Sentences with phrase «global rates decline»

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As this zero - sum - game pushes savings into the global markets, global equilibrium rates decline even more, «pulling the global economy closer to a liquidity trap.»

Returns from that era were boosted by a confluence of factors that are unlikely to come together again: declines in inflation and interest rates, strong global GDP, low corporate tax, and rapid growth in China.

Moving forward, Navigant Research projects a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of global e-bike sales of 0.4 % from 2016 - 2025, which reflects an «anticipated decline» of -0.8 % CAGR in China's e-bike sales over that period.

MF Global's stock price declined two - thirds in the final week of October 2011 and its credit rating was reduced making its debt high - yield debt following huge quarterly losses.

As of March 31, the law covered 11.1 million people; an Oct. 13 S&P Global Ratings report predicted that enrollment next year will range from an 8 percent decline to a 4 percent gain.

The exchange rate had declined, which would also assist in adapting to weak global conditions and lower commodity prices.

Foreign central banks must choose between passively letting these inflows push up their exchange rates — thereby pricing their exports out of global markets — or recycling these inflows into U.S. Treasury bills yielding only 1 % and whose exchange value is declining.

Some reasons for the fall include: the Federal Reserve lowering the Fed Funds rate, declining inflation, improved monetary efficiency, economic slack, the continued global demand for US assets, and relative stability in the US vs. other markets.

ISI says that over the past 9 months, global short rates have declined -50 bp, and 158 stimulative policy initiatives have been announced around the world.

The global economy is struggling to cope with a barrage of hard conditions such as uncontrolled money printing, trade wars, sanctions, increasing interest rates and a decline in retail trade.

In part this increase was due to an increase in the cash rate in light of inflationary pressures building on the back of the boom in the resource sector, as well as reflecting the increasing return to capital in Australia at that time; thereafter, interest rates declined sharply in response to the global financial crisis.

Since then, improved sentiment about global prospects, the decline in the exchange rate and rising concerns about the rapid growth of housing credit have seen these expectations scaled back markedly.

Which is why Moody's Investors Service says the global default rate for non-investment grade companies will decline to 1.81 percent by the end of this year, the lowest since April 2008.

The higher level of liabilities that must be serviced would normally have significantly increased the NID over this period, but this effect was substantially offset by trend declines in global interest rates over the past two decades.

This is hypothesized to happen for many different reasons, including a decline in the competitiveness of other economic sectors (caused by appreciation of the real exchange rate as resource revenues enter an economy, a phenomenon known as Dutch disease), volatility of revenues from the natural resource sector due to exposure to global commodity market swings, government mismanagement of resources, or weak, ineffectual, unstable or corrupt institutions (possibly due to the easily diverted actual or anticipated revenue stream from extractive activities).

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Secondly although church attendance is in decline in the US you're waaay off the mark about global Christianity which is still growing at a serious rate.

But over the last decade, both native and honey bee populations have been declining at alarming rates, raising concerns about the impact on our global food security.

A stronger second half performance has helped global alcoholic drinks giant Diageo to increase reported operating profit by 6.5 % to # 2.574 b, aied by exchange rate movement, for the year ended June 30th 2010 as gains in developing international markets offset declines in the mature markets of North America and Europe.

Enteral medical nutrition is becoming an attractive growth sector, given the aging global population and declining birth rates.

While breastfeeding rates are no longer declining at the global level, with many countries experiencing significant increases in the last decade, only 39 per cent of children less than six months of age in the developing world are exclusively breastfed and just 58 per cent of 20 - 23 month olds benefit from the practice of continued breastfeeding.

The model also suggests that the decline in water vapour concentrations that occurred in 2001 slowed down the rate of global warming in the last decade by 25 per cent.

There may come a point when the global tree growth rate stagnates and perhaps even declines under warming climates.

Global vulture populations are declining at an alarming rate.

But no one can say whether malaria rates have increased or declined in Africa as a whole in recent decades because of difficulties in collecting data, says Valentina Buj, public - health officer for the WHO's Global Malaria Programme in Geneva.

Global abortion rates have stopped falling, ending a period of rapid decline that began in 1995.

