Sentences with phrase «lowest average level»

Can you guess which stage of parenting research says has the lowest average level of parenting satisfaction for moms?

Generally speaking, increasing a group's size lowers its average level of expertise.

Salt Lake City had the lowest average levels of contamination.

(5) A comparison of the Paleolithic and the standard diet for diabetes showed that the former produced lower average levels of glycated hemoglobin, triglycerides, diastolic blood pressure, weight, waist circumference, and a higher average HDL cholesterol level.

Despite making far larger test - score gains than students attending open - enrollment district schools, and despite the emphasis their schools place on cultivating non-cognitive skills, charter school students exhibit markedly lower average levels of self - control as measured by student self - reports (see Figure 2).

These results may well be due to a third factor, such as the higher average book prices for books with ISBNs, or a lower average level of entrepreneurial sophistication among those indies still believing they need to purchase ISBNs.

Nevertheless, the more recent meta - analyses revealed that children with divorced parents continued to have lower average levels of cognitive, social, and emotional well - being, even in a decade in which divorce had become common and widely accepted.

These results supported the conclusion that the rise in divorce had lowered the average level of child well - being.

However, comparison group children entered the study with lower average levels of behavior problems.

Not exact matches

The four - week moving average of initial claims, considered a better measure of labor market trends as it irons out week - to - week volatility, fell 1,250, to 231,250 last week, the lowest level since March 31, 1973.

The four - week moving average of continuing claims fell 750, to 1.90 million, the lowest level since Jan. 12, 1974, suggesting a continued decline in labor market slack.

The short - term group of averages, which reflects the way traders are thinking, shows a low level of volatility.

In Buffalo, New York, they found that cleaning the air to the level of the cleanest area would lower the average bronchitis death rate by 50 percent.

Private equity returns remained strong but were lower than the prior year quarter, while income from our fixed income investment portfolio increased due to a higher average level of fixed maturity investments and higher short - term interest rates.

CREA said Friday the level of sales activity marked a four - year low for the month of March and was seven per cent below the 10 - year average.

The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is at its lowest level in four years, giving U.S. consumers billions more to spend this holiday season, but that extra money is being offset by higher food costs, which account for a bigger chunk of most consumers» budgets.

The S&P 500's forward price - to - earnings, or P / E, ratio is a shade under 17 times right now, putting it at its lowest level since 2016 and just 11 % above its long - term average, according to BAML.

Concern inflation was seeping into the economy triggered a decline in the Dow Jones Industrial Average that reached 6.3 percent at its lowest level.

By contrast, Intel was selling at around the average market multiple of 25, a level the rout lowered to 22.

The results were pretty shocking, even to the researchers: Those who saved the bread for later had far more stable blood sugar levels (an average, peak blood sugar levels were as much as 30 % lower, a very significant change) than the volunteers who are the bread first.

The count of companies that did not take part in buybacks or dividends remained at a low level (20 companies), right near the average for the past three years.»

There's more to Atlanta than Outkast and Georgia peaches — the city's cost of living is astonishingly low, with food and gas prices hitting the same level or lower than national averages.

Generally this suggests about the same low level of layoffs in April as for the previous eight months (employment gains averaged 253,000 per month over that period).

Risk is very low in the first two risk classes, risk class 3 is average, and classes 4 and 5 present above - average risk levels.

By comparison, the daily chart of the iShares Russell 2000 Index ETF ($ IWM) shows the recent weakness that has led to a breakdown below three different levels of technical price support: the low of the multi-week trading range (around $ 93), the 20 - day exponential moving average (beige line), AND the dominant uptrend line (which began with the November 2012 low):

For example, from 2003 through 2005 mortgage rates declined to just under 6 percent on average, the lowest level since the first half of the 1960s.

$ 1305 — 200 - day moving average $ 1304 — 5/2 low $ 1303 — 3/1 low $ 1302 — double bottom - 1/1, 5/1 lows $ 1301 — 50 % retracement of up move from 12/12/17 $ 1236 low to 1/25/18 $ 1366 high $ 1300 — psychological level, options $ 1294 — 12/29 low $ 1287 — 12/28 low $ 1281 — 12/27 low

«Average sales per store appears destined for lower levels than that experienced in Canada, perhaps dictated by a more competitive environment in the U.S.,» David Hartley, an analyst with Credit Suisse, said in a note April 24.

As a result, compared to the March 2012 Budget planning assumption, the level of nominal GDP is $ 9 billion lower in 2012 — this consists of a «risk adjustment factor» of $ 7 billion and the difference between the change in the private sector average forecast of $ 22 billion less the March 2012 Budget «risk adjustment factor» of $ 20 billion.

CVX's debt - to - equity ratio is very low at 0.21 and is currently below that of the industry average, implying that there has been very successful management of debt levels.

The next major support level is the 50 - day moving average ($ 112 area), while the second zone of support is the prior swing lows (just below $ 110):

Survey measures of business confidence have lifted from the very low levels seen at the beginning of the year to be close to their long - run average.

