Such an increase would be near half the 3.3 % increase awarded in the 2017/18 financial year and
less than the current rate of inflation.
Business sense would usually indicate that if interest rates rise, a Step - Up CD will less likely be called — if the interest rate to be paid is
less than a current rate for the same term.
Even if you don't find a provider offering the policy you want for hundreds of dollars
less than your current rates, your free quotes will at least give you the peace - of - mind that your current provider is giving you a competitive rate.
Not exact matches
For a list of all the cities with a
current unemployment
rate of
less than 4 % unemployment, here's an interactive map.
While the vast majority of investors are buying Bitcoin via exchanges, it's still possible to get the cryptocurrency for dramatically
less than the
current exchange
rate.
Every defense of
current P / E ratios must assume either a higher long - term growth
rate than is evident from historical data, or it must assume that investors are willing to hold stocks for a long - term return of substantially
less than 10 %.
There has been considerably
less adjustment of interest
rates in the
current episode, however, relative to earlier commodity price booms; for example, the energy boom in the late 1970s / early 1980s, which was smaller
than the
current resource boom.
The
current unemployment
rate of 4 % is
less than half of what it was in 2009, and economic fundamentals appear to be robust.
The
current rate of burning fossil fuels adds about 2 ppm per year to the atmosphere, so that getting from the
current level to 1000 ppm would take about 300 years — and 1000 ppm is still
less than what most plants would prefer, and much
less than either the nasa or the Navy limit for human beings.
The official minimum wage in Ecuador is 3,000 sucres per week, which works out to
less than 600 sucres per day — or $ 1.50 at the
current exchange
rate — as the average work week is five and a half days.
Untimely infants who were breastfed only and kept warm through nonstop skin - to - skin contact have turned out to be youthful grown - ups with bigger brains, higher pay
rates and
less unpleasant lives
than babies who got regular hatchery mind, as indicated by an investigation distributed for the
current week.
«The good news is that many restaurants are already making impressive strides in reducing sodium content, and the research we are conducting is demonstrating that consumers are
rating menu items with
less sodium as high as — and in most cases higher
than — the
current versions in terms of overall flavor.»
At
current super inflated market
rates, Macolm cost close to 50m while Lyon will not release Fekir for
less than 50 as well
@ larryking listen jock wenger could never coach anyother club because no big club would go six season without a trophy there is no way wenger could go to madrid and go two season without a trophy no way in hell he would be fired in no time bmunich fired klinsman
less than half season look at the real madrid coach grave yard pelligrinie made 95 + points last season that amount would win the league in almost any country yet he got fired i can go on if fergi goes two seasons without a trophy am sure he gone i love arsenal but football is about winning trophies wenger has hypnotize you i do nt care arsenal have gone five years without a trophy and six witout the league not even a carling cup or fa cup and loosing all our best players all for money all this talk about wenger and his youth policies i can count on both hands all the players that came through arsenal youth system that went on to be world beaters look at the
current crop walcott nasri diaby denilson bedtner clichy none of these are world class they have improve minimal @ arsenal compare that to barca their youths pedro and co are world beaters event the great vanpercy who we
rate he would never leave arsenal because all that chance wenger gives him he would» t get at other big clubs this does not make sense we buy young players they take ages to develop most do nt» t then we sell them or they leave because they want to win things that how you grow pretty soon that top four will become very hard to stay in if we get out of that then what i wish all you wenger fans luck am all out of patients with him last chance this year................
Dana has intimate familiarity with what it takes to make significant changes in a large, urban district like my own, and she is
less -
than - starry - eyed about the ability of any other district to follow suit without outside funding — over and above the
current USDA reimbursement
rate, OR that amount plus six cents.
So it also comes as little surprise that the public's view is
less positive over the fairness of the cuts
than it was in 2010, worsening from a net
rating of -5 to a
current net
rating of -25.
Under the
current system teachers are
rated satisfactory or unsatisfactory, though
less than 3 % of teachers typically get unsatisfactory
rating in a given year.
The employer share is a flat 8 percent, which is roughly equal to the predicted, theoretical «normal»
rate for Tier 6 but about 10 percentage points
less than the
current average
rate for all New York State Employee Retirement System (NYSERS) members.
The hydropower is provided at
rates that are more
than 50 percent
less than current wholesale market prices in the State.
Their findings, published in American Psychologist (September 2004), demonstrated that although those who declined enrollment in the Meyerhoff Program often attended highly regarded HBCUs and Ivy League institutions, they were significantly
less likely
than Meyerhoff students to pursue and complete science Ph.D. s or M.D. / Ph.D. s. «If
current Ph.D. receipt
rates of program graduates continue,» Hrabowski says in American Psychologist, «UMBC will in all likelihood become the leading predominantly white baccalaureate - origin university for black STEM Ph.D. s in the nation.»
While there have been improvements in the
current standard treatments, patients with glioblastoma (GBM), the most common and aggressive form of brain tumor, still suffer from a median survival
rate of only 14.6 months and 5 - year overall survival
rates of
less than 10 %.
