Sentences with phrase «points over government»

This represents a mouth - watering advantage of 1.5 to 5.5 percentage points over government bonds, depending upon how much risk you are prepared to assume.

Not exact matches

It turns out the index has jumped into territory that exceeds what it registered in 2013 at the time of the last government shutdown, notching well over 400 points.

These riches were at least as important to the Eritrean government as they were to Nevsun: by various estimates Bisha would provide about US$ 1 billion in royalties and revenues over its life, and raise the country's annual GDP by several percentage points.

Greven points out that when Kube's last company, Performance Software, took the same step, 150 government agencies signed on to their services over the course of three years.

While an opinion poll on Saturday gave Fine Gael a one - point lead over Fianna Fail and suggested another minority government as the most likely outcome, Dublin City University politics lecturer Eoin O'Malley said Monday's events would also hurt them.

The latest jobs numbers prove a point: Putting government policy over business interests has been a disastrous failure for the American worker.

The Australian bourse has clocked up its best two - day gain in over 33 years after the market closed four per cent higher, following the biggest point gain ever on Wall Street and news of the federal government's $ 10.4 billion economic stimulus package.

Interest rates will inevitably rise, as the Bank of Canada keeps pointing out, and the federal government has instituted numerous changes over the past few years that will make a home purchase more difficult for first - time buyers.

On Sept. 5 of this year, the Dow dropped 234 points amid a series of potentially volatile political events, including the debate over raising the debt ceiling, a possible government shutdown, and threats from Trump over trade policy with China.

Ryan Avent pointed out that even if we enacted Trump's massive tax cuts and spending increaes, adding $ 34 trillion in new debt over the next two decades, our ratio of debt to GDP two decades from now would still be 30 percentage points less than Japan's government debt ratio is right now... and the market is still buying their negative interest rate long term debt...

At a time when markets are pointing to the problem over the next generation as being inadequate rather than excessive inflation, central bankers need to spur demand and co-operate with governments.

Points raised in the blog post include the following: - Public operating spending by BC's provincial government has decreased over the past 20 years.

In addition, the risk of fiscal slippage has also diminished given the government's large fiscal adjustment over 2015 - 2016, suggesting a transition to the B3 rating level in coming years is unlikely at this point.

China's benchmark 10 - year government bond yield traded just shy of 4 percent in early December, up almost 100 basis points over the course of 2017.

For «A» rated corporates, the spread over government bonds of comparable maturity is currently about 100 basis points, which is noticeably wider than a couple of years ago (Graph 32).

As illustrated in the figure above, the 10 - Year Treasury Note rate has increased by 67 basis points while the mortgage risk premium, which reflects the added risk of mortgage borrowers over the federal government, fell by one basis point.

As evidenced by the entire span of available historical data, the elevation of profit margins is directly related — not only in overall level, but also in their point - to - point change over time — to the sum of government and household saving.

My kids are on government school lunches and we get heating assistance and at one point he owed me over $ 50,000 in unpaid support while draining me with legal fees....

This is very far from being a new analysis: Family and Youth Concern, still battling away, was doing pioneering work over 30 years ago (for which its founder, Valerie Riches, was deservedly made a papal dame), pointing out how disastrous for society the undermining of the traditional family based on marriage - not least by successive governments - really was.

Fair enough, I mean, you make a valid point that one of the biggest things about the democractic party is trying to legislate so many different things when there are certain aspects of my life that the government should have 0 say over.

Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, and which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind.

The point is not that we should rule the offensive illegal, which is why the courts are correct to strike down efforts to regulate speech that some people do not like, and even most speech that hurts; the advantages of yielding to the government so much power over what we say have never been shown to outweigh the dangers.

On this latter point the Government lost in the House of Lords over their efforts to force us to employ such people.

Actually, the problem is that the government & IRS has effectively censored the churches to a point that any type of discussion over politics wipes out their non-profit status with the IRS.

The point is this: Over time, and especially after the Wars of Religion and the French Revolution, the «confessional state» — a state committed to advancing the true Catholic religion and suppressing religious error — became the standard Catholic model for government.

I knew when Bush cited the 1,000 points of light he really meant for people to take over care of the poor to let government i.e. wealthy tax payers off the hook.

