Sentences with phrase «primarily by the rate»

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However, income tax expenses at the firm fell 21.3 percent, primarily driven by lower U.S. corporate income tax rate, while underwriting gains rose 22.3 percent to $ 258 million.

The decrease in income tax expense was primarily driven by the lower U.S. corporate income tax rate, partially offset by the inclusion in the prior year quarter of a $ 15 million benefit from the resolution of prior year tax matters.

The increase in income tax expense was primarily driven by the inclusion in the prior year quarter of a $ 17 million benefit from the resolution of prior year tax matters and the increase in segment income before income taxes, mostly offset by the lower U.S. corporate income tax rate.

The increase in income tax expense was primarily driven by the increase in segment income before income taxes and the inclusion in the prior year quarter of a $ 7 million benefit from the resolution of prior year tax matters, partially offset by the lower U.S. corporate income tax rate.

Although it has been reported by those close to the Burger King deal that its relocation to Canada is not primarily motivated for tax reasons, the move would empower the company to repatriate profits on its overseas business at a lower rate.

With less than half of companies rating their customer experience as exceptional yet 89 percent saying that they plan to compete primarily on the basis of customer experience by 2016, according to a recent Gartner report, businesses certainly have a lot of work to do.

In addition to the factors impacting the year - over-year changes in quarterly GAAP pretax income, GAAP EPS for 1Q18 was further affected by a lower number of shares primarily reflecting share repurchases in 2017 and the impact of a lower tax rate in 1Q18 resulting from the Tax Reform Law.

«The blistering 40 % compound annual growth rate from 2014 to 2016 was driven primarily by Colorado and Washington initiating adult - use sales,» the report noted.

The interest rate is primarily determined by the lender's evaluation of the borrower's credit history.

«Today's rating actions are primarily driven by our assessment that the policy initiatives that have been taken by European policy makers in recent weeks may be insufficient to fully address ongoing systemic stresses in the euro zone,» S. &.

The basic idea is that while most economists believe corporate taxes are primarily paid by owners of capital (that is, people who own stock in corporations) in the form of lower profits, a sizable minority, including White House chief economist Kevin Hassett, think that a lower tax rate would spark so much additional investment in the United States that it would bid up wages and leave the middle class better off through its indirect effects.

The fund invests primarily in investment grade debt securities, but may invest up to 10 % of its total assets in high yield securities rated B or higher by Moody's.

Among the major revenue components, personal income taxes increased by $ 5.8 billion (primarily reflecting a 4.8 % increase in wages and salaries coupled with a progressive tax system), corporate income taxes were up $ 1.7 billion (corporate profits were up 15 % but the general tax rate declined from 18 % in 2010 to 16.5 % in 2011) and employment insurance (EI) premiums rose by $ 1.1 billion (both the EI rate and insurable earnings subject to the rate were higher).

The Fed has a dual mandate to maximize employment and stabilize inflation, which it tries to achieve primarily by pushing up or down the federal funds rate, the benchmark short - term financing cost for banks that influences a wide range of borrowing rates for households and businesses.

Economists are primarily in the wait - a-month camp — only five of 26 surveyed by Bloomberg News expect the central bank to hike its 0.75 - per - cent benchmark rate this week.

The net impact of the slightly more positive economic forecast is to lower the deficit by $ 0.9 billion in 2010 - 11 from their November 2010 Update, primarily due to the impact of lower - than - forecast interest rates on public debt charges.

Moody's confirmed the states triple A debt rating but noted a «modest weakening of the state's financial position... primarily driven by higher levels of operating and capital expenditure».

Of the $ 3.2 billion year - over-year improvement, budgetary revenues were up by $ 3.9 billion, primarily due to higher personal income tax revenues (up $ 3.4 billion, reflecting increases in employment and average wages) and employment insurance premiums (up $ 1.6 billion reflecting higher premium rates and an increase in maximum insurable earnings).

Your actual rate is primarily determined by our OnDeck Score technology.

In turn, this decline is being driven primarily by the aging of our population, which is slowing the rate of growth of the labour force.

The Company may enter into fair value hedges, such as interest rate swaps, to reduce the exposure of its debt portfolio to changes in fair value resulting from changes in interest rates by achieving a primarily U.S. dollar LIBOR - based floating interest expense.

But, by multiple accounts, penetration rates still climb incrementally and DPM asset growth continues to be primarily driven by strong net new assets (NNA) rather than continuous top - ups from existing clients.

As implied above, the Fed confirmed last week that when it finally gets around to moving the FFR upward, it will do so primarily by adjusting the interest rate it pays on excess reserve balances.

The interest rates assigned to home loans are primarily driven by market forces.

These portfolios primarily invest in U.S. high - income debt securities where at least 65 % or more of bond assets are not rated or are rated by a major agency such as Standard & Poor's or Moody's at the level of BB (considered speculative for taxable bonds) and below.

