Sentences with phrase «on a relative basis as»

Valuations, even though they've increased, are not as toppy on a relative basis as some of the other categories, but hospitality also has probably some long - term structural headwinds compared with the other categories.

Not exact matches

M&A will never be 100 % successful and we learn from every deal we do, and so not to pick on any specific deal, but I've learned, based on relative success of deals we've done in the past, is making sure the key leaders at the company share a vision with the founder, making sure the strategy drives the M&A, as opposed to the M&A driving the strategy, and making sure we have good support mechanisms for these companies after they come in.

We look at venture capital investments by state, as well as small - business lending on a relative basis.

As a result fewer dollars on a relative basis will be available to buy treasuries.

There is no doubt that, based on pure, cold, logical data, stocks are the single best long - term performing asset class for disciplined investors who are not swayed by emotion, focus on earnings and dividends, and never pay too much for a stock, often as measured on a conservative beginning earnings yield relative to the Treasury bond yield basis.

Equity markets have appreciated sharply in recent years, and valuations, based on price - to - earnings ratios, in developed markets were not cheap relative to their historical averages as of late 2017.

In contrast, when investment falls relative to saving on an ex ante basis, an economy weakens and may slip into recession, as was the case between 2007 and mid-2009.

Lipper rankings are based on total return without sales charge relative to all share classes of funds with similar objectives as determined by Lipper.

While this move will likely cause some anxiety, we view the chances of a significant inflation overshoot relative to target as low and think that the Federal Reserve can and will stay on a gradual rate hike path (our base case).

SPMV is based on the S&P 500 Minimum Volatility Index, but offers some important differences relative to rivals such as the iShares Edge MSCI Min Vol USA ETF (NYSE: USMV) and the PowerShares S&P 500 Low Volatility Portfolio (NYSE: SPLV).

Banks are sitting on such vast quantities of excess reserves — paid to do so by the Federal Reserve as it pays a relative high interest rate on reserves — that the monetary base is larger than M1.

As a result, EM stocks, as measured by the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, look fairly cheap on an absolute basis and very cheap relative to developed market equities, as measured by the MSCI World IndeAs a result, EM stocks, as measured by the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, look fairly cheap on an absolute basis and very cheap relative to developed market equities, as measured by the MSCI World Indeas measured by the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, look fairly cheap on an absolute basis and very cheap relative to developed market equities, as measured by the MSCI World Indeas measured by the MSCI World Index.

Liaison with market participants suggests that spreads on ABCP picked up sharply in August, as in the US, to be around 30 — 50 basis points above the bank bill rate relative to 2 - 5 basis points over recent years (Graph 8).

As a home buyer, your ability to get approved for a mortgage is based on three main factors — your down payment on the home, your current credit score, and your household income relative to your household debt.

It makes risk assets such as equities and local EM bonds look attractive on a relative basis.

About two weeks ago, Siamak Namazi, the head of strategic planning at Crescent Petroleum Co., was arrested as he was visiting relatives in Tehran from his home base in Dubai, according to people briefed on the situation.

The Russell 2000 Value Index is a subset of the securities found in the Russell 2000 selected based on a «probability» of value as measured by their relative book - to - price (B / P) ratio.

In his February 2015 paper entitled «The Search for Crisis Alpha: Weathering the Storm Using Relative Momentum», Nathan Faber tests a dual momentum safe haven based on U.S. Treasuries of different durations as proxied by either constant maturity indexes or exchange - traded funds (ETFs).

Further, it considers such past forces and individuals as praiseworthy on whose work our present existence and relative welfare are based.

Calculations (3:141 - 56) based on Whitehead's theory (2:303) showed that the orientation of the two masses relative to the center of the galaxy should produce a variation in the attraction between the two masses, and hence in the gravimeter's readings: as the earth rotates, bringing the earth, gravimeter, and galaxy center alternately into and then out of line, Whitehead's theory predicts that the attraction should likewise vary periodically, with period 12 hours (i.e., the galaxy center, gravimeter, and earth are in line twice a day.)

Those who argue against same - sex marriage on the basis of its potential to diminish the effectiveness of the institution as a solid foundation for social stability have not thought about the price we have already paid for this personal freedom, or the historical reality that most citizens of Western Nations have already chosen to pay it rather than choose the relative social stability / security of tribalistic collectivism.

This article was about the best attack Arsenal can muster based on the relative strengths of the players available to Arsenal this season as, last season, a certain poverty of attack robbed Arsenal the bragging rights of title holders.

Roma's Radja Nainggolan tops the list of potential candidates, achieving a stunning 83.9 % transfer match based on a number of factors, including the number of defensive errors leading to a chance (per 90 minutes) alongside other indicators such as their age relative to the peak playing age for that position, the relative status of their club and percentage of possible league minutes played.

In relative terms, however, we are performing better away (as we did last year); league tables based solely on either home or away games would have us 15th and 6th respectively compared to 7th and 4th respectively over the course of 2015/16.

This paper considers women's filing as rational behavior, based on spouses» relative power in the marriage, their opportunities following divorce, and their anticipation of custody.