You asked where out youth system is, well where was yours when Fabregas was on your books??? Now weve turned him into the player he is today you want him back and think you have some claim over him because your greedy bastards and think you have the right to do as you please because the spanish banks and governments will bail you out... ha ha ha you plank, im sure you would point to messi as a product of your GREAT youth academy yet if we were to point to Fabregas, Song, Van Persie, Clichy, Ashley cole and Wilshere you would no doubt claim he is spanish.....

The government is seeking to redress the balance after Real or Barcelona won the last nine Spanish league titles and had an advantage of 30 points over third place in 2012.

The debate over federal government intervention in school nutrition programs continues to be a point of contention in Congress.

A case in point is the Sinking Fund established by the NDC government through which over US$ 350 million has been realised to help pay off the US$ 750 million Eurobond floated by the NPP in 2007.

Local governments had raised concerns with the program as proposed by Cuomo's initial budget presentation, pointing to the costs they've managed to contain over the years as well as the lack of increased state aid over the years.

These include strengthening the central government Chief Information Officer's role over ITC procurement, ensuring that ITC projects do not exceed # 100m in total value, opening up access to government data, reviewing large databases and scrapping ID cards and Contact Point.

In the email, which Murray forwarded to Capital Tonight, he points to DeFrancisco receiving both his pension and his salary as a state lawmaker — a legally allowed practice known as «double dipping» which good - government groups and newspaper editorial boards have decried over the years in state government.

«If we have not balloted for action this term, because of the way the terms have fallen, we would be in September, trying to gee our members up for a campaign of industrial action when by then a lot of things from the government's point of view be over.»

Labour has increased its lead over the Conservative party to seven points, as the government's popularity remains stable in the doldrums.

As he raised concerns over the sweeping changes to state government through a pair of constitutional amendments proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie in a statement pointed to the relative short window of time debate would be held over term limits and creating a full - time Legislature that bans outside income.

The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, is clearly a contentious issue up to the point where there has been a government shutdown over it.

Just weeks after taking power Theresa May has landed her first major diplomatic row — with the Chinese government going nuclear over plans to pause the new reactor at Hinkley Point.

Lawmakers were still negotiating changes to sexual harassment policies for state government, but sticking points arose Monday over defining and prohibiting gender discrimination.

Conservatives in government have responded with scorn, pointing out that until recently Labour's policy was to take away freedoms over the curriculum away from academies.

But the broader point which must surely be addressed by the UK Government is whether the European Parliament is to exercise more scrutiny over the EU side of the negotiations than the UK Parliament is to exercise over the UK side of the negotiations.

Speculation began to increase at this point that the Government was having a change of heart over the third runway at Heathrow and a new Thames Estuary airport.

But for a senior mandarin to call in the police over a leak more associated The birds have flown Members of Parliament need to be protected from the executive with party point - scoring than national security, and then for the misuse of authority to be compounded by the Government, police, Speaker and Serjeant at Arms raises real and important concerns.

Concerns over special interests having an undue impact on the process aren't new, and good - government groups have pointed to that as well.

Yet shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan pointed out that there is a «black hole» in the department, and that today's National Audit Office report revealed there was a # 130m loss of savings, since the Tory - led government took over 28 months ago, as a result of sentencing reforms not going ahead.

I'd also point out that local councils have less power in a real sense given the decline in central - government funding over the course of this decade.

Greeks have witnessed discussions shift from $ 1 billion in additional measures (last proposal put forth by the New Democracy - PASOK government following demands from creditors), to over $ 10 billion in additional measures last month, to today's «Greekment» according to which Greece will undergo harsher austerity (for next three years) than at any other point since the crisis began.

It is shameful and embarrassing that having been in power close to two years with massive borrowing (over GHC 40 billion), goodwill, huge oil revenue, revenue generating policies bequeathed to it by the past administration, the Akufo - Addo government is unable to point to cogent and data driven achievements.

Edit thanks to bain for pointing out that the 7/7 attackers left pre-recorded videos, where they claimed there motivation to be «Your democratically - elected governments continuously perpetuate atrocities against my people all over the world.

The threshold level of votes had been set at 2.5 % (For the purposes of this example) Points to note include In an FPTP election, Party A, with 335 MPs would have a clear majority over all the other parties combined, and thus would be the single party of government, despite the fact that they only won 35.2 % of the popular vote, and almost 2/3 of voters voted for other parties.