As birth rates decline in countries that include parts of Europe and East Asia, threatening the economic slowdown associated with aging populations, a global study from the University of California, Berkeley, and the East - West Center in Hawaii suggests that in much of the world, it actually pays to have fewer children.

Global rates of temperature change in high and declining greenhouse gas emission scenarios.

Global declines in oceanic nitrification rates as a consequence of ocean acidification.

Mass bleaching and mortality are identified as the current crisis to corals, and based on the current rate of increase in global CO2 emissions (now exceeding 3 % per year), most reefs world - wide are committed to an irreversible decline.

Even though Levi's is the global leader in jeans, accounting for 4.7 percent of the market ahead of VF Corporation and PVH, the $ 93 billion global denim market only grew at a compounded annual growth rate of 4 percent during the last 5 years, a rate which is due to decline to 2 percent over the next five years, according to Euromonitor.

Accordingly, the price of and the income generated by the Fund's securities may decline in response to, among other things, adverse changes in investor sentiment, general economic and market conditions, regional or global instability, interest rate fluctuations or other factors that may cause the securities markets to decline generally.

Factors impacting real - world returns include transaction costs, signal banding to reduce turnover, applying a fund management fee, and adjusting for tail winds provided by secular decline in global interest rates.

Finally, whatever you want to say about the inevitability of the decline of American hegemony, the U.S. dollar and U.S. Treasury bonds still play a unique role in the global economy, which probably allows us to take on more debt than other countries without crippling our economy through currency depreciation and high interest rates.

The resulting collapse / convergence in global interest rates & spreads, the implacable compression & decline in volatility / momentum, the restriction / regulation of banks» proprietary risk, numerous FX scandals, the replacement of human traders by algo - trading, the near extinction of FX & macro funds, all served to disrupt and suppress currency for return & dynamic hedging strategies.

The uncertainties that caused the August decline continue to be unresolved, including the impact and timing of the Federal Reserve's interest rate increases and the effect on global economies of slower growth in China.

While some of that decline no doubt reflected uncertainty around the Watergate investigation, global markets were already falling following the collapse of the Breton Woods agreement in 1977 and the end of fixed exchange rates.

Only after the dreadful global credit crunch of 2007 to 2009 had devastated credit availability and forced both lenders and borrowers to change dramatically their easy borrowing and lending practices did this declining savings rate trend reverse.

Perhaps this global trend toward loving and pampering pets — even treating cats and dogs like children and spending indulgent amounts of money on them — can be explained by the aging population and declining birth rates worldwide, as did a report on global pet industry trends by market research provider Companiesandmarkets.com.

And if cycles 24 and possibly 25 are below normal, someone has to explain «natural variability» so that declines in either absolute temperature or rate of increase don't serve to discredit the overall «increases in CO2 level cause increases in global temperature».

The United Nations Population Division has updated its population forecasts through 2050, and concludes that, despite a longstanding global decline in fertility rates, the world is still on a path to exceed 9 billion people by mid-century, with the vast majority of the increase coming in the world's poorest countries.

Early evidence suggests that globally, the rate of water loss from soil and plants (called «evapotranspiration») has declined, a finding reinforced by a global slowdown in plant growth.

This is particularly critical for oil importing countries that will be cut off from oil exports at about twice the rate of the global decline in available transport fuels.

What is needed is enough specificity to allow a clear understanding of the effort needed, in terms of the time available before global emissions need to peak, and the rate at which they will have to decline thereafter.

Then consider that, if the 350 pathway is defined to have a global peak that's a mere four years later — if emissions continue to rise until 2015 — then the subsequent decline would have to reach a nearly unimaginable rate of 20 % per year.

The IEA predicts a long plateau and a very modest global decline rate.

As of today... well sir global average temperature has been in rapid decline since 2010 and the rate of decline is alarming.

Arctic sea ice has declined at a rate significantly faster than global climate models have predicted.

A global trend of increasing atmospheric CO2 means that all local regions are also seeing the same increasing trend; A decline in CO2 locally weakens the well - established claim that global CO2 is increasing significantly; Students may assume that since the atmosphere covers the Earth, CO2 levels in one location would experience the same rate of change and levels of CO2 as in other geographic locations.»

This isn't tenths of degrees we are talking about as in establishing global warming, but significant declines in the rate of production.