Scientists have been
measuring this rise from satellites since 1993, using instruments called altimeters.
Not exact matches
According to Sheng's research, Bangladesh's textile imports
from China,
measured by value,
rose from 39 per cent in 2005 to 47 per cent in 2015, and similar trends could be seen in Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia and other developing countries in Asia.
The Fed's preferred
measure of underlying inflation has retreated to 1.5 %
from 1.8 % earlier in 2017 and investors are growing increasingly doubtful policymakers will be able to stick to their anticipated pace of tightening of three interest rate
rises this year and next.
And 2,700 miles
from June's office in San Francisco, in a low -
rise building wedged between a strip mall and railroad tracks outside of Boston, another emotion -
measuring pioneer named Rana — Rana el Kaliouby — has spent the past year and a half strategizing to make the facial - cue recognition company she co-founded, Affectiva, the essential hub of the emerging emotion economy.
Steel prices have climbed on the back of
rising demand and capacity cuts in China, coupled with a spate of anti-dumping
measures that knocked Chinese steel exports
from record levels of 2015.
Announcing the report findings, commissioner for census and statistics Leslie Tang Wai - kong pointed out that the Gini coefficient - an index
from 0 to 1 that
measures the wealth gap - for households
rose by 0.002
from 0.537 in 2011 to a record high of 0.539 last year.
Both
measures,
from 1962 through the end of this August, painted similar pictures of the market — it
rises and falls more now in greater size.
Barclays said its core capital ratio, a key
measure of financial strength,
rose to 12.5 percent
from 12.4 percent a year ago.
For each CEO's tenure, the researchers calculated three metrics: the country - adjusted total shareholder return (including dividends reinvested), which offsets any increase in return that's attributable merely to an improvement in the local stock market; the industry - adjusted total shareholder return (including dividends reinvested), which offsets any increase that results
from rising fortunes in the overall industry; and change in market capitalization (adjusted for dividends, share issues, and share repurchases),
measured in inflation - adjusted U.S. dollars.
But closing down unnecessary capacity can pay for itself, even if unemployed workers are temporarily put on the government payroll (causing debt to
rise, but usually by less than it had before), but only temporarily as Beijing takes other
measures to boost household income through wealth transfers
from the state and so to boost consumption, a form of demand which is likely to be more labor intensive than the demand created in the process of over-capacity.
A more narrow
measure in the report, used to indicate shadow banking activity that may give
rise to financial stability risks, grew to $ 34 trillion in 2015, up 3.2 %
from the prior year and excluding data
from China.
The Tankan's headline index,
measuring sentiment among big manufacturers,
rose to 12 in September
from 4 in June, beating analyst expectations and showing that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's efforts to pump up the economy are bearing fruit.
Plans for retaliatory
measures were expected to impact US soybean exports the most, since it was a US$ 12.4 billion market in 2017.6 Elsewhere, corn (+10.5 %, to US$ 3.88 per bushel) and wheat (+5.6 %, to US$ 4.51 a bushel) prices also
rose during the period, with wheat finding primary support
from dry weather - related stress in select US states.5 Global demand for grains is increasing.
The loss is not captured fully in
measured unemployment rates, although those
rose dramatically after the financial collapse, for example
from 6.8 percent to 10.9 percent in the euro zone.
GM's raw material costs, already seen climbing $ 800 million, would
rise an additional $ 200 million
from the import
measures.
Many expect wages to
rise when corporations have more money, but that is supposed to flow
from new investments
measured in years, not weeks.
In fact, Spain's harmonized
measure of CPI
rose to 0.1 %
from minus 0.3 %.
In the September quarter, household consumption
rose by 1.1 per cent, a slight increase
from the pace in the June quarter, but less than might have been expected given the boost to incomes
from the budget
measures.
Volatility, as
measured by the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index (VIX),
rose to 11.75
from 10.9 last week.
The speed of both the decline and subsequent reversal pushed the VIX — one
measure of market volatility — to its highest level on record, and it abruptly
rose from 13 to more than 50 in a week, according to Bloomberg data.
Volatility, as
measured by the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index (VIX),
rose to 11.00
from 9.9 a week ago.
Any rate
rise in the US would cause an exodus of capital
from emerging economies, forcing them to undertake drastic
measures to keep investors interested.
Inflation expectations, as
measured by the difference between yields on 10 - year nominal Treasury notes and Treasury inflation protected securities (Tips), have
risen to 2.25 per cent
from a low of around 2.10 a month ago.
Importantly, when a preferred share is trading at a high current yield relative to the market yield, the investor receives a
measure of protection
from the impact of
rising interest rates (or, if we're focused on real returns, the impact of
rising inflation).
China's growth over the same period was 6.9 %, unchanged
from the first three months of the year, with the property sector a notable area of strength, as house prices continued to
rise despite
measures by the Chinese government to cool the country's housing market.
