Sentences with phrase «in headline measures»

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Not exact matches

Although a number of temporary factors are keeping headline inflation near its 2 per cent target, our measures of core inflation are in the lower half of the target band and have been trending downward in recent quarters.

A version of this article appears in print on February 23, 2010, on Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: 5 Republicans Help Advance Jobs Measure.

In other words, headline measures are being distorted lower by declining energy and food prices, declines that aren't reflective of any economic shortfall.

The Tankan's headline index, measuring sentiment among big manufacturers, rose to 12 in September from 4 in June, beating analyst expectations and showing that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's efforts to pump up the economy are bearing fruit.

The right panel shows that the gap between the American and Canadian unemployment rates is much bigger when a comparable Canadian statistic is used in place of the headline measure regularly reported by Statistics Canada.

The headline measure is of most value in charting the direction of change, but even with this objective it is important to understand whether employment or labour force participation decisions are the drivers.

The Fed's favored measure, the personal consumption expenditures price index, moved up 0.2 % to 2.1 % year - on - year in February at the headline level, though the core measure was unchanged at 1.8 %, after the previous month's reading was revised up by a tenth.

He measures daily aggregate unscheduled firm - specific news sentiment as an average of scores calculated by the RavenPack news analysis tool for articles with headlines specifying S&P 500 stocks published for the first time that day on the Dow Jones news wire and in the Wall Street Journal.

Word counts and article tallies are not everything, but they represent two simple ways of measuring what even casual news consumers undoubtedly feel — that last week's shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High is not fading from headlines as rapidly as similar events have in the recent past.

Our forecast a few months ago for 2010 was that inflation, measured either in headline or underlying terms, would be in line with our 2 — 3 per cent target.

Statistics Canada data this morning showed that headline inflation in Canada slowed last month, while measures of underlying prices strengthened to their highest level in -LSB-...]

Most of them would have been tightening policy in a measured fashion in response to rises in headline inflation over the past couple of years.

The headline on the Chicago National Activity Index (CFNAI) a composite measure that closely tracks real U.S. GDP — thus it is a coincident economic indicator — came in at -0.46 (consensus was 0.00) and the prior monthly reading was at -0.25.

This profile is broadly in line with that presented in the February Statement on Monetary Policy, though recent movements in world oil prices are likely to introduce a divergence between headline and underlying measures of inflation in the short term.

Inflation data published last week showed the headline personal consumption expenditure (PCE) inflation index hit a 2 per cent annual pace in the year to March and the Fed's preferred underlying measure, the core PCE which excludes volatile energy and food items, rose to 1.9 per cent.

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The various measures of underlying inflation recorded slightly lower outcomes in the quarter, although on a year - ended basis they show inflation at a similar rate to the headline measure (Table 14; Graph 71).

With ethics back in the headlines due to the pending sentencing for Skelos as well as former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, lawmakers may want to pass an ethics measure in some form before running for re-election later this year.

Even without investigations dominating the headlines, lawmakers were likely to contend with growing calls for ethics and campaign finance reform measures following the sentencing of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to 12 years in prison.

On the headline measure, the IFS forecasts that the number of children in relative poverty will increase by 1.1 million between 2010 - 11 and 2020 — 21.

The rally, headlined by Sen. Terry Gipson, Senate hopeful Justin Wagner and Assembly candidate Andrew Falk, comes after a half - dozen candidates for state Senate failed to qualify for the Women's Equality Party, the new ballot line formed this year meant to boost the package of measures proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2013.

A supermarket food price war and lower petrol price inflation are expected to have brought the headline consumer price index measure of inflation down for the sixth month running in March.

This article appeared in print under the headline «Thermometer to measure coldest thing ever made»

By using fMRI, the researchers were able to measure people's brain activity in real time as they viewed the headlines and abstracts of 80 New York Times health articles and rated how likely they were to read and share them.

«Low - Calorie Diet Slows Aging in Mice in Study,» claimed a recent headline.17 According to the article, «Putting elderly mice on a very low - calorie diet for as little as four weeks reversed many of the changes in the activity of various genes that had occurred during normal aging...» The resesearchers were not looking at actual signs of disease, nor were they measuring lifespan, but instead focused on the analysis of 11,000 different genes using a method called microarray technology in which Spindler has large financial holdings.

