Sentences with phrase «levels close to the year»

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Without a sustained level of immigration, Canada's population growth could be close to zero within 20 years.

Store owners in some cases report up to doubling traffic levels across the weekend with peaks in traffic hitting on the Saturday before the weekend winds down, last year alone the NFIB reported independent merchants saw record Saturday sales with consumer spending close to $ 5.7 billion.

TD expects international potash prices to average close to their current level of US$ 305 to US$ 320 per tonne over the next two years, but said they will be volatile.

A more reasonable level for Carney to reach over the next two years is closer to 3 %, Koeppl says, to keep ahead of inflation and reduce the negative effects of low rates.

Still, prices remained close to their highest levels in more than three years: Brent crude futures shed 0.64 percent to trade at $ 74.16 per barrel and U.S. West Texas Intermediate eased 0.43 percent to $ 67.81.

Retail consultant Burt Flicking saw the move as part of a shift at Wal - Mart under Chief Executive Doug McMillon to pay closer attention to public opinion on social issues, noting the company had raised wages for entry - level staff ealier this year.

The 10 - year U.S. Treasury yield hurdled 3 percent last week and remains close to that level, encouraging investors to buy the dollar.

With the stock up a massive 30 % since January, a measure of bearish bets sat close to its highest level of the year.

That could bring the price close to $ 700, a level that's proven successful for many years.

Given the magnitude of this decline, it is very unlikely that we will see anything close to pre-recession levels of small - business lending next year.

Some have even gone as far as to single out the 3 % level for the 10 - year as a reckoning point for equities — and at 2.82 % on Thursday, we're close.

With sentiment indicators buoyant, margin debt close to historic levels and indices trading close to their 2 standard deviation based on forward PE over five years, investors need to be mindful that a correction can easily unfold.

The Australian share market is at its highest level in almost 10 years, with the benchmark S&P / ASX200 index closing 1 per cent higher today and the Western Australia - focused BN30 index jumping 1.8 per cent to a new high.

With the U.S. economy having grown at only a 2.1 percent annual rate over the past seven years, it has become harder to sustain the view that the neutral real short - term interest rate is close to, or will soon be close to, its historical level of around 2 percent.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 1,000 - its highest levels in nearly a decade - and it was on the precipice of saying sayonara to a 16 - year bear market.

Factors that could cause or contribute to actual results differing from our forward - looking statements include risks relating to: failure of DBRS to rate the Notes at the anticipated ratings levels, which is a closing condition, or at all; changes in the financial markets, including changes in credit markets, interest rates, securitization markets generally and our proposed securitization in particular; the willingness of investors to buy the Notes; adverse developments regarding OnDeck, its business or the online or broader marketplace lending industry generally, any of which could impact what credit ratings, if any, are issued with respect to the Notes; the extended settlement cycle for the scheduled closing on April 17, 2018, which may exacerbate the foregoing risks; and other risks, including those described in our Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended December 31, 2017 and in other documents that we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time which are or will be available on the Commission's website at www.sec.gov.

WTI has been climbing steadily towards US$ 50 and Brent has inched closer to US$ 55 a barrel — a price level past seen at the beginning of the year, when optimism was rife that OPEC's deal would quickly take care of excess global supply.

Survey measures of business confidence have lifted from the very low levels seen at the beginning of the year to be close to their long - run average.

We are lucky to make close to 400k / year, but that level of income is quite common in bay area, esp double income households working in hi tech.

The fragility of Italy's application — high levels of debt, runaway deficits — was underscored the next year when Italy was expelled from the exchange rate mechanism and came close to running out of money.

We expect to benefit from a higher level of new generic introductions in the fourth quarter versus a year ago, including the third quarter launches of generic versions of Lexapro, SEROQUEL and PLAVIX; we will have some cost associated with the Alliance Boots transaction, the magnitude of which in part will be determined by the actual closing date of the first step.

Many analysts argue that total debt in China in fact exceeds TSF, and believe that the true debt level is closer to 250 % of GDP, and perhaps even more if we include the substantial number of corporate receivables that have surged in recent years.

And over the last three years, Total has slowly but surely closed the gap on rival oil major Esso (from 10 points behind in March 2009 to effectively level now).

However, with oil recently closer to the $ 45 - per - barrel level, these companies are on pace to outspend cash flow this year.

Before this week, many economists had begun to speculate that the Fed might raise rates four times this year if inflation measures edged closer to the 2 percent target level.

Although US Treasuries have been sliding since the beginning of the year, the uncertainty and volatility that we have seen in the past few weeks have pushed yields back down, forcing 10 - year Treasuries to close last week at 2.77 % — a level far away from the psychological 3 % level many have been waiting for.

In addition, the Rabobank survey suggests that investment in the farm sector — which is not included in the Capex survey — is likely to remain strong over the year ahead, at close to pre-drought levels.

And we are nowhere even close to fair - value price levels after those 18 years of poor returns.

