Sentences with phrase «large falls in»

Relatively large falls in average wages in high - skill sectors such as professional and scientific activities reduced the wage gap between high - and lower - skill industries.

Low carb diets commonly lead to large falls in blood glucose, so another concern is for those taking diabetes medication.

The global recession grew steadily worse throughout 2008, and saw large falls in the stock market at the beginning of October when Britain's leading share index, the FTSE100, recorded its largest single - day points fall since 1987.

Conservative swings in London in 2005 were larger than in just about any other part of the country — albeit mainly because of large falls in the Labour vote rather than increases in the Conservative vote.

High - volatility investments may experience sudden and large falls in their value, causing losses when that investment is realized.

This may result in the fund suffering sudden and large falls in value

The slump was driven by large falls in confidence in Italy and the Netherlands, with smaller drops in France, Germany and Spain.

It is looking increasingly clear that Australia has avoided the large falls in housing prices seen in some other countries over the past two years or so.

«The 2017 stress test shows the UK banking system is resilient to deep simultaneous recessions in the UK and global economies, large falls in asset prices and a separate stress of misconduct costs,» the BoE said.

After hitting record highs at the end of last year, these cryptocurrencies suffered large falls in the first quarter of 2018, but have slowly started to recover.

In the euro area, the household saving rate increased due to a larger fall in real final consumption expenditure -LRB--0.7 %) than in real gross disposable income -LRB--0.4 %).

The largest falls in building approvals in recent months have been in Queensland, South Australia and Victoria.

It remains to be seen how much of the large fall in building approvals in June will be reversed following the actual implementation of the GST and the availability of the First Home Owners» Scheme (discussed below).

The non-residential building component of buildings and structures investment also rose strongly in the March quarter, although this was not enough to offset a large fall in engineering construction.

-LRB-...) In South Korea, manufacturing contracted for the first time in five months in June and exports fell for the first time since February — though an even larger fall in imports kept Seoul's trade balance in surplus.

The large fall in oil and gas prices was only one of the reasons for this poor performance.

These states also recorded the largest falls in their unemployment rates over the past year (Table 9), with the Tasmanian unemployment rate converging noticeably on the national average.

As a result, the unemployment rate, which is derived from the household survey, has fallen by about 1/2 a percentage point from its recent peak, although this decline is also partly explained by a large fall in the participation rate.

The downward trend in recent years reflects a larger fall in the average interest rate received by banks than in the average interest rate paid.

However, they fell by a low single figure in its Europe division, hurt by a larger fall in the UK.

However, of the 20 areas with the largest fall in high performing places, none of which were in London, the proportion of high performing places fell from 31 per cent in 2010 to 20 per cent in 2015.

For the next few months, will be volatile, but the one scenario I don't think will happen is a large fall in the price in the short run.

Also, with such a large fall in price after the offering the next offering should come at a larger discount to the recent market price.

Several respectable papers, some mentioned in the same section of AR4 WG1 Chapter 9, have attributed this large fall in effective albedo to change in cloud cover.

The government claims that the carbon pricing scheme has been ineffective, although CO2emissions fell by 0.8 % in the first calendar year of its operation − the largest fall in 24 years.

The largest fall in renewables jobs has been in Queensland, a state that substantially tightened its feed - in - tariff scheme for rooftop solar in several steps from 2011 on.

Glencore was the largest gainer, Teck and Vedanta Resources had the largest falls in league table rankings relative to 2015.

Comparing Israeli sunlight records from the 1950s with current ones, researchers were astonished to find a large fall in solar radiation.

The FC will take the vast majority of public and family law business and unite circuit, district and district judges (magistrates» courts) along with lay magistrates who can expect to be compensated for the large fall in their criminal work.

Not exact matches

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey explained that the Pentagon was unprepared when Iraq's second - largest city, Mosul, fell to the ISIS in June 2014.

