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Overall 57.3 percent of students rated a proficient in math, up from 54 percent last year, and 43.9 percent in English language arts, a 1.5 percentage
point rise from last year.
Not exact matches
Most of the homebuilders are U.S. - based, meaning they benefited
from the tax cuts, are shielded
from tariffs and could be helped by
rising wages and higher labor participation, a largely overlooked data
point in the Bureau of Labor Statistics» report.
They apply the famous Peter Principle to hiring managers — «In a hierarchy each employee will
rise to the level of his incompetence» — and
point out that even Google suffers
from this problem.
Safety experts
point to the numbers: U.S. pedestrian deaths have been on the
rise, with 5,376 in 2015 and nearly 6,000 last year, the most in two decades and up 22 percent
from 2014, according to data compiled by the Governors Highway Safety Association for a recent report.
A recent analysis
from Benjamin Tal of CIBC shows that, nationally, at least 25 occupations are experiencing both «rapidly
rising wages and low or falling unemployment rates» — a combination of indicators that
points to skills shortages.
In effect, the BCA set caps mandating that discretionary outlays
rise a couple of
points a year
from a low baseline established by the deep cuts between 2011 and 2013.
What's more, as the authors
point out, the sectors in the U.S. economy that benefit
from more trade, rather than are hurt by it, are
rising.
April 26 - U.S. stock index futures
pointed to a strong open for the tech - heavy Nasdaq on Thursday as a slew of upbeat earnings
from Facebook and Qualcomm helped set aside worries over
rising U.S. bond yields and corporate costs.
The record high levels of consumer debt among Canadians has also raised a red flag
from Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney and others who have warned that interest rates will
rise at some
point — raising the cost of borrowing.
FAIR also
points to
rises in crime
from undocumented workers as an economic and societal threat.
Under her leadership, the average SAT scores of the entering freshman class increased by nearly 50
points, and participation in global semester study abroad
rose from 25 percent to 75 percent.
Despite a shortfall of workers, average hourly pay
rose just 2.4 percent
from a year ago, one - half percentage
point lower than September's annual gain.
But you can still extract several lessons
from King's oration about what it takes to
rise to a high - pressure moment — and deliver an on -
point message that resonates with your audience.
The first two
points are limited in the impact they demonstrate: The Temple study showed no decrease in DUI deaths on weekends, when the cost of UberX rides tends to
rise with demand - based pricing, while the data
from Seattle is only
from that one city.
The share of part - time work among university - educated Canadians also
rose from 10 per cent in the 1990s to 13.5 per cent today, with the gap relative to high - school graduates narrowing to only one percentage
point.
Year - over-year, Windows Phone's share of the U.S. smartphone market
rose to 4.1 percent
from 2.7 percent; in Great Britain, it
rose to 6.7 percent
from 3 percent; in Australia, it
rose to 3.4 percent
from 1.7 percent; and, in Italy, it posted a gain of 7.7 percentage
points,
rising to 13.1 percent
from 5.4 percent.
D'Avignon
pointed out that Alberta and B.C. have the most integrated economies in Canada and if costs
rise in B.C., it will affect the cost of trade goods going to Alberta and the cost to ship Alberta products such as grain
from West Coast ports.
Data
from China's National Bureau of Statistics showed the consumer price index
rose 3.2 percent in February
from a year ago, versus expectations of a 3.0 percent
rise, while annual industrial production (IP) growth in January and February combined at 9.9 percent was the lowest since October 2012 - the starting
point of China's nascent economic recovery.
In July, the proportion of Americans aged 25 through 54 who had a job or were looking for one
rose to 81.8 percent, up a half - percentage
point from a year earlier and the highest since December 2010.
Announcing the report findings, commissioner for census and statistics Leslie Tang Wai - kong
pointed out that the Gini coefficient - an index
from 0 to 1 that measures the wealth gap - for households
rose by 0.002
from 0.537 in 2011 to a record high of 0.539 last year.
Additionally, Love's percentage of shots
from two -
point range fell
from 64.5 % to 58.8 % last year, while his three -
point attempts
rose 35.5 % to 41 %.
The 10 - year U.S. Treasury yield
rose 5.2 basis
points to 3.035 percent on Wednesday, driven by worries about the growing supply of government debt and inflationary pressures
from rising oil prices.
The figure shows clearly that the cash cost of a residential property in terms of weeks of labour time remained roughly constant all the way
from 1970 to 1986, at which
point housing prices in Canada (and in particular in the Toronto area)
rose drastically during the next three years.
This makes sense given how bonds are structured, but I think many investors miss this
point when they worry about the potential risks
from rising interest rates.
In fact there is a regular pattern that we see when debt levels
rise in a country to the
point at which either we suffer
from a debt crisis or
from a lost decade of difficult adjustment.
