Sentences with phrase «low over recent years»

The share of new loans in Australia that are non-conforming has also been very low over recent years, at about 1 to 2 per cent, significantly below the 20 per cent sub-prime share that such loans reached in the US in 2006 (Graph 13).

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Regardless, the fact that this metric has fallen into the lower range of readings over the past ten years — outside of the very low readings during the crisis — suggests that recent movements in volatility have come amid relatively subdued trading volumes.»

(Overall sales of PCs, servers, and storage systems were down year over year in the most recent quarter, and Dell's revenue in 2015, pre-merger, was $ 58.1 billion, 6 % lower than in 2012.)

However, awards show ratings in general have fallen in recent years, with the Oscars hitting an eight - year low last February with just over 34 million viewers.

CalPERS, which suffered through a 2.4 percent return for its most recent fiscal year, conceivably could lower the target to 6.5 percent over time.

California lost lower - income residents to other states over a recent 11 - year period, while gaining wealthier households from elsewhere in the U.S..

Comparing the most recent distribution of estimates with previous points in history (see chart below), there is greater clustering around the mean and noticeably shorter tails, suggesting a lower likelihood of major price swings over the next year.

While inflation has been low in recent years, it can have a powerful impact over the course of 20 or 30 years.

For those who prefer simpler methods, a third measure, which just takes out volatile food items and petrol, and adjusts for the recent change to the child care rebate, shows essentially the same trend over the past couple of years, though at a slightly lower rate (Graph 15).

In recent years, money has flooded into low - cost index funds and out of more expensive actively managed funds, thanks in part to a greater focus on the large bite fees take out of already lackluster retirement balances over the long term.

Over recent years, more and more plans are offering a suite of low - cost index funds covering domestic equities, foreign equities, U.S. taxable bonds, and cash.

Nor do lower inventories imply increased liquidity risks, as suggested by rising trading volumes over recent years (Graph B, centre panel).

Yet on the whole, given their positive experience both with receiving more income than they could get from the fixed - income sector in recent years and the potential for capital appreciation over the long haul, dividend stocks and the ETFs that own them have demonstrated their long - term value to the investors who've gravitated toward them during the low - rate environment of the past decade.

In contrast, export volumes decreased over this period, despite strong global demand, as capacity and infrastructure constraints and supply disruptions restricted growth; such supply - side factors have hampered exports for a number of years, with resource export volumes now lower than during 2000 (see the chapter entitled «Australia's Resource Exports — Recent Trends and Prospects» in this Statement).

Other areas of investment seem very low and while I would have expected that by now these would have been showing signs of strengthening, the most recent indications are for, if anything, a weakening over the year ahead.

However, the various expenditure reduction exercises over recent years, without major cuts to programs and services, have forced departments to operate «closer to the edge», implying that the lapse at the end of the year will be lower than in previous years.

«The bottom line is that potential output growth in Canada and other industrialized economies will be lower than it was in the years leading up to the crisis»...» Our most recent estimate for Canada is that it will average just below 2 per cent over the next two years.

The most recent and thorough of these, by Lukasz Rachel and Thomas Smith at the Bank of England, concluded that for the industrial world, neutral real interest rates have declined by about 4.5 percentage points over the last 30 years and are likely to stay low in the future.

[3] A major concern over recent years has been the low trading volumes at the time of day that BBSW is measured (around 10 am).

Growth of non-farm GDP over the latest four quarters for which we have data was just over 4 per cent; domestic demand, while slowing a little from its most recent peak, expanded by 5 1/2 per cent over that period; employment growth over the past year has been around trend, though lower in recent months, and the unemployment rate has remained close to the lower end of the range in which it has fluctuated over the past two decades.

Over the past year, employment growth has been around trend, though lower in recent months.

In contrast, the volatile Melbourne Institute survey shows that the median expectation for consumer inflation over the coming year increased to 4.6 per cent in January, after falling over recent months to a six - year low in December.

After experiencing a strong upswing in recent years, dwelling investment fell by 3 1/2 per cent in the December quarter, following a 1 1/2 per cent fall in the September quarter, to be nearly 2 per cent lower over the year.

Even so, this rate remains 1.9 percentage points under the previous cyclical low early in 1994, reflecting the trend decline in bond yields over recent years.

A recent study by the Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good finds that social and economic supports such as benefits for pregnant women and mothers and economic assistance to low - income families have contributed significantly to reducing the number of abortions in the United States over the past twenty years.

