Sentences with phrase «impact of falling rates»

So the impact of falling rates may be smaller with a ladder than with a bullet strategy that targets a single maturity date or than with an investment in a small number of bonds.

Not exact matches

«Rates might spike, but the dollar would fall and what's the net impact of that?

In its trading business, income from its markets business decreased 4 percent to 1.35 billion pounds, as macro income fell 14 percent due to a weaker performance by its U.S. rates business and the impact of exiting energy - related commodities.

But one of the interesting findings over the past week is that when market action is characterized by neither favorable trend uniformity nor a strong breadth reversal, falling interest rates exert no favorable impact on stocks.

In other words, all of the historically favorable impact of falling interest rates is captured during periods when some measure of trend uniformity would have already been favorable.

To better understand our prescription trends, we have isolated the impacts of Express Scripts day fall and cough / cold / flu, adding back the 10.7 % negative impact we experienced from exiting the Express Scripts network, to reconcile to an adjusted 1.6 % prescription growth rate, which compares favorably to the industry, including Walgreens, which decreased at 0.3 % over the same period per IMS.

If not for the impact of Hurricane Harvey, the top line would have climbed a bit instead of fallen, but investors probably couldn't take their eyes off of occupancy rates that slid 1.3 % compared to the same period last year.

Citing the impacts of the earthquakes, and a consumer - price inflation that would soon start falling after a 16 - year high, Banxico announced that it would likely keep interest rates unchanged through the end of 2017.

This interest rate impact could mean the price of TIPS could fall in the short or medium term, even though the TIPS» principal value is rising.

Whether inflation rises or the Federal Reserve Bank uses its power over interest rates to limit the potential inflationary impact of the falling dollar, the ultimate outcome of our recent overdependence on foreign saving will be a lower standard of living (or slower increases in living standards), such that decent levels of retirement income (private and public) can not be maintained.

Commenting on these forecasts, Michael Ankers, the Chief Executive of the Construction Products Association, said: «It seems inevitable that construction output fell in the first three months of this year and this will have had a significant impact on the rate of GDP growth at this time.

· This 200,00 children is in addition to the 400,000 more children that the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has previously projected will be living in relative poverty by 2015 as a result of coalition policies, and the 800,000 more children it estimates will living in relative poverty by 2020 (http://www.ifs.org.uk/comms/comm121.pdf) · The government has not disclosed the likely impact of its sub-inflation uprating on absolute poverty rates which measure whether children are experiencing a real, as opposed to relative, fall in the standard of living.

«This may impact leaf litter by increasing rates of decomposition or decreasing rates of litter fall.»

«The impact of the coal - to - gas switch in North America is so significant that for the first time since China's rise, the medium - term growth rate in coal consumption will fall below the growth rate of gas,» van der Hoeven said.

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The Bank of Canada cut its key interest rate twice last year in an effort to cushion the impact of falling oil prices on the economy.

By taking such short positions, the index seeks to mitigate the potential negative impact of rising Treasury interest rates («interest rates») on the performance of high yield bonds (conversely limiting the potential positive impact of falling interest rates).

The short positions are not intended to mitigate other factors influencing the price of high yield bonds, such as credit risk, which may have a greater impact than rising or falling interest rates.

Conversely, the strategy may limit the positive impact of falling interest rates.

The short positions are not intended to mitigate credit risk or other factors influencing the price of the bonds, which may have a greater impact than rising or falling interest rates.

From 1962 to 2015, the «true» average excess return — which excludes the impact of valuations on the returns of stocks and adjusts for the return impact of interest rate movements on bonds — fell from 2.8 % to 0.8 % on a rolling 15 - year basis.10 The corresponding 15 - year win rate was halved from 82 % to 43 %, odds not even as good as a coin toss!

January 2008 by AAII Staff No matter the cause of interest rate movements, the impact on the bond investor is the same: Rising interest rates reduce existing bond values and falling interest rates increase existing bond values.

