Sentences with phrase «points all year long»

Six decades before the most famous seasons in Mustangs history, SMU gave up nine points all year long and dominated the Southwest Conference.

Every student is in a «house» or «clan,» and these groups compete for points all year long.

You can dive Angol Point all year long.

Not exact matches

Postelection selling of longer - dated maturities ran yields up by as much as 90 basis points, with the 10 - year briefly crossing 2.60 % on two separate occasions.

But he points to a report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer released earlier this year showing that, since 2009, the debt service ratio — a measure of income spent to pay debt — has remained steady at around 14 per cent, not much higher than the long - term average.

The boiling point was due sooner or later, Diebert says, because eventually some insiders — such as the NSA's William Binney, who last year spilled the beans on Stellar Wind, and PRISM's Edward Snowden — would find that they could no longer stomach what they were doing.

The company had been in business for just over a year at that point, suggesting that focusing on closed - end funds was not the most viable long - term strategy.

The longest portion of the offering, a 30 - year security, yields 1.95 percentage points above Treasuries, after initial talk of around 2.15 percentage points, according to people with knowledge of the matter, who asked not to be identified as the details are private.

If previous years are any indication, it'll be a long show that could turn boring at points.

The longest - term portion of the offering, $ 8 billion of bonds maturing in 30 years, sold originally at 99.4 cents on the dollar to yield 1.95 percentage point more than comparable Treasuries.

In a sign of market interest, the longest portion of the offering, a 40 - year security may yield 1.45 percentage points above Treasuries, down from initial talk of 1.6 percentage points to 1.65 percentage points, said the person, who asked not to be identified as the deal is private.

(All Points West was sunk by bad weather and transportation issues after two years; rain and a last - minute relocation took down Long Island's Field Day after one.)

Long before today's perceived energy crisis, PowerLight was perfecting its patented system — an array of panels that sit on top of a roof, thereby protecting and insulating it — to the point where the company now offers a 20 - year warranty.

But Wambach is also making a point that other women have echoed, in a year of major achievements for women in leadership positions in professional sports: Eventually, they hope it will no longer be a big story when a female athlete, or a woman working in some other capacity in sports, reaches new heights.

The biggest one to date for a biosimilar product in the U.S. — the treatments have only been around for a handful of years in America despite widespread and long - standing availability in Europe and other regions — Renflexis may ultimately not do much to curb health care and patient spending, as the Wall Street Journal «s Charley Grant points out in an astute note.

«For 30 years, interest rates have been coming down, lower highs and lower lows but we're at a point now in terms of a long - term trend line where 2.6 percent represents the point where an interest rate reversal should take place.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- There was a sharp rise in reports of sexual assault at the US Military Academy at West Point in the last academic year, according to a Pentagon study released on Wednesday, highlighting an issue that has long plagued the military and its academies.

As for when the current six - year bull market will lose steam, Lee pointed to two preconditions that marked the downturn in three similar long - lasting rallies.

Recent economic data point to some growth firming, inflation remains hard to find and long - term rates are up by barely 10 basis points (bps) from where they started the year, according to data accessible via Bloomberg.

Seven years later, he upset a long - standing Massachusetts incumbent after trailing by 32 points the summer before the election.

What's more, as Buffett points out, he's a long - term investor, so looking at the year - to - year investment and return on a given business doesn't make a lot of sense.

Ken Dickson, investment director for currencies at Standard Life Investments, points out that over the longer term, like two or three years, markets have always broken pegs.

The note says that «the Apple Watch is a very modest threat this year as current interest in the running community appears low, but Apple's product positioning, the likely addition of GPS and likely lower price points in future versions are significant long - term headwinds.»

It is also fair to point out that this move continues a three - or four - year long period in which the biggest public cloud providers got bigger by virtue of massive spending on their own data center infrastructure and smaller players scrambled to stay relevant.

So if we can expect 3 more quarter - point hikes this year it would seem to make sense to stick to short - term CDs yielding around 2 % now and then look for a longer - term one at around 3.5 % at EOY, especially if one — I am in this camp — thinks that by EOY the odds of recession will have risen enough that further rate hikes in 2019 will be looking doubtful.

