Sentences with phrase «of declining interest»

In the face of declining interest and competition driven by oversupply, course owners have gone searching for ways out.

Similarly, housing always leads the recovery because of the impact of declining interest rates on housing demand.

«This long - term trend of declining interest is worrying and something I hope we can address soon.»

The decline in shipments can be attributed to less amiibo figures having been released but it's fairly clear that there is a wider trend of declining interest in the sector as everyone is feeling the burn.

During periods of declining interest rates, certain mortgage REITs may hold mortgages that mortgagors elect to prepay, which can reduce the yield on securities issued by mortgage REITs.

High yields can enhance your current income This yield premium is particularly attractive during periods of declining interest rates.

In a period of declining interest rates, the one risk that can not be eliminated is reinvestment risk, because the funds received at maturity will need to be reinvested at a lower coupon rate.

Exposes you to risk of declining interest rates.

Step ups are often called by issuers at a time of declining interest rates.

Meanwhile, Rep. Horn said Republican leadership in the legislature is well - aware of the declining interest in teaching in North Carolina.

While bond index fund investors have profited from the prolonged cycle of declining interest rates over the past three decades, we are currently at the early stages of a rising - rate cycle.

After 30 years of declining interest rates, bond investors are beginning to worry that rates will go higher — especially after the events of May 2013.

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Bloomberg, the New York - based news and information company, reckons the decline had something to do with the Bank of Canada's decision to raise interest rates, which compounded anxiety over the cost of housing.

With the proliferation of competing entertainment options available in smaller towns and a decline in baseball interest, owners had been looking instinctively to the still - thriving major leagues to figure out how to compete.

The decline is noteworthy because you'd think the stars were aligned for a boom in the construction of dream homes: the economy has been churning out jobs steadily for a year, real - estate prices are high, and interest rates are low.

Zimmer declined to comment to the Times, but did say that there's a lot of interest being garnered about the company's business.

The explosion of «free money» gooses demand briefly, but then debt, even at low interest rates, never declines; and as another bust inevitably follows this latest debt - fueled boom, then the debt becomes increasingly burdensome as income and wealth both plummet.

I suspect, however, that if somebody offered to lend me money without disclosing the interest rate or any of the terms, I would decline the invitation.

Zuckerberg met with Spiegel and expressed interest in buying Snapchat; but when Spiegel declined, Zuckerberg launched a clone of Snapchat, called Poke.

Peterson: Two major risks are a spike in interest rates and a rapid decline in the value of the U.S. dollar.

«We could soon see a major decline in the dollar and the price of U.S. Treasuries, which would translate directly into a significant rebound in interest rates.

The recent popularity of junk goes counter to multiple warnings from Wall Street experts who believe the sector is in trouble due to looming interest rate hikes and declining earnings for companies particularly at the lower end of the credit spectrum.

Before policymakers and pundits conclude that the rise in student loans is the cause of the decline in rates of entrepreneurship among millennials — and decide that debt relief is the way to boost entrepreneurial activity among young people today — they should consider that waning interest in entrepreneurship predates the student loan crisis by many years.

«This would offset the impact of a decline in the long - run neutral real rate of interest by giving the (Fed) more «policy space» to respond to adverse shocks,» Kocherlakota said.

Microsoft says it's been «blown away» by the interest in Game Pass, but Xbox head Phil Spencer declined to share users numbers for the service in an interview ahead of Tuesday's announcement.

«As the business cycle deepens and inflationary concerns push interest rates higher, cross-asset correlations with commodities decline and the diversification benefits of owning commodities rises with higher rates.»

Returns from that era were boosted by a confluence of factors that are unlikely to come together again: declines in inflation and interest rates, strong global GDP, low corporate tax, and rapid growth in China.

Major drivers of the increase over that last decade according to the PEW Center were: recession related revenue declines (28 %), defence spending (13 %; cost of the wars on terror alone were over $ 2.4 trillion to the end of 2009 according to Homeland Security Research), Bush tax cuts (13 %), increases in net interest (11 %), and other non-defence spending (10 %).

A Federal Reserve working paper from last year found that at least three - quarters of the decline in new charters is attributable to the weak economy and low interest rates.

The reason is simple: debt - leveraged companies have the hard task of paying their interest obligations out of a flat or declining level of income.

If interest rates rise, market prices of existing bonds will typically decline, despite the lack of change in both the coupon rate and maturity.

It is interesting to see a small decline in compensation among some of the specialties involved in procedures and small increases among primary care physicians, which could reflect early changes in reimbursement resulting from the Affordable Care Act.

Progress in a few areas has been solid: slashing of bureaucratic red tape has led to a surge in new private businesses; full liberalization of interest rates seems likely following the introduction of bank deposit insurance in May; Rmb 2 trillion (US$ 325 billion) of local government debt is being sensibly restructured into long - term bonds; tighter environmental regulation and more stringent resource taxes have contributed to a surprising two - year decline in China's consumption of coal.

Thus, as prices of bonds in an investment portfolio adjust to a rise in interest rates, the value of the portfolio may decline.

Treasuries extended declines from October, pushing 10 - year yields to a five - week high, as the probability of a Federal Reserve interest - rate increase by year - end hovered near 50 percent.

Its nine - month earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization have declined to $ 431 million at the end of September from $ 493 million a year earlier.

Foremost is the significant decline in the natural rate of interest, or r * (r - star), over the past quarter - century to historically low levels.

Short interest ominously spiked in the stock this week just before the earnings report because scanner data from IRI revealed that most of Boston Beer's big brands experienced volume declines, save for the summery Twisted Tea.

As the price of bonds in a fund adjusts to a rise in interest rates, the fund's share price may decline.

Thus, as the prices of bonds in an investment portfolio adjust to a rise in interest rates, the value of the portfolio may decline.

Open interest was up 4k contracts, showing a combination of new shorts but also some bargain hunting new longs from yesterday's decline.

Interest rate risk is the risk that debt securities, and the Fund's net assets, may decline in value because of changes in interesInterest rate risk is the risk that debt securities, and the Fund's net assets, may decline in value because of changes in interestinterest rates.

Therefore we expect the decline in interest rate futures, specifically the 10 - year Treasury Notes and 30 - year Treasury Bonds to be a temporary effect of speculative exuberance, and for interest rate futures to rally through the end of the month as the heavily short speculators are forced out of their positions.

What we have really seen over the past several years, in terms of the appreciation of markets and the decline of interest rates based on what the Fed has been doing, is a result which has eliminated the possibility of investors in bonds and stocks to earn an adequate return relative to their expected liabilities.

So here's the thumb rule: For every 1 % change in interest rates, the price of the bond will decline by (approximately) its duration, in percent.

Rising interest rates may cause the value of an investment in preferred stocks to decline significantly.

An abrupt rise in interest rates, concerns about rising inflation, and a potentially more hawkish Federal Reserve have created an equity market tantrum that now has the Dow and S&P 500 Index in full correction territory (a correction is a price decline of between 10 % and 20 %).

One of the interesting features of the employment picture is that, after hitting a record high last year, the percentage of Americans in the labor force has begun to decline.

This means that even though the interest component of the repayment has declined, the total repayment is the same, resulting in many borrowers automatically making excess principal repayments.

That interest income is a bond investor's primary source of return, although bond prices can also appreciate or decline in the marketplace.