Sentences with phrase «past year of uncertainty»

For one publisher, though, the past year of uncertainty is starting to look up.

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Although US Treasuries have been sliding since the beginning of the year, the uncertainty and volatility that we have seen in the past few weeks have pushed yields back down, forcing 10 - year Treasuries to close last week at 2.77 % — a level far away from the psychological 3 % level many have been waiting for.

In the past year a number of news reporters and others have asked if the CBOE Volatility Index ® (VIX ®) was at an unusually «low» level in light of all the worldwide geopolitical uncertainties.

Meantime, given all of the uncertainty around the company, the stock is down another 25 percent this year and more than 50 percent over the past 12 months.

Even though Australia's average inflation performance over the past five years has been superior to those of the traditional low - inflation countries, international markets still require compensation for inflation uncertainty, because of Australia's longer - term history.

Given the uncertainties of interpretation, it seems unwise to put too much emphasis on changes in employment over short periods; viewed over the past year, employment has been sluggish, and does not appear to have accelerated further since the initial pick - up in the September quarter 1996.

Gold, meanwhile, screamed past $ 1,300 an ounce to hit a two - year high, proving again that the yellow metal is sound money and fervently sought by investors worldwide as a safe haven during times of economic and political uncertainty.

But, that would be their only defeat in the Premier League, fifteen weeks in, shows how far this team from North London have come since the days of uncertainty under a catalog of managers handpicked by Daniel Levy in these past few years, tossing them around for fun at the slightest sight of implosion.

The level of agita over the mayor's role in campaigns outside the city underscores the uncertainty over the Senate: The Republicans, who have ruled the chamber for most of past 50 years, are clinging to power only by dint of an alliance with a Democrat, Simcha Felder of Brooklyn.

Over the course of the past few years, I've experienced a high volume of personal transition and uncertainty.

Mami Sunada's documentary, while quite the insider's and fan's film, is also a deeply elegiac portrait of the labour and laboriousness, flecked with uncertainty and doubt, behind some of the finest art - and imagination - fuelled films of the past 30 years.

And though I've led a fair many readers to winning their Oscar pools in the past (you're welcome), this year presents a degree of higher uncertainty, if only because so many of the lower tier picks could bump between The Revenant and Mad Max: Fury Road.

In a statement, Emanuel said, «In the past, there has been too much uncertainty around changes to our schools: year after year, Chicago Public Schools did not do an adequate job of engaging communities in these critical decisions, and year after year students, families and communities were left wondering of what was to come.

At the same time, there's an air of uncertainty in the ultimate outcome — one that, in years past, wasn't present — or at least wasn't so obvious.

«The real value [now] we think is in U.S. health care» because stocks of companies in that sector have been punished over the past couple of years because of uncertainty about health care reform, and government regulation, he said.

When you extend the timeframe to a decade, the uncertainty drops dramatically, even faster than we would expect if each year's return were independent of the past.

We believe that the poor economy, high unemployment, tight credit markets, and heightened uncertainty in financial markets during the past two years have adversely impacted discretionary consumer spending, including spending on the types of electronic devices that are accessorized by our products.

Volatility and uncertainty aren't «unusual», they've been characteristic of the stock market for the past 200 years.

First, the past few years have been full of global economic uncertainty, and some emerging markets have been hit particularly hard after a period of rapid growth.

The three destinations» tourism industries have been hit hard by a combination of political uncertainty and terrorist attacks over the past few years, prompting many travel companies to withdraw from or severely limit their presence.

Over the past 10 years, various actors, screenwriters, and directors have come and gone, possibly hinting at a lack of confidence among the relevant parties in Hollywood that the film can actually succeed, as well as a degree of uncertainty within the ranks of series publisher Sony itself as to what form an Uncharted film should even take.

NEW YORK — Despite continued uncertainty about the economy, many museums saw improvements in their financial health last year, reaping the benefits of cutbacks and other cautionary fiscal measures taken in the recent past.

Given the uncertainties, the SH and global reconstructions are compatible with the possibility of warmth similar to the most recent decade during brief intervals of the past 1,500 years...»

we use global - scale atmospheric CO2 measurements, CO2 emission inventories and their full range of uncertainties to calculate changes in global CO2 sources and sinks during the past 50 years.

As it is, the uncertainty surrounding the extension of the credits has made it impossible for solar and wind companies to forecast and plan for projects past this year.

The past year, according to the NASA group (the «meteorological year» from December through November), is between the 7th and 12th warmest (because of the range of uncertainty in readings) since systematic meteorological record - keeping began in 1880.

This could actually be the wording of a standard skeptic position... 3) Mann et al's claim that the ’90 and 1998 are record - breaking decade and year in the context of the past millennium are dismissed, given the uncertainties.

Regarding the Hockey Stick of IPCC 2001 evidence now indicates, in my view, that an IPCC Lead Author working with a small cohort of scientists, misrepresented the temperature record of the past 1000 years by (a) promoting his own result as the best estimate, (b) neglecting studies that contradicted his, and (c) amputating another's result so as to eliminate conflicting data and limit any serious attempt to expose the real uncertainties of these data.