As was widely noticed, we also refrained
from making the
point we have been making for the past year or so about it «being unlikely that there would be no further
rises in the course of the expansion».
Smith
points to the threats the pipeline poses to British Columbia's tourism industry,
rising floodwaters in Bangladesh and the Maldives, drought in sub-Saharan Africa and Mexico, the homes that will be lost in future forest fires, respiratory health impacts in communities
from Vancouver to Kamloops and Quesnel, and future hurricanes in the Caribbean and Gulf states as climate impacts that are left out of the narrative about the project.
The price of insulin has skyrocketed in recent years, with the three manufacturers — Sanofi, Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly — raising the list prices of their products in near lock step, prompting outcry
from patient groups and doctors who have
pointed out that the
rising prices appear to have little to do with increased production costs.
Long bonds will end up being a very volatile investment at some
point once rates or inflation
rise from current levels, but intermediate - term bonds should continue to dampen stock market volatility.
China has managed to meet the GDP growth target of 6.7 percent, the level of economic activity presumably needed to keep unemployment
from rising, only by increasing total debt by a frightening amount equal to a 40 — 45 percentage
points of GDP.
When this happens and as debt levels
rise relative to debt servicing capacity, at some
point the major stakeholders — including businesses, creditors, household savers, workers and so on — became uncertain enough about how this gap will be allocated that they take steps to protect themselves
from this uncertainty.
From the U.S. vantage
point this is the perfect pattern of growth: countries become more dependent on supplying the American economy with what it needs, at falling world prices, and buying what U.S. producers can supply, at
rising terms of trade.
In contrast, the S&P 500 index
rose from 102
points to 2275
points in that time, an annualized gain of 6.7 %.
As for inventories, OECD stocks held steady in July
from a month earlier, which is actually a bullish sign given that they typically
rise at this
point in the year.
Highlighting this, the latest survey
pointed to the sharpest
rise in new work
from abroad for seven months.
The share of Web traffic
from non-PC devices for directories / resources
rose more than 20 percentage
points from 6 % to 27 % of all Web traffic over the course of the year.
of 1,991 registered voters, 62 percent say the administration is running somewhat or very chaotically, a
rise of 4 percentage
points from a
In an April 26 - May 1 survey of 1,991 registered voters, 62 percent say the administration is running somewhat or very chaotically, a
rise of 4 percentage
points from a March 15 - 19 poll and 8
points from a March 1 - 5 poll.
«I would
point out only that if you look at the
rise in the Dow for example, some 20 % or so is just
from the
rise of Goldman Sachs» (GS) value and that if you look at financials broadly they account for something like a third of that increase.
The
rising share of adults in the lower - and upper - income tiers is at the farthest
points of the income distribution, distant
from the vicinity of the middle.
If you somehow earn a link
from a high - authority national site like Huffington Post while you're still in your infancy as a brand, you could easily move up several
points in terms of domain authority, resulting in a kind of «
rising tide» that increases all your ranks significantly.
Nonetheless, it
rose a full percentage
point from 34.3 % in the first quarter a year ago — the fifth consecutive quarter it has gone up on an annual basis.
At this
point, it's human nature to say — as I've often heard
from clients over the last 39 years, whenever short rates
rise above long rates — why buy a 20 - year bond when I get a higher yield on a 2 - year piece of paper?
After market participants appeared largely prepared for a hawkish update
from the Fed in March, to accompany a well - flagged 25 basis -
point rise in the fed funds target rate, some were surprised by the restrained tone of its statement.
«The distinction amongst the sturdy pound and the weakening euro and
rising marketplace currencies — with each other with weak
point in these economies — assist to drive profit warnings
from the internationally - uncovered FTSE one hundred to a document high.»
Portuguese 10 yr yield falls 100 bps and 2 yr down 188 bps on the week 2) June Euro region mfr» g and services composite index unchanged at 46, well below 50 and
points to clear slowing but was a touch better than expected 3) Lack of a negative rather than a positive but Syriza loses in Greece 4) NAHB home builder survey hangs at 5 yr high at 29 but remains still well below breakeven of 50 5
From construction standpoint, housing permits
rise to most since Sept» 08.
The recent widening of this spread is, of course, much smaller than was seen in 1994 in the previous episode of globally
rising bond yields, when the yield on 10 - year bonds in Australia moved
from 1 percentage
point to about 3 percentage
points above the comparable US yield.
Since the September low
point last year US 10 - Year bond yields have
risen 90bps, this compares to 125bps
from the low
point in July 2016 through to March 2017, or if you count it as one big move they've gone up 158bps.
The MNI Chicago Business Barometer
rose 0.2
points to 57.6 in April, up
from 57.4 in March, snapping a three - month downward trend.