This is partly due to the
current atmosphere containing much
less CO2 — approximately 400 ppm (parts per million)-- compared to before the PETM, where the concentration was about 1,000 ppm and partly because we emit carbon into the atmosphere at a much faster
rate than during the PETM.
The researchers estimated the maximum sustained carbon release
rate during the PETM had to be
less than 4 billion metric tons of CO2 per year — about one - tenth the
current rate.
Within 10 years, at the
current rate of decline, a fully sequenced human genome will price out at
less than $ 10.
Obviously, Figure 9 shows that 40 kyrs ago the earth's magnetic field intensity was 75 %
less (2 × 10 ^ 22Am ^ 2)
than the geomagnetic field's
current intensity (8 × 10 ^ 22Am ^ 2) and that the earth's magnetic field intensity peaked at around (12 × 10 ^ 22Am ^ 2) and has dropped 30 % in the last 1000 years and that the geomagnetic field intensity is now dropping at the
rate of 5 % / 100 yrs.
With a realistic
current extinction
rate of
less than 1 per cent of species per decade and a discovery
rate of something like 3 per cent a decade, the authors conclude: «the
rate of species description greatly outpaces extinction
rates».
Irradiance in 2010 is about 0.1 W / m2
less than the mean of the prior three solar cycles, a decrease of forcing that would be restored by the CO2 increase within 3 — 4 years at its
current growth
rate.
I do think eHarmony matching system does work better
than most matching systems, so this statistic would probably be much
less than the
current 50 % divorce
rate for all of the United States.
If one country's test - score performance was 0.5 standard deviations higher
than another country during the 1960s — a little
less than the
current difference in the scores between such top - performing countries as Finland and Hong Kong and the United States — the first country's growth
rate was, on average, one full percentage point higher annually over the following 40 - year period
than the second country's growth
rate.
Whether passage of new local levies will result in an increase or a decrease in property taxes compared to the
current rate depends on the whether the
current Local Levy
rate is more or
less than $ 1.50 per thousand of assessed valuation (which is the new limit under the Levy Swipe law).
The new 6.2 L direct injection V8 is estimated to provide 450 hp and 450 lb - ft of torque and 0 - 60 performance in
less than four seconds while exceeding the
current Corvette's EPA - esimated 26 mpg highway fuel economy
rating.
I hope it is
less than 329 euros at the
current exchange
rate.
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When the Margin Closeout Value declines to half, or
less than half, of the Margin Used, all tradable open positions in the account will automatically close using the
current fxTrade
rates at the time of closing.
For example, if
current interest
rates are 2 % lower
than your
rate on a mortgage on which you have 3 years left to pay, it's going to matter much
less than it would for someone who has 25 years of mortgage payments left.
You're nearby happy lender offers you a
rate which is
less than what you are paying today, so your monthly costs will go down and that sounds pretty good.However, the problem here is that while monthly costs go down, they may not go down as much as they could given
current loan
rates.
Egypt's
current birthrate, though still relatively high by world standards, is
less than half the
rate of the early 1990s.
After pursuing this further, as was suggested, the bank revised their payments to be ~ $ 30
less than I pay now (
current p + i = $ 613.12, new p + i = $ 585.98 at a
rate of 2.55 %).
Signal's
current 5/5 ARM
rates are among the lowest in the market — and significantly
less than a traditional 30 - year fixed mortgage.
It was $ 120
less per month
than my
current rate.
Since the qualification
rate being used is the Bank Of Canada (BOC) conventional 5 year fixed posted
rate, which is roughly 2 % greater
than current fixed
rates, the amount that the home buyer will qualify for will be
less.
If your contract mortgage
rate is
less than the
current Bank of Canada
rate, re-enter the calculator with your given
rate to see what your approximate monthly mortgage payments will be after you qualify for your Maximum Mortgage with the Bank of Canada
rate.
Under
current banking rules, only insured mortgages, variable
rates and fixed mortgages
less than five years must be qualified at a higher
rate.
In other words, if the buyer's bid was accepted, he would pay
less than the
current bond holder did when the bond was first issued, because prevailing interest
rates are now higher
than 5 % on similar tax - exempt bonds.
The table below contains the
current tax
rates applicable on VCA withdrawals where the amount withdrawn falls within the respective withdrawal values and the contributions are
less than 5 years old:
But keep in mind, tax
rates are different depending on the area and are based on the appraisal of a property, so it's possible that you could pay more or
less than the previous owner, depending on the home's
current value.
Yet this federally mandated credit easing coincided with a seller's market — when there is
less than six months of for - sale inventory at the
current sales
rate.
Given the rising interest
rate environment as a result of stronger economic growth, they believe that, in the
current market, positioning the fund along the intermediate portion of the yield curve provides investors
less interest
rate sensitivity
than longer duration portfolios.
The Fund tries to acquire such non-participating credits at
current yields of 18 % — 20 % or better, and with yields to «an improved credit
rating» of not
less than 40 % annually.