Sentences with phrase «less declined by»

Conversely, the number of cases disposed in 3 months or less declined by 2.2 % and, similarly, the number with elapsed time of 6 to 12 months to disposition decreased by 0.9 %.

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While the U.S. economy has continued a healthy expansion, total U.S. energy consumption actually declined in 2017 by 0.2 %, illustrating the economy's ability to do more while consuming less power.

Studies indicate carbon dioxide emissions from transportation in the province have declined 16 % in that time, and while it's impossible to draw a direct causal relationship between the tax and the emissions decline, it's fair to say it was a factor contributing to indisputable behavioural changes — you can't emit 16 % less CO2 by doing the same things you did before.

21st Century Fox (FOX), for example, is only down by about 4 % since the beginning of the year, or less than half Disney's decline.

Despite a record one - day point decline on the Dow Jones index, many Wall Street experts believe the sell - off was less tied to fundamentals and was instead exacerbated by volatility - linked products and algorithmic trading.

The decline was less steep than the drop in revenues recorded by its peers.

«The decline in confidence was fueled by a somewhat less optimistic outlook for business and job prospects in the coming months,» Lynn Franco, Director of Economic Indicators at The Conference Board, said in a statement.

«We believe the U.S. television industry is entering a period of prolonged structural decline, caused by a migration of viewers from ad - supported platforms to non-ad-supported or less - ad - supported platforms,» according to Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Todd Juenger in a March 9 statement.

Consider: the arsenal of effective (and less risky) HIV medicines has ballooned, the stigma associated with the disease has declined (although, as activists note, much work remains to be done on that front), and awareness campaigns centered on HIV / AIDS have gone from what was a fringe movement just 30 years ago to a cause championed by top public figures and companies around the world.

The point of the last piece, the subsidies, is to keep enough people in the pool of insured to avoid triggering a so - called death spiral of declining enrollment, a growing proportion of less healthy people and premium increases by insurers.

Germany, by comparison, has much less to complain about: Its goods trade deficit with China remains on a steeply declining trend, falling last year to 14.2 billion euro, a 21.5 percent drop from 2016.

Just 2 percent of the total value of transactions in Sweden consist of cash, and this is expected to decline to less than half a percent by 2020, according to research by Capgemini and BNP Paribas.

The Kauffman Foundation, citing its own research and drawing on U.S. Census data, concluded that the number of companies less than a year old had declined as a share of all businesses by nearly 44 percent between 1978 and 2012.

New research from North Carolina State University and the University of Colorado Boulder finds that steep declines in the use of coal for power generation over the past decade were caused largely by less expensive natural...

Americans ages 65 + on the other hand, have on average been much less impacted by the great recession, experiencing a net worth decline of just 6 % between 2005 and 2009 vs. a 28 % decline among all Americans according to a recent Pew Research Center study.

That's really what happened with small cap stocks during the 2000 - 2003 decline: small stocks still declined substantially, but they declined by less than the more overvalued large - cap stocks.

Mishkin noted «I am less optimistic about the prospects for core PCE inflation to move much below 2 % in the absence of a determined effort by monetary policy,» adding that «a substantial further decline in inflation would require a shift in expectations, and such a shift could be difficult and time - consuming to bring about.»

If our stock holdings lag the major indices (whether by gaining less or declining more), we would expect to achieve performance below Treasury bill yields.

Of course, given that Shiller's raw CAPE is also much less reliable than our margin - adjusted variant, a decline in the Shiller CAPE, driven by a statistical artifact of its own construction, will not make stocks any less hypervalued.

Even if part of this decline was driven by a heightened liquidity premium the implication is the same: it indicates an increased demand for highly liquid and safe assets which, in turn, implies less aggregate nominal spending.

First you get a really big bounce followed by a big decline then another bounce that is less strong with the next bounce getting weaker.

A current report by Fundstrat's Tom Lee notes that Bitcoin (BTC) mining earnings are at the moment virtually breaking even, because the exercise has quickly change into much less worthwhile the midst of the current decline within the markets, CNBC reported yesterday, March 15.

The exceptions are Indonesia and Thailand, where the financial problems have generally proven to be less tractable, and Hong Kong, where growth has been constrained by high real interest rates and the decline in asset prices.

Specifically, a recent analysis by Graham Secker, MS & Co.'s European equity strategist, found that recent disappointments in European corporate profits are a function of at least three important factors that may be reversing: idiosyncratic issues related to heavily skewed index exposure to financials and commodity - linked industries; weak operating profit leverage linked to declining emerging market sales; and less aggressive use of buybacks, tax optimization and non-operating cost reductions versus U.S. peers.

The average price of freehold properties declined by 10.5 per cent from April 2017; the average sale price in the condominium market decreased by less than one per cent compared to the same period.