The effect of these kinds of supports on home visitors has not been well studied, but some research on similar interventions indicates implementation of evidence - based practices with fidelity monitoring and supportive consultation predicts lower rates of staff turnover, as well as lower levels of staff emotional exhaustion relative to services as usual.29, 30,31 Moreover, a supportive organizational climate has been associated with more positive attitudes toward adoption of evidence - based programs.32

Venneman and colleagues5 recently demonstrated that infants who are formula fed are twice as likely to die of SIDS than breastfed infants based on a case control study of 333 SIDS cases compared to 998 aged matched controls in Germany, from 1998 - 2001, consistent with previously published reports.35 While no studies show that co-sleeping in the form of bedsharing, specifically, is imperative for breastfeeding enhancement, many studies have shown that in order to get more sleep and to ease caring for their infants the decision to breastfeed often leads mothers to adopt routine bedsharing for at least part of the night36 - 40 even where they never intended to do so.41, 42 Indeed, nearly 50 % of breastfeeding mothers in the United States and Great Britain adopt bedsharing for some part of the night,38,43 - 45 and breastfeeding women are twice as likely to sleep with their babies in the first month relative to mothers electing to bottle - feed.39

These ads are naturally targeted based on each blog's particular niche, and ads on specialized sites such as local or regional political blogs frequently reach very influential audiences at a low relative cost.

@Alexei Money or possessions given to a friend or relative on an individual basis, and not as payment or in return for payment, would be classified as a Gift in US Taxes, and called a gift in US English.

These figures would also offer grim tidings for Fine Gael, a party that would be at a similar level of decline, as Labour, relative to the 2011 General Election figures based on this opinion poll.

Resource allocation operates on the basis of relative expenditure need, as agreed through political judgement.

Based on the anatomical features of the fossil, Isthminia was either a close relative or ancestor of today's Amazon river dolphin (which probably invaded South America's river systems when sea - level rise expanded those habitats about 6 million years ago), or it was a descendant of an older and as - yet - undiscovered river dolphin that went back to sea.

The areas to be remapped will be based on their relative dangers to navigation, effects from the storm, and discussions with state and local officials as well as the maritime industry.

They then compared genetic sequences with the genome of the still common domestic pigeon (Columba livia) and, based on those comparisons, estimate they captured between 57 and 75 percent of the passenger pigeon's genetics (assuming that its genome was roughly the same size as its relative's).

As for how many people the planet can sustain, the first such estimate came from microbiologist Anton van Leeuwenhoek who calculated roughly 13.4 billion people back in 1679, based on the population density of his native Holland and its size relative to the rest of the globe.

But geneticists chose Arabidopsis as their model organism based on its relative genetic simplicity, as well as its short generation time.

And while China is still not committed to absolute emissions reductions in global climate negotiations, experts say its «intensity - based» U.N. carbon reduction targets, which are based on improving the relative efficiency of industrial processes, could be as effective as Western - style absolute cuts in emissions.

But until archaeologists have excavated domestic sites on the Maltese islands, we will not know the relative importance of other imported materials, such as flint and obsidian, for a domestic economy that was essentially based on local agriculture.

Previous laboratory findings as well as estimates of fitness based on genetic clustering of strains in the population suggested a lower relative fitness for MDRTB compared to drug - susceptible tuberculosis, but few studies have directly measured the incidence of second cases of tuberculosis among contacts of both MDRTB and drug - susceptible tuberculosis.

[Based on the relative concentrations of salts such as potassium and sodium in the cytoplasm of all biological cells and questions regarding the formation of their fatty - acid membranes, however, scientists have also theorized that life began in hot springs on land rather in the oceans (Mulkidjanian et al, 2012; and Colin Barras, New Scientist, March 10, 2012.)-RSB-

I used was the surface temperature responses from histAll --(histGHG + histNatural) to obtain the response to aerosols + ozone + land - use and derive the enhancement of the response for that case relative to WMGHGs that I called E. Calculation of TCR based on histAll in a model is approximately the same as calculating the sum of responses to histGHG, histNat, and histInhomogeneous where the latter includes the factor E.

A subsequent analysis using the most recent kinematic and radial velocity data available in the literature, however, found Proxima «is quitely likely» to be bound to to Stars A and B based on calculations of the binding energy of Proxima relative to the center of mass of the entire triple system, where its orbital semi-major axis exceeds 10,000 AUs and is «on order the same size as Alpha Centauri AB's Hill radius in the galactic potential» (Wertheimer and Laughlin, 2006).

Variations in this marker allowed them to determine which two of the parents» four genes were passed on to children suffering from ADHD, a technique known as haplotype - based haplotype relative risk analysis.

Based on differences in imputed nsSNP allelic frequencies in different genetic backgrounds, likelihood measurements were calculated for European relative to African genetic backgrounds, with distinct patterns emerging as a function of genetic background.

Presenting results as hazard ratios or relative risks always makes effects look large — «a 30 per cent heightened risk of developing type 2 diabetes» sounds like a big effect but based on figure 2 it looks like statins may be associated with an increase in the annual rate of new diabetes from about 6 per 100 people to approximately 8 per 100 people over a 10 year period.

In other words, the estrogen drops, as well as the progesterone drops, while they are within normal ranges on an absolute basis, the end results is a relative increase of estrogen in the body.

Magnitude is based on the relative difference in the change score, a relative percent difference, using the baseline mean in the meditation group as the denominator.

Based on the best - selling prize - winning novel by Meg Rosoff, «How I Live Now» is the latest film from director Kevin Macdonald («Touching The Void,» «The Last King Of Scotland,»), and toplines Saoirse Ronan as an American teen, Daisy, who comes to stay with distant relatives in a time of strife.

Illustrative of this, when we divided teachers into five equal - sized groups based on the average prior academic achievement of their incoming students, we found that roughly three times as many (29 %) of the teachers with the least prepared incoming students were identified as low performing based on classroom observations relative to teachers with the most prepared students incoming students (11 %).

We also investigate two measures of research quality — one based on a measure of the relative importance of a scholar's research in the field, and the other a measure of national or international prominence as reflected by major awards.