Sentences with phrase «gives you a rating out»

Then, in addition, each player has six stats each given a rating out of ten.

Every battle gives you a rating out of five based on speed and efficiency, so there's a sense of racing against yourself to throw the right tactics together.

It scores social media users for performance on platforms including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and Wordpress — and gives them a rating out of 100.

Not exact matches

With HotelTonight, you can also get a better deal by booking multi-night stays, looking out for «Geo Rates» — location - based discounts — and joining HotelTonight's rewards program, HT Perks, which gives customers better discounts the more they book.

Giving 25 % of the market rate for a position each year, rather than a lump sum grant that covers the next four years, will smooth out the vesting process so the employee never reaches a cliff.

Consumer Reports rated the power and fuel systems of the 2012 3 Series among the worst in the industry and gave the model year an «orange» overall rating — or two out of five — on its ratings scale.

«Given the risk that we have identified and the way those risks are expected to play out, we think interest rates are at the right place... If the balance of risks were to shift... then we would need to reconsider that balance of risks and our position on it.»

Given the high failure rate of startups in their first year, a business plan is also an ideal opportunity to safely test out the feasibility of a business and spot flaws, set aside unrealistic projections and identify and analyze the competition.

The European Central Bank will shortly announce its latest rate decision, and ECB President Mario Draghi is expected to lay out a cautious approach, given the widespread uncertainty that's out there right now.

Cash: Cash rates started out 2011 at intergenerational lows, and there were no changes in administered rates, such as the target overnight bank rate, to give them any kind of a boost, so they remained low throughout.

Earlier last week, top Republicans sketched out plans — including a simplified tax code and lower corporate tax rates — after giving up on a proposal to introduce a border adjustment tax.

In our tests, the Gene Knockout Kit gave us greater than 80 percent knock - out rates for seven targets,» shares Shondra Miller, Ph.D., Director, Center for Advanced Genome Engineering at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, on Synthego's web site.

But the unemployment rate does not capture the problem created when discouraged workers give up their job search and drop out of the labour market.

Each of us chases after a desirable «rating» — an average score (out of 5 stars) that's affected by everything from that sideways glance you gave the woman walking past you on your morning commute to the lack of enthusiasm you displayed for the birthday gift your co-worker gave you.

«But given the financing opportunities that exist for us in the private - equity arena and our growth rate this year of 25 % per month, we were able to win a loan commitment from a bank that would come into effect as soon as we carried out a private placement,» notes CEO Brad Galle.

Economic factors like consumer confidence, financial obligations, and delinquencies are all improving and the consumer may be more insulated than investors think from a back - up in yields, given 75 % of their financial obligations are in the form of a mortgage, close to 90 % of all mortgages are 30 - year fixed, and the average mortgage is termed out at the lowest rate ever... Taking these factors into account, we generally think it pays to remain sanguine.»

2) the stair counter doesn't work well — gets very confused when I get on an elevator (I live on the 30th floor of my building and sometimes just taking the elevator up in the morning after a run gives me my full 10 story step goal) 3) the heart rate monitor doesn't seem particularly accurate 4) the sleep tracker doesn't do a good job of figuring out when I go to sleep and when I wake up.

Low interest rates have given a huge incentive to shift out of low - risk assets into stocks and corporate bonds in search of higher returns.

The interplay between these dynamics will play out over 2018, but as rates eventually rise, financial stocks could be poised to benefit given the long term relationship between interest rates and banks» net interest margins (NIMs).2

In a bid to duck the possibility of billions in extra tolls that could result, Suncor and Imperial have filed nearly 500 pages of documents with the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, laying out a plan to force Enbridge Inc. to give them a break on pipeline rates into the U.S.

They talk about getting up to 3 or 4 %, which looks unlikely given that 10 year rates are at 2 % and as you pointed out their predictions of 10 year rates increasing have always been wrong.

While stocks have a terminal value beyond a 10 - year period, the effects of interest rates and nominal growth on those projections largely cancel out because higher nominal GDP growth over a given 10 - year horizon is correlated with both higher interest rates and generally lower market valuations at the end of that period.

At longer horizons, the 6.3 % growth rate that we've assumed for nominal GDP over the coming years will begin to bail investors out given enough time, and as a result, our projection for 10 - year S&P 500 nominal total returns peeks its head up above zero, at about 2.4 % annually from current levels.

In its 1997 year - end summation, the firm gave suburban office product three stars out of a possible four - star rating.

