Sentences with phrase «more normal levels of»

This jump may foreshadow a gradual return to more normal levels of housing supply from their lows of recent months.

Both teams and individuals tend to make the cover when they're doing exceptionally well, and no one does exceptionally well forever, so the odds that a cover subject will return to earth — and a more normal level of performance — are great.

Supposing a country had seen a brief crisis twenty years ago in which unemployment spiked at 20 %, falling quickly back to a more normal level of 5 %.

We expect single family production to continue to make steady gains over the next two years on its way to a more normal level of production surpassing one million units annually.

As we return to a more normal level of refinance applications, the mix of borrowers returns to normal and average loan size declines.»

A more normal level of the active listings to sales ratio in that city (a measure of the resale market) helps contextualize decays in residential construction (middle chart).

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While the labor market has returned to more normal levels, with the unemployment rate at around 5.1 percent, overall hiring has remained weak, per the most recent Department of Labor jobs reports.

Higher - than - normal volatility levels suggest we can do more than just take advantage of short side moves; it's possible to benefit from buying dips, too.

Higher - than - normal volatility levels suggest we can do more than just take advantage of short side moves.

The new normal requires significant revenue traction on this level of investment, and if that is achieved the two comma capital investments (meaning millions of dollars) will flow from sources that are typically angels and smaller, more focused venture funds that are still scratching out a living.

In short, that lots of folks effectively psyche themselves out of feeling more well rested by worrying excessively about 20 minutes of tossing and turning before sleeping, or a perfectly normal level of nighttime wakefulness.

The Fed is helping the process of moving toward more normal interest rate levels by winding down its balance sheet, slowly releasing the air from the balloon, he said.

More evidence of the rift between what builders are putting up and what buyers can afford: inventory is suddenly high when builders are still not even close to normal production levels.

This brings me to a third plot line: that is, how we deal with the higher level of household debt and higher housing prices, especially in a world of more normal interest rates.

But as precipitous market moves in early February and late March suggested a return to more historically normal levels of volatility, the question for investors now is how to adapt their approach to the new environment.»

Natural Gas Natural gas futures were among the quarter's key decliners -LRB--7.5 %, to US$ 2.73 per million British thermal units) as production growth outweighed seasonal consumption and higher exports of the fuel.1 Spot prices saw an even larger drop of 20.6 % (to US$ 2.81) as the support of December's weather - related demand spikes faded and a more normal winter pattern developed.1 Natural gas generally took its downward price cues from elevated US production and growth in the natural gas - focused rig count, which increased from 179 to 194 in March alone.2 Despite the price drop, traders remained optimistic given surging US shale - gas exports and a supply deficit that was 20 % larger than the five - year average at March - end, the biggest in four years.3 Moreover, total natural gas inventories of 1.38 trillion cubic feet were nearly 33 % below their year - ago level.3 Meanwhile, the market appeared focused on an anticipated production surge (2018 is projected to be a record growth year for gas supplies) and may have overlooked intensifying demand as US exports increasingly helped drain supplies.

Having more resilient banks with sufficient capital and liquidity reduces the probability of widespread liquidity crises.9 That would help make market - making more robust, though probably at lower levels of activity in normal times.

We allow that short - term interest rates may be pegged well below historical norms for several more years, and we know that for every year that short - term interest rates are held at zero (rather than a historically normal level of 4 %), one can «justify» equity valuations about 4 % above historical norms — a premium that removes that same 4 % from prospective future stock returns.

In the long run, the Federal Reserve anticipates that its balance sheet will shrink toward more historically normal levels and that most or all of its security holdings will be Treasury securities.»

European Central Bank head Mario Draghi says the eurozone economy still needs abundant stimulus to raise inflation to more normal levels even in the midst of a strengthening recovery.

Not only will dividend payouts revert to more normal levels, personal income will also be negatively impacted by a mix of higher payroll and income taxes.

We expect the Fed to continue a slow, patient pace of short - term rate increases, not because the economy is overheating, but in order to get rates back to more normal levels.

«We expect trading conditions to return to more normal levels, which, combined with the continued rollout of new products and our sustained emerging markets performance, gives us confidence in delivering an improving performance trend during the remainder of the year,» said outgoing chief executive Olivier Bohuon.