We see future returns driven primarily by income in fixed income and earnings growth in equities, rather than by a re-rating spurred by a decline in rates and risk.

Teekay Tankers was primarily negatively affected by the severe drop in crude oil prices sending tanker rates to the lowest levels in more than three years, as well as some temporary oil production outages in markets the company's tankers serve.

Instead, major upward trends in interest rates are driven primarily by rising inflation expectations, or, to put it more aptly, by declining confidence in money.

If any of our psychical concepts really is a true analogy, in that it applies primarily to God and only secondarily to ourselves, at least with respect to what is meant by it, if not with respect to how it means, we, at any rate, neither are nor ever could be in the position of knowing it to be so.

According to Keep Australia Beautiful National Litter Index, Victoria already has the highest recycling rates in Australia, primarily because of the successful kerbside yellow - topped bins service, run by local councils.

But since, we've brought in Ozil and Sanchez, and I dare say the RW will be used primarily by players he rates very, very highly in Ox, Theo and Wilshere or possibly Cazorla if Ramsey is going to see time in the deeper positions..

The Sixers by net rating have the best starting lineup in the league led primarily by Ben, Joel and Dario.

Washington State ran just 51 plays all game in a 19 - 6 loss to the Beavers, primarily because the offense couldn't hold onto the ball — turnovers and a poor third - down conversion rate (created by poor first and second downs, of course) doomed Mike Leach's Cougars.

By contrast, he said, the DOE is primarily looking for a way to remove educators deemed «ineffective» by their principals as quickly as possible with no recourse to appeal unfair ratingBy contrast, he said, the DOE is primarily looking for a way to remove educators deemed «ineffective» by their principals as quickly as possible with no recourse to appeal unfair ratingby their principals as quickly as possible with no recourse to appeal unfair ratings.

«Primarily because of grand corruption under successive governments since the return of democracy in 1999, millions of Nigerians continue to live in extreme poverty, a condition manifested by the lack of clean water, malnutrition, high rates of child mortality and morbidity, low life expectancy, illiteracy, perception of hopelessness and social exclusion.»

The plan includes $ 180.5 million in debt service savings for Fiscal 2018, primarily from re-estimates of debt service costs related to variable - rate bonds and the retention of state building aid revenue by the Transitional Finance Agency.

The pregnancy rate is determined primarily by age so if you're 40 your chances are much worse that what they were at 30, for example.

The amount of oxygen in a galaxy is determined primarily by three factors: how much oxygen comes from large stars that end their lives violently in supernova explosions — a ubiquitous phenomenon in the early Universe, when the rate of stellar births was dramatically higher than the rate in the Universe today; how much of that oxygen gets ejected from the galaxy by so - called «super winds,» which propel oxygen and other interstellar gases out of galaxies at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour; and how much pristine gas enters the galaxy from the intergalactic medium, which doesn't contain much oxygen.

Specifically, the rate of dopamine synthesis is sensitive to local substrate concentrations, primarily the amino acid tyrosine, which is influenced by the protein content of a single meal as well as within the overall diet [38].

Since increases in neural drive at short muscle lengths are likely driven by reductions in motor unit recruitment threshold (Pasquet et al. 2005), while increases in neural drive at faster velocities and during concentric contractions are primarily caused by increased rate coding (Pasquet et al. 2006; Harwood et al. 2011; Enoka & Duchateau, 2017), the transfer of neural drive from partial exercises using short muscle lengths could be lower than we might expect, although this would probably depend on whether the strength training exercise was performed with a lighter load, and explosively.

The matches provided by Christian Mingle's search engine are primarily based on your location, but you can add some extra depth to it with the COMPASS rating system.

I also perform the analysis separately by gender, which reveals that the effect of kindergarten funding on institutionalization for whites is primarily due to its effect on men, for whom the institutionalization rate is much higher.

For the past decade, school reform has been primarily about «closing achievement gaps» by boosting math and reading proficiency and graduation rates, among black, Latino, and poor students.

Professional practices, rated primarily by the principal observing the teacher at work, would count most heavily.

It was primarily about blended learning and how blended learning, especially its online component, can destroy the notion of seat - time as a measure of how we move kids through school by giving students the power to progress at their own rate.

Of more than 3,000 public schools statewide that fit that description, the highest API score — 967 — was earned by American Indian Public Charter, a middle school in Oakland whose students are primarily Asian, black and Latino, and have a poverty rate of 98 %.

By focusing on graduation rates, Noble is upending long - held assumptions and practices about sending students to college that are primarily based on test scores and college partnerships.

Let's say a school with primarily Black students raised its graduation rate by 1 percent next year.

in the end, i seriously doubt any bill like this will be effective at increasing the firing rate, the rarity of which is of course primarily»cause d' by administrative staff who cant be bothered.

These ratings are based primarily on performance in 40 mph crash tests conducted by IIHS.