While not exactly hitting the Federal Reserve's revered 2.0 % annual inflation target, it was apparently close enough to create more jitters in the bond market, with the yield on the U.S. Treasury's benchmark 10 - year note immediately climbing seven basis points to 2.91 %, its highest level in more than four years.

Benchmark Treasury yields fell close to 2 %, their lowest level thus far this year.

In case you hadn't noticed, the yield on the benchmark 10 - year U.S. Treasury note is this close to hitting the psychologically important 3 % level.

At the moment, the unemployment rate is close to its lowest level in more than 20 years.

While the 25 basis point increases in November and December have brought the cash rate closer to its average level of the past ten years — a period in which the economy has recorded average annual growth of 3.9 per cent — the rate still remains slightly below the average over this period (Graph 66).

While spot prices in April were at levels comparable to those seen in October 2004, long - dated futures prices were close to US$ 10 per barrel higher than in October last year, at around US$ 48.

In particular, following a quarter when falling petrol prices reduced inflation, the higher level of petrol prices in the first month of the June quarter suggests that a substantial contribution to the CPI is possible, which could take CPI inflation close to 3 per cent in the year to the June quarter.

The unemployment rate ticked back down to 4.3 %, matching the lowest level for 16 years seen in May, and there was further evidence that the solid demand from employers was helping to attract more entrants into the workforce, as the labor participation rate moved up a tenth to 62.9 %, close to the top of its recent range.

Market commentators noted that Freeport benefited today from strong commodity markets, including a solid $ 1.50 - per - barrel gain to bring oil prices close to the $ 48 mark and a two - year high for copper prices to approach the $ 2.75 - per - pound level.

Corning earned over $ 2 per share last year and should come close to that level again this year.

There, a stronger recovery means the Federal Reserve could soon raise rates for the second time in a year, moving monetary policy a bit closer to normal levels.

Despite the recent advance, prices are not even close to the levels the market enjoyed just a few years ago.

Every year, at every level of culture, there's a flood of words about it, from abstruse, high - theoretical juridical and philosophical arguments to close - to - the - ground rants and breast - beatings.

My wife commented during the closing group evaluation that it made us feel pleased (as well as slightly jealous) to see them communicating at a level, after a few years together, that it had taken us much longer to reach in our marriage.

Of the current crop of managers only Mourinho and Ancelotti are positioned to be able to get close to Ferguson's record at the top level, and both have experienced their own difficulties in recent years.

There are NO other teams in the league that have accomplished anything close to what the Sixers did this year who had their best players be a rookie and a 2nd year player, some of the teams that Philly is most often compared to in regards to young talent are Minnesota (they won less games than Philly, Wiggins sucks, and they were buoyed by Jimmy Butler as a veteran star) and the Lakers (most people don't view anybody on the Lakers on the same level as Embiid or Simmons and they only won 35 games this year).

Up front we have a few world - class players surrounded by some serious pretenders... Sanchez is by far the most accomplished player in our attack but the controversy surrounding his contractual mishandling could see him go before the window closes or most definitely by season's end... obviously a mistake by both parties involved, as Sanchez's exploits have never been more on display than in North London, but the club's irresponsible wage structure and lack of real intent have been the real undoing in this mess... Lacazette, who I think has some world - class skills as a front man, will only be as good as the players and system around him, which is troubling due to our current roster and Wenger's love of sideways passing... Walcott should have been sold years ago, enough said, and Welbeck should never have been brought in from the get - go... both of these players have suffered numerous injuries over their respective careers and neither are good enough to overcome such difficulties: not to mention, they both are below average first - touch players, which should be the baseline test for any player coming to a Wenger - led Arsenal team... Perez should have been played wide left or never purchased at all; what a huge waste of time and money, which is ridiculous considering our penny pinching ways and the fact that fans had been clamoring for a real striker for years... finally Giroud, the fact that he stills wears the jersey is a direct indictment of this club's failure to get things right... this isn't necessarily an attack on Giroud because I think he has some highly valued skills, but not for a team that has struggled to take their sideways soccer to the next level, as his presence slows their game even more, combined with our average, at best, finishing skills... far too often those in charge have either settled or chosen half - measures and ultimately it is us that suffer because no matter what happens Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke will always make more money whereas we will always be the ones paying for their mistakes... so every time someone suggests we should just shut - up and support the team just think of all the sacrifices you've made along the way and simply reply... f *** off

That where a player lands in their draft +2 year is even close to reaching that same level in a players draft year.

Unlike Coquelin and Bellerin, Koscielny's career is closer to the end than it is beginning, because at 31 years old his ability to play at the top level, especially in a fast paced premier league, may begin to fall with age.

In 2 or 3 years he will become a very good striker for us, maybe close to the world class level.

Considering the way that the Wings lost a lot of 1 goal games this year, I think it is way better to play at the NHL level and lose in close, hard - fought games than to dominate at a lower level.

That's just a little bit of pressure to deal with, considering how close they got a year ago, that Kershaw is now finally going to be in his 30s and can opt - out at year's end, and knowing that veterans like Rich Hill and Justin Turner can't play at their current levels forever (especially considering Turner's broken wrist).