Sentences with phrase «lower than in past years»

However, market share remains lower than in past years.

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).

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

In the recent past, low interest credit cards have become more common than they used to be a few years ago.

As the article chart below shows, McKinsey is forecasting that the average annual equity returns over the next 20 years will be between 1.5 and 4.0 percentage points lower than they were in the past 30 years.

Over the past 25 years, there has been lower crude price volatility in the mid-continent regions than on the coasts (WTI vs. Brent), so there may be some improvement here, at the margin.

Just two of the past 20 years saw ticket sales lower than the number of tickets sold in 2015 (2011 and 2014).

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.

When investors begin to focus on the potential for Fed rate hikes, short - term bonds will almost certainly begin to experience lower returns and — depending on the type of fund — greater volatility than they have in years past.

That said, B.C.'s strong economic growth over the past three years, combined with a) the announced small business tax relief, b) the new training and youth employment programs (also announced today), and c) a lower - than - average percentage of our working population who actually make minimum wage (about 5 %, compared to 7.1 % nationally), leaves us in a position to cautiously view the announced increases as «reasonable.»

The number of FIDs in the past three years has been lower than at any point since the 1940s.

While this represents a 37 percent increase over 2016, it was the second - lowest investment level in the past 10 years, and is 15 percent lower than the past 5 - year average investment of $ 109.8 billion.

Debt servicing ratios of both the corporate and unincorporated sectors have been lower for the past couple of years than at any time in the preceding decade (Graph 6).

This represents an increase from the responses given in the previous two quarters, but is still lower than most of the readings from this survey over the past five years.

Investors are more optimistic than in the past few years, cheered by better global economic growth and the anticipation of lower tax rates.

While many people believe that growth in the years ahead will be lower than it has been in the past, we can also observe that cash per dollar of earnings has increased over the years for S&P 500 companies as returns on capital have increased, while the cost of capital has fallen with lower interest rates.

The past several years have featured little more than a gigantic asset swap, the short description being that massive volumes of government debt have been swapped by central banks for massive volumes of idle bank reserves, while massive volumes of low - yielding, covenant - lite debt have been issued into the hands of yield - seeking investors, in order to retire massive volumes of corporate equities at elevated valuations through buybacks.

«There is a low demand for the volume of product that is out there, which makes the market and their reaction to suppliers different than in past years — it is a lot more aggressive.»

Although overall deforestation rates in the region are still lower than they are in parts of the Amazon and Southeast Asia, deforestation has accelerated over the past few years, driven mainly by the establishment of large - scale agricultural and mining operations.

While a 1.9 % average annual increase is lower than the market has seen over the past decade, when it stood at 2.1 % on average, it is expected to support an increase of dairy deliveries of approximately 1 % per year to 164m tons in 2025.

On Saturday he needed to use it only 24 times in 18 holes as he brought in a score of 65, the lowest round in the Masters in the past seven years and only a stroke more than Lloyd Mangrum's 1940 tournament record.

As for what this team's ceiling is: like pretty much everyone else on this list, it's probably lower than it's been in years past.

I looked up the COLA for the past decade and found that on average the reimbursement rate for free has gone up 7 cents a year since the 2000 - 01 school year; in recent years it was higher than average (up 11 cents from 08 - 09 to 09 - 10, up 10 cents the year before that) but it was lower in other years (up 5 cents each year from 01 - 02 to 04 - 05).

And this Al - Monitor (a media site focused on Middle East which was accused of following «the agenda of the Iranian and Syrian governments and Hezbollah») article details a bit more the military budget and the growing trend of Iran's military spendings, although it does not state the current total defense budget and its numbers are considerably lower than SIPRI's for the past years, maybe because the fiscal year used in this article begins near 20th March:

State schools, including SUNY Plattsburgh, have seen tuition increase $ 300 each year, a total increase of 30 percent over the past half - decade (But one silver lining for the North Country: Students here have the lowest average debt load than anywhere in the state.)

Police activity in New York City remained at a lower level last week than during the same period in past years, but continued its rise since enforcement came to a near standstill, the result of a citywide slowdown tied to the killings of two officers in December.

A spokesman for Governor Cuomo says New York «spends three times as much per pupil in high needs districts than it does on low needs districts, and that funding has only increased over the past four years».

In the speech, delivered inside The Mall at Bay Plaza in Baychester, Diaz described the number of Latino and black students admitted to the city's prestigious Stuyvesant High School over the past few years as unacceptably low and called for the creation of new high schools in each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who gets iIn the speech, delivered inside The Mall at Bay Plaza in Baychester, Diaz described the number of Latino and black students admitted to the city's prestigious Stuyvesant High School over the past few years as unacceptably low and called for the creation of new high schools in each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who gets iin Baychester, Diaz described the number of Latino and black students admitted to the city's prestigious Stuyvesant High School over the past few years as unacceptably low and called for the creation of new high schools in each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who gets iin each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who gets inin.

A spokesman for Cuomo says New York «spends three times as much per pupil in high needs districts than it does on low needs districts, and that funding has only increased over the past four years.»

The Fabians» report said that examining Labour's general election performance over the past 40 years showed that its share of the vote was eight percentage points lower than its poll rating in the second year of the preceding parliament.

«What matters are results: crime is down 6 percent from last year's record lows, more affordable housing is being built than at any time in the past 40 years and the city has added more than 150,000 jobs since the mayor took office.»

The Rockland County PBA has been representing the officers in Orangetown during negotiations with the Town Board over the past two years, and appears to have won nearly all of its bargaining points, with the exception of a lower pay increase than the union had wanted.

Joy: But I would say, if you look 30 or 40 years out, if we assume things like really low - cost materials, low - embodying materials, they should be a lot cheaper than the way we've done things in the past.

The phosphate phosphorus content in the basins of the open sea areas of the Gulf of Finland was lower than last summer and roughly at the average level for the past ten years.

«Our estimates show that the growth in Chinese emissions has slowed a lot in the past two to three years, and is now much lower than at any point since the early 2000s,» said study lead author Jan Ivar Korsbakken, senior climate economics researcher at CICERO.

Eagle populations in the lower 48 states, for instance, have increased by 10 % a year for the past decade, to more than 5000 nesting pairs.

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.