Sentences with phrase «low point of the year»

Dubai's main stock market and Abu Dhabi's index have closed at their lowest points of the year amid mounting anxiety over plunging oil prices.

One other note on March's decrease from February's sales: just like sales dipped to their lowest point of the year last April, the first month that 5 of the «Big 6» publishers raised e-book prices under «agency model» pricing, March 1 marked the date when Random House joined ranks and embraced the agency model as well.

It's hovering at its lowest point of the year, although it appears to be a reflection of all the bad news we're seeing in the economic front recently.

For example, November 4th is 60.3 % of the January 2nd price and also happens to be the lowest point of the year.

The low point of the year was the decision of the Democratic Party to advocate an end to the burning of fossil fuels by 2050.

The Arctic ice cap grows each winter when there's less sunlight, and shrinks each summer when days are longer, reaching its lowest point of the year in September.

After all, this is the low point of the year.

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The combined ratio of 74.7 % improved 4.7 points due to higher net favorable prior year reserve development (3.4 points), a lower underlying combined ratio (1.2 points) and lower catastrophe losses (0.1 points).

One of my constant points on this blog for the last several years has been that households» refinancing of their mortgage debt at lower and lower rates has put more money in their pockets for spending and for paying down debt.

FMS earnings before tax as a percentage of FMS total revenue and FMS operating revenue (a non-GAAP measure) were 4.0 % and 4.8 %, respectively, both down 60 basis points from the prior year, primarily reflecting higher depreciation due to vehicle residual value policy changes and lower used vehicle sales results.

A LendingTree survey found that customers who received five quotes on its platform for a typical 30 - year home loan of $ 223,000 witnessed a difference of 52 basis points from the highest to the lowest quotes.

In effect, the BCA set caps mandating that discretionary outlays rise a couple of points a year from a low baseline established by the deep cuts between 2011 and 2013.

Shares of Daktronics (dakt) fared well in the second half of last year after starting off slow, finishing the year at $ 10.70, up more than 15 % for the year and 80 % higher than the stock's low point for the year of $ 5.92.

Despite a shortfall of workers, average hourly pay rose just 2.4 percent from a year ago, one - half percentage point lower than September's annual gain.

John Betts: When I arrived in Canada four years ago, we were at a low point in terms of our market share, and when you looked at our business, clearly one of the areas where we were not connecting well was in our breakfast business.

«Overall, the tone of this report was disappointing as it points to a weak start to spending activity this year, despite the significant boost to disposable income from lower gasoline prices,» said Millan Mulraine, deputy chief economist at TD Securities in New York.

«For 30 years, interest rates have been coming down, lower highs and lower lows but we're at a point now in terms of a long - term trend line where 2.6 percent represents the point where an interest rate reversal should take place.

Ms. Jones points out that from a low yield of 1.38 percent in July 2016, the 10 - year Treasury note now yields nearly 3 percent.

The Shanghai composite index is down 6 % so far in 2012 (as of mid-September) and at its lowest point in three years.

Data from China's National Bureau of Statistics showed the consumer price index rose 3.2 percent in February from a year ago, versus expectations of a 3.0 percent rise, while annual industrial production (IP) growth in January and February combined at 9.9 percent was the lowest since October 2012 - the starting point of China's nascent economic recovery.

But as Neil Dutta, Chief Economist with Renaissance Macro Research points out, if you look at the actual flow data showing the number of people each month entering and exiting the labor force, the rate at which workers are entering the labor force is actually lower today than at any point over the last two years.

The note says that «the Apple Watch is a very modest threat this year as current interest in the running community appears low, but Apple's product positioning, the likely addition of GPS and likely lower price points in future versions are significant long - term headwinds.»

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IQ drops of 15 points for multitasking men lowered their scores to the average range of an 8 - year - old child.

In addition, our Japan research team believes that there could be broader adoption of OLED - based screens, thereby, leading to lower - end SKUs also potentially sporting the new panel at some point next year.

