Accounting data must be translated
into economic data to understand profitability and the valuation relevant to equity investors.
Not exact matches
Though Kashkari begins with a broad attack on monetary rules, it quickly devolves
into a focused attack on the Taylor Rule which he argues «effectively turn [s] monetary policy over to a computer, rather than continue to let Fed policy makers use their best judgment to consider a wide range of
data and
economic trends.»
Keith Parker, a strategist at UBS who has a 3,300 target on the S&P 500 for 2018, said only 35 - to - 45 percent of the tax plan is priced
into the market, noting the index's recent gains have been mostly a product of better - than - expected
economic data and strong earnings.
Buyers say better - than - expected earnings, as well as lower prices at the pump and relatively positive
economic data provide three powerful catalysts that should drive a slow churn higher
into the end of the year.
A softening in euro zone
economic data and signs that inflationary pressures remain subdued, encouraging the European Central to hold off from raising interest rates until well
into 2019, have supported bond markets in recent weeks.
However, the softness in
economic data, particularly as it relates to inflation, coupled with market expectations that the first Fed rate hike won't happen until well
into 2016 have inspired at least a momentary burst in high - yield confidence.
Some investors doubt the flight to safety
into Treasuries will be long - lasting: Inflationary fears, strong
economic data and an announcement of bigger Treasury auctions have and will continue to drive yields higher, they say.
Treasury yields on Friday book a weekly drop as geopolitical instability keeps investors pouring
into the perceived safety of government paper, but for the day, rates of government paper rise as a robust raft of
economic data suggested U.S. growth would maintain its steady clip, ahead of a key monetary - policy update on Wednesday.
Increased internet speeds, smartphone uptake, cheap
data costs, and digital innovation also lower the barriers to entry
into unregulated
economic transactions, where consumer products and services are traded on interest - based groups like WhatsApp and Facebook.
One must analyze and gather
data from the Notes to the Financial Statements in order to convert accounting
data into economic earnings.
Converting GAAP
data into economic earnings should be part of every investor's diligence process.
The U.S. dollar is trading in a tight range on Thursday, as investors welcomed a mixed bag of the latest
economic data, further calling
into question the next moved of the Federal Reserve.
It is important to monitor high frequency
data to gage the
economic momentum, especially when unusual factors get
into play.
The study, based on Trade in Value Added
data recently released by the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development, shows that between 1995, the year after NAFTA went
into effect, and 2011, U.S. content of manufactured goods imported from Canada dropped significantly — from 21 percent to 15 percent.
Finally, to help our clients place this wealth of fundamental
data into perspective, we also provide access to the latest market and
economic commentary from our firm's top internal experts, including our chief economist, our investment strategists, and our Equity Portfolio & Technical Strategy team.
The US economy continued to expand in September of this year, with some of the key
economic data in October pointing to robust
economic activity that could well extend
into the last three months of 2017.
This strong growth - driven by both occupancy and rate improvement and which was even stronger at upper upscale, urban, and luxury properties - comes at a time when
economic data points have called
into question the near - term sustainability of the U.S.
economic recovery and would appear to demonstrate that as yet no reigns have been placed on corporate travel.
Analysts at Barclays said in a note that macroeconomic concerns would continue to crimp optimism in coming months: «Although we continue to believe that the global
economic prospects are likely to recover
into the second half of the year,
data are likely to remain choppy in the near term and keep investors concerned about the future trajectory.»
With the suspension of the Trans - Pacific Partnership's (TPP's) problematic provisions that sought to expand protection for intellectual property rights and ventured prematurely
into the regulation of
data flows, the CPTPP sidesteps the controversial
economic governance problems of the TPP.
JP Morgan sounds alarm over US
economic data that could signal recession / Ambrose Evans - Pritchard «The US credit markets are flashing a rare warning of
economic trouble ahead, signaling that the Federal Reserve risks blundering
into another recession without a deft change of course.
Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general
economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion
into and investments in new markets; breaches in
data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
They will also assess how recent forecasts fit
into our expectations for
economic trends and policy changes and provide snapshots of the latest
data as well as upcoming market events.
ESS, whose fieldwork in the UK has been funded by the
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), has collected
data from more than 250,000 interviews in 30 countries over the last decade on a wide range of topics that tap
into key issues facing contemporary Europe.
To make that happen, he has spearheaded the development of Trend - alyzer, a software package that sends stolid
data into fluid motion by creating animations of
economic, social, and health statistics evolving through time.
Given the medical and socio -
economic difficulties often faced by people with mental illness, and the lack of research
into the other medical conditions they might suffer from, the authors set out to discover, using publicly available
data, what proportion of US adults experience each combination of mental illness, substance abuse / dependence and chronic mental conditions.
Lead researcher Harriet Condie, from UEA's school of Environmental Sciences, said: «We took
into account
data such as catch and discard figures from fishing trawlers, fish prices and landing costs, to calculate whether banning the practice of discarding will offer enough of an
economic incentive to fish sustainably.
Method development comprises construction and analysis of mathematical models that describe complex scientific, technical as well as socio -
economic processes, the development of efficient algorithms for simulation or optimization of such models, accompanying development of visualization, large scale
data management and
data analysis techniques, and transfer of algorithms
into efficient software and high performance computing techniques.
