Sentences with phrase «measured by the standard»

International trade, as measured by our standard global trade statistics, is not the only way for companies to exploit integration opportunities.

«As measured by standard deviation, the iShares Gold Trust, an ETF that owns physical gold, has been more volatile than the Standard & Poor's 500 index.»

It compares the return above the risk - free rate earned as compared to the corresponding risk assumed by the portfolio, as measured by standard deviation.

Powell has said he wants to keep the U.S. economy from overheating, encapsulating the concern for traders: that the Fed's rate increases might halt the upward trajectory of U.S. stocks that have surged more than 70 % over the past five years, as measured by the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.

By official statistics, thirteen percent of Americans are poor today» many of them immigrants of the last few years who will not long remain poor, and measured by a standard that counts as poor families with cash income (not income in kind, from welfare benefits, for example) up to about twenty thousand dollars for a family of four.

The strong indication is that, in highly developed economies, growth as measured by standard indices is of no real advantage to the people as a whole.

The Wonder of nature does not become smaller because one can not measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.»

Regular, weekly church attendance — as measured by a standard Pew Research question included in my survey — predicted a statistically significant and substantive opposition to Trump.

Recognizing this, my belief is obviously not measured by your standard.

First up are the teams which spur the most disagreement between voters as measured by standard deviation.

First up are the teams which spur the most and least disagreement between voters as measured by standard deviation.

As moms, we are subject to a lot of judgment and are measured by standards of perfection or superhuman performance.

After two or three MDMA sessions, patients who received MDMA experienced huge drops in symptoms as measured by a standard PTSD scale.

It is sufficient, it turns out, to speak only of two kinds of relationships: how events are related to each other causally (the order in which they unfold) and how many events are contained within a given interval of time, measured by a standard clock (how quickly they unfold relative to each other).

When barn owls flew over the cages of individual voles, each of the animals» nervousness increased by about the same amount, as measured by standard behavioral tests.

Variability in mood was measured by the standard deviation of these daily mood scores across each condition.

As part of the Framingham Heart Study, participants updated researchers on their social contacts and health status, including happiness, as measured by a standard psychological questionnaire.

David, Jen, Mark, Daniel: Can you kindly refer me to a definitive study or meta analysis that shows that high blood LDL levels, as measured by a standard home or clinical blood test, causes heart disease?

I have been working on my overall fitness more seriously than ever before for about six months, with some success (I can plank for 2 - 3 minutes if you want to measure it by that standard lol and weigh between 59 - 62 kilos depending on the scale and day).

Although under some laws HBO may have a right to an award of attorneys» fees and expenses if it prevails in an arbitration, HBO agrees that it will seek such an award only in the event that the substance of your claim or the relief sought has been deemed by the arbitrator to be frivolous or brought for an improper purpose (as measured by the standards set forth in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 (b)-RRB-.

Researchers found that the combined existing studies do not allow a conclusion that studying the arts enhances creative thinking (as measured by standard creativity tests, whose validity is questionable), nor that studying music, visual arts, or dance improves reading ability.

«Experimenters separated seventh - and eighth - grade students into two groups — strong and weak readers as measured by standard reading tests,» Hirsch wrote.

Among all district students in grades 3 - 5, reading proficiency as measured by the standard Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) exam was up 9 percentage points over four years to 45 percent, including a 3 percentage - point increase over the past two years.

This is one of the two intelligences — the other being logical - mathematical intelligence — that most closely resemble the skills measured by standard IQ tests.

If the goal is to improve the city, Perry said, then their results should be measured by those standards — not the test scores and school - performance scores that change every few years.

In 2011 - 12, a majority of magnet schools and technical schools were «integrated,» as measured by the standard set forth in the 2008 settlement agreement of the landmark Sheff v. O'Neill school desegregation case: a school with a student body composed of between 25 % and 75 % minority students... In contrast, only 18 % of charter schools met the Sheff standard.

Unlike traditional schools where instruction is driven and measured by a standard curriculum and assessments, 21st Century STEM Academy teachers, leaders, and families play a vital role in defining success for students.

Risk is measured by the standard deviation.

The risk of this combination, I should add, was lower (measured by standard deviation) than that of either U.S. or international small - cap blend stocks by themselves.

I also have had a lower amount of volatility (as measured by standard deviation of day - over-day returns) then my benchmark index (the S&P / TSX Composite Index).

The efficient frontier is a curve which represents all the points where for a given level of risk (as measured by standard deviation) of a portfolio you are achieving the optimal rate of return.

Volatility is measured by standard deviation, which indicates how much a portfolio's returns vary from year to year.

The volatility of the fund, measured by the standard deviation of monthly returns, was slightly higher than that of the reference ETF portfolio.

A classic 1968 paper by professors J.L. Evans and S.H. Archer, for example, concluded that a portfolio of 10 randomly chosen stocks would have similar risk, as measured by standard deviation, to the market as a whole.

The world - wide portfolio more than doubles the 40 - year return of the S&P 500 at less risk when measured by standard deviation and the worst five - year period.

Furthermore, the volatility of the dividend - growing stocks, as measured by their standard deviation, was 13 % versus the non-dividend-paying stocks was 23 %.

However, annualized risk, as measured by standard deviation calculated based on monthly total return for the same period stood at 15.25 %.

Volatility (measured by standard deviation) is now my only missing variable, so I calculate it using the following formula:

It beat its Russell 2000 ® index benchmark in one -, three -, five - and ten - year periods as well as since inception through 2013, at a comparable risk level measured by a standard deviation of returns.

Risk, when measured by standard deviation, is minimized with a 50 % allocation to the DRS.. The Sharpe ratio, which is the most commonly used measure of risk / return trade - off, is maximized at around a 70 % allocation to the DRS.

This is a very interesting variation for aggressive investors who want to seek even higher returns without much additional risk, (at least as measured by standard deviation.

During the 1978 - 2017 time frame, the S&P 500 Index returned 11.81 % with a risk factor of 15.20 %, as measured by standard deviation, whereas the Barclays Bond Index returned 6.99 % with a standard deviation of only 4.19 %.

Volatility is measured by the standard deviation of five years of weekly total returns in local currency.

* As measured by the Standard Deviation (volatility) of our monthly returns versus the TSX Composite.

As measured by standard deviation, the iShares Gold Trust, an ETF that owns physical gold, has been more volatile than the Standard & Poor's 500 index.

[The fund's managers] earned customers an average of 6.8 % a year over the past decade, better than 98 % of their fund's Morningstar peers — and with roughly 25 % less risk, as measured by standard deviation.

Additionally, value stocks have been more volatile over time, as measured by standard deviation.

* Volatility (measured by standard deviation) for MARKIT CDX.NA.HY 5 - year TOTAL RETURN INDEX, a benchmark for the high yield CDS market, has from its 2007 inception through June 30, 2014 ranged from 6 % to 14 % compared to 4 % to 16 % for the Barclays U.S. Corporate High Yield Index and 11 % to 46 % for the S&P 500 ®.

Bonds typically have much lower volatility (measured by the standard deviation of their returns) than stocks, which make them suitable for the more risk - averse investors.

But the real impact is in the risk reduction we see in the form of much lower volatility as measured by standard deviation at 9.48 percent.