Sentences with phrase «least on a relative basis»

In other words it's not a fundamental call on the company, even though Nordstrom's earning report disappointed the Street, at least on a relative basis, with spending weighing on results.

Looking forward, since the Fed has telegraphed its intent to normalize policy rates, we don't expect another Taper Tantrum, and current spreads appear to offer fair compensation, at least on a relative basis.

In this way, you are constantly selling high and buying low, at least on a relative basis.

And with dynamic balancing between asset classes, it forces you to sell high and buy low — at least on a relative basis between asset classes.

Not exact matches

«Industry Buy» --- a buy rating for a stock within an industry because the analyst's boss has made it clear that recommendations are done on a sector relative basis and that at least one stock in an industry has to be a «buy.»

«Industry Buy» --- a buy rating for a stock because the analyst's boss has made it clear that ratings are done on a sector relative basis and that at least one stock in an industry has to be a «buy.»

2) you are assuming purpose is not itself based on truth — or at least that truth is relative.

Venneman and colleagues5 recently demonstrated that infants who are formula fed are twice as likely to die of SIDS than breastfed infants based on a case control study of 333 SIDS cases compared to 998 aged matched controls in Germany, from 1998 - 2001, consistent with previously published reports.35 While no studies show that co-sleeping in the form of bedsharing, specifically, is imperative for breastfeeding enhancement, many studies have shown that in order to get more sleep and to ease caring for their infants the decision to breastfeed often leads mothers to adopt routine bedsharing for at least part of the night36 - 40 even where they never intended to do so.41, 42 Indeed, nearly 50 % of breastfeeding mothers in the United States and Great Britain adopt bedsharing for some part of the night,38,43 - 45 and breastfeeding women are twice as likely to sleep with their babies in the first month relative to mothers electing to bottle - feed.39

The Lib Dems would lose the least, and therefore gain in relative terms - but Nick Clegg had already ruled out his support, on the basis that the public wouldn't like the system of state funding which would have to subsidise all three parties in the future.

At least 31 states use the system New York's board is proposing, a «resource - based relative value system» which tries to qualitatively measure how much medical procedures are worth, based on factors like the amount of time they take to complete, and the cost of the materials used to perform them.

Illustrative of this, when we divided teachers into five equal - sized groups based on the average prior academic achievement of their incoming students, we found that roughly three times as many (29 %) of the teachers with the least prepared incoming students were identified as low performing based on classroom observations relative to teachers with the most prepared students incoming students (11 %).

States must award subgrants of at least 85 % of their allocation to districts based on the relative enrollments in public and private schools.

It bears mention that Sanjoy Basu's seminal paper on the value effect appeared in 1977 after an extraordinary five - year run in which the value effect both delivered exceptional returns, following the collapse of the Nifty Fifty, and saw an exceptional rise in relative valuation to levels, at least on the basis of P / B, never seen since.

I'm merely stating that after funding the pension (in line with mgmt comments) and paying the expected dividend (while not an obligation to shareholders, mgmt knows the company's relative valuation is at least partially based on its yield relative to peers and will not likely cut it) there is no capital left for growth, share repurchaes or to raise the dividend.

Vacccinating small breeds should be based on a careful discussion with your veterinarian as to the relative risks, and puppies should wait until at least 12 weeks before their initial innoculation.

Stock is held in a trust for employees with at least 1,000 hours of work in a year and allocated to employees based on relative pay or a more level formula.

On a relative basis, we assume that you are someone who wants to hold at least one premium Ultimate Rewards card to maintain the ability to transfer points to Chase's hotel and airline partners.

At least relative to my questions above, what struck me was the possibility of starting with your reduction and analysis of the snow cover / fall anomaly data to come up with a research project based on some quite complicated but fascinating calculations on net TOA energy balance as a result of your conclusion about the relation of Arctic sea ice loss to NH snow cover / amount anomaly.

If the SCC can be shown to be negative at current levels of abatement (and bear in mind that your excellent chart of net benefits for various abatement paths refers to benefits relative to the 2010 policy stance) then I'd be content to freeze policy at current levels but to steadily transfer all policies to a carbon tax, or at least to cost them on a common basis, ie to treat renewable subsidies as implicit carbon taxes.

The main conclusions of the report are based on what would be required to provide at least a 66 per cent probability that the temperature increase would be limited to 2 °C, and would require global emission reductions of 50 to 70 per cent relative to 1990 levels by 2050.

Most lawyers will tell you that the outcome of your case is based on the facts, the prevailing law, the relative abilities of the lawyers involved and, not least, a bit of luck.

Last and not the least, relative to their clients and based on anecdotal information, law firms tend to have weaker security protection on their networks and systems.

Lastly, and not the least, relative to their clients and based on anecdotal information, law firms tend to have weaker security protection in place on their networks and systems.

Fortunately, job growth continues to improve, at least based on year - to - date figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, relative to monthly averages from 2012 and 2013.