Basically their figures showed that growth in gross product and growth in welfare
rose together
from 1939 to 1947 but that since then a large continuing growth in product was accompanied by very little improvement as judged by the
Measure of Economic Welfare.
He adds himself to the world as the vision of ideal possibility,
from which every new occasion takes its
rise, thereby ensuring a
measure of order and value in a situation that could otherwise be only chaotic and indeed could achieve no actuality at all.
If the
rising ocean levels caused by global warming force us to build dikes and relocate people away
from delta regions, that, too will add to what we
measure as Gross Domestic Product.
In large
measure distinct
from fractures in the sexual magisterium, the
rise of lay people in positions of ministerial responsibility widens the gap between the apostolic apparatus of Catholicism — schools, retreat houses, even parishes — and its authority structure.
The vindictive spirit experienced by the German Weimar Republic after WWI, contributed greatly to the
rise of Hitler, and it differs markedly
from the spirit expressed in the Marshall plan and other restorative
measures following WWII.
For many of our simpler relatives, including the primates, it remains in large
measure a veritable garden; and it would still be so for us, had we never
risen up
from animality or childishness.
With only a little more than one hour left to a lifelong wait, the San Francisco Giants leftfielder stood alone in a stairwell that descended
from the visiting dugout at Anaheim's Edison Field, poking his head high enough to
measure the
rising tumult and tension of the filling ballpark.
When
measuring your baby there are three areas to take into account; the waist, thighs and the
rise (the length of the diaper
from the back waistline, up through the legs, to the front waistline).
You'll want to
measure around baby's waist above the diaper, around the thickest part of baby's thigh, the inseam
from the bottom of the diaper to baby's ankle, and the
rise from the back of the diaper up through baby's legs to the top of the front of the diaper and then add one inch.
Over the period 1980 to 2012, unemployment
rose from just 6.4 % to 27.4 % in spite of consistent GDP growth rate averaging more than 7.5 % and by 2016, 33.6 % (using NBS old
measure); Human Development Index (HDI) has
risen only modestly between 1990 (0.411) and 2014 (0.514); and average life expectancy in spite of our enormous resources remains stuck at 52.9 years in 2015 while the equivalent figure in the developed world averages over 70 years.
Complaints about the loss of EMA,
rising tuition fees, austerity
measures, and police discrimination gain added valence
from the rioters» subconscious coded articulations of their own (growing) alienation
from a continually victorious political - economic - social elite.
Profits
from the broker - dealer operations of NYSE member firms (which is what it uses to
measure the securities industry's health)
rose 42 percent, to $ 24.5 billion, the most since 2010.
«That was the governor's choice,» said Heastie, who was a past co-sponsor of the tax credit bill, but — as with all other bills — has removed his name
from the
measure since he
rose to the speaker's post.
In an attempt to put an end to the
rise in match - fixing, the FA took its own
measures in August 2014 by imposing a complete ban on gambling for players, coaches and match officials
from any football - related betting worldwide.
Mr Osborne promised to balance the deficit within the next five years, saying that 77 per cent of the
measures to do so outlined in the budget are spending cuts, while 23 per cent would come
from tax
rises.
The Office for National Statistics places the consumer price index
measure of inflation at 2.5 per cent, after
rising from 2.2 per cent in January.
Critics said the simplicity of the
measure would bring perverse disincentives, such as the loss of # 2,500 in child benefit if a family with three children were to have a
rise in income of # 300
from # 43,500.
However, using data
from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and
from New York's state exams, Dr. Aaron Pallas of Teachers College demonstrated that between 2003, just before Mayor Bloomberg's reforms had been implemented, and 2011, the achievement gap demonstrated by the NAEP actually
rose and the gap
measured by state exams closed by a mere 1 %.
The wider International Labour Organisation
measure of unemployment was 2.68 million in the period September - November 2011, a
rise of 118,000
from the last quarter.
University of Alaska Fairbanks student researchers Dragos Vas and Sudipta Sarkar
measure methane bubbles
rising from an Interior Alaska lake.
But researchers found data
from 1981 to 2015 on four reservoirs in Germany, allowing the scientists to calculate how much CO2 levels had
risen and how much pH levels,
measuring acidity in the water, had dropped, the scientists report online January 11 in Current Biology.
The tiny organs
measure about half a millimetre in diameter, with the «hump» of the ventricle
rising up
from the dish.
Using a signal generator to produce precisely
measured sounds similar to ambient noise they saw a 50 per cent increase in efficiency,
rising from 1.2 per cent without sound to 1.8 per cent with sound (Advanced Materials, DOI: 10.1002 / adma.201303304).
And they want the companies to pay for
measures such as sea walls to cope with
rising sea levels they blame on carbon emissions
from burning fossil fuels.
WHITEHOUSE: I do come
from an ocean state, and we do
measure the
rise in the sea level and we
measure the warming of Narragansett Bay and we
measure the change in PH. It's serious for us, Senator.