Sentences with phrase «more than the going rate»

Chicago prices were about US$ 1 more than the going rate back home, a significant premium for a low - cost supplier.

At $ 70, it's not much more than the going rate for last year's Roku Premiere + ($ 50 at some brick - and - mortar Walmart stores, and refurbished on Amazon for $ 60), whose remote doesn't include TV or voice controls.

As far as it being silly the market dictates the rent, try to rent an apartment 25 more than the going rate.

Sure I may have paid a 1/2 point more than the going rate at first, but I think my relationship and continued business with them will pay off in the long run.

And you should be able to charge more than the going rate because you are the buyer's only source of funding and he won't be paying the application or origination fees traditional lenders charge.

Not exact matches

More importantly for consumers, DBS revealed that the average amount sent in digital red packets in Singapore last year was S$ 26 (about $ 19.60)-- several times higher than the going rates of physical red packets, which is between S$ 6 ($ 4.50) and S$ 10 ($ 7.60).

The site may sell more even with lower conversion, but, moving forward, Bonobos should complement its PR strategy by going after more traffic from Google and Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) searches, which typically converts to sales at a higher rate than referring - site traffic.

You'd have to figure out property tax rates, which will go up more than inflation does.

«The next time the exchange rate goes to $ 1.05 (U.S.), you might find some more direct statements about that than you have seen under previous regimes.»

But that pain today would arguably be less severe than if rates go up years from now, when households have piled on even more debt.

«More than anything, people are going to jump off the fence because of interest rates picking up,» said Jason Cassity, a real estate agent in San Diego.

«More than anything, people are going to jump off the fence because of interest rates picking up,» Jason Cassity, a Zillow premier agent in San Diego, told Business Insider.

And if interest rates go up, the government would have to pay much more to finance the more than $ 14 trillion in Treasury debt held by investors.

Since rates have more room to rise than to fall going forward, we'd better get used to it.

The research shows that in order to recruit or retain A players in your organization, you need to pay them about 20 % more than the going market rate.

Capital raise after capital raise obviously signals an intense cash burn rate, but if Tesla is going to change the world and push electric cars to a point where they constitute more than 1 % of global auto sales, chilling out on the spending and letting the balance sheet take a breather doesn't make much sense.

The simplified explanation for this aberrant investing disaster was a dramatic rise in interest rates during the period: Rates on long - term government bonds went from 4 % at year - end 1964 to more than 15 % in rates during the period: Rates on long - term government bonds went from 4 % at year - end 1964 to more than 15 % in Rates on long - term government bonds went from 4 % at year - end 1964 to more than 15 % in 1981.

Their findings show that the share of men majoring in engineering fields goes up by more than 0.6 percent every time the unemployment rate increases by 1 percent.

First, Moody's reckons that rates will not only increase substantially, but wax a lot more quickly than the CBO projects, going from the current 2.9 % to 4.3 % by 2024.

«There is a paradigm shift in that rates are going up and they may be going up more than expected.»

Borrowers should keep in mind that lower interest rates at the beginning of a loan result in more actual savings than lower interest rates towards the end of a loan since the principal is lower as time goes by (interest charged is a percentage of the current loan balance).

Turkey's annual inflation rate went up more than expected in August to 7.14 percent, moving further away from the central bank's target inflation of 5 percent.

If you are fortunate enough to amass even more than the 20 % required for the best rates, the extra money can go toward decorating and fixing up your new place or to lowering your loan amount and the resulting monthly payments.

It would easily take you more than one lifetime to earn a single coin at the rate things are going.

Well, it will certainly lift the rate of return investors expect from stocks, but bulls insists that with earnings growing 20 percent this year, the expected return may be sufficiently high, so that there will not be any shift out of equities, that corporations are going to make enough money to more than compensate for higher rates.

The only problem with variable rates is that they can go as long as more than the time period of the loan.

We also saved enough to go with a 3 % withdrawal rate (rather than the more - commonly recommended 4 %).

