Sentences with phrase «low point about»

Basically, you go around the dinner table, and have each member of your family share one high point and one low point about their day.

Not exact matches

A few things stand out about this particular rate change: first, the magnitude of influence that just a quarter percentage - point change had on the stock market; second, the current rate with an upper range of.50 % compared to the various long - term averages of about 5 %; and third, the rate remains historically low, with only minute incremental changes, despite the relatively good news we continue to read about the economy.

But whereas Yglesias praises Bernanke on a fairly narrow point — the fact that Bernanke promised to keep rates low even after the economy improved — what we liked about the speech was the sheer volume of myths and misconceptions that he debunked or clarified in a short period of time.

The pork shortage, along with the bad weather that afflicted the eastern half of the U.S. this winter, lowered Chipotle's comparable sales growth by about 2 percentage points to 10.4 % in the first quarter, below the 11.8 % analysts were projecting.

A 25 basis point rate hike would see the global real GDP level about 0.4 percentage points lower, with US real GDP falling by about 0.5 percentage points.

Swift, the subject of the magazine's latest cover story, admitted coming to a revelation about Spotify that she simply «didn't like the way it felt» having her music so readily available at such a low price point.

The stock is up about 9 % from its closing price on Sept. 19, 2014, having gained nearly 80 % from its low point a year after the IPO.

Such activities have been shown to lower functional IQ by 10 points — which is, by some measures, about twice the impact of smoking marijuana.

At the lowest point for our investor, at the start of February 2009, the person would be down about 36 %.

In the past three years, HYLD has returned negative 1.68 percent, while JNK is up by about the same percentage, with an expense ratio (0.40 percent) that is 83 basis points lower.

Although it is not a point specifically about replacement rates, it is worth noting that the StatCan analysts found that there was an equalizing tendency in retirement incomes as the incomes of the top quintile fell more than that of the lowest quintile.

Because after futures hit the 5 % down limit shortly after the market realized it was dead wrong about the presidential election, they have since soared nearly 80 points of the overnight lows and are well above the Friday, pre-Comey close, level.

Interest rates are up, but there's good news: growth companies continue to win new bank financing at the robust clip they've maintained since early 1993, when rates were about a percentage point lower.

Unemployment was almost seven percentage points lower that year than it would have been, with about 10 million more jobs.

It uses Yahoo! to find links that point to a website, accumulates relevant information about these links and pages, and tries to filter out duplicate and low - quality links.

Since each point on a 30 - year fixed rate mortgage lowers Quicken's base rate of 4.38 % by 25 basis points, we found that you would need to pay about $ 2,700 to reach the standard mortgage rate of 4.00 % found at most major banks.

Harper's motto about actions speaking louder than words points up a fundamental truth about political rhetoric - there is often a low correlation between politicians» promises and their subsequent actions.

The Model 3, which Tesla CEO Elon Musk notes as the «most profound car» with a lower price point, is about to be unveiled in March.

The real cash rate has been about 140 basis points lower, on average, than in the preceding decade.

Treasury yields have spiked by a full percentage point from their lows about eight weeks ago.

Reviewers appreciate much about Tesla's lowest - priced car, but point out some issues with its design and execution.

As the gap widens, it creates rising uncertainty about how excess debt servicing costs will ultimately be allocated, and at the point at which this uncertainty is high enough to alter materially the behavior of economic agents, and so lower the net asset value of the economic entity, the borrowing country has «excessive» debt.

Bannon's language goes beyond Reagan - era Republican talking points about cutting regulations and lowering taxes.

The low price points of Dot and Mini have also changed consumer perceptions about smart speakers and enticed more than 40 % of households to place them in multiple rooms.

Since I prefer to sell short stocks and ETFs as they are bouncing into resistance, rather than on their initial break of support, the stalling action of $ EEM as it bounces into resistance of its 50 - day moving average now presents me with an ideal, low - risk entry point on the short side (click here to learn more about my short selling entry strategy).

As the figure at the end shows, inflation (core PCE) looks to be about a point lower now, give or take.

That's about 200 basis points lower than where it was in 2011.»

Let me make a point about the lower investment profile.

I may very well write another ebook with a lower price point about specific topics.

The interesting, counterintuitive part about that, as Dave Parkinson points out, is that the bigger the rebound the BoC sees for Q2, the lower the bar for an additional rate cut becomes.

Bitcoin's share of the total crypto market is at 45 %, which is about 12 percentage points higher than January's all - time low.

Sebastian pointed out the discounts will have to be pretty steep in order to get enough new customers because lower - income consumers generally don't even think about shopping at Whole Foods.

By having an implementation intention, you won't have to worry about making decisions when you willpower is at its lowest point of the day.

Cocoa futures in the May contract settled last Friday in New York at 2556 while currently trading at 2467 down about 90 points for the trading week as we are right near a four week low as prices may have topped out in the short term.

At present, the price is a little over US$ 290 per ounce, about 15 per cent above the recent low point but about 30 per cent below the most recent peak of US$ 415 per ounce (Graph B1).

Stocks stayed in a narrow range, holding on to a better - than 100 - point gain posted by the blue chips by late morning, until about 3:00 P.M., when the market began to drift lower.

In the event of a reasonable market pullback (say, a few percent), and assuming market internals were still intact at that point, I would be inclined to increase our call option position toward about 2 % of assets, which would provide good exposure to any market advance that might begin from that lower base.

In the US, they are up by about 180 basis points since their safe - haven related lows in October last year following the Russian default, the near collapse of Long - Term Capital Management, and subsequent problems in Latin America (Graph 6).

Short - term yields have risen by about 15 basis points from their December quarter lows, as the market has again moved to price in a possible monetary tightening, though not in the immediate future.

In Europe, while the rise in yields was a little slower to occur, it has picked up pace in the last three months as signs of economic recovery in Europe have strengthened, and the net rise in yields from the early 1999 lows is now about 140 points.

In particular, the organization raised concerns about leveraged trading of cryptocurrencies, though it acknowledged that the low correlation between cryptocurrencies and other assets «suggests that the risk of spillovers from idiosyncratic price moves in crypto assets to the wider market may be limited at this point.»

The S&P 500 finished 19.42 points lower at 2,043.94 on the day, enough to put it about three - quarters of a per cent in the red for the year.

Budgetary revenues to the end of February are running about one percentage point below that forecast in the Match 2011 Budget, due primarily to lower - than - expected personal income tax and other revenues.

A recent Fed study estimated that the cumulative $ 3.6 trillion quantitative easing program lowered long - term interest rates by about 85 basis points.

Even though the S&P 500 is less than 3 points above its March peak, and the index remains lower than its level of 5 years ago, and has underperformed T - bills for the past 7 years, I realize that the chatter about «4 year highs» can make it seem frustrating that the Strategic Growth Fund is well hedged here.

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.

It's no surprise that when asked about their confidence in the political state of small business, women responded, on average, a full point lower than men (women averaged a 7 out of 10 confidence level, while men averaged an 8).

However, the NASDAQ, on a selloff in technology, was about a half a percentage point lower at that time.

This has forced up costs so that the lower breakeven points brought about by production efficiencies may not obtain.

One of the lowest points may have come last November when President Obama formally, and forcefully, rejected the Keystone XL pipeline, citing climate change priorities that raised questions about the future U.S. appetite for Canadian crude.