Sentences with phrase «know the base rate»

Maybe the assumption of a known base rate is an issue here?

With any forecast, we need to know the base rate.

Not exact matches

«It's always hard to know exactly where to put your money these days given how rates and spreads are so low, but on a relative basis we still think there's value in EM debt,» Matt Tucker, head of the iShares fixed income strategy team, said this week during a panel discussion at the Morningstar ETF Conference in Chicago.

Here's what we learned: «The Smith Travel Research (STR) report is a hospitality industry tool that assists in knowing where we are regarding our pricing strategy and rate and occupancy strategy on an ongoing basis within our market.

To tweak interest rates, the Fed adjusted the federal funds rate, also known as the interbank lending rate, which is used by financial institutions to set the prime rate, or the base rate upon which other interest rates are set.

In view of what comes later in this report, it is worth adding the following distinction: classic DC establishes a fixed rate of pre-retirement savings and the benefit and replacement rate are unknown; and DB establishes a benefit and / or replacement rate that is known and constantly adjusts the rate of pre-retirement savings (based on actuarial valuation reports) to meet the target.

Pass - through entities also pay a supplemental individual income tax of 1.5 percent (on the same base), known as the personal property replacement tax (PPRT), bringing the individual income tax rate for pass - through businesses to 6.45 percent.

Sean is a Founding Partner of GrowthX, a Silicon Valley - based venture capital fund, market development training school and corporate advisory firm helping companies bring new products to market and reduce the innovation failure rate through capital, talent and know how.

Based on the success / failure rate of ICOs, the answer appears to be a resounding no.

I don't know exactly what's going to happen, but simple math based on the current level of interest rates leads me to believe that these risk premiums will be much wider in the future over longer time frames than they've been in the recent past.

But his analysis would no longer predict a P / E of 22 based on current interest and inflation rates.

Recent writings underscore an important hole in economists» knowledge base: we know neither the natural rate of unemployment nor the potential level of GDP.

The factor will charge a discount fee (also known as a discount rate) that is usually assessed on a weekly or monthly basis.

It was sort of based on job opportunity, something called «elite graduates» and data from Moody's (the same Moody's that rated many liar loans bundled as CDO's as AAA + so we know * they're * reliable).

Because it is impossible to know when an issuer may call a bond, you can only estimate this calculation based on the bond's coupon rate, the time until the first (or second) call date, and the market price.

Contacting potential overseas agents while they are still interested will lead to a higher conversion rate, but will also set an important precedent for communication: no matter where they are based, overseas agents will then trust you to stay in touch and reply quickly to any queries they have.

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Certainly the Japanese, so its all being done so — with the — Donald Trump wanting to turn around the trade deficit, you can't help but say hey maybe they are actually onto something because they have an independent central bank well --(unintelligible) the independent central bank that goes upon its course based on what its seeing here you know based on domestic economic activity, while everybody else is setting it to international standards then tariffs become the — I guess the alternative especially when the feds is raising the interest rates and they're the only central bank really raising interest rates... I know... the bank of England went half a basis point, quarter basis point and they are project to go a quarter basis point tomorrow which we will see.

We know foreign sector accumulation of Treasuries is slowing meaningfully on a rate of change basis (48 %).

Interest rate sensitivity, also known as duration, is based on the Barclays U.S. Credit Bond Index (all maturities), and short - term bonds represented by the subset of bonds within the index with maturities of 1 - 5 years (Barclays 1 - 5 Year U.S. Credit Bond Index).

When all these costs are added to the interest expense and then expressed as a percentage of your loan on an annual basis, the rate you get is known as annual percentage rate (apr).

For example, many multi-millionaires I know borrow based on a 1 year ARM where interest rates are 50 basis points lower than a 3/1 or 5/1 ARM.

With respect to influenza A, the RNA polymerase which replicates the viral genome has a known error rate of ~ 1/10, 000 base pairs, which is just under the total bp count for the viral genome.

considering an Ivy league historian (Richard Bulliet) has relatively definitive book on the topic that is over 40 years old («The Camel & the Wheel», 1975) and which arrives at the exact opposite conclusion based on KNOWN evidences, it certainly would appear this a media - generated ratings grab without scholarly basis.

The facility has earned «superior» ratings from AIB International, a food safety organization based in Manhattan, Kan. «We're well known for our strict processes and HACCP programs,» Anderson says.

The following information takes a list of known wonderkids from the Football Manager series back in 2009, and looks at the game's prediction success rate based on the quality of the player in the latest instalment of the series; Football Manager 2015.

