Sentences with phrase «lower than the past»

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.

NOx emissions were about 70 percent lower than past levels and 10 percent below the EPA requirement.

If future investment returns are significantly lower than the past — which a number of pros think will be the case — then all else equal you may have to save more to maintain the same shot at a secure retirement.

Points below the blue line are companies with future DGRs that were lower than their past DGRs.

Overall, companies with larger market caps did not tend to have future DGRs that were markedly lower than their past DGRs; in fact, the average difference was in the numerically opposite direction.

I recall reading Buffet predicted that future returns for probably a decade could be lower than the past, but that his and all predictions are pretty worthless.

However, the reason that March income was lower than the past two months was due to the fact that a lower yielding, safer company was added for diversification purposes.

Note that one of Trenberth's motive is to rebut the impression that recent trends are lower than past trends.

The 2017 decade high and low anomalous temperatures are neither higher or lower than the past 50 year lows and highs.

Although lower than past levels, wage growth is the highest amongst countries in the Hays Global Skills Index.

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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.

That is a lower return than the past five years yielded, but MacMaster's not worried.

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 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.

It's probably a bit lower than that, given that Dell's earnings have likely increased over the past two years.

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 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 %.

The ratio has previously been this low only six times during the past two decades; whenever that happens, stocks have rallied over the next year by more than 50 %, on average.

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.

At the same time, however, these figures are lower than average U.S. - Mexico trade imbalances for most of the past decade.

He says the higher rates have helped keep the accumulation of household debt lower than it otherwise would have been had Canada continued with government belt - tightening approaches of the past.

While 2004 was an exceptional year for mortgage insurance, over the past 10 years CMHC has paid out at an average rate of 45 %, far lower than most other forms of insurance.

«During this past spring, North American brands experienced slightly lower pricing than we originally forecasted.

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.

But the playing field has changed significantly over the past two years, and U.S. producers are indeed able to make money at far lower oil prices than at the peak.

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 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.

Over the past year, the bond yield curve has been positive but flattening (short - term yields remained lower than long - term yields, but the differential has narrowed).

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 past.

The current rate of 4.1 % is lower today than it has been 86 % of the time over the past 70 years [2].

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.

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».

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.