Given the terrible plunge in Help Wanted advertising and the likelihood of smaller movement out of the labor force, my expectation is that the unemployment rate will jump from the current 4.5 % to somewhere between 4.8 % and 5 %.

Startups that run out of resources also usually do so because the founders don't want to give up a piece of the pie, the budgets were not planned properly, the burn rate was too high, or it just took longer to raise the first round than initially expected.

The minutes of the Fed's July meeting are expected to be released at 2 p.m., and traders are hoping the Fed minutes will give new insight into Fed thinking on rate hikes that did not come out in the post-meeting statement.

The data seems to bear this out: At companies where payout rates tapered off beyond a given target, CEOs tended to deliver results at or just above the target and seldom much beyond it.

Given our significant international operations, which contribute approximately 30 % of our total revenues, fluctuations in currency exchange rates, which are generally out of our management's control, often have a significant impact on our financial results.

The country's economy has turned out to be much stronger than anyone was predicting only a few months ago, giving policy - makers scope to bring rates back up to more normal levels.

Ms. Seaman said that given low interest rates, penalties would probably be minimal, so most savers shouldn't worry too much if they want to cash out a C.D. early.

Student loan refinancing: Refinancing is when a student loan lender buys out your existing loans and gives you a single new loan with a potentially lower interest rate.

If you're willing to stay at the same payment amount, a reduced rate can also give you a way to tap the value of your home through a cash - out refinance.

Such purchases, by taking duration out of private hands, push down term premia and lead to lower long - term rates than would otherwise be the case for any given economic outlook.

Investors have all but priced out the chance of a rate hike at the end of the Fed's two - day policy meeting on Wednesday, particularly given its adherence in recent years to only raising rates at meetings that are followed by press conferences.

In other words, for two years of economic recovery, the labor market in the U.S. has been doing only slightly better than treading water, and much of the improvement in the unemployment rate can be attributed to people dropping out of the labor force either because they've given up looking for work or because they've retired.

The Starpoints you earn through the Starwood Preferred Guest ® Business Credit Card from American Express can be primarily used to book hotel stays, which gives the card a rewards rate anywhere between 2.4 % and 4.8 % - higher than most other credit card offers out there.

Owning and living in a rental building is allowed by mortgage lenders and, according to mortgage lending guidelines, when you live in a building you rent out, the entire property can be classified as your primary residence, which gives access to lower mortgage rates and potentially larger monthly profits.

Taylor has spent the last two decades refining and pushing for wider use of a rule that sets out where rates should be, given certain conditions of inflation and the broader economy.

Earnings / Macro Pulse: But if you look at a couple of key indicators we track: the «nominal surprise index» (this tracks a combination of the Citi US inflation surprise index and the economic surprise index - giving a view on how the inflation and general economic data is turning out vs expectations), and the «earnings revisions indicator» (this combines earnings revisions ratio and the rate of change in forward earnings).

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

If I had to give this safety razor a rating out of 10 I would give it a 9.5 / 10.

During any given year it usually won't be possible to separate - out the pernicious effects of monetary inflation and the distortion of interest rates that goes hand - in - hand with it from all the other forces affecting the economy.

Major banks only give out around 0.01 % APY on most interest checking options, and the national average of 0.04 % is mostly a reflection of the high interest rates of online banks and smaller regional banks whose account policies tend to be more generous to customers.

To give you a flavour, they researchers find that the chances of not running out of money at a 4 % withdrawal rate are optimised when:

For federal loans, every borrower taking out the same type of federal loan in a given year has the same interest rate.

Given that the central bank had been signalling for some time that it was taking time to assess the impact of the «insurance» it took out in January with a surprise 25 bps rate cut, most analysts expected Governor Stephen Poloz to stand pat.

The speech starts by setting out three key themes of the Bank's recent communication about Australia's transition from the resources sector boom to more normal economic conditions: that the sheer scale of the boom means that this transition is challenging, and that the broader global environment compounds the challenge; that a reasonably successful transition is possible given our economy's positive fundamentals and flexibility; and that monetary policy is doing what it can to help the transition, but that the chances of success would be boosted by a lift in productivity growth and an increase in the expected risk - adjusted rate of return on investment.

To be a successful investor and trader of mutual funds you should do your research to find out which exchange trade funds will give the best rate of financial return.

Does it need to un-tax the banks and give tax - favoritism to Wall Street («capital gains» tax rates) to enable it to earn its way out of debt at the expense of the production - and - consumption economy?