In a speech at the Policy Exchange Morgan announced the proportional target, claiming that it would become a headline measure used for Ofsted inspections.

The report, part of a book of essays entitled «The Future of Assessment: 2025 and Beyond», suggests that current trends in the education sector are «narrowing the curriculum and focusing on those students whose performance has the greatest impact on the headline accountability measures».

It also looks at what impact using new headline measures has on the composition of the top 500 comprehensives, and considers the implications of the new accountability system for comprehensive recruitment in the future.

So it is no accident that the release of the third and final round of reports from the Gates Foundation's Measuring Effective Teachers project was greeted with the following headline in the Washington Post: «Gates Foundation study: We've figured out what makes a good teacher,» or this similarly humble claim in the Denver Post: «Denver schools, Gates foundation identify what makes effective teacher.»

Since school spending per pupil has been relatively stable in real terms for the last seven years, allocating extra curriculum time and resources to teaching EBacc subjects may have often implied diverting them from non-EBacc subjects that offer less benefit in terms of school performance, as evaluated by the new headline measures.

In today's education headlines: State Board Endorses Ballot Measure That Would Better Fund Schools.

The government has released provisional key stage 4 data this morning that reveals how schools have fared in new headline accountability measures.

In a nutshell, the answer is this: Ford uses a different means of measuring the luggage capacity — one that allows for goods stacked all the way up to the headlining behind the second - row seat.

The Euro dollar became jittery at the end of the first week of February when the ECB President Mario Draghi underplayed the recent rise in the headline inflation in the European Union and justified the need for the further quantitative easing measures including the current bond purchases.

The eradication measures employed by third world countries — poisoning and shooting strays — spark sensational headlines and searing criticism in the West, but where people are still struggling to provide food and shelter for their families; where canine rabies is an epidemic, and where there are shortages of rabies vaccine and post exposure treatment, animal control is still a matter of human survival.

As hard as it might be to suss out the impact of extreme weather in 2017, yet harder is sussing out the impact of the changing climate, now and in the future — due to the difficulty of tying individual weather events to epochal changes like global warming, the inability of headline economic figures to capture the messy fullness of human life, and the inadequacy of the available data to measure changes in the natural and the economic world.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) made headlines last week after Wisconsin Republicans introduced a virtually word - for - word copy of the ALEC «model» Right to Work Act, following on the heels of Michigan and other states that have taken up the ALEC - inspired anti-union measures in recent years.

Topics like station density, dock siting and data collection standards may not make for flashy headlines in the mainstream media, but they are important to equity as to other measures of success.

Contrary to what you might see in the headlines, this bipartisan approach has continued in the months since November's election, with four Republican governors in the politically critical Midwest advancing clean - energy measures.

You get much scarier headlines with threats of 6C increases in «global average temperature» than you do in whatever the measure is of the total climate system's heat content.

Instead of counting only the change in parking spaces on the boulevard De Maisonneuve itself, a measure that might have led to headlines and perceptions that «half of the parking» was being removed, it counted the total number of auto parking spaces — public and private, on - street and off — within 200 meters of the project.

The slim design grabs headlines but doesn't make a big difference in real - world use, and the off - centre style helps and hinders in equal measure.

But the way that employment was then measured bears little resemblance to the monthly figures trumpeted in headlines now, said Keyssar, author of «Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts.».

The particular areas and change indicators have been chosen for their potential to respond to policy action within the shorter term and to indicate intermediate measures of progress while also having the potential in the longer term to contribute to improvements in overall Indigenous disadvantage (as reflected through the «headline indicators»).

However, in her piece, Dr. Duckworth strongly opposes measuring social emotional learning for accountability, as can be seen in the headline and in multiple quotes throughout the piece, such as «this is not at all a good idea.»

The ongoing economic crisis in Greece jumped ferociously back into the world's headlines this summer, when Greek residents voted to reject European austerity demands and European leaders agreed on a third bailout deal for Greece in exchange for strict reform measures.