At the I.S.O. meetings last fall in Tokyo, the Chinese government sent one of the largest delegations, with at least nine people, including representatives from the finance ministry and the Chinese central bank, according to a delegate from another country who met the Chinese participants.

NEW YORK, May 1 - Pfizer Inc on Tuesday reported lower - than - expected first - quarter revenue as demand for some key drugs and international sales fell short of estimates, sparking a 5.1 percent drop in shares of the largest U.S. drugmaker.

The highlights of 2011 are almost too painful to mention: the PlayBook, RIM's first tablet, was a flop; its latest line of BlackBerry smartphones was delayed; weak sales forced the company to issue a profit warning in the spring; its network was hit by a massive service outage in the fall; and it suffered the largest wave of layoffs in its history.

In 2015, revenue for the 500 largest global corporations dropped 11.5 % to $ 27.6 trillion, owing to falling oil prices and in part by the surge in value of the U.S. dollar, which has stalled economic growth worldwidIn 2015, revenue for the 500 largest global corporations dropped 11.5 % to $ 27.6 trillion, owing to falling oil prices and in part by the surge in value of the U.S. dollar, which has stalled economic growth worldwidin part by the surge in value of the U.S. dollar, which has stalled economic growth worldwidin value of the U.S. dollar, which has stalled economic growth worldwide.

April 23 - Canadian National Railway Co on Monday posted a 16.2 percent fall in quarterly profit as operating expenses shot up during the harsh winter, and the country's largest railroad cut its 2018 outlook as capacity limits strained its ability to meet high demand.

The rupee joins the rupiah (which had fallen more than 13 % against the U.S. dollar as of August), and Brazil's real in a spate of tough economic times for developing nations, particularly those with large current account deficits.

Miami fell in the middle on our metrics, with its 4.1 % February 2018 unemployment rate falling just above the average rate of 4.0 % among the 40 largest metro areas, and a Q3 2017 weekly wage of $ 963 just below the average of $ 1,095.

In a falling market, you want the large - cap dividendpaying stock that has low beta (a measure of volatility), he says.

U.S. life expectancy has actually fallen for two years in a row — and while the opioid addiction and overdose epidemic has a part to play in that, overall, the diseases that kill Americans have been killing a larger share of them.

Express Scripts, the nation's largest pharmacy benefits manager, fell about 0.5 %; McKesson, the largest wholesale drug distributor in the country (and No. 5 on this year's Fortune 500 list with $ 192 billion in revenue) saw its stock drop nearly 2.5 %.

That's exactly why we should be concerned when folks fall short — because hardly anyone ever checks, so these problems can go unnoticed and can affect, in aggregate, large amounts.»

Meanwhile, the second largest cryptocurrency Ethereum also saw a fall in value following the clampdown.

Orders for machinery fell 1.9 percent, the largest drop since April 2016, after rising 0.6 percent in February.

Net income attributable to the world's largest retailer fell to $ 3.03 billion, or 98 cents per share, in the third quarter ended Oct. 31 from $ 3.3 billion, or $ 1.03 per share, a year earlier.

Burglary Recession desperation was expected to cause home invasions to escalate, but according to FBI statistics, burglary rates fell this year in many large American cities, including Los Angeles and Phoenix.

Winds aren't expected to be as strong as in last week's storm — which forced airlines to cancel 4,000 flights — but snow is expected be heavier and fall over a larger, more populated area.

The limits of policy stimulus were all to evident in Japan where core consumer prices fell 0.5 % in August from a year earlier, the largest drop since March 2013.

But of the nearly $ 11 billion in contracts that fell within that range in fiscal 2011, nearly $ 5 billion, or 45 %, went to large companies, Bloomberg reports.

Home to one of the largest livestock markets in the world, Oklahoma City falls fourth on the list of best places to flip houses.

Apple has fallen 9.4 % in the rout, but because its market cap is so gargantuan, it's also suffered by far the largest loss of value, shedding around $ 90 billion.