Sentences with phrase «lower than history»

As a result, not only are long - run returns from commodity - futures funds likely to be lower than history suggests, but also they are more likely to rise and fall with the same overall investor sentiment that drives stock returns.

Not exact matches

It was the biggest deal in the company's history, but last February it announced a $ 2.49 - billion writedown after finding out that the gold at Red Back's Tasiast mine was of a lower grade than previously thought.

The Low Documentation Loan (LowDoc) Program is a simplified version of the 7 (a) loan for businesses with strong credit histories seeking less than $ 150,000.

The move came at a crucial time in the company's history as recent times has seen its stock plummet from an all - time high of more than $ 27 in 2011 to a 52 - week low of $ 1.18.

These two case histories simply suggest is that the present period of low oil prices is more similar to that of the 1980s and 1990s than to that of the 2008 - 2009 period.

Participation suggests the economy has more capacity for non-inflationary growth than the unemployment rate indicates, even if the unemployment rate is cyclically low relative to its own history.

«Kanye looks and he sees black unemployment at the lowest it's been in the history of our country... he sees that and he's smart, and he says Trump is doing a much better job than the Democrats did,» the president added.

Many companies that are vital to the U.S. energy supply are being forced to restructure, downsize and operate at revenue and margin levels dramatically lower than anything they have experienced in recent history.

While our Margin - Adjusted CAPE has a very slightly lower correlation with actual subsequent market returns than our preferred measure (MarketCap / GVA), the available data history is longer.

You can sometimes overcome a less than stellar credit score by having a low debt - to - income ratio, savings built up, several years of credit history and a good annual income.

As a result, even though expected returns on stocks were actually negative on a 10 - 12 year horizon in 2000, and are presently 0 - 2 % on that horizon, the expected return on a traditional portfolio mix is actually lower at present than at any point in history except the 1929 and 1937 market peaks.

With banks employing more conservative lending policies (fewer than 20 % of all business bank loan applications are approved, and that percentage is even lower for new businesses without an established financial history) business owners are relegated to finding working capital elsewhere.

Prices are steady and mortgage rates are lower than they've ever been in history.

The latest Home Buyer Reality Report from NerdWallet reveals that 39 % of denied mortgage applicants pointed to poor credit history and low scores as the reason for being turned down, and more than 50 % cited high debt - to - income ratios.

Citigroup received the largest taxpayer bailout in the history of finance from 2008 through 2010: $ 45 billion in Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds; over $ 300 billion in asset guarantees; and more than $ 2 trillion in low cost loans.

Price lower than the market, payout ratio less than 60 %, and history of dividend growth.

If you have fewer than 35 years in your work history, you'll receive a zero for each of those years, which will lower your potential benefit.

We are living in a low - return world, with future market returns likely to be lower than in recent history.

If we look across history for periods of extended range - bound activity in overvalued markets where: a) the DJIA had gone more than a month without setting a 20 - day high or low; b) the DJIA was confined to a range of less than 6 %; c) the DJIA was within 10 % of a 2 - year high; and d) the Shiller P / E was 18 or higher, there are only 7 clusters that fit the bill (1929, 1937, 1965, 1973, 1999 - 2000, 2007 - 2008, and today).

For example, in addition to having higher levels of genetic diversity, populations in Africa tend to have lower amounts of linkage disequilibrium than do populations outside Africa, partly because of the larger size of human populations in Africa over the course of human history and partly because the number of modern humans who left Africa to colonize the rest of the world appears to have been relatively low (Gabriel et al. 2002).

We may, by such reasoning, justify our use of any means to achieve what we think are good ends on the assumption that — since history is a perennial tragedy, and collective actions are always on a lower ethical level than individual actions — we are not obligated to strive for the highest ideals possible, or to present an alternative to the usual way of the world.

He has one of the three highest academic averages in the history of Mansfield High — he received a B for one marking period in seventh - grade English but nothing lower than an A since — and will certainly become the fourth member of his family named most likely to succeed by his classmates at graduation.

It's more a recognition that even if the Royals are drafting players by drawing a name out of a hat or by their internet history, they have a better chance of drafting someone they can't screw up or someone who succeeds despite the Royals development picking higher in the draft than lower.

The Charlotte Bobcats are slowly but surely filling the many holes in their team in hopes of fielding a more competitive team in the 2012 - 2013 season than the one that set the record for lowest winning percentage in league history last season.

Although this is lower than last week's NFC Championship total, it's actually the highest Super Bowl total in NFL history — just a half - point higher than Super Bowl 44 between the New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts (closed 57).

By offensive rating, this season was only the second - best in league history — a 108.6 figure, which is slightly lower than last year's 108.8.

I started googling way back in may who could we be buying gonzalo higuian, julio cesar and wayne rooney but realize going by history wenger just as no interest in buying world class players, he wants 2 buy d grade players and turn them up to koscienly nd nasri that will take years while da arsenal faithful pay handsome figures for dismal performances, fans allowed wenger 2 get away when he gets away with these lucky matches of fenerbache been strong on paper but a waste of tym on the pitch, also it happen at bayern but they put a slighty weak team but wenger runt his mouth around of how good da team was after that 2 - 0 win, not forgetting it was bould that got the team defense looking solid while wenger moan about referee decisions and no blame on team, I just feel we (arsenal) have allowed wenger and co to misuse us, so now our main target aim is benzema yet giroud plays more often than him for france, can any1 see how wenger is lowing our standards and expectations at arsenal, I wil be over da moon if wenger does not sign an extension wit us, after the gilberto days and disaterous results and teams we play, his approach to the game defensely which is pathetic and his annoying behaviour.So what if manu and chelski haven't really bought they are already strong it was seen last week now we should be worried about our selves since that villa defeat, jst imagine what the man's and london money maniac's are goin 2 do to us, I can see it already coming from wenger, if we find the right player we will buy him, after sept2, we didn't find da right player but the squad can challenge for the title, its so sick having 2 hear that crap, just take him psg, I just wish the fans would say we had enough of this bullshit transfer policies its time we stood up against these pigs of directors by protesting!

