Sentences with phrase «on a downward trend as»

The tablet industry is currently on the downward trend as customers start embracing ultrabooks, Chromebooks and cheap laptops.

That numbers show that the incidence of divorce seems to be on a downward trend as more couples are living longer and staying together as married couples longer too.

Not exact matches

August 14 - The ringgit, which had been on a downward trend, plunges to a 17 - year low, losing as much as 2.6 percent to 4.1180 per dollar, in part due to concerns about the Federal Reserve's expected rate hike, and also because outside investors are concerned about the turmoil surrounding Najib.

Analysts went so far as to tell Bloomberg that downward trends cast doubt on the long - term viability of the entire augmented reality category.

These plans were started years ago, but as Mr Richter often remarks the downward trend in brick and mortar retail has been going on for quite a while.

Cross-border volume growth is on a downward trend, as evidenced by a 19 % increase last month compared to 21 % for all of the first quarter, according to the company's earnings results.

Between 2010 and 2014, a previous junior mining company developed a small underground operation that was put on care and maintenance due to engineering and financial issues, as well as a downward trending gold price.

This is why the gold / commodity ratio tends to trend downward when everything seems fine on the surface and rocket upward when it becomes apparent that numerous investing mistakes have been made and that the future will be nowhere near as copacetic as previously assumed.

As I pointed out on March 5, the downward trend was imperiled by Stratasys's (SSYS) strong earnings.

This was a reset year for Nick Saban's program, one we'll either look back on as the beginning of a downward trend or a simple blip.

It's his freshman year, and his play just seemed to trend downward as the college season went on after his hot start.

We don't need the best or fancy for our kids, but our school is rated, based on the standardized tests taken in grade 3 and 6, as a 2/10 (or, put another way, out of 3037 schools in our province, our local school is currently sitting at 2986/3037 with a continuing downward trend.

Adelson, the world's 29th richest person with $ 23.3 billion lost $ 1.1 billion on Monday, as reports says the revenue was trending downward.

The results show that university education has positive effects on extraversion, reversing a downward sloping population trend in outward orientation as people age.

The authors of a new study reviewing the volume data, detailed on Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience, are quick to caution, though, that one single year of rebound doesn't suggest any sea ice recovery, as the overall trend is still downward.

«People tend to gain weight steadily, on average — not everybody — and get more fat and tend to lose lean mass up to about age 65, and then what happens is that there's a downward trend: Now people start to kind of slowly lose weight — again, not everybody, but the trend is that as you get older — the general population I see is in the 70s and 80s — they tend to lose weight,» says Michi Yukawa, MD, MPH, acting instructor in the department of medicine and the division of gerontology and geriatric medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Despite receiving near - universal acclaim from critics, with some going so far as to proclaim it as the best Star Wars film ever, the audience score on the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes continues its downward trend and currently sits at 55 percent.

When I took over as Headteacher the school was on a 3 year downward trend - something needed to change.

«Every district is the same; it's an upside - down bell curve, with preschool and kindergarten having the highest percentage of absences on one side, a trend downward into fourth and fifth grade, and then absences pick up again as students go through middle school and high school.»

Industry Specialists agree that e-reader sales are on the downward trend, as the public is gravitating towards tablets.

As with dividend growth itself, a couple of these metrics have downward trends: Return on equity (ROE) and EPS (Earnings per share) growth rates have been declining since 2012, and both are worrisome.

Investors shouldn't count on the markets bouncing back any time soon, as there is evidence that stock markets have be trending downward for a long time.

It seems as if federal student loans are on a downward trend now, with students only taking out $ 96 billion in federal loans for the preliminary estimate of the 2013 - 2014 school year.

It has healthy household incomes and its 8.3 % unemployment rate (close to the national average) is on a downward trend, mainly because Guelph has rolled out an Economic Development and Tourism Strategy, encouraging growth in key sectors such as the life sciences, biotechnology, agri - food firms, environmental and high - tech.

Despite the increase in debt, the delinquency rate — defined as bills more than 90 days past due — remains on a downward trend and now stands at just 1.1 per cent, Equifax said.

[Response: The «big picture» is that Arctic ice is on a very clear downward trend, particularly in summer and no amount of cherry picking of individual days, subtle jumping from Arctic to global as if I wouldn't notice, and restatements of exactly the same incorrect «factoid» as Will, go any distance towards refuting that.

The section on external drivers dismisses all candidates for which data is available (solar irradiance, indices for AO and PDO, volcanoes, etc.) as being the cause of the downward trend leaving only atmospheric CO2 concentration as a plausible explanatory variable.

That is WHY it is not a simple «death spiral» but rather, as I said, a long secular trend downward superimposed on natural wiggles.

Depending where you look and in which decade they advance and retreat, but now with sea level rising twice as fast as in the last century, you may be able to figure out that glaciers are melting more quickly, and that with several more degrees of warming they would be on a downward trend.

Now, I would rather very kindly suggest that for 25 < N < 35 (very roughly speaking, as it depends on the actual series of change points and p value used), what currently looks like a downward ending trend (small N and / or N / 2 problem) for N = 16 would continue upwards until the chosen p value was met and again descend close to p = 1 at the end point window (if, and a very big IF, anything like the current hiatus (IPCC AR5 uses that word like 53 times (Greg Laden even counted them for me)-RRB- period were to continue for another ~ 15 years).

However, this is only my «guess» (based on the present downward trend, and the fact that we are likely on the down slope of the Holocene), not a hypothesis, and has as much or more validity as AGW.

The Thomson Reuters 2018 Report on the State of the Legal Market shows this trend will continue as we see a market characterized by flat to sluggish growth, a continued decline in productivity, modest rate increases and the continued downward pressure on realization.

As high quantities of stolen autos can have a negative effect on automobile insurance costs, this downward trend bodes well for the future.

2008 ′ s totals found 369 fatalities, more than 16,000 injuries and 61,500 crashes; the downward trend shows that Iowa's focus on motorist security, as well as increased law enforcement presence on highways and freeways, is having a positive impact on the amount of vehicle crashes that occur.

As high numbers of stolen automobiles can have a negative impact on car insurance rates, this downward trend bodes well for the future.

As of January 2018, investors and critics have failed to express their confidence on the downward trend of bitcoin and acquire short positions in bitcoin.

While someone experiencing problems in their family might feel as if they are on a downward spiral, there are solutions to reversing negative trends.

As trends in living space transition downward, it could proportionately compound the amount of clutter stacking up on shelves, and in closets, basements and attics.