Sentences with phrase «point rate becomes»

Pricing is also set on a sliding scale, and generally the more points you buy the cheaper the per point rate becomes.

Not exact matches

With the country locked in a national debate about what an appropriate living wage should be, pay — in particular the minimum hourly rate — has become a sticking point for many businesses and their workers.

It demonstrates that there is a point at which increasing the rate of taxation becomes counterproductive to raising revenue.

So your argument is that because interest rates have been kept artificially low (effectively ripping everyone off with a manipulated money supply that's becoming more worthless by the day) that paying 6 % for a mortgage (which at one point was low) is getting ripped off?

Morningstar's ratings have become the standard in the industry, to the point where many investors will not buy a fund that doesn't earn either a 4 or 5 - star rating.

The interesting, counterintuitive part about that, as Dave Parkinson points out, is that the bigger the rebound the BoC sees for Q2, the lower the bar for an additional rate cut becomes.

To date, the Federal Reserve has increased the Federal funds rate by 175 basis points in this tightening phase, and recent evidence from the Federal Reserve's survey of senior loan officers suggests that lenders are also becoming somewhat more cautious about extending credit to businesses.

Certainly the Japanese, so its all being done so — with the — Donald Trump wanting to turn around the trade deficit, you can't help but say hey maybe they are actually onto something because they have an independent central bank well --(unintelligible) the independent central bank that goes upon its course based on what its seeing here you know based on domestic economic activity, while everybody else is setting it to international standards then tariffs become the — I guess the alternative especially when the feds is raising the interest rates and they're the only central bank really raising interest rates... I know... the bank of England went half a basis point, quarter basis point and they are project to go a quarter basis point tomorrow which we will see.

So ideally, the Fed's stimulus could get the economy back to a normal rate of growth before inflation becomes a problem, at which point the Fed could taper off its bond buying little by little and gracefully exit the picture.

Instead of talking about Young's amazing shooting displays and historic stat lines, the bigger talking point became his turnover rate and declining efficiency.

If trials are conducted in the heat, or with reduced oxygen content, for example, then continuous knowledge of the distance remaining may become more important as an anchor point in the regulation of work rate.

@ larryking listen jock wenger could never coach anyother club because no big club would go six season without a trophy there is no way wenger could go to madrid and go two season without a trophy no way in hell he would be fired in no time bmunich fired klinsman less than half season look at the real madrid coach grave yard pelligrinie made 95 + points last season that amount would win the league in almost any country yet he got fired i can go on if fergi goes two seasons without a trophy am sure he gone i love arsenal but football is about winning trophies wenger has hypnotize you i do nt care arsenal have gone five years without a trophy and six witout the league not even a carling cup or fa cup and loosing all our best players all for money all this talk about wenger and his youth policies i can count on both hands all the players that came through arsenal youth system that went on to be world beaters look at the current crop walcott nasri diaby denilson bedtner clichy none of these are world class they have improve minimal @ arsenal compare that to barca their youths pedro and co are world beaters event the great vanpercy who we rate he would never leave arsenal because all that chance wenger gives him he would» t get at other big clubs this does not make sense we buy young players they take ages to develop most do nt» t then we sell them or they leave because they want to win things that how you grow pretty soon that top four will become very hard to stay in if we get out of that then what i wish all you wenger fans luck am all out of patients with him last chance this year................

If he adds Worldy's to his game, and changes games when it counts and becomes the focal point of the whole team, he will be rated very, very highly.

All the research points to the potential healthcare savings if doulas become more widely available, due to the lower rates of cesareans, pitocin induction, medical pain relief and more.

At that point, it became my duty to clarify the public record, else the patently erroneous view that multiple and divergent exchange rates and economic policy confusions do not negatively affect FDI, become accepted as truth.

The second point is that no new opposition leader whose initial rating was less than plus 20 has ever become Prime Minister.

While the annual spending document has long produced disagreements over taxes, school aid and hospital reimbursement rates, fights about other public policies — often with minimal fiscal impacts — have now become flash points and stumbling blocks.

It points to five million low - paid workers, a housing market where home ownership rates have halved over the last 20 years, public spending cuts and a brutal welfare squeeze as evidence that the gulf between the well - off and the underprivileged will become permanent.

2 - 3 weekly cardio sessions is a good basic starting point for most people, and you should only throw in additional sessions later on if your rate of fat loss stalls and it becomes necessary.

I don't own any items yet from What Katie Did (when the conversion rate, shipping, and important taxes are factored in, they become fairly steep, as do most repro items from the UK, for me here in Canada, though I do fully believe I'll splurge order from WKD at some point), but I've heard only great things about them for years now.

Such concerns become moot once the picture passes a certain point, however, as Death Wish transforms into just the sort of unapologetically ruthless and violent thriller that rarely gets made nowadays (ie its very existence is a delightful novelty)- with the movie's second half boasting a series of gleefully over-the-top instances of R - rated mayhem (including an awesomely cringeworthy torture sequence involving a scalpel and battery acid).

