Sentences with phrase «higher average growth rates»

All of these sources experienced higher average growth rates than mature technologies such as hydro power (0.6 %), solid biofuels (2.6 %) and geothermal (2.3 %).

Not exact matches

While Las Vegas» 2016 GDP growth rate of 3.9 % was the seventh - highest among the 40 largest metro areas, the region's Q3 2017 average weekly wage of $ 898 was the fifth - lowest.

While Riverside's Q3 2017 average weekly wage of $ 848 was the lowest among the 40 largest metro areas, its non-farm payroll job growth rate of 3.9 % between February 2017 and February 2018 was the highest.

Atlanta's Q3 2017 average weekly wage of $ 1,067 was right in line with the average among the 40 largest metro areas of $ 1,095, and the region's 2016 GDP growth rate of 3.7 % was the eighth - highest.

The staggering growth rates of this year's Fast 50 — the average of the top five was a record - smashing 43,000 % — reflects how high - tech startups have evolved in the face of austerity.

Their average five - year growth rate of 1,933 % is also higher than that of any other class in the past five years.

Our proprietary installed base analysis shows that the installed base grew by over 35 % last year to 600mn and we believe that, with growth in the installed base headed towards 715mn by the end 2017, an average replacement rate of around 30 months, and high retention rates, units could grow 9 % to 232.7 mn in 2017.

But this weighting significantly reduces the average; if you weight by the number of years you find a higher growth rate above 90 percent.

The November 2015 average weekly wage of $ 1,073 was the second highest in the country, and was 5.6 % higher than the weekly wage in November 2014, the third highest wage growth rate.

Iowa's November 2015 unemployment rate of 3.4 % was the sixth lowest among the states and DC, and its average weekly wage grew 4.7 % between November 2014 and November 2015, the sixth - highest growth rate in the country.

Nevada saw average weekly wages grow by a whopping 6.7 % between November 2014 and November 2015, the highest growth rate in the country.

Unadjusted career average earnings will result in a smaller denominator than career average earnings that are adjusted to reflect wage growth, as in the C / QPP benefit rate calculation, and both are likely to be lower than a measure of best average earnings for people whose earnings are high relative to average earnings for limited periods of time.

This seems to be the growth track the U.S. economy is on, with forecast growth averaging around 2 per cent and the unemployment rate remaining stubbornly high, in the 9 to 10 per cent range.

There are a multitude of reasons as to why this occurs but it's a powerful enough force that many investors have done quite well for themselves over an investing lifetime by focusing on dividend stocks, specifically one of two strategies - dividend growth, which focuses on acquiring a diversified portfolio of companies that have raised their dividends at rates considerably above average and high dividend yield, which focuses on stocks that offer significantly above - average dividend yields as measured by the dividend rate compared to the stock market price.

Finally, if we assume a sustained explosion in productivity growth to 2.8 % annually, joining the highest quintile of historical U.S. productivity growth rates for any 8 - year period, and assuming an unemployment rate of just 4 % in 2024, the result would still be real U.S. GDP growth averaging just 3.2 % annually over the next 8 years.

When you up - sell sales, you get more revenue and growth and get more of more... With the average website converting traffic at an average of 2.95 % — with the highest converting websites measuring 25 % conversion rates — you can play the marketing numbers to your advantage and make killer profits.

The average growth rate is 19.5 [1] per cent per annum, which seems quite high by any standard.

The average annual rate of growth — 1.7 % — was much higher than in the U.S..

The average annual rate of growth — 0.8 % — is only slightly higher than the rate projected for the U.S.

As an occupation, massage therapy is in high demand: The US Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts a 26 % growth in massage therapy jobs between 2016 and 2026, a much higher rate than average.

For example, Texas and Florida who are relative newcomers to the craft beer scene compared to other states saw higher growth rates last year than the industry average.

In buying stocks I try to maintain a balance between high yielders (such as most REITS) and low yielders with above average dividend growth rates (stock like SBUX, DAL).

Finally, another 0.3 % m / m increase in average hourly earnings would lift the annual growth rate back up to a six - month high of 2.7 %.

It will never be a flying high stock anymore, but the consistency of its dividend payments and its incredible growth rate (the KO dividend doubles on average every 10 years) are solid enough to make KO a key investment in your holdings.

By taking this diversified and balanced approach, investors in the Growth Account have achieved an average return of 8.5 % before tax — higher than the target rate of 6 % — as shown in the chart below.