Gold surges toward $ 1400 / oz, S&P 500 tumbles to 2000, 10 - year Treasury yield to 1.5 %; if credit spreads don't crack (e.g. IBOXHYSE < 500bps) and Mexico peso finds quick low = entry point for risk - takers (especially if Trump protectionist fears allayed); until then best Trump trades = long gold, short EU banks, long US small - cap, short EM.

At the point the growth began to slow, the multiple would contract, meaning that even if its earnings do grow 600 % in the next few years, if it becomes subject to the law of big numbers - that ever increasing amounts eventually forge their own anchor - the result would be a market capitalization substantially similar to today, leading to no increase in the stock price over a long period of time.

Mr. Wang recalled a story of how on a long drive near his hometown years earlier his father pointed out all of the tunnels and bridges in China built using his cement.

At this point, health care is one issue I have chosen to deal with on a year - to - year basis, while also knowing that future changes might require us to work longer than we'd hoped.

Auto loans stretching six or seven years are often criticized as a poor choice because they leave borrowers underwater for years before they finally get to a point where the vehicle is no longer in negative equity.

Both long and short - term rates retreated, sending the yield on the 10 - year Treasury roughly 20 basis points (0.2 percent) below its June 10, 2015 peak.

But they also took a longer point of view, thinking ahead two years to pull the organizations together carefully.

My concern has always been that I won't have enough money for a long retirement, but I won't realize it until I'm 10 years into retirement, at which point it's MUCH harder to «get a real job» again.

At some point, if these policies are inflationary, then the vigilantes or those that hold dollar reserves, such as China and Brazil and Mexico, they will be in the driver's seat in terms of longer - term Treasury debt, 10 years and 30 years Treasury debt in terms of their yield.

Gross pointed to the long - term success of the Total Return Fund, while acknowledging the tough year the fund saw in 2011, when it experienced significant net outflows after he bet against the bond market.

As for my previously mentioned upper body issues, I am always reminded to keep a heavy tailbone and flat back for good posture, so those issues are long gone and my posture has improved immensely (which was apparently a problem for years before my previous physical therapist pointed it out!)

Case in point: Brazilian consumers have long paid sales taxes on online purchases, unlike in the United States, where internet commerce got a break in its early years.

But this week the 10 - year Treasury lost roughly 1.4 points, which translated into a 15 basis point jump in its yield to 2.84 % The long bond closed over 3 %.

According to a 10 - Q filed by Bank of America earlier this year, a 100 - basis - point increase in both long - term and short - term lending rates would boost its interest income by $ 6 billion, which is essentially double (if not more) what its closest peers, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase, would see in interest income increases.

Taking a look at our longer - term gross margin trends, it's important to note that this quarter's 10 basis point improvement was against the 50 basis point improvement a year ago, with both front - end and pharmacy cycling strong margins.

The salient points are (I) inflation is below target and expected to remain well sub-target for the next 5 10 20 and 30 years; (II) it has been well below target and Fed forecasts for a decade suggesting great skepticism about models that predict acceleration (iii) the 2 percent target is supposed to be an average so inflation should sometimes exceed it especially after a long shortfall (iv) if the 9th year of expansion with unemployment approaching 4 percent is not the time for above target inflation when will that moment ever come?

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

It's a massive, complex historical process, of course; but the point to keep in mind is that the post-war world — certainly that world for the U.S. — is coming to the end of its long, 73 - year run.

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?

The discount - point strategy is best suited for long - term housing scenarios, as opposed to a short stay of only a few years (learn more).

According to Bloomberg data, U.S. equities, as measured by the S&P 500 Index, barely budged; long - term U.S. Treasury rates are currently trading within 10 basis points (bps) of where they were on January 1; and, with the exception of the last two weeks of the year, the Federal Reserve (Fed) sat on its hands.

In the US, they are up by about 180 basis points since their safe - haven related lows in October last year following the Russian default, the near collapse of Long - Term Capital Management, and subsequent problems in Latin America (Graph 6).

The increase of around 1 percentage point in long - term interest rates over the course of this year was associated with a fall in dwelling investment in the September quarter.

Martin Feldstein, a long - time euro skeptic, in this month's Foreign Affairs magazine made the point this way: «During the past year, Germany had a trade surplus of nearly $ 200 billion, whereas the other members of the eurozone had trade deficits totaling $ 200 billion.

The more pronounced movements in longer - term bond yields saw the spread between the yield on 10 - year bonds and the cash rate rise in net terms over recent months to around 65 basis points.