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.

Morgan Stanley's Delinquency Diffusion Index, an aggregate measurement of year - over-year increases in the delinquency of several types of personal loans, stood at 19.2 (on a 100 - point scale) for the first quarter of 2016, up from its low in October, 2014, driven by increases in auto loan and credit card delinquencies in 2015 — but far below the 60 - point threshold associated with a pre-recession state.

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.

Our most recent buy entries into $ FB (Facebook) resulted in two separate price gains of 49 % and 12 % earlier this year, but we would still consider re-buying $ FB in our newsletter if it presents us with a low - risk re-entry point (such as a cup and handle pattern) in the coming weeks.

This leads to a frightening conclusion: that both lower quality and lower yields of such «previously sacrosanct debt represent a potential breaking point in our now 40 - year - old global monetary system.»

Relative to the five - year average, Korean credit default swaps, the cost of insuring against defaults, is 3 basis points (hundredths of a percentage point) higher while the Korean Won is 3 % lower.

Growth was more than 1 percentage point lower relative to normal periods, and the average duration of the overhang was 23 years.

There is the further point that the logic that led to the adoption of the 2 percent inflation target years ago suggests that it is too low now.

Obama cited statistics released the same day in the White House's new report from his Council of Economic Advisers which show that conflicts likely lead, on average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on retirement savings as well as $ 17 billion of losses every year for working and middle - class families.

The Swedish Krona has fallen to fresh 9 - year low versus the Dollar, down almost one percentage point, after the Riksbank Governor said the central bank was not out of tools to raise inflation.

The study drew on data from nearly 6,000 millennial renters (age 18 to 34) at a time when homeownership for Americans under 35 years old is at its lowest point in the history of Census recorded data dating back to 1984.

Our survey of mortgage and refinancing rates at Ohio's biggest lenders revealed a spread of 0.75 percentage points between the highest and lowest offers on a 30 - year fixed rate mortgage.

Male employment in Ontario followed a similar trajectory as manufacturing job declines, with only 80 percent of 25 - to 54 - year - old men holding a full - time job today, a full eight points lower than in 1980.

Sales of $ 2.180 billion were comparable to the prior year as a 1 - point benefit from the acquisition of Pacific Foods and a 1 - point favorable impact of currency translation were offset by a 2 - percent decline in organic sales driven primarily by lower volumes.

Slenker noted that unemployment across the Buffalo Niagara region tends to be highest in January and February because holiday - related seasonal jobs end, business tends to slump at bars and restaurants after the end - of - the - year rush and construction work tends to be at its low point for the year.

Fourth quarter same — fourth quarter restaurant labor expenses were 50 basis points lower than last year on a percentage of sales basis due to increased productivity and lower restaurant manager incentive compensation expense.

Selling, general and administrative expenses were 74 basis points lower than last year as a percentage of sales due to sales leveraging, lower incentive compensation and a reduction in media spend at Olive Garden.

The 30 - year average was 43 basis points (0.43 %) lower at the end of 2014 than at the beginning of that year, when the stimulus was going strong.

That's close to a record low, and nearly a full percentage point lower than where we were at the start of last year.

These relatively moderate outcomes have been an important restraining influence on overall inflation during the past year, and they also point to the prospect of continued employment growth and lower unemployment.

Year - to - date PTPP earnings of $ 165.9 million increased 6 % as the positive impact of very strong 9 % loan growth was partially offset by an 11 basis point decrease in net interest margin, an 8 % increase in non-interest expenses and 6 % lower non-interest income.

Fifteen points of P / E separate energy stocks and technology stocks, the narrowest spread between low and high P / E groups in at least three years.

That marked its lowest point of 2017, and the lowest level since November of last year.

That's — we didn't sell much in last year because we had way too much Session and were — we expect that to be well in EMEA, in particular, where we see — as Nick had mentioned in his remarks, we see more competition at the lower end of the price point range versus the upper end.

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).