«The economy has never been as levered as it currently is, and the economy is far more interest sensitive than it has been in the past, to a degree that we don't have certainty over how each interest rate hike is going to affect Canadian consumers,» said Frances Donald, senior economist at Manulife Asset Management, by phone from Toronto.

Thanks to lower interest rates and more repayment benefits than private loans, you can better manage your student loan debt going forward.

In that space, we know that the new rules mean you need to be much more qualified to have that mortgage today than before the rules went into place, so there is a cushion in there where you can tolerate a higher rate of interest and so on because you have been tested against it.

That being said, I appreciate the idea that as itnerest rates go up my hard work from saving a lot of my income pays off even more than it already does.

Because they can go up or down, variable rates entail more risk than fixed ones.

If you go with the shorter loan, you will likely secure a lower interest rate than a 30 - year fixed mortgage — possibly more than half a percent lower.

First, TIPS funds are made up largely of longer - term bonds, and long bonds fall more than short bonds do, when rates go up.

Kickofflabs Reports go beyond conversion rate to teach you more about your leads than you thought possible.

The president went on to announce that the broad - based economic expansion in the eurozone accelerated more than expected in the first half of 2017; however, recent exchange - rate volatility could lead to uncertainty in price stability over the medium - term.

With this in mind, it stands to reason that people are going to feel more comfortable, and therefore demand a lower interest rate, when investing in US Treasuries than they are when investing in the Ford Motor company.

If you hold a particular security for more than a year, you are taxed at the long - term gains tax, which is 15 % (until 2013; then the rate goes up to 20 % in the United States.)

The world is VASTLY more leveraged today than it was in the 1980s or even the early 2000s, so any rise in rates (duration) is going to wound risk assets rather quickly.

If interest rates go up sooner than promised, it will cost more to borrow money for individuals and companies.

If RESP contributions continue at $ 216 per month, which is slightly more than the maximum rate for one child, then, conceptually splitting the $ 6,000 present balance into two accounts each with $ 3,000, and contributions into two $ 108 monthly additions, the younger child with 14 years to go to the end of the age 17 qualification period for the CESG would have about $ 21,000 for post-secondary tuition, enough for a local institution and living at home.

These valuations might be reasonable on the assumption that short - term interest rates will be kept at zero for more than 30 years, but our impression is that what's actually going on is that investors feel they have «nowhere else to go» and — as in 2000 and 2007 — are speculating without a clear recognition of the dismal long - term returns that are now priced into equities.

Mike Fratantoni, MBA's vice president of research and economics, said the index dropped to its lowest «in more than a dozen years... as interest rates increased going into today's Federal Open Market Committee meeting.»

That's $ 25 + off the going rate found at other retailers like Amazon or Best Buy and is just $ 20 more than the lowest price we have seen.

What we want to know is not whether pregnancy rates are lower in Nottinghamshire, but whether they went down in Nottinghamshire more or less than they went down in Warwickshire.

It does seem to increase the success rate for those who were the most determined to stay sober prior to beginning the program but those who were less determined are actually better off seeking help elsewhere as the tend to fail more often when they attend AA than if they did nothing, and their suicide rates go up.

There's the report that «Whites and blacks use marijuana at roughly the same rates; on average, however, blacks are 3.7 times more likely than whites to be arrested for possession,» and that «blacks are more than 10 times as likely as whites to go to prison for drug offenses.»

Yglesias was writing in defense of a candidate whose favorability rating had gone underwater (more people rated her unfavorably than favorably) largely as a result of an email scandal in which her explanations of her email policies as Secretary of State had repeatedly collapsed.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has published very robust research involving more than 140 countries around the world which demonstrates that countries with extreme levels of inequality (1) tend to experience much slower rates of economic growth; and (2) are far more susceptible to the kind of severe financial / banking / credit crisis that America just went through five years ago.

Nigeria's economy, despite its substantial oil production (it is the fourth - leading supplier of oil to the U.S.), declined precipitously in the 1980s: at the beginning of that decade a naira was worth more than a dollar, while today's going rate values the naira at less than a dime.