A pullback buy entry into $ XBI could be made near current levels, with a stop below the 40 - week moving average (or prior swing low for a looser stop).

Yesterday's (June 19) intraday low, the 20 - day exponential moving average (20 - day EMA), and the 200 - day moving average (200 - day MA) should all act as important support levels for the Nasdaq.

At the current level of 5.5 per cent, the cash rate is in line with its average over the low inflation period since 1993.

New jobs need to continue to average 200,000 a month for another year to lure them back, and nominal wages must actually increase over and above 2 % to get back to 2012 and all the way until 2020 to approach levels of 2008, and again that's allowing for half of the lower participation for retiring boomers.

The faith in the effectiveness of interest rate cuts has driven the percentage of bearish investment advisors to a dangerously low 25.5 %, while the average equity allocation of Wall Street strategists is now above 70 %, the highest level in this market cycle and quite probably a record.

The Labour Force Survey for August showed that average hourly wages were up by just 1.4 % from a year earlier, the same low level of increase as was registered in July. Consumer price inflation was 2.7 % in July, a bit down from 3.1 % in June and 3.7 % in May, but it seems that we have -LSB-...]

$ 1321 - 23 — quadruple bottom, 3/29, 4/5, 4/6 and 4/23 lows $ 1319 — 100 - day moving average $ 1313 - 15 — quadruple bottom, lows 3/2, 3/9, 3/12, 3/13 $ 1307 - 10 — quadruple bottom — 3/16, 3/19, 3/20, and 3/21 lows $ 1303 — 3/1 low $ 1303 — 200 - day moving average $ 1302 — 1/1 low $ 1301 — 50 % retracement of up move from 12/12/17 $ 1236 low to 1/25/18 $ 1366 high $ 1300 — psychological level, options $ 1294 — 12/29 low $ 1287 — 12/28 low $ 1281 — 12/27 low

A bounce to (or near) that level of moving average convergence, followed by a bearish reversal candlestick or gap down, would provide me with a low - risk short selling entry point.

$ 1335 — 50 % retracement of down move from 1/25 $ 1366 high to 3/1 $ 1303 low $ 1334 - 35 triple bottom — 4/12, 4/13, and 4/20 lows $ 1333 — 50 day moving average $ 1332 — 40 day moving average $ 1331 — 4/10 low $ 1328 — up trend line from 12/12 $ 1236 low $ 1321 — double bottom, 3/29 and 4/6 lows $ 1318 — 100 - day moving average $ 1313 - 15 — quadruple bottom, lows 3/2, 3/9, 3/12, 3/13 $ 1307 - 10 — quadruple bottom — 3/16, 3/19, 3/20, and 3/21 lows $ 1303 — 3/1 low $ 1302 — 200 - day moving average $ 1302 — 1/1 low $ 1301 — 50 % retracement of up move from 12/12/17 $ 1236 low to 1/25/18 $ 1366 high $ 1300 — psychological level, options $ 1294 — 12/29 low $ 1287 — 12/28 low $ 1281 — 12/27 low

The fact that in western Europe between a tenth and a fifth of each generation never married, combined with a relatively late average age at marriage for women, implied that fertility levels were normally lower than in other societies.

What we were really providing investors was a level of discipline that few individual investors can muster over time — by adopting a long term asset allocation strategy and using low cost investment vehicles, our long term performance was always going to be better than the average individual investor who tends to time markets and chase performance, with little understanding of the costs they are incurring.

$ 1315 — 4/26 low $ 1307 - 10 — quadruple bottom — 3/16, 3/19, 3/20, and 3/21 lows $ 1303 — 3/1 low $ 1304 — 200 - day moving average $ 1302 — 1/1 low $ 1301 — 50 % retracement of up move from 12/12/17 $ 1236 low to 1/25/18 $ 1366 high $ 1300 — psychological level, options $ 1294 — 12/29 low $ 1287 — 12/28 low $ 1281 — 12/27 low

The Dow Jones Industrial Average posted a combined drop of more than 1,100 points on Thursday and Friday, where it closed at its lowest level since early February.

With $ EWS, notice that volume has been tapering off over the past two weeks, and the 10 - day moving average of volume is at its lowest level since March 2012.

If five years from now the yield simply returned to its level of a decade ago (and just in case you think I'm cherry picking, over the past 25 years it has averaged a 7.5 % yield and at the low in 1981 was twice that), bond investors would suffer a meaningful loss of capital.

The forecasts for the S&P 500 were as low as 1800, a 27 % drop from today's levels, while the average was just 2416.

Currently, the VIX is trading at about 13, but the 20 - year average is just above 20 or 21, so sitting at lower - than - average levels, it means many investors have become less concerned about risk and maybe a bit too complacent.

Latin America Equity Fund allocations to Brazil and Mexico, which hit their highest level since mid-3Q13 and lowest since 4Q13, respectively, coming in March, rolled over during the final month of the first quarter with the latter seeing a small gain in its average weighting.