Sentences with phrase «past decade lower»

Over the past decade lower volatility stocks in the S&P 500 have outperformed the index as a whole.

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Over the past decade, domestic consumption's share of the economy has plunged from around half to a miniscule 35 %, the lowest of any significant economy ever, according to Michael Pettis, a finance professor at Peking University whose online writings have become must - reads for those eager to divine what's really going on in China.

Hyundai and Kia both increased their shares of the U.S. new - vehicle market in the past decade, particularly during the economic downturn of 2008 to 2010 when consumers sought out fuel - efficient and relatively low - priced vehicles.

In fact, of those eight films, five of them have made less at the box office than Crash, which is currently the fifth - lowest grossing film of the past four decades (in terms of sales adjusted for inflation).

His thesis is that the primary drivers of the banks» growth over the past two decades (lower corporate taxes, a favourable regulatory environment allowing consolidation in the sector) will no longer be as significant, and a number of challenges — including new regulations — will slow their growth.

The problem, he warned, is that Canada's workforce is rapidly aging, while its companies are stuck in a low productivity gear, putting the country on track to generate only half of the annual growth in the next few decades that Canadians have come to expect over the past 50 years.

ETFs, which typically have lower fees than mutual funds, have enjoyed several-fold growth in assets over the past decade as investors have sought to reduce the overall cost of their investments.

But it won't happen for a while for one reason: On average the folks who pocketed those nearly double - digit gains in past decades were buying at far lower prices than the big valuations prevailing today.

However this will be a gradual process and prices are likely to remain in the lower end of the range in place over the past decade.

Thus far, The Artist has grossed more than US$ 30 million in theatres, making it the second - lowest grossing best picture winner of the past three decades.

The state's oil production grew tenfold over the past decade as it built a thriving oil shale industry virtually from scratch, driving unemployment to a national low and filling government coffers with surging tax revenue.

The ratio has previously been this low only six times during the past two decades; whenever that happens, stocks have rallied over the next year by more than 50 %, on average.

At the same time, however, these figures are lower than average U.S. - Mexico trade imbalances for most of the past decade.

This was partly because low coffee prices prevailing during the past decade encouraged under - investment in infrastructure.

Here are the five lowest - grossing Best Picture winners of the past four decades.

Even with a boost in ticket sales potentially on the way, though, Birdman is currently among the lowest - grossing Best Picture winners at the Academy Awards over at least the past four decades.

Brazil's World Cup is a fiscal fiasco: Brazil has enjoyed a certain swagger over the past decade, as rising incomes and low unemployment fuelled a sustained burst of growth.

Now as economic indicators like low unemployment and increased consumer spending tick toward the positive, many economists are pointing to a limited rate hike as a way to move the economy towards normalcy after the volatility of the past decade.

Central banks are signaling they will lean toward supporting demand by taking care to remove the record low interest rates of the past decade.

For instance, the U-6 rate measure that covers individuals who gave up looking for a job, or those who work part - time but want to work full - time, dropped to 86 percent in April, the lowest level in the past decade.

Yet another critical factor is often overlooked in explanations of low interest rates: a structural rise in risk aversion and savings over the past two decades.

The past decade has been a relatively good time for companies to hold debt as funding costs were low and bond investors were willing to snap up virtually any new offering.

Although this might still be regarded as quite high in absolute terms, it is towards the lower end of the range in which it has fluctuated in the past two decades.

The speech goes on to note that, although the economy performed well overall, the average growth rate of real GDP has been lower in the past decade than the one before.

To conclude, over the past decade and in a very volatile world, Australia has achieved the inflation target, avoided a major economic downturn, seen remarkably little variability in real economic activity in the face of enormous shocks, experienced a fairly low average rate of unemployment, and had a stable financial system as well.

It notes that global growth was lower and much more variable in the past ten years than in the preceding decade.

Washington's mortgage rates have been lower than the national average rates for the past decade.

Overall, cash returned to shareholders is much lower today — even with the recent surge instigated by activist campaigns — than in decades past when the economy enjoyed much more robust growth.

For much of the past decade there has been a growing recognition that Chinese growth has been seriously unbalanced, as Premier Wen put it, and that at the heart of the imbalance has been the very low consumption share of GDP.

Even if the growth rates of nominal GDP and U.S. corporate revenues (including foreign revenues) over the coming 20 years match their 4 % growth rate of the past 20 years, and even if the most reliable valuation measures merely touch their historical norms 20 years from today, the S&P 500 Index two decades from now will trade more than 20 % lower than where it trades today.

A lot of wealth has been generated in China in the past three or four decades, and the household share of that wealth is among the lowest ever recorded.

Yet on the whole, given their positive experience both with receiving more income than they could get from the fixed - income sector in recent years and the potential for capital appreciation over the long haul, dividend stocks and the ETFs that own them have demonstrated their long - term value to the investors who've gravitated toward them during the low - rate environment of the past decade.

If five years from now the yield simply returned to its level of a decade ago (and just in case you think I'm cherry picking, over the past 25 years it has averaged a 7.5 % yield and at the low in 1981 was twice that), bond investors would suffer a meaningful loss of capital.

These are helpful.You are right that market failures have hit elder popluation in heavy way in past decade or so, and on top of that the fed locks interest at artificial rate low, so if we did save like our wise elder and financial advisors told us to do, we now get about nothing at all in interest return on those life savings.

What is more, despite the increase over the past decade, household debt is still at a relatively low level in China.

Since risk spreads for most borrowers have also declined this means that overall borrowing costs for rated borrowers, corporate and most governments, are low by the standards of the past few decades.

Inflation has remained at historically low levels over much of the past decade, well below the US Federal Reserve's target of 2 %.

In the final three months of last year the US dollar declined by 8 per cent against the euro and 7 per cent against the yen, to be around its lowest level in the past decade.

Such an expectation seems awfully low for a company that has grown profits by over 20 % compounded annually for the past decade.

The recent decline in the dollar is coming off those lofty levels; the U.S. Dollar Index is still trading more than 10 % above where it was when the post-QE3 run began in 2014, and more than 25 % above the low of the past decade (set in 2008).

Rates today are historically much lower than during past decades.

At this level, the unemployment rate is close to the cyclical lows reached during the past two decades.

In the past several weeks, the Canadian dollar has hovered between 69 and 75 cents U.S., in its lowest exchange rate in over a decade.

Growth of non-farm GDP over the latest four quarters for which we have data was just over 4 per cent; domestic demand, while slowing a little from its most recent peak, expanded by 5 1/2 per cent over that period; employment growth over the past year has been around trend, though lower in recent months, and the unemployment rate has remained close to the lower end of the range in which it has fluctuated over the past two decades.

To tie all these topics together, below is a new bracket with 8 benchmark indexes that shows that two indexes that buy VIX call options (LOVOL and VXTH) had the lowest standard deviations over the past decade.

Debt servicing ratios of both the corporate and unincorporated sectors have been lower for the past couple of years than at any time in the preceding decade (Graph 6).

The ratio of gold prices versus silver prices is now up to the type of high reading that in the past 2 decades has marked an important low for both gold and silver prices.

Although the low interest rate environment over the past decade has compressed bank NIMs, we expect U.S. - led reflation — rising nominal growth, wages and inflation — to accelerate.

In our view, with investment management fees coming down significantly over the past decade, it is entirely possible for plan sponsors to add skilled active management to their core lineup, at lower cost than in the past and with potentially broader opportunities than index funds alone.

Statistcs show giving to charities are at an all time low and have been dropping over the past decade even before the economic recession.