What's important to remember is that the impact of rising and falling interest rates is not as black and white as it seems.

The impact of falling and rising interest rates on equity markets vary by country.

Japan chalked in another $ 20b, though its total was inflated by the impact of falling long - term rates on its long - term dollar portfolio (Japan marks its bond portfolio to market).

It's certainly true that perhaps 70 % of the dispersion of returns over a 5 - to - 10 year period are driven by macro-economic factors (Putin invades - > the EU sanctions - > economies falter - > the price of oil drops - > interest rates fall) but that fact is not useful because such events are unforecastable and their macro-level impacts are incalculably complex (try «what effect will European reaction to Putin's missile transfer offer have on shadow interest rates in China?»).

In the Fall of 2016 the Federal Government made some significant changes to mortgage financing guidelines but how did the change to the mortgage rules impact interest rates?

The short positions are not intended to mitigate other factors influencing the price of investment grade bonds, such as credit risk, which may have a greater impact than rising or falling interest rates.

This is a pretty easy trap to fall into because tower RANGE is such an important stat — it has a far greater impact on a tower's total effectiveness all by itself than either damage per hit or rate of fire.

If the total fertility rate, the average number of children that a woman has in her lifetime, falls by even half a child, the impact on the long run projections is enormous.

Sections 243.1 - 243.4 of Article 243 of the Code, specifically: rate of the tax due on emissions of certain pollutants into the atmospheric air, caused by stationary sources of pollution; rates of the tax due on stationary sources» emissions into the atmospheric air of pollutants (compounds), which are not listed in Section 243.1 of this Article and are falling within a certain substance hazard category (except for carbon dioxide), shall be applicable subject to determined approximately safe impact levels of such substances» (compounds») impact on the atmospheric air of urban settlements; and rates of tax due on emissions of carbon dioxide

Wijffels, Susan E., Josh Willis, Catia M. Domingues, Paul Barker, Neil J. White, Ann Gronell, Ken Ridgway, John A. Church, 2008: Changing Expendable Bathythermograph Fall Rates and Their Impact on Estimates of Thermosteric Sea Level Rise.

However, the impact of this has been somewhat mitigated by the fact that most of the major trusts have maintained giving at last year's levels despite stock market and interest rate falls.

Parking tickets fall into the category of non-moving violations, which means they do not appear on your driving record, nor do they impact your insurance rates.

An IRC study on the impact of «no pay, no play» was released last December, showing that uninsured motorist rates and coverage costs fall after such laws go into effect.

We've gone and gotten super curious about how car insurance is impacting the 250 million drivers in the U.S. today — whether people are paying more or less than in recent years, what parts of the country have seen spiking or falling car insurance rates, and even how technology has changed impacted rates (or not).

Santa Clarita Renters Insurance falls into about the same range, even though California doesn't use credit scoring — the absence of that rating factor hasn't really had much of an impact on prices in California.

-- whether people are paying more or less than in recent years, what parts of the country have seen spiking or falling car insurance rates, and even how technology has changed impacted rates (or not).

At the moment, it is difficult to predict whether the duty will decrease, since a change in import duties of gold is impacted by a wide range of factors including the rise and fall of gold rate in India.

To protect against interest - rate risk, Fannie Mae uses derivatives that rise and fall in value with rate changes, though the long - term economic impact of the hedging is negligible.

«Government policy is contributing to a falling home ownership rate and younger Canadians are being impacted the hardest» As long as we «welcome» 300,000 new emigrants every year; a portion of which will have the means to purchase and thus decrease the supply side of housing, younger Canadians will continue to suffer.

To take the impact of the falling ZAR into account, we have used the average price of a medium size house in South Africa, converted to GBP at the exchange rate ruling in each year.

Whereas property prices fell steeply during the subprime mortgage crisis as an impact of the global financial crisis, increasing interest rates may be a good thing as an indication of economic recovery.

The impact will fall hardest on first - time buyers; as interest rates rise along with inflation, home ownership will become increasingly out of reach.