Sentences with phrase «in nominal terms»

Property tax revenues fell by 1.0 percent in nominal terms, likely driven primarily by falling housing prices.

Now, long - term wealth building depends on your investment portfolio growing not only in nominal terms but also in real terms.

The key here is how fast GDP grows in nominal terms.

And while you might lose money in real terms if rates rise your probability of losing money in nominal terms is fairly low.

So, wages are rising in nominal terms throughout the pay scale, and low inflation means most of these gains are real.

And it just kind of goes to show that people always think about investments in nominal terms when really all that matters is real returns.

It will be harder to turn their backs to those receiving social insurance payments, at least in nominal terms.

They are at an all time high, around two - and - a-half times higher in nominal terms than they were during the late 1990s, our last real boom.

Inflation is great for debt because the amount you owe remains the same in nominal terms but decreases in real terms.

Thus, investors lose in nominal terms only if the fund is sold before maturity in a rising rate environment, or there is widespread default on the underlying bonds.

But of course cash won't fall in nominal terms, either.

Your scenario 1 is precisely what you'd do to work out the real return of equities if their results were reported in nominal terms.

For expenditure on machinery and equipment, growth of around 2 per cent is expected in nominal terms.

Coming to wage growth, the average annual weekly earnings of employees in nominal terms (not adjusted for inflation) increased by 2.2 percent with bonuses and 2.1 percent excluding bonuses.

In fact, in 2014, home - related spending is still below its 2006 level in nominal terms.

Now the credit default swap market is more than four times the size of the corporate bond market in nominal terms.

Following their 1929 highs, stock prices fell 89 percent in nominal terms, 80 percent in real terms.

While bank accounts and savings bonds guarantee your money in nominal terms, there are options that may better maintain money's purchasing power.

Ten years later, prices are back near their peak (at least in nominal terms, not adjusting for price inflation).

According to NIA, after the dot - com bubble had burst, the NYSE margin debt in nominal terms rose from its low of $ 130.21 billion in 2002 to a high of $ 381.37 billion in 2007 — that is a rise of 193 %.

Even in nominal terms — ignoring inflation — IRS funding this year is $ 900 million or 8 percent below its 2010 level.

Comments: «S&P 500 sales, which are measured in nominal terms, will rise by 4.4 % in 2013 and 4.7 % in 2014.

So if we can not allow piecemeal bankruptcies to clear the system, then what is the alternative except national bankruptcy — which takes the form of meeting all the claims in nominal terms and then hyper - inflating?

Nationally, house prices have plunged about 30 percent in nominal terms from their peak and nearly 40 percent in real, or inflation - adjusted, terms.

The June quarter ABS capital expenditure (Capex) survey points to solid growth of machinery and equipment investment in real terms in 2003/04, although in nominal terms, investment is expected to fall by 3 per cent (assuming a five - year average realisation ratio), reflecting lower prices for investment goods.

A tax - cutting Conservative, he left the government on track to balance its books by 2015 after running up the largest deficit in history in nominal terms in his fight against the 2008 - 09 recession.

Pigou challenged this claim in the abstract — and with the preface that his argument had little practical relevance — arguing that if the stock of money is fixed in nominal terms, deflation could generate positive real demand growth through a real wealth effect.

According to the ABS Capital Expenditure Survey, firms expect to increase spending on machinery and equipment investment in nominal terms by only 1 1/2 per cent in 2000/01, once average realisation ratios are applied.

Based on average realisation ratios, the survey would imply only moderate growth in nominal terms for the year, and roughly flat equipment investment in real terms.

After an extended period in which the economy contracted in nominal terms, nominal GDP also rose slightly over the year (Graph 4).

In between were secular bear markets: 1966 to 1982, when the Dow went nowhere in nominal terms, but after inflation it lost about 75 percent of its value.

For the higher - income $ 100,000 per year spenders who rely on portfolio withdrawals for a bigger portion of their retirement, these distributions would also decrease in nominal terms over these two decades, assuming Social Security benefits were $ 40,000 with 2 percent inflation.

Retail spending is forecast to rise 3.6 per cent in nominal terms - in line with 2017, but well below the 20 - year average of 5.3 per cent.

The recent indicators point to a slower pace of economic activity and the Tory government is about to embark on Austerity Mark II, in nominal terms exactly the same level of cuts and tax increases as the # 37 billion George Osborne announced in 2010.

Welfare levels have nominally - frozen rises; the defence budget is frozen in nominal terms; the total welfare bill (excluding pensions can not rise); the higher rate tax threshold has long since ceased to rise with inflation.

So to do it correctly you would add the current year in nominal terms and then the NPV of the two future years of cash flow.

Likewise, if a person receives no raise from work each year, they actually have received a pay decrease in real terms while still being paid the same amount in nominal terms (the dollar value you see on your paycheque)

Think of 1979 - 82: by the time bond yields were nearing their peak levels, bond managers were making money in nominal terms with rates rising because the income from the coupons was so high, and it set up the tremendous rally in bonds that would last for ~ 30 years or so.

When I look at stocks at present, I don't find a lot that is cheap outside of the stocks of companies that will do well if the global economy starts growing more quickly in nominal terms.

In 25 years, the initial capital of $ 10,000 has dwindled to $ 8,000 even though in nominal terms, the investment has grown to $ 13,000.

The value of a 52 - week Treasury bill at expiration is equal to its principal payment, which in nominal terms is known with certainty.

And generally, for stock allocations above 50 percent or so, the 2000 retiree has depleted more wealth in nominal terms after 10 years than most any other retiree in history.

Given that they control the printing press, the answer is yes in nominal terms, but no if in inflation - adjusted terms.

We use nominal returns because the bond yield is stated in nominal terms and includes an expected market inflation rate.

As a result, our forecasted return has been somewhat inflated in nominal terms, whereas an investor's actual purchasing power was only reduced by the lower actual inflation rate.

The economic effect will feel a little stagflationary, with wage rates improving in nominal terms, taxes rising to cover transfer payments, and assets being sold (to whom?)

In a deflationary chill, you would also come to expect that your income might not change in nominal terms.

Equity and commodity markets are probably cheap across the globe in nominal terms, as most central banks are inflating their currency reserve bases to keep up with the Fed.