Sentences with phrase «much less growth»

As you can see, the conservative mix has historically provided much less growth than a mix with more stocks, but less volatility too.

I don't want to go too crazy on any stock trading for a P / E ratio of ~ 23, but you've got a lot of stocks out there trading for similar or higher multiples with much less growth.

I think this is considerably less risky than buying an S&P 500 index fund, much less a growth stock index fund.

Charters students also demonstrated much less growth in advanced scores of 5th graders than all other groups of students, including those in traditional urban public schools.

But because the BMP4 and noggin molecules were directly in contact with the cells, much less growth factor was needed to spur the differentiation — approximately 12 times less than what would be required by conventional solution - based techniques.

«One of the major advantages, in a practical sense, is that we are using much less growth factor,» said McDevitt, who is also director of the Stem Cell Engineering Center at Georgia Tech.

It is the central premise behind inflation targeting, and central bankers — essentially without exception — assert that they have the capacity to affect or even determine inflation in the long term, but that they do not have the capacity to affect the average level of output, much less its growth rate over time, even though they may have the capacity to affect the amplitude of cyclical fluctuations.

Not exact matches

It's the sort of rapid gearshift that few companies ever experience, much less master: over the course of about five years, FouFou Dog (FFD), a Markham, Ont. - based dog apparel firm, has seen its revenue grow by more than 800 % — a steep growth trajectory matched by the company's shift from providing very specialized boutique goods, like jewelry and booties for small dogs, and to a far wider range of products suitable for mass merchandisers and large offshore customers.

Germany, which enacted its labor reforms more than a decade ago, when economic growth in the rich world was much stronger than it is now, is home to an organized labor culture that is less combative than in places like Italy or France.

Last week, for example, CVS said that prescription drug «hyperinflation» — defined as price increases of more than 100 % and as much as 5,000 % — contributed less than 0.7 % to overall cost growth for its PBM clients.

We certainly try to make the travel industry that much less painful for consumers, that's why we've seen so much growth.

A sequester 2.0, which would hurt U.S. growth, is a less dire but much more likely outcome.

With Chinese growth slowing, a paramount issue for President Obama and American business will be learning what the direction of Chinese policy will be — toward greater opening of its market in the tradition of Deng Xiaoping, or much less welcome alternatives.

However, because they are comprised of a basket of actual stocks, ETFs are generally much less volatile than the individual small to mid-cap growth stocks we trade in bull markets.

I have ignored reasons that might justify lower discount rates or higher GDP adjustments for China mainly because the purpose of this essay is to explain why the U.S. multiple is so much higher than China's, and of course these reasons exist, but I think whatever the correct ratio should be, there is no question that advanced economies always justify higher multiples than developing economies because they tend to be economically more diversified and politically more stable, and they usually have institutions, including clearer legal and regulatory frameworks, more sophisticated capital allocation processes, less rigid financial systems, and smaller state sectors (which make smooth adjustment, one of the most valuable and undervalued components of long - term growth, more likely).

Larger industry groups such as food products, metals and machinery are much less adversely affected by the strong dollar, and these minor problems have generally been offset by strong growth in demand.

China first, then, to a much lesser degree India, are both big growth markets.

If the authorities are willing to engage in loss - making activities to achieve the GDP growth target, there are two relevant characteristics of an economy like China's that change the nature of the GDP measure: first, economic activity is much less affected by hard - budget constraints than it is in most other economies; and second, bad debt is much less likely to be written down.

However, while demographic shifts are fairly predictable, it is less clear how much of the decline in productivity growth reflects a structural change and how much is a cyclical response to the subdued recovery.

The calculation that matters, then, is not how much Google or Facebook are hurt in isolation, but how much they are hurt relatively to their competitors, and the obvious answer is «a lot less», which, in the context of that secular increase, means growth.

From Peter Brimelow in MarketWatch (12/27/07): ``... [H] is Blue Chip Growth Letter [appears] in the Top Ten [for 2007], up 25.5 %... His Emerging Growth letter, focused on smaller - cap stocks, more or less matched the market this year, up 7.8 %, but has beaten it over the much longer term.»

I have enough passive income to give me peace of mind that if I lose my job my world won't get thrown upside down; I feel like I don't want much more than that runtil I retire or slow down at work, and I should be more growth focused and less income focused.

And there's less growth potential in the mobile communication space moving forward, due to so much saturation in the US mobile market.

