Sentences with phrase «points over recent months»

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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.

Recent surveys of financial market economists and union officials both point to a decline in inflation expectations over the past three months.

Looking forward, recent job vacancy and hiring intentions data point to continued solid employment growth over the remainder of the year and into 2004, with print - and internet - based indicators of labour demand improving over recent months, following weakness over the first half of the year (Graph 43).

With the cash rate up by 50 basis points in late 2003 and yields on 10 - year bonds down a little over recent months, the spread has narrowed since early November to stand at around 50 basis points (Graph 67).

In fact, a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Association Between Duration of Breastfeeding and Adult Intelligence, showed an over 6 point increase in IQ between babies that breastfed for less than a month and those that breastfed for at least 7 to 9 months.

Background: Over the recent months of observing different campaigns for presidential election in the U.S. and their one - sided views on everything, I got to the point of thinking that indirect vote by representatives of the people is not working any more.

In recent months, the city's battle over school segregation has played out in a few specific schools in some of the its fastest - gentrifying (or already gentrified - to - saturation - point) neighborhoods: Nikole Hannah - Jones chronicled the Brooklyn version of the saga in her much - discussed New York Times Magazine piece last weekend, «Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City,» about her decision to send her black daughter to a mostly minority school, only to have that school rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly white population.

Our calculations are based on the proportion of consumers (36 %, according to a recent Gallup study) who carry over a balance on their cards from month to month, and therefore would incur interest charges, and the impact of the quarter - point rise in rates, which analysts expect to be passed along in full through higher APRs on credit card balances.

He pointed to recent U.S. research showing that couples who argue over finances several times a week are 30 per cent more likely to divorce than those who only have money squabbles less than once a month.

One particular example of this is a recent article pointing toward the California Bay Area's price gains over the last 18 months.

After poor performance over recent months courtesy of the worldwide recession the feeling across the board is that console manufacturers are going to have to take a long hard look at their price points.

A few weeks ago, Minister Ruddock described the «sometimes unpleasant debate» of recent months over domestic violence as a «turning point in Indigenous affairs... one that could be positive in the long term for Indigenous Australians».