Thnks SF for this knock - out match up info.I've always thought that winning or loosin agst Porto yesterday did nt matter, as I saw these big teams fallin to the 2nd place, I was thinking that may be it shud be also gud for us to be 2nd so that we would face lower team in the knck - out rd but this seem to be the otherway ard.Panathinaikos is the only small team there, the rest are all danger for us.But who knows??!!! As far as the history of this season taught us, it seems like we play better agst bigger team than agst smaller team, so lets just hope the best for our players.As SF said: the biggest matter now is the game agst BORO on strday.

Or the low - income kids turn out to be somehow atypical — they go to a selective school with an entrance exam, or they're recent immigrants from Asia or Eastern Europe rather than black or Latino kids from families with long poverty histories.

Adult children of divorce tend to have: lower paying jobs and less college than their parents; unstable father - child relationships; a history of vulnerability to drugs and alcohol in adolescence; fears about commitment and divorce; and negative memories of the legal system that forced custody and visitation.

If I have a healthy, low risk pregnancy, with a history of successful, complication free, vaginal births, then my risk should be even lower than the statistical risk because the statistical risk includes women who are at a higher risk than myself, if that makes sense.

Exclusion criteria included the following: any history of antepartum haemorrhage or placenta praevia, a previous classical caesarean scar or more than one lower segment caesarean section, any indication of compromise to the baby in utero, growth restriction, larger baby, polyhydramnios, foetal anomaly to include maternal obstetric or medical issues.

The risk of recurrence is low, but higher than the risk for women with no previous history of molar pregnancy.

Similarly, women with a history of cesarean delivery performed because of dystocia have a lower likelihood of VBAC if the current birth weight is greater than that of the index pregnancy with dystocia (80).

Now we are seen as one of the safe havens — able to borrow money at lower interest rates than at any time in our history.

That's a very misleading account of Labour's record with pensioners: we have a much lower level of pensioner poverty, and for the first time in British history, pensioners are less likely to be in poverty than other adults.

Indeed never in the party's history has the authority, power and standing of a Labour leader been lower than it is today (though according to a recent YouGov poll Corbyn remains very popular among members).

Jameson Doig, author of a book about the agency's history, Empire on the Hudson, says that while the Authority has always been a backwater of patronage, Gov. Christie took the practice to new heights, appointing more than 70 people — primarily those who helped him out in the 2009 election — to jobs within the agency, both high and low level.

After adjusting for age, medical history, lifestyle and other variables, they found that participants who had consumed five or more servings of nuts per week had lower levels of CRP and IL6 than those who never or almost never ate nuts.

In one of the first studies of its kind to use a special scanning technique, researchers found that people with a history of heart disease had substantially lower cortical volumetric bone mineral density in their wrist bone (the distal radius) than those without.

More than half of Americans (59 percent) said they consider this the lowest point in U.S. history that they can remember — a figure spanning every generation, including those who lived through World War II and Vietnam, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

They found that patients from this group who required admission to intensive or critical care units after surgery were more likely to have a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, chronic kidney disease, or suffering blood loss of more than 1,000 milliliters during surgery or requiring vasopressors (medications that raise low blood pressure) during surgery.

As a result of Brazil's mounting economic woes, federal funding for science and technology is now at its lowest level in modern history, dropping by more than half over the past 5 years.

In his 1987 book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, this Yale professor of economic history demonstrated that empires tend to expand until (basically) the amount that can be raised in taxes is lower than the cost of enforcing taxation, and the economy collapses.

«We suggest that oxygen was much lower than previously thought during this important middle chapter in Earth history, which likely explains the low abundances and diversity of eukaryotic organisms and the absence of animals,» Lyons said.

Low stress resilience was associated with an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes after adjusting for body mass index, family history of diabetes, and individual and neighbourhood socioeconomic factors — the 20 % of men with the lowest resistance to stress (scores 1 - 3) were 51 % more likely to have been diagnosed with diabetes than the 20 % with the highest resistance to stress (scores 7 - 9) with diabetes risk decreasing in an approximately linear fashion with increased resistance to stress.

However, he says that Nile floods were highly variable throughout history — so it would be interesting to explore why some societies, such as those of the Ptolemaic period, seemingly had lower resilience to fluctuations in Nile floods than those at other times.

Use of illicit drugs other than marijuana is at its lowest level in the history of the survey for all three grades.

For many people without a history of dependence or addiction, Pagano says, drinking at low or moderate levels — no more than seven drinks a week for women, and no more than 14 a week for men — can be a perfectly healthy part of life.

In addition to the above, Johns Hopkins researchers found that women with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder and a history of Candida overgrowth were more likely to score lower on memory tests than those women without a history of infection.1