Sentences with phrase «on the downward trend in»

In other words, it might place higher value trades if you are experiencing gains to maximize returns and lower value trades when on a downward trend in order to minimize losses.

Federated Farmers Northland dairy chairman Ashley Cullen said the latest forecast price was not surprising given that global dairy prices have been on a downward trend in the last two months.

Analysts predict rates will remain on a downward trend in coming months.

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.

Environmental advocates have lately been arguing the numbers don't really add up for more pipelines, based on slower growth in Asia and worldwide trends bending the curve downward on oil demand.

The reasons are four-fold: structural changes in the American economy have triggered a long term downward trend in entrepreneurial activity; changes in the banking system have made small business credit more difficult to get; a post-recession shift in attitudes has made Americans less interested in striking out on their own; and a shift in government policies has made entrepreneurship more challenging to undertake.

In both cases, prices on laptops and tablets are trending downward.

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.

The weak economic performance in the first half of this year means that Canada has more excess capacity, which is increasing the downward pressure on the underlying trend in inflation.

This, in turn, has put downward pressure on trend inflation.

In fact, given that the long - term trend has been bearish, there is a good chance that the downward trend could resume from here, barring an unexpectedly sharp rise in U.S. CPI on WednesdaIn fact, given that the long - term trend has been bearish, there is a good chance that the downward trend could resume from here, barring an unexpectedly sharp rise in U.S. CPI on Wednesdain U.S. CPI on Wednesday.

Our bonds have been on a downward trend since we moved some money from stocks and cash to bonds back in September.

Annual credit growth continues its downward trend, with tighter credit conditions weighing on investor housing credit, while business credit picked up, supporting the rise in March.

Despite some monthly volatility, the unemployment rate remains on a downward trend and has fallen by 1/2 percentage point over the past year to reach 4.4 per cent in December.

If anything, currency growth appears to be on a steady downward trend, perhaps reflecting technical innovation in the payments system.

In that trade we used a vertical put spread on GDX to take advantage of gold's current downward trend and were rewarded with near maximum profits much sooner than anticipated, allowing us to enter more trades and that could further increase our portfolio.

Statistics Canada's estimate for MFP in the mining, oil and gas extraction sector has been on a downward trend for decades.

Over a time frame of > 30 y, downward trends in the availability of sugars and sweeteners, reported intake of energy in the form of added sugars and SSBs, and industry data on sugar contributions to SSBs have been paralleled by a sustained rise in the prevalence of obesity and its comorbidities (42).

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.

Speaking on education in the West, the Governor noted that the downward trend in education should be worrisome due to the role of education in development and bringing enlightenment to the human mind, platform for leadership recruitment and the means for character building and good citizenship.

Growth has been revised down significantly and importantly on a downward trend: 1.5 % of GDP this year (it was two per cent in the spring statement and 1.6 % in the Bank of England's recent report), to 1.4 % next year, and 1.3 % in 2019 and 2020.

In terms of trajectory, v may say that the ccumulation is on downward trend, but the debt stock is not on downward trend» According to Ghana's tota is GHc138.8 making (68.7 gross domes (GDP).

«That downward trend has been going on since» 94, and it actually started in ’92 when [former Mayor] David Dinkins was able to hire extra police officers,» he said.

Consistent with the national trend, the number of women in the Kaiser plan taking hormone replacement therapy plummeted in 2002; from 2003 to 2004, breast cancer incidence slid 18 percent then continued on a downward trajectory.

Particularly worrisome is the accelerated downward trend in the last few years, signaling that some populations just may not be able to cope with fast - changing climatic conditions heaped on top of other existing pressures.

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

«While binge drinking among eighth, 10th, and 12th grade students remains well below the levels seen a decade ago, the downward trend in binge drinking appears to have slowed somewhat in recent years,» said George F. Koob, Ph.D., director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

Many U.S. scientists had hoped to ride out the steady decline in federal funding for biomedical research, but it's continuing on a downward trend with no end in sight.

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.

Ronald Reagan reversed the downward trend in SAT scores almost overnight when his National Commission on Educational Excellence galvanized the nation to take the educational crisis seriously.

It is therefore notable that we find a clear downward trend from about 2010 on, when pension costs began to rise sharply, with newer charter schools much less likely to participate in the state plan.

Issues with school funding and student achievement dropped North Carolina to 40th in the country in a new report card on public education, continuing a downward trend in the rankings for the Tar Heel state.

The analysis focuses on the ELA components of the standards, but what it says about the assumptions driving them and how they were constructed is important: «The blanket condemnation made by the CCSS authors that school reading texts have «trended downward over the last half century» is inaccurate» — particularly so, the authors of the study found, in the K - 3 grades.

McCabe said the best - case scenario is for current levels of production to stay where they are; the APMA's Steve Rodgers told the Windsor Star Canada's downward production trend could be reversed if unions work with automakers on lowering cost, improving productivity and building in innovation.

-- There was (for a time) downward pressure on prices in electronic books in 2010 - 2011, but this trend has pretty well faded and now reversed (except at the high levels of pricing, meaning books above $ 15.99 still find a ton of resistance).

The metrics that track some of these trends - the level of profit margins in relation to sales growth, sector valuation, and a downward drifting earnings surprise rate - are currently highlighting potential intermediate - term risks on the earnings front.

FUTS follows the S&P Strategic Futures Index, which is designed to capitalize on upward and downward trends in the futures markets.

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.

The downward trend in production has been going on for several years, both because of asset sales and because of capital expenditure constraints.

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.

Quantitative concepts, on the other hand, aim to study price patterns to identify whether a stock is in an upward trend or a downward trend.

The downward trend in entries Is likely to have a larger impact on the 90 LE breeds because of the few number of dogs being exhibited.

Clearly, the project to trap, alter, and release cats in San Diego County has had a dramatic effect on the number of cats handled and euthanized at their shelters, which even historical or nationwide downward trends can not explain.

There were a few plumes of ash in December and January but the volcanic activity has been on a downward trend.

«When Nintendo consoles start on the downward trend, they need only unleash games like Mario Kart and The Legend of Zelda which stay in the top ten charts for years, something no other game publisher has ever managed to achieve.»

For starters, some would argue that Resident Evil has been on a bit of a downward trend since the beloved fourth installation in the main series, with side projects like the recently released, yet basically forgotten, Umbrella Corps doing little to build up the series» image.

[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.

After over a year of sideways and downward movement from late 2015 through early 2017, the most recent NASA report shows that over the past year an acceleration in sea level rise has become visible on the NASA graph, even with just a quick glance (then again, while the long term trend is consistently upward, the annual trend is so variable, that it's likely foolish on my part to suggest a change in trend based on the most recent periods of increase which have only been occurring for less than 12 months).