Those are high expectations when one considers the fact that the average growth rate of the company over the last 5 years has been just over 2 %.

Also because of regulations, smaller retail investors have effectively been blocked from participating in higher - yielding investments — namely, private equity and venture capital, whose 10 - year compound annual growth rates have averaged 11.8 and 11 percent, quite a bit more than Treasuries, equities and other common asset classes.

Growth in average hourly earnings is important for interest rates because it is positively related to inflation, as higher earnings growth tends to spark faster inflGrowth in average hourly earnings is important for interest rates because it is positively related to inflation, as higher earnings growth tends to spark faster inflgrowth tends to spark faster inflation.

Our 4.89 % growth rate easily beat the 2017 average inflation rate of 2.12 % and even the highest month of inflation in February 2017 when inflation hit 2.7 %.

This higher rate of underlying productivity growth, if sustained, should enable the economy to grow at a higher average rate than was possible in the past.

A stock like Alphabet (formerly Google) isn't likely owned in a value ETF due to its growth rate and P / E ratio both being higher than average.

Growth in non-farm GDP per hour worked — a broad measure of labour productivity — has averaged 1.8 per cent per annum since the start of the recovery, a higher rate than in the corresponding phase of the previous cycle, but slightly lower than in the 1970s cycle.

Unit labour costs (based on compensation per hour worked) grew by 1.3 per cent in the June quarter to be 2.8 per cent higher over the year, which is around the average growth rate of the past few years.

The current US recovery, which is now tied for the third - longest on record, has also been the weakest economic expansion since World War II, with an average annual growth rate of just 2 % over an 8 - year period.5 It may not take much to derail such tepid growth, particularly in light of continued high expectations.

Even the figures quoted by the President as the growth rate for 2016, is higher than the West African average especially when note is taken of recessions in the Nigerian and other economies.

The IMF, which concluded its mission to the island last March, for the most part confirmed the government's economic growth figures, and stated that the banking sector was «in good health» and enjoyed high capitalization rates on average.

He's declared Buffalo «a national success story» while ignoring job growth that's only half the national average and a poverty rate that ranks among the highest in the country.

The neighborhoods have recently outperformed other areas of the city in terms of job and business growth, but still maintain higher rates of unemployment and lower average income than the citywide average, the report found.

Unexpectedly, the investigators found that the rate of growth of children in the short - term high - dose strategy group was about 0.23 centimeters per year less than the rate for children in the low - dose strategy group, even though the high - dose treatments were given only about two weeks per year on average.

While the average rate of growth has decreased steadily since the 1970s, Moses says the 18 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) that the United States spends on health care is 50 to 60 percent higher than any other developed country.

China's coal demand growth averaged 9 % per year from 2000 to 2010, more than double the global growth rate of 4 % and significantly higher than global growth excluding China, which averaged only 1 %.

The data from iResearch shows the market size of China online dating sites will increase from 487 million Yuan, 2010 to 1.9 billion Yuan, with an annual average compound growth rate of 31.3, way higher than that of US market which is 3.4.

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the total population of the metropolitan area of Perth 202 million (2014), it is Australia's fourth largest city, population growth rates higher than the national average statistics.

The high projection, which would produce $ 13,208 in per - pupil spending in 2020, is based on an average growth rate of 2.45 percent, similar to the period from 1997 to 2004.

If one country's test - score performance was 0.5 standard deviations higher than another country during the 1960s — a little less than the current difference in the scores between such top - performing countries as Finland and Hong Kong and the United States — the first country's growth rate was, on average, one full percentage point higher annually over the following 40 - year period than the second country's growth rate.

When we performed the analysis again, this time also including the average test - score performance of a country in our model, we found that countries with higher test scores experienced far higher growth rates.

But according to MAP, Lincoln had the highest percentage of students meeting or exceeding growth projections in math among all schools and an above - average growth rate in reading.

Growth rates for students — not absolute proficiency levels but growth from year to year — are consistently higher than the state avGrowth rates for students — not absolute proficiency levels but growth from year to year — are consistently higher than the state avgrowth from year to year — are consistently higher than the state average.

Participants in competency - based information technology programs at community colleges are completing programs quickly and are experiencing stable employment rates and higher wage growth than the national average, according to a comprehensive four - year study from Mathematica Policy Research.

Our students have again outpaced the academic growth of their national and state peers in both math and reading, while the average ACT score, freshmen - on - track to graduate rate, and graduation rate have reached the highest measures on record.