By purchasing these companies after a price decline, we find we are able to control risk in the portfolio as these investments often have less downside while offering a decent potential return.The U.S. Equity Fund seeks to invest in companies with a lower Price to Book Ratio, lower Price to Earnings Ratio and higher Dividend Yield than the S&P 500 index.

In this case the corporate bond portfolio may rise less (or decline more) in value than the hedge offered by the short treasury position.

We would rather lose far less money during a big decline than to make 20 % when the market was ahead by 20 %.»

By early June 1099 Jerusalem's population had declined from 70,000 to less than 30,000.

One cause of this decline in awareness of Buckley's Catholicism may be the fact that he wrote less about his faith than any other major Catholic figure of the twentieth century — at least, if we calculate by sheer percentage of the prose he turned out in his hugely productive lifetime.

There is consolation in the fact that the Times is bought by less than one out of twenty people in the New York area, and the audience for television networks and movies has been declining for years.

New inexpensive contraceptive technologies will, in many places, result in a decline in «unwanted» fertility by making birth control less prohibitively difficult.

By 2030, the ratio is projected to decline to four - to - one; and it is expected to fall to less than three - to - one in 2050, when all boomers will be in the high - risk years of late life.

Roughly speaking, about half the decline in civic engagement has come about because those born before 1945 are inexorably leaving the scene and are being replaced by the less civically engaged generations born after 1945.

Shall I invent a summer sun that shines Less brightly since its very light is dimmed By yours and in embarrassment declines, Defeated though your beauty's candle's trimmed?

To explain statistical decline by saying that, beginning in the 1960s, a generation of people in their teens and 20s more or less dropped out of the oldline churches is specific and clear.

In our analysis, the average site invested less than one percent of food sales, and saw the cost of its food waste decline by over 60 percent.

The good news is that from 1930 to the present day, stomach cancer has declined from the leading cause of death by cancer to one of the lesser causes.

And yet... here we are at # 2 in a really really good QB class and some people are content with passing up on QB in order to get an immediate starter at what is by default a less valuable position, so that we can try to make a final run with our 37 - year old, declining, eliteforoneoutof15seasons QB.

A study by psychologist John Gottman published in 2000 in the Journal of Family Psychology found that as many as two - thirds of couples experience a significant decline in marriage satisfaction, including less - frequent or less - satisfying sex, more conflict and more emotional distance, after the first baby arrives.

Between 1981 and 2006, the percentage of infants born preterm (less than 37 weeks) rose by more than one - third but has been on the decline since.

I wondered the exact same thing about the gestational diabetes test, never got an explanation about why it was necessary, couldn't understand what benefit there could be to drinking an amount of sugar that I would never otherwise ingest to see if I had a condition I was unlikely to have that would be treated by following a diet and exercise plan less stringent than what I already did, so I ultimately declined it — a decision which was readily accepted by the CNMs providing care at my hospital's practice.

Although all new fathers, regardless of their youngest child's age, experienced a significant reduction in AM and / or PM T compared with nonfathers (Fig. 2 and Tables S5 and S6), fathers with newborns (1 mo old or less) at the time of follow - up hormone assessment showed significantly greater declines in AM (P = 0.023) and PM (P = 0.003) T compared with fathers whose youngest child was older than 1 y of age, which was not accounted for by reports of psychosocial stress, sleep quality, or involvement in caregiving (Tables S7 and S8).

«As the independence of members of the House of Commons has decreased under the system of party discipline — it is known as «whipping» by analogy with the fox hunting practice of whipping pack of hounds into order for the pursuit — so both the quality and reputation of MPs has declined, rendering them even less likely to behave independently.

[274] However, he was less unpopular with eurosceptics than Clarke, and on the third ballot of the subsequent leadership election Clarke, facing imminent defeat by William Hague, offered to stand aside in Heseltine's favour, but he declined on medical advice.

But total lobbying spending declined slightly since 2016, with groups spending $ 2.6 million less in 2017, according to a report released Wednesday by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

Nothing less can restore the damage to the ecosystem and halt the continued decline in revenues for the fishing industry,» Ms Lucas said, adding that the network should be set up by 2015 in order to reach their goals, as well as EU obligations.

They also lost most of their constituency seats, although its share of the constituency vote declined by less than 1 %.

These kinds of shenanigans are by no means unknown in north east Labour politics, but have been somewhat less common with the decline of trade unions and the massive decline in active individual membership.

Although the number of cases from contaminated meat may be declining — the result, he says, of factors like more rigorous sanitary controls in slaughterhouses and thorough heating of hamburgers by fast - food chains — the bug is spreading farther in foods that are less likely to be cooked (and therefore sterilized), such as fruit and lettuce.