At this point, the movie becomes a full - out, R - rated farce: frantic, sometimes overly frantic, but often quite funny, as Diaz and Segel gingerly approach various iPad owners in the loop.

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

And then comes an invitation for the dance class — who become viral video stars in a dubious plot development the movie barely bothers to dramatize — to perform in Rome, at which point Finding Your Feet truly comes into its own as a third - rate Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

We are immersed back into the world at a sensibly paced rate and by the time the movie rocks to a close, you have to admit that Mission Impossible finally seems to have found some kind of formula and could potentially become a movie franchise (cue Ghost Protocol and Rogue Nation, proving the point).

Children are becoming overweight at an alarming rate, and mounting evidence points to a relationship between obesity and poor school performance.

At that point they become «professional,» but until then, one rating of «ineffective,» the lowest rating, or two of «improvement necessary,» the second lowest, makes them eligible to be fired.

In Winston - Salem / Forsyth Schools, an urban district that's seeing a prevalence rate of about one percentage point over the state funded rate, it's become increasingly difficult to recruit special education teachers, says finance director Kerry Crutchfield.

Because it varies so wildly, the test - score - based rating will become the tipping point in most evaluations, despite its small percentage.

Once students are a part of BASIS schools, they become part of a school system which sees over 50 % of its students walk out the door before graduation, an attrition rate more than two times higher than West Point.

This handling disparity wasn't terribly evident on public byways driven at sensible speeds, but it became quite apparent when I got the GS 300 and 400 on the road course at Summit Point Raceway: The GS 300 was good, but its tires just didn't have the adhesion of those Z - rated 17 - inchers.

His point being that as ebooks become, proportionately an increasingly important element of the market, all elements of publishing will have to contend with this, and it's hard to see how the royalty rates being debated here today (ebook rates) won't be going up as the counterweight of print lightens.

This task becomes much easier if you limit your shopping to a certain type of mortgage: for example, comparing 30 - year fixed rate mortgages at the same price point is much faster than trying to figure out the relative costs of a 15 - year mortgage against a 5/1 ARM.

At this point, the US has few options but to sell assets to all but dedicated enemies of the US; if we are not willing to cut back our current account deficit in other ways, and our debt becomes unattractive, there are two choices, let the dollar fall until US goods become compelling (with rising interest rates and inflation), or let them buy our assets.

At that point, a key consideration becomes that HELOCs have variable interest rates.

The Points concept can become very confusing, and it works sometimes the other way round (you get a slightly higher nominal interest rate, and some cash in hand to make up for it)

Once you achieve desired credit points it becomes possible to get high loan amounts for low - interest rates to make your dreams come true.

Since up to this point you have spent $ 10,000, and received $ 75 + 78.75 = 153.75 in rewards, your effective rewards rate becomes $ 153.75 / $ 10,000 = 1.5738 %.

I'd think there are only so many banks making such offers, and at some point too much available credit will impact one's credit rating, but for now, I'll take the $ 450, and be sure to make the payment in full when this becomes due.

He became interested in the subject of tipping points and critical mass after having witnessed the sudden drop in crime rates in New York in the 1990s.

During the first six months with the NFL Extra Points Credit Card, there is an introductory APR for regular transactions of 0 %; afterwards, this rate becomes either 15.24 %, 20.24 %, or 25.24 %.

It becomes a major inconvenience — to the point where it may be wiser and less tedious to find a bank that can keep rates competitive rather than to jump from bank to bank for the best rates.

Since student loan refinancing is a fiercely competitive market, borrowers may often be offered the same or similar rates between multiple companies, which means the slight advantages offered by one company may become the tipping point when choosing which to refinance with.

If you ever pair this credit card with either the Chase Sapphire Preferred ® Card or Ink Plus ® Business Credit Card, the value of these points will become $ 0.0125 or higher, pushing the rewards rate to greater limits.

If interest rates go up, there will probably be a «turning point» wherein the traditional mortgage becomes more cost effective.

Rising bond yields (rising interest rates) should at some point become a bullish element for the raw commodity sector (hard assets)..

Paying for points isn't generally done for an adjustable - rate mortgage, because such loans feature a discount at the beginning of the loan and then later become adjustable.

Since the changes earlier this year to these cards» bonus categories, removing drug stores and cell phone expenses, and reducing the bonused earning rate from 6 HHonors points to 5 points on the no - annual - fee card, manufacturing spend on these cards has become a much more questionable value proposition.

This would be welcomed news if 1:1 was to become the new regular rate for transferring MR points to Avios.

With a fixed - value award currency, the best deal has been to redeem for their «Wan na Get Away Fares» at what was once a rate of 1.67 cents per point but will soon become 1.43 cents per point.