The study broke down their research parameters
into five main categories (Background, Marriage and Children, Attitudinal, Socio -
economic and Lifestyle), each with its own subcategories, with all of the
data coming from the HILDA (Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia) survey, which is conducted each year.
Moreover, we are 15 years
into the
data - driven school - reform movement, which is based on the idea that racial - and
economic - achievement gaps are largely caused by the «benign racism of low expectations,» and that the solution is to hold individual educators accountable for meeting discrete, quantifiable targets.
The problem is that these well - intentioned actions really changed the risk profile of the borrowers — recent
data compiled by HUD demonstrates that borrowers who have nothing of their own invested in their homes are far more likely to walk away from their mortgages than those with similar socio -
economic profiles who put even 2 or 3 percent
into their house purchase.
Indicators provide signs along the road, but the best investors utilize many
economic indicators, combining them to glean insight
into looking patterns and verifications within multiple sets of
data.
Simulated index
data is based on a combination of performance of widely used total return asset class - specific indexes and subjective judgement taking
into account the current
economic environment.
But as more
economic data came along, the model changed this «significant correction» prediction
into a «bear market» prediction, which is precisely what happened.
«He has the opportunity now to build upon the AVMA
Economic Division's solid foundation to ensure that all the incredible
data we have is turned
into the most effective tools and resources for our members and the profession.»
Based on
data from the European Social Survey for Austria, Belgium, France, Norway, and Switzerland, three different sets of explanations are tested: (1) hypotheses stressing
economic determinants, that is, the fear of wage pressure and competition over welfare benefits; (2) hypotheses emphasizing cultural determinants, that is, the perception of immigration as a threat to national identity; and (3) hypotheses focusing on social alienation, that is, dissatisfaction with the way the country's democracy works and the nonintegration
into intermediary networks (trade unions).
The paper incorporates
data - driven estimates of the value of fuel economy
into an automotive market simulation model that has three components: a consumer demand function that predicts consumers» vehicle choices as functions of vehicle price, fuel price, and vehicle attributes (the new estimates of the value of fuel economy are used to set the parameters of the demand function); an engineering and
economic evaluation of feasible fuel economy improvements by 2010; and a game theoretic analysis of manufacturers» competitive interactions.
Gore did not realize that the
economic loss
data he was looking at had not been adjusted («normalized») to take
into account changes in socio -
economic factors — notably population, wealth, and the consumer price index — that massively affect how much damage a particular weather event inflicts.
Ignoring for example, that the behavior of group of sub prime mortgages bundled
into CDOs would most likely not be independent of each other set investors up with a bunch of crappy investments that were more likely to perform poorly in an
economic downturn... the covariance of the underlying mortgages increased risk, not decreased it, and one didn't have to be econometrician in order to anticipate this outcome... Ex post selection of
data (without clear rational protocols, established before
data are collected and analyzed) is unforgivable, and should be intolerable.
Neither approach is likely to help them much if for no other reason than that both approaches will drive the debate
into complex arguments about whose climate or
economic modelling is using the best assumptions,
data etc..
There's that word again...) who drilled down
into the
economic and employment
data came away more confused than enlightened as to cause and effect.
«With very few exceptions, governments all over the world have fallen
into the trap of paying renewable energy scammers on the basis that it is necessary, at least politically, to be seen to be doing something about climate change,» Sloan writes, before providing readers with an avalanche of
economic data to back up her assertion.
Here is a start: skeptics should criticize the IPCC, skeptics should ask for access to
data and analytical disclosures, skeptics should not criticize the science with
economic arguments, skeptics should not put words
into the mouths of those they criticize, skeptics should define some goalposts so that progress can be understood from their point of view, skeptics should use the peer - reviewed literature....
China has developed a big
data Social Credit System that leverages networked databases, mass surveillance, and every meaningful
economic and social interaction of its citizens
into a utility of dragnet surveillance and unprecedented control.
Taking the decentralization philosophy
into social media «Indorse» — a reward - based decentralized professional network on the Ethereum blockchain tries to resolve three basic problems of social networking platforms —
economic, autonomy and trust issues by using a LinkedIn - style professional networking model, wherein members retain the ownership of
data while earning rewards for sharing their professional skills and using the platform.
The 2012 KIDS COUNT
Data Book offers a sophisticated view of child well - being, swapping the report's standard 10 indicator analysis for an index of 16 indicators grouped
into four domains: Health,
Economic Well - Being, Education, and Family and Community.
Over the coming weeks we will dive deeper
into the indicators in each of the 4 sections of
data —
economic well - being, education, health, and family and community, but first let's take a look at our overall rankings.
The
Data Book assesses states based on 16 indicators of child well - being organized
into four categories:
Economic Well - Being, Education, Health, and Family & Community.
The KIDS COUNT
Data Book takes
into account four factors to judge children's well - being —
economic status, education, health and family and community — and found that statistics were generally mixed since the study was started in 1990.
Haft is also building zoning, permits and local
economic data into the listings so that potential buyers can get a complete picture of each individual property and its market.
«Weak
economic data and growing international tensions are driving investors out of riskier sectors and
into Treasury securities.