Sentences with phrase «lower than in past»

However, market share remains lower than in past years.

The barrier to entry to start a business today is much lower than in the past.

Now that renewables provide 94.5 per cent of the country's electricity, prices are lower than in the past relative to inflation.

The monitor also shows that the share of people who stopped playing WoW is significantly lower than in the past few months.

We have negotiated a great rate at the Trickle Creek Lodge which is about 20 % lower than in the past.

The incidence of canine distemper infections is much lower than in the past.

But the point is this: If returns do come in lower than in the past — which seems likely given the current low level of interest rates — the more you stick to low - cost index funds and ETFs, the better the shot that you'll have at accumulating the savings you'll need to maintain your standard of living in retirement, and the more likely your savings will last at least as long as you do.

This is much lower than in the past but still much higher than discount brokers where on average a transaction costs approximately $ 10.

After all, if investment returns are expected to come in lower than in the past, withdrawing less would seem a necessity.

My takeaway from their presentations: Although we can't divine the future path of the markets, it's prudent to plan as if investment returns will be substantially lower than in the past.

If anything, many pros believe average returns going ahead for both stocks and bonds will be considerably lower than in the past.

In a memo regarding the Smarter Balanced Assessments, LA Unified officials explained to Superintendent Ramon Cortines and members of the school board how the new test is so different from its predecessor and why scores may appear lower than in the past.

Superintendents in the Madison area have sent home letters explaining the report cards and warning they include school test score results that are significantly lower than in the past.

Parents responding to the survey also appear to be uninformed about the widely held expectation that the state's overall test scores will likely be lower than in the past.

But, hey, that's New York City where the highest opt - out rate has been 2 percent, not Long Island where on the first day of testing this year refusals were in the 30 percent range (a bit lower than in past years).

Because these assessments are likely to include some tasks that many students had little exposure to prior to 2010, and because the expectations for student performance represented by the standards are considerably higher than in many states» previous standards, the test scores are expected to be lower than in the past.

Under the new, simplified tables, children will have their blood pressure measured against normal - weight children, so ideal readings will likely be lower than in the past.

«The diversity of mammal species in Europe and North America today is much lower than in the past.

«While it is encouraging that losses are lower than in the past, I would stop short of calling this «good» news,» said Dennis vanEngelsdorp, an assistant professor of entomology at the University of Maryland and project director for the Bee Informed Partnership.

Taking on more equity risk when the expected future returns are lower than in the past and downside risks higher makes little sense to me.

My second reason for disappointment in Jackson Hole was that Chair Yellen, while very thoughtful and analytic, was too complacent to conclude that «even if average interest rates remain lower than in the past, I believe that monetary policy will, under most conditions, be able to respond effectively».

The inflation target was achieved, the average rate of unemployment was low and the variability of both real GDP and unemployment were if anything slightly lower than in the past.

Not exact matches

A sea change in economic conditions has pushed interest rates considerably lower than they were in the past and are likely to stay there for a while, San Francisco Fed President John Williams said Friday.

The more complex debt market has worked wonders in the past few years allowing somewhat riskier companies like Valeant amass more debt, at lower rates, than they would have been able to past.

Bogle advises investors to plan for the future on the assumption that returns will be much lower than they have been in the past.

When Alexandre Pestov, a strategic consultant and research associate at York University's Schulich School of Business, compared buying a two - bedroom Toronto condominium to renting it over the past 25 years, he found that the renter ended up $ 600,000 richer than the owner if he invested the spare cash in low - risk bonds.

«While revenue for Q4 and FY18 was below expectations due to lower than anticipated smartphone unit volumes, Cirrus Logic made meaningful progress this past year on numerous strategic initiatives that we expect to position the company for a return to year - over-year growth in FY20,» said Jason Rhode, president and chief executive officer.

In fact, of those eight films, five of them have made less at the box office than Crash, which is currently the fifth - lowest grossing film of the past four decades (in terms of sales adjusted for inflationIn fact, of those eight films, five of them have made less at the box office than Crash, which is currently the fifth - lowest grossing film of the past four decades (in terms of sales adjusted for inflationin terms of sales adjusted for inflation).

Disney has closed more than 120 stores in the past two years as it struggled to keep its own merchandise competitive with lower - end retailers.

ETFs, which typically have lower fees than mutual funds, have enjoyed several-fold growth in assets over the past decade as investors have sought to reduce the overall cost of their investments.

While the Dish Network's reach and power have weakened over the past few years just as Viacom's have, the satellite company is still in a somewhat stronger position than it used to be relative to the entertainment giant, because it knows that Viacom is already suffering from low viewership numbers, and that impacts its ad revenues.

Large percentages of respondents expect to see lower profits this year, and contend consumers will be far more price sensitive than in the past.

But it won't happen for a while for one reason: On average the folks who pocketed those nearly double - digit gains in past decades were buying at far lower prices than the big valuations prevailing today.

With the president aspiring to lower taxes for both businesses and individuals, it seems clear Trump is looking for the government to redistribute even less wealth in this country than it has in the past.

In years past, there might be a handful of teams fighting for last in the NBA and the 25 % shot at the first overall draft pick (and assurance that you'd fall no lower than fourth) that comes with iIn years past, there might be a handful of teams fighting for last in the NBA and the 25 % shot at the first overall draft pick (and assurance that you'd fall no lower than fourth) that comes with iin the NBA and the 25 % shot at the first overall draft pick (and assurance that you'd fall no lower than fourth) that comes with it.

Thus far, The Artist has grossed more than US$ 30 million in theatres, making it the second - lowest grossing best picture winner of the past three decades.

while higher than in the past, is still only 12 %, lower than the industry average of 20 %.

According to data from price intelligence firm 360pi, over the past year through June — which includes the past holiday season — Wal - Mart has consistently offered lower prices than Target or Sears in the sports and toys category (though a severe price dip over the summer brought Sears» prices much closer to Wal - Mart's).

For instance, agriculture has produced record levels for the past few years and yet inventories are the lowest in 40 years because consumption keeps going higher and higher, faster than production does.

While they have higher costs than Spirit because they target business travelers and must maintain multiple types of planes, lower fuel prices in the past year have let them profitably chop their fares.

Benjamin Graham was fond of averaging profit per share for the past seven years to balance out highs and lows in the economy because, if you attempted to measure the p / e ratio without it, you'd get a situation where profits collapse a lot faster than stock prices making the price - to - earnings ratio look obscenely high when, in fact, it was low.

In fact, over the past 35 years, the market has experienced an average drop of 14 % from high to low during each calendar year, but still had a positive annual return more than 80 % of the time.

After moving above resistance of a downtrend line that was in place for more than a year, $ KOL developed a tight base off the lows that has been in place for the past six months.

Total inflation, however, remains much lower than the underlying trend because of past declines in fuel prices.

The speech goes on to note that, although the economy performed well overall, the average growth rate of real GDP has been lower in the past decade than the one before.

In a low - inflation environment, nominal interest rates are also low, and households are able to service much higher levels of debt than they could in the pasIn a low - inflation environment, nominal interest rates are also low, and households are able to service much higher levels of debt than they could in the pasin the past.

It notes that global growth was lower and much more variable in the past ten years than in the preceding decade.

A significant bounce since the February lows, however, has made many of the other health REITs less attractive than in days and weeks past.

On the similarity side, we have low volatility and a flattening yield curve; on the other side, we seem headed into an elongated hiking cycle and a much lower neutral rate than in past cycles.

As we have argued in the past, we believe that the deficit for 2011 - 12 will come in lower than forecast, with most of this improvement carrying forward into 2012 - 13.