A reconstruction of Northern Hemisphere temperature from stalagmites shows that while the uncertainty range (grey area) is significant, the temperature in the latter 20th Century exceeds the maximum estimate over the past 500 years (Smith 2006).

But there is a potential problem: I don't know how precisely the experimentalists have pegged these values either for current years (when direct measurements are possible) or in past years (when direct measurments likely weren't done) It may be the uncertainty bounds from in experiments are rather large giving modelers quite a bit of leeway.

Uncertainty surrounding the extensions and modifications of the federal production tax credit (PTC) over the past several years led to large fluctuations in annual wind additions.

To elaborate slightly on my above point, the cause / effect relationship between CO2 and temperature derived from data spanning more than 400 million years, and operating within uncertainty margins that can be quantified with reasonable probability requires the existence of a prominent CO2 signal in the record of the past half century.

Taking into account these substantial uncertainties, Mann et al. (1999) concluded that the 1990s were likely to have been the warmest decade, and 1998 the warmest year, of the past millennium for at least the Northern Hemisphere.

But because we are likely moving into a future where water delivery may be very different from past years, there is significant uncertainty in the use of these current models to predict the distribution of future water.»

By Dr. Tim Ball It is not surprising that Roe and Baker explained in a 2007 Science paper that, «The envelope of uncertainty in climate projections has not narrowed appreciably over the past 30 years, despite tremendous increases in computing power, in observations, and in the number of scientists studying the problem.»

This year, uncertainty was even more pronounced than in the past, despite the inclusion of more response options for participants.

With nonstationary statistics the standard error of the fit over past years is not a good measure of the uncertainty in the prediction.

Having met Richard Betts I not only like him but would consider him somewhat sceptical, in as much he is not certain that todays climate is unprecedented and admits to great uncertainties about the past couple of thousand years.

We show that (i) Siberian station temperature adjustments were up to 1.3 °C for decadal means before 1940, (ii) tree - ring detrending effects in the order of 0.620130.8 °C, and (iii) calibration uncertainties up to about 0.4 °C over the past 110 years.

As is often the case with these proxy reconstructions, the authors found the error bars in the reconstruction (the uncertainty) increased further back in time, due to a decreasing number of proxy records, and was not useful past 1,450 years ago.

Each of the various alternative versions where these sub-networks of proxy data have been excluded fall almost entirely within the uncertainties of the full reconstruction for at least the past 1100 years, while larger discrepancies are observed further back for the reconstruction without either tree - ring data or the 7 series in question, owing to the extreme sparseness of the resulting sub-network.

the committee will summarize current scientific information on the temperature record for the past 1,000 - 2,000 years, describe the main areas of uncertainty and how significant they are, describe the principal methodologies used and any problems with these approaches, and explain how central the debate over the paleoclimate temperature record is to the state of scientific knowledge on global climate change.

(re) established in this blog we have: — there is an Atlantic oscillation, which might produce a 30 year long rising surface temperature trend — the sunspot number had some (positive) correlation with the climate in the past and is unusual high for the last 50 years — there might be uncertainties in the temperature measurements (UHI for example)-- specially for Tony: around 1880 it was cold most likely because of the sun!

Add the facts in trend: The oceans are acidifying, The climate has already shifted 4 degrees of latitude in the past 30 years; the Arctic will likely be virtually ice free during the summer melt within the decade, all the uncertainty ranges are positive and none of them are negative, CO2 is plant food, but what does that mean when the oxygen levels are dropping, the Hoover dam is supposed to shut down in 2023 due to no water (latitudinal shift), the Yangtze in China is getting very low, etc. etc..

Even assuming uncertainties, nuclear power has saved at least hundreds of thousands of lives in the past forty years, and possibly millions.

They include those items ignored, glossed over, or deliberately misrepresented; projections are consistently wrong; the science has not advanced, a 2007 paper in Science by Roe and Baker concludes; «The envelope of uncertainty in climate projections has not narrowed appreciably over the past 30 years, despite tremendous increases in computing power, in observations, and in the number of scientists studying the problem»; and claims of impending disasters that simply do not make scientific sense.

Tom Broughton, Group Brand Director of the Lloyds Bank National Business Awards said: «Given the economic uncertainty over the past year, it is inspiring more than ever to see British businesses prosper.

Although some of these geopolitical risks remain unimproved, we believe that the political and economic environment will now stabilise and improve after having recovered from the attempted coup in the past year and the clearance of the uncertainty caused by the sequential elections.

The big issue with any election is uncertainty, which is not good for business and, following the global political turmoil of the past few years, the public are less certain on opinion polls, so may be nervous of the outcome.

That said, there have been a number of decisions in the past couple of years which have upheld arguably unlawful termination clauses in favour of employers, thus creating uncertainty for employees and a possible incentive for employers to not even meet minimum ESA requirements for severance.