I will say this... And i'm not pretending to be psychic, but if patience had not been shown with Coquelin and Ramsey imagine our midfield now... Hindsight is brilliant but the people who work with these players on a daily basis may actually know what they're doing and when Wenger and Co. actually rate players as highly as they do they may see a few things we don't...

The French international could be on his way out after yet another outstanding campaign at the Turin based side, with Barcelona known to be keen on the # 80m rated midfielder.

I know not everyone likes a «player rating» so, instead of marks out of 10, I am awarding them famous footballing name associations based solely on yesterday's performance.

Groomed by Abuja based player mentor Dantala Adams popularly known as Dante, his rapid progress with Bnei Lod will no doubt make the General Manager of Akwa Starlet Jimmy happy as he has always rated him highly.

Thinksport Kid's Safe Sunscreen — This zinc and mineral based sunscreen is easy to put on and you will be relieved to know it comes highly rated by the Environmental Working Group.

Every brand is then rated so you can know the overall brand quality based on the products tested compared to other brands.

I find this shocking, especially since we know that the maternal death rate has been rising in recent years — something that isn't happening in other countries» [9] Currently, according to the World Health Organization and several United Nations agencies, the United States ranks behind no fewer than forty other nations in preventing maternal deaths (based upon an official but unreliable number).

Costimate ™ is an estimate based on an average of known rates charged by similar businesses in the area.

If interventions are designed based on a good understanding of «what works» and implemented soundly (we know who is helping offenders can matter as much as the process they go through), we might expect reductions in reoffending rates of around 5 - 10 %.

In its current form, the CAP funds a flat - rate land - based income support (known as Pillar I) and match - funds a smaller rural development programme (known as Pillar II).

As well as the rather crass attention - seeking, I was mocking the attempt to provide an «evidence base» with «at least one» anecdote from a country which everybody knows has liberal gun laws and a much higher murder rate.

«Everyone is still getting their feet back under them economically, there's a lot of expansion opportunity while interest rates are still low, so we think in a lot of areas, particularly in New York where we have a big population base, probably we don't know how much more we can grow but there's definitely room for growth,» said Giles.

Companies hired for public works projects in the state are required to pay their workers what's known as a prevailing wage, which is a minimum rate set by the state based on factors like region.

The groups want the cap to be renewed on a temporary basis and no longer tie the cap to the rate of inflation, but leave the ceiling at 2 percent.

Cuomo is counting on the spending rate to stay at 2 % or less in order to pay for a multi year phased in property tax cut known as a circuit breaker, that is based on the percentage of property taxes compared to a homeowner's income.

He did, however, reiterate his opposition to the $ 15 - an - hour wage, saying it has «no basis in economics» and stressing that he has been approached by multiple groups and constituents urging him to vote «no» on another hourly rate hike — should one make it to the floor.

Analyses of thin mineral deposits partly covering painted cave areas provided minimum age estimates for the art, based on known decay rates of radioactive uranium in the rock.

«The type of inflammation seen in psoriasis is known to promote insulin resistance, and psoriasis and diabetes share similar genetic mutations suggesting a biological basis for the connection between the two conditions we found in our study,» said the study's senior author Joel M. Gelfand, MD MSCE, a professor of Dermatology and Epidemiology at Penn. «We know psoriasis is linked to higher rates of diabetes, but this is the first study to specifically examine how the severity of the disease affects a patient's risk.»

Based on the survival rate of books by Copernicus, Gingerich had expected to find twice as many volumes, but some 300 were destroyed by the publisher, he suspects, because the book's difficulty made it unpopular with its target audience: «A user familiar with the previous way of computing would no doubt freak out in the opening steps of the Rudolphine procedures,» upon seeing all the calculations Kepler had added for accuracy.

Then, based on the numbers of species known in each of these groups today, the researchers were able to calculate the rate of species diversification in each and test the many putative causes of the explosion in orchid species.

They know exactly how many friends they have (thank you, Facebook), make purchases based on numerical customer ratings, and compare distances and traffic along different travel routes on Google Maps.

Based on what we know, we can expect the rapid ice loss to continue for a long time yet, especially if ocean - driven melting of the ice shelf in front of Pine Island Glacier continues at current rates,»

Each change is an opportunity for a different copying rate, which is the basis for evolution as we know it.»

«Because seed treatment rates are based on a per - seed basis, we wanted to know if the lower seeding rate, and hence the lower seed treatment rate on a per acre basis, impacted insect control.