampton, comments: «We found that men were typically stronger than women from adolescence onwards, but both men and women reached a peak level of strength during their thirties before becoming weaker with age.

This plant covers 74 acres and sucks up at least 300 megawatts of electricity most of the time, peaking at as much as 2,000 megawatts (much of it from a coal - fired power plant nearby), to heat uranium hexafluoride until it gasifies and then force it through 1,760 porous membranes that gradually concentrate the level of the fissile isotope — a method invented during World War II.