Sentences with phrase «level following a rate»

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Mortgage rates, which loosely follow the 10 - year Treasury, hit their highest level since the end of March, breaking out of a tight range where they'd been sitting for weeks.

The Fed's authority didn't extend to the levels of interest charged, only whether the rate was stated clearly following the Truth in Lending Act.

The level of commitment varies among retailers; Greenpeace, which has rated supermarkets on seafood sustainability for several years, ranks B.C.'s Overweitea the top performer, followed by Loblaw.

Bond prices fell, sending the yield on the U.S. 10 - year Treasury note to its highest level in four years, following newly released minutes from the U.S. Federal suggesting bullish sentiment among policy - makers and signalling more interest rate hikes ahead.

BlackRock's «Yellen Index» (our gauge of 10 key labor market indicators closely followed by the Fed) has picked up, but it's well below the level before the Fed's December rate rise, as the chart above shows.

If the banks could just be stabilized, if the «markets» could just be elevated back in the direction of peak 401 (k) levels, if interest rates could just be lower so that borrowers would inevitably take the bait, then labor — job creation — would inevitably follow.

Moderate interest rates were associated with a whole range of subsequent returns over the following decade, and we know that those outcomes were 90 % correlated with the level of valuations at the beginning of those periods (on reliable measures such as market cap / GDP, price / revenue, Tobin's Q, the margin - adjusted Shiller P / E, and others we've presented over time - see Ockham's Razor and the Market Cycle).

The following chart shows how active returns from high - dividend stocks have varied, depending on prevailing interest - rate levels and trends.

Mortgage rates, which loosely follow the 10 - year Treasury, hit their highest level since the end of March, breaking out of a tight range where they had been sitting for weeks.

While no assurance can be given as to the future level of dividends, the Manager believes NHF can continue to pay the $.24 per share dividend for the remainder of 2016 based on the following annualized projected earnings rate analysis as of January 31, 2016, excluding any one - time income and expense items:

While no assurance can be given as to the future level of dividends, the Manager believes NHF can continue to pay the $.24 per share dividend for the remainder of 2016 based on the following annualized projected earnings rate analysis as of February 29, 2016, excluding any one - time income and expense items:

In the press conference that followed the monetary - policy meeting, the president of Europe's central bank, Mario Draghi, stated that interest rates will remain at current levels well past the end of the bank's asset - purchase program, carried out along with reinvesting principle payments from maturing securities.

Stocks with a history of consistently growing their dividends have historically tended to perform well and exhibit less volatility in a rising rate environment, while high yielding dividends, often considered «bond - like proxies,» have tended to be more vulnerable (due to their high debt levels) and have historically followed bond performance when rates rise.

This could result in higher rates for crop insurance, which could be detrimental to Oklahoma farmers as this farming season has already seen high levels of precipitation following a five - year drought.

China's credit rating was downgraded one notch to A + by ratings agency Standard & Poor's (S&P), which cited increased economic and financial risks, following the significant rise in the country's debt levels since the global financial crisis.

The Mt. Gox exchange briefly halted bitcoin deposits and the exchange rate briefly dipped by 23 % to $ 37 as the event occurred [58] before recovering to previous level of approximately $ 48 in the following hours.

In Latin America, Brazil moved to lower official interest rates back towards more accommodative levels following earlier increases aimed at supporting the Brazilian real.

One of the reasons why the exchange rate is expected to stay at this level is the opposite paths that Canada and the U.S. are following with their currency interest rates.

If government has been following an a-priori prescribed level of public investment, then it's quite possible that the rate of return on the marginal public investment is greater than the rate of return on the marginal private investment.

It is true that our economic growth rates following the 2007 - 2009 recession have not approached the levels seen coming out of previous recessions, and as we shift from highly accommodative monetary policy, even Fed officials have called for additional fiscal - policy support.

After a week of really bad nights we decided to go back to co-sleeping fully, but with the cot by the bed at the same level, so I would follow the same technique as daytime naps, getting her to sleep and then rolling away, with about the same rate of success.

The following changes due to infant crying have been documented: increased heart rate and blood pressure, reduced oxygen level, elevated cerebral blood pressure, depleted energy reserves and oxygen, interrupted mother - infant interaction, brain injury, and cardiac dysfunction.

NYS Director Mike Durant released the following statement this afternoon urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature not to overlook what got us into this high - tax mess as they mull rejiggering the tax code to provide breaks for the middle class and higher (than pre-millionaire's tax levels) rates for the rich.

The strategies for achieving these broad macroeconomic objectives include the following: • Promoting inclusive growth without compromising fiscal consolidation; • Anchoring fiscal policy on reducing the fiscal deficit to low and sustainable levels, sufficient to reduce the overall public debt burden; • Strengthening the inflation targeting regime and pursuing complementary monetary policy to promote monetary discipline; and • Pursuing complementary external sector policies to ensure exchange rate stability and favourable current account balance.

That very same day, Skelos praised Cuomo's «leadership,» following Moody's announcement that it had raised New York's general obligation bond rating to its highest level since the fiscal crisis of the mid-1970s, lauding the governor for working with the Legislature to move the state «in the right direction.»

Following a week of political scandal it was hardly surprising to see the collective poll ratings of the party leaders fall to their lowest levels ever recorded.

Today's Siena poll finds AG Andrew Cuomo's favorability rating has slipped eight percentage points to 59 - 26 — its lowest level since December 2008 — in the weeks following his gubernatorial coronation at the Democratic state convention in Rye.

Mr O'Flynn said the starting rate would be set at the level of the full - time minimum wage, «followed by a 20p standard rate, a 30p intermediate rate and a 40p top rate».