Net inflows of new funds have driven much of the growth in recent quarters, while valuation effects have been relatively less important of late, reflecting weaker share prices in Australia and overseas.

Policy - makers in many of the advanced countries, already facing a short - term relationship between growth and inflation that has turned much less favourable, could face some very difficult choices in framing their responses to the circumstances they face individually.

The 5 year dividend growth rate was around 5.9 %, much less than in the past.

We looked at the benchmark weights pre - and post-downgrades — for example, autos went from less than 3 % to nearly 7 %, there was not much of a high - yield financials universe and energy endured some significant downgrades to post some meaningful growth.

But when that happened, Canadian households were far less indebted than they are today, and the Canadian economy did not rely nearly so much on the finance, real estate and construction sectors for growth.

Southwest also didn't tell analysts and investors on a conference call last week how much the Dallas - based carrier would expand in 2017, beyond noting that it would be less than the growth this year of 5 percent to 6 percent.

Though the ECB has acknowledged that one of the main factors underlying the eurozone's stagnation is a lack of credit growth, any potential use of QE seems unlikely to make much of an impact in this regard, even if an announcement of QE could drive yields down further, making it even less attractive for banks to hold government bonds.

But they can feel remote from us: They knew so much less of environmental devastation, the growth of mega-cities, how technology has eroded our awareness of the natural world and its rhythms.

Every experience is a chance to learn... so not listening to atheists could be quite detrimental to your growth as a human, much less as a Christian...

Most importantly, Banducci has delivered much - needed cultural change — putting customers rather than shareholders first to underpin long - term growth, repairing damaged relationships with suppliers, rebuilding the confidence of staff and creating a less centralised structure by giving Woolworths» business units more control over their own destinies.

As I watched games and practices each week and spent extended time around the coaching staff, it was clear to me — as it has been to many others who have had the same opportunity — that the pro- gram is much less about athletes and sport and much more about people and growth.

I've been doing this for a long time and although I sleep trained my last child five years ago not much has changed since then, and I am pretty sure no new research has come out showing that sleep for babies is becoming less important to their health and growth.

Recall that breastfed infants wake up much more frequently and at shorter intervals than do bottle fed infants since cows milk is designed for cow brain growth (much less volume compared with human brains) and body growth rates while breast milk has just the right composition which means fast burning sugars and much less protein and fat... for that ever - growing human infant brain which triples in size in the first year.

I should say, he's very small (less than 5th percentile, was growth - restricted in utero), does not take much in the way of baby / table food yet, and recently started daycare.

In the much less likely case that a twin dies in the second or third trimester, the remaining baby may be at an increased risk of intrauterine growth restriction and the mother may be at risk of preterm labor, infection or hemorrhaging.

There are changes which occur which may make it seem as if milk production is suddenly much less: • An increase in the needs of the baby, the so called growth spurt.

Containing MUCH less sugar than many juices, Nesquik amplifies their meal with iron, vitamins C and B, copper, and manganese to their morning drink, all of which help with growth and development along with a healthy immune system.

Barak was a pragmatic man, much less ideologically committed than Netanyahu but nevertheless the settlement growth continued.

Less economic growth means the government's borrowing requirement is higher than expected, so the Treasury's coffers face a much tighter squeeze than the chancellor had hoped for.

It's now been replaced with a chart showing how much future surplus there could be, if spending growth is limited to 2 % or less.

Now ask yourself how many regimes have borrowed as much as this one in the history of Nigeria, how many regimes have constructed less roads, recorded less economic growth, less infrastructural development, less investment in efucation and health, less employment, less industrial development, less foreign investment, less coordination.

They tolerate antibiotics less well compared to dormant bacteria, but they are present in much larger numbers, and readily restart their growth once antibiotic levels in the tissue drop, thus driving infection and relapse.

In contrast, plants with a modified nuclear genome expressed much less dsRNA and only slightly slowed down the beetles» growth.

Much of the old - growth forest in the area has been cleared for pasture in the last 50 years, but about 30 percent of the old - growth remains in patches ranging from less than two to more than 2,500 acres.

«Not only was there a lag in reef growth of up to two thousand years following the flooding of the previous reef platforms but the reef communities that grew there were much less complex than those inhabiting those areas of the reef today.

In most adult tissues, cells go about their daily business — absent a command from a growth factor, such as epidermal growth factor (EGF), they don't really need to grow, much less divide.

It is true that adult rats require much less protein to maintain nitrogen balance than young, growing rats require to maximize growth.