As policy continues to normalize and reach a more normal rate and financing dynamic that is closer to being consistent with today's levels of economic growth and inflation, these pernicious influences should abate and confidence in corporate investment may return.

For example, if a «normal» level of short - term interest rates is 4 % and investors expect 3 - 4 more years of zero interest rate policy, it's reasonable for stock prices to be valued today at levels that are about 12 - 16 % above historically normal valuations (3 - 4 years x 4 %).

Once ES balances returned to more normal levels, use of intra-day repos picked up again; banks have recently undertaken about $ 5 1/2 billion a day, or about 5 per cent of total daily RTGS payments.

At its Federal Open Market Committee meeting this month, the Fed telegraphed that it is preparing to raise interest rates to what we consider a more normal level after many years of ultra-accommodative monetary policy.

The unemployment rate has been steadily declining since late 2009, from a peak of 10 % in October 2009 to 5.4 % in April; correspondingly, both consumer indexes increased from historic lows to more normal levels in this period.

The inundation came because the Bay of Bengal was some inches higher than normal (as climate changes, sea level rises because warm water takes up more space).

To the normal difficulty of penetrating to a more profound level of understanding is added the burden of thinking in terms of both an ancient and a modern world - view.

Tests conducted on water being dumped into the Pacific Ocean near the Fukushima nuclear power plant have found levels of radioactivity millions of times more than is normal in water.

A feeling deep inside pushed closer and closer to the surface, nagging me with thoughts of a more «normal» life: of community and day - to - day rhythms focused more on family and friends than on international travel and high - level diplomacy.

Guys who are rated as the most masculine — a billboard for a man's good genes — tend to have more testosterone, and men with higher testosterone levels are 43 percent more likely to get divorced than men with normal levels, 31 percent more likely to split because of marital problems and 38 percent more likely to cheat.

When Lauren Philbrook and her colleagues observed the normal nighttime routines of families with young babies, they found that mothers who were rated as highly «emotionally available» were more likely to have babies with low nighttime cortisol levels.

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Overall, I think the symbol is a good thing and that the more people who see it and, even on the smallest subconscious level, think of breastfeeding as normal and something that women are going to be doing in public, the better.

If you're feeling these symptoms to a degree that disrupts your normal level of function, if your baby is more than a few weeks old, or if you have additional symptoms?

State health and environmental regulators have known for decades that at least 62 properties — most in Niagara County — contain varying degrees of radioactivity that tested at levels two to more than 10 times normal for the local environment.

If temperatures return to more normal levels after two winters of abnormal warmth, the average heating bill across the Buffalo Niagara region is expected to jump by 26.5 percent — or about $ 123 — from last year's unusually affordable cost, according to National Fuel Gas Co..

Twenty patients with kidney failure, for example, showed levels of ammonia and acetone more than 10 times that of healthy controls, and the researchers could watch those levels fall back to normal as the patients received dialysis treatment.

The metabolism of bone cells determines how much sugar they use; if the bone cells consume more sugar than normal, this can lower the glucose level in the blood.

Studies by Schwarzschild's team and others have found that healthy people with naturally occurring blood levels of urate within the high normal range appear to have a reduced risk of developing Parkinson's and that the disease may progress more slowly in those with higher urate levels.

Lowering levels of AMACR reduces the growth of cancer cells, and these cells revert to more «normal» behaviour.

Even more importantly, we've been able to demonstrate that blocks help patients feel better and return to their normal levels of mental and physical functionality sooner after surgery.»

Overweight women with low levels of the hormone adiponectin prior to pregnancy were nearly seven times more likely to develop gestational diabetes than normal weight women with high levels (August 2013).

Study participants with TSH levels at the low end of the normal range — signaling they had more active thyroid glands — were more likely to have depression symptoms emerge during the course of the study.

Mice with obesity - related diabetes, on the other hand, had normal levels of Tregs within the tissue, despite having more fat tissue.

Research conducted by Bianco and other Rush colleagues published Oct. 6 in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism found that individuals on levothyroxine who had normal TSH levels were significantly more likely to be taking antidepressants than peers with normal thyroid function.

Hilt and her colleagues used a more sensitive growth - culture technique to detect the low levels of bacteria in normal urine, reasoning that maybe some urinary bacteria don't grow readily under the conditions of the standard test.

However, the «normal» levels of salt that children now eat in food may do more subtle, but nonetheless lasting damage.