Towne and colleagues also found that race and ethnicity, education level and income affected prevalence rates: People with lower income or lower educational levels had a higher prevalence of diabetes, and the diabetes rates were highest among American Indians or Alaska Natives, followed by African Americans and Hispanics.

The average death rate following the procedure, adjusted to take account of varying patient risk levels, was 4.03 percent, Carroll said.

«This form of government investment will hardly eradicate or reduce rural poverty, because of poor infrastructure and the severe economic inefficiencies of most agrarian settlements — which often result in high household - level turnover and giving - up rates of newly settled farmers following the local liquidation of natural forest resource capital.»

Using an approach developed at Maisonneuve - Rosemont, consisting of an autograft to reduce tumour mass followed by a family allograft three to four months later to clean the bone marrow of myeloma cells with immune cells from a family donor (immunotherapy), the study resulted in a total cure rate of 41 %, a record level using this strategy.

And corporate extinctions follow a pattern: A low - level attrition rate is occasionally punctuated by many companies failing at once.

Following a massive underestimate straight after the earthquake and tsunami that triggered the crisis, in April NISA said that between 370,000 and 630,000 terabecquerels were released between 11 and 15 March, putting the crisis at level 7, the most severe category on the international scale used to rate nuclear accidents.

When people feel more powerful, the popular theory goes, behavioral and physiological effects, like changes in hormone levels, blood pressure and heart rate, will follow.

Of the dozen of these metabolites that were measured in cohorts from the longitudinal Framingham Heart Study (the long - term 1948 study to identify the common contributive factors of cardiovascular disease by following its development in a large subject group) levels of glycerol turned out to be «significantly correlated» with resting heart rate, another indicator of fitness, as measured in the study.

In addition, the altered rates of force development and relaxation suggest alterations in the regulation of intracellular calcium levels following maximal contractions, as are noted to occur in slow skeletal muscles (44).

Our results build on prior research indicating that state same - sex marriage bans were associated with increased rates of psychiatric disorders19 and that health expenditures decreased following implementation of a same - sex marriage policy in Massachusetts.22 Our study contributes evidence on the association between same - sex marriage and mental health based on a robust analysis that controls for differences in state characteristics and for other state - level events that may affect suicide attempts, which are unlikely to systematically vary with the same geographic and temporal pattern as same - sex marriage implementation.

However, when we extracted gene expression levels from the brain transcriptome data following the methodology in Carneiro et al. [29], we found that levels of nucleotide diversity and the proportion of low frequency variants between lowly (bottom 5 %) and highly (top 5 %) expressed genes in our dataset (Table S7) were not significantly different in most comparisons (with the exception of π in O. c. cuniculus) nor did they consistently differ in the expected direction when assuming higher error rates in lowly expressed genes.

In five independent large cohorts in which more than 1100 total patients were followed for overall survival (Desmedt et al., 2007; Esserman et al., 2012; Kao et al., 2011; Pawitan et al., 2005; van de Vijver et al., 2002; Supplementary file 1), high expression level of MELK strongly correlated with increased rates of mortality (all p values < 0.05, hazard ratios > 2)(Figure 2D, Figure 2 — figure supplement 1D).

To measure purpose in life, researchers from the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago asked over 900 older folks living in residential communities to rate their level of agreement from 1 to 5, to each of the following statements:

Being a top level athlete means you are surrounded by a team of people following you around, making sure that you are functioning at the optimal rate to deliver the best results possible.

Specifically in relation to Parkinson's disease, a recent study published by researchers from Pennsylvania State University and Harvard revealed a direct relationship between higher cholesterol levels and slowing in the rate of decline in the 744 Parkinson's patients they followed.

If you've read and follow Debbie's blog, you already know testosterone levels are falling worldwide at astronomical rates.

Observation of participants over extended periods (follow - up rate of 12.7 years) allowed for comparing TSH serum levels in relation to irreversible neurological conditions such as Alzheimer's and dementia.

I did have the following tests in April — all normal, (pancreatic elastase 1, calprotectin, lipase level (pancreatic enzyme), celiac disease panel, amylase (pancreatic test), sedimentation rate, C - reactive protein, thyroid).

If your heart rate is high just from being anxious or having coffee, should you do cardio following your correct level of your heart rate?

«These findings mean that physicians should try to control a patient's heart rate by using alternatives as a first line, such as beta - blockers or calcium blockers; if digoxin is used, use a low dose with careful clinical follow - up, evaluate potential drug interactions when starting new medications, and monitor digoxin levels,» the authors said «Patients should be aware of potential toxicity and see their physicians immediately in specific clinical situations, for instance if they experience palpitations or syncope (fainting), as those may precede arrhythmic death,» they added.

The anticipated significant increase of 6.2 per cent is expected to be followed by a substantially lower level of positive growth into 2015/16, rising to just # 14,520; a 0.8 per cent increase, which is well below the rate of inflation.

to consider should be the following: 1) the achievement of full employment or reduction in the unemployment rate; 2) increase the income distribution measured by the Gini index; 3) reduction of the levels of crime in society; 4) increase in service levels of education, health, housing and transport to the population; 5) increase of the investment in infrastructure, education, health, housing and sanitation; 6) increase in the HDI - Human Development Index, used by the United Nations, which takes into account GDP per capita, the longevity of people and their education (measured by illiteracy rate and the enrollment rates at various levels of education); and 7) increase of GNH (Gross National Happiness) indicator, which analyzes 73 variables that contribute most to the goal of achieving the well - being and satisfaction with life (See GNH posted in website