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Already Buhari has started giving excuses for the abysmal performance.He attributed the quagmire to drop in the price of oil globally and cleverly laid the blame on the doorsteps of all Nigerian accusing them of relying solely on oil.All renowned rating agencies including fitch continue to downgrade Nigeria ever since Buhari took over and it is projected that Nigeria will not be able to repay its debt obligations.Fitch for instance downgraded Nigeria's longterm foreign currency issuer default rating to B + from BB - and longterm local currency IDR to BB - from BB.The general position expressed by almost all the Briton wood institutions is that Nigeria's fiscal and external vulnerability has worsened under Buhari and it is projected that the government's general fiscal deficit could grow up to 4.2 % by the end of 2016 after averaging 1.5 % under the previous regime.A recent capital importation report by Nigeria Bureau of Statistics confirms that, last year, the country recorded total inflow of capital into the economy stood at $ 9.6 billion which was a 53 % drop from previous year and the lowest recorded total since 2011.

Again most analysts and academics know that if anyone wanted to demonstrate the strange hypothesis that multiple and widely divergent exchange rates do not affect foreign investment, he could cite the evidence of more recent years, but that obviously not being consistent with the facts, our economist then went over two decades back to 1994 to cite an exception, a single investment in an environment of otherwise grossly low investment, in a sector where people invest even in times of war, to justify a faulty hypothesis!

In a statement, she pointed to her accomplishments over the years, including the most recent legislative session in which, she says, she pushed to lower taxes for the middle class, raise the minimum wage and fund transit improvements and senior centers.

A new study from climate scientists Robert DeConto at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and David Pollard at Pennsylvania State University suggests that the most recent estimates by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for future sea - level rise over the next 100 years could be too low by almost a factor of two.

It compared the future to the lowest snowpack year seen over that recent 30 - year span.

Deforestation has declined to record lows in recent years, and just over 50 % of Brazil's rainforest now falls under some form of protected status.

But in a recent 4.3 - year analysis of 18,991 men and women over 35, it was found that while a Mediterranean diet could lower cardiovascular disease risk, only wealthier, more educated folks got those benefits.

That myth has finally been debunked through countless studies over several years while more recent data now indicate that low serum testosterone levels are a potential predictor of high - risk prostate cancer.

That myth has finally been debunked through countless studies over several years while more recent data now indicate that a low serum testosterone levels are a potential predictor of high - risk prostate cancer.

A recent study by Oxford University followed 500,000 people over a 7 - year period of time and found that those who included fruit in their diet daily had a much lower risk of heart disease and stroke than those who rarely ate fruit (source).

(side note: I did find this recent study on a small group of obese patients following a very low calorie ketogenic diet over a period of 2 years.

Following recent demand - driven reforms, some universities are admitting larger numbers of teacher education students with increasingly low Year 12 performances — a trend that may continue as the number of teachers required to staff our schools grows over the next decade.

While the number of school fires has decreased over recent years, the costs associated with school fires have escalated, while the effects of loss of facilities, equipment, coursework, disruption of classes and lowering of morale also have a significant impact.

Although public expenditures have grown steadily over the long term, recent years saw annual declines in spending from a high point of $ 610 billion in 2007 — 08 to a low of $ 602 billion in 2011 — 12.

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In short, while the outlook for U.S. stocks is not disastrous, investors should expect significantly lower returns over the next few years than what they have become accustomed to in recent years.

The Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) industry has enjoyed very strong growth in recent years: ETFs are seen to be more transparent, lower cost, and over the medium term better performing than the majority of traditional actively managed mutual funds, whilst being just as safe.

The initial DGR is much lower than what's transpired over the last five years; it's also much lower than the most recent dividend increase.

We have taken advantage of the really low rates to complete several refinances over the past 2 years working our interest rate down from 3.75 % with 1.35 % PMI to our most recent 3/1 ARM loan at 2.25 %.

Rising rates could, over time, help restore the attractiveness of lower - risk government and shorter - duration debt — at the expense of more richly valued credit sectors that have benefited from the hunt for yield in recent years.

The low mortgage rate environment of recent years has created a refinancing bonanza, giving millions of consumers a chance at a «do - over» on their mortgage loans.

If the company grows EPS by 7 % per year going forward, and raises the dividend by 15 % per year over the next 10 years (which is lower than their recent growth record), then the dividend payout ratio will still be only 50 % in ten years.

Passive funds are typically much lower cost and their returns have outperformed over recent years.