Sentences with phrase «increase than the historical average»

However, this does represent a lower rate of increase than the historical average — China's average annual growth rate for coal consumption from 2000 to 2013 was 8.8 percent.

Not exact matches

The balance of opinion on investment receded closer to its historical average, indicating that plans to increase spending over the next 12 months are somewhat less widespread than in the previous two surveys (Chart 3).

Given the significant increase in share buy backs in recent years, which will probably continue in the future, it is quite likely that this component will contribute more to total returns going forward than its historical average.

To sum up, although it's pretty clear we should expect lower than historical average returns for stocks, there is little evidence for a strong downward force on stock returns due to expected interest rate increases that is anything like the bond situation.

The steady increase in global temperatures, including average temperatures in Australia, means that even when rainfall is at or near the historical average, conditions are drier than before because evaporation rates are higher.

[2] The Historical simulations have an average temperature anomaly of 0.84 °C for 1996 — 2005 relative to 1850, whereas HadCRUT4v4 shows an increase of 0.73 °C from 1850 — 1859 to 1996 — 2005, and Figure 7 of Miller et al. 2014 shows consistently greater warming for GISS - E2 - R than per GISTEMP since 2000.

Strong job growth, increasing wages, and home value growth explain much of the difference between metros that are building more than their historical average and metros that aren't.