Sentences with phrase «rate even approaching»

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But the comments show Kocherlakota continues to marshal new arguments for keeping interest rates low even as most of his colleagues see the time for a rate increase as approaching.

Those expectations have become deeply anchored and, some argue, encouraged by the Fed's reluctance to increase rates even as the economy has approached its employment and inflation targets.

Using the same data and fit criteria - with an ABM approach - we saw 7 TIMES more meetings set in our ABE target group even though both groups engaged with us at the same rate.

Reifschneider in his very careful paper shows that with a big recession rates would likely approach -6 percent, or even -9 percent, but for the zero lower bound.

Even with such differences in approach, these lenders ended up quoting fairly similar expenses for the common 30 - year fixed rate mortgage, indicating that you should ask for a formal estimate if you're truly interested in comparing the actual costs of borrowing from one lender or another.

With a combination of these diversified strategies, a flexible active approach aims to find fixed income return opportunities in all corners of the market, even during times of greater volatility or rising interest rates.

Even younger investors approach me, worrying how they'll ever keep up with the cost of living when interest rates rise once again.

It is true that our economic growth rates following the 2007 - 2009 recession have not approached the levels seen coming out of previous recessions, and as we shift from highly accommodative monetary policy, even Fed officials have called for additional fiscal - policy support.

But Americans are curiously unwilling to learn from Europe, even though almost all member - states of the European Union have better policies and lower rates of addiction than the U.S.. On other points, Massing is in agreement with the harm - reduction approach: he favors free needles, methadone treatment, decriminalization of marijuana and repeal of mandatory sentencing.

Even though we may receive renumeration for recommending a wine club, we still take a truly objective approach to our star rating system.

An improved defense — almost a guarantee when they nabbed veteran head coach Scott Skiles, who is known for his hard - nosed approach — has them playing feisty, too, even to the point where they're currently in the top 10 of defensive rating.

Although professional lactation support can improve the duration of overall breast feeding, its effect in improving exclusive breast feeding is unclear.11 18 22 Thus far, studies that report improvement of rates of exclusive breastfeeding have involved mainly community based peer counselling strategies.23 24 25 Even then, a randomised trial in the UK recently cast doubt on the efficacy of this approach.26 There are current recommendations from NICE for the UK - wide implementation of the baby friendly initiative.4 5 6 The 2006 NICE costing report on routine postnatal care of women and their babies estimates that efforts to improve rates of breast feeding will result in substantial cost savings for the NHS.6

Using this approach, McFarlane claims he was able to halve rates of psychotic relapse and double employment, even among the sickest patients.

Unless the global economy fails to return to something approaching normal conditions, resistance on the part of the Fed to higher interest rates will likely cause the dollar to sink to new lows, possibly even beating last year's record devaluation, Barclays predicts.

High unemployment is a problem that seems all bad, he says, but if you approach it from a side door — perhaps profiling people who have founded new business and learned new skills or industries that have benefited from the downturn — it turns into a story that can inspire others, and maybe even lower the jobless rate faster.

So the bottom - up approach, I mean this grassroots thing is happening now is just going to become an even bigger and bigger presence until it's actually — whether it's accepted or not, we don't» really care, I don't care at least — so that bottom - up approach is just gonna get so big that it reveals itself because of the success rate that it has.

«The brutal judgmentalism that has made opening - weekend grosses into a bloodthirsty spectator sport seems to have encouraged an even more brutal approach to film reviewing,» he said, going on to blame the likes of CinemaScore (which gives each major film a rating based on interviews with theatergoers) and Rotten Tomatoes for why interesting movies tank.

No other public or charter high school in the state with similar percentages of low - income and ESL students even approached these rates.

The crime rate, the local job market and willingness of banks to invest in a troubled neighborhood will help determine whether the group can even approach that goal.

Even those at the forefront of the push for the new teacher ratings and the Common Core have advocated a more gradual approach.

This is because the default rate, even for those with debt levels approaching the upper limit, are within a range acceptable to the lender.

Assuming you are using the mindful bucket approach described above (80 % stocks in the vulnerable period ascending to 100 % for the rest of retirement), a 3.5 % inflation adjusted withdrawal rate is very likely to ensure you have sufficient money in retirement, even over 60 years.

With the housing market expected to be in a fragile state for some time, and with low interest rates a key component of recovery for housing, what would happen to the housing market if interest rates visit 7 % or 8 % — or even approach 9 %, as they did in the beginning of this decade?

Finally, even if you decide that this approach of combining an annuity with conventional investments makes sense, you would still want to consider such prudent steps as shopping around to make sure you're getting a competitive payment, annuitizing gradually rather than all at once, diversifying your annuity money among a few highly rated insurers and limiting the amount you invest with any single insurer to the maximum amount covered by your state's life and health insurance guaranty association.

Relatively low operating expenses allow online banks to offer rates that large commercial players can't even approach.

Even though interest rates on most cash equivalents is at or approaching 0, high - risk spreads are at records and volumes are low.

Even as household income and employment rates are ticking up in the U.S., credit card balances are approaching all - time highs.

In the face of heated competition from big - box retailers, mass retailers and even some savvy independents, Pet Supplies Plus, with annual sales approaching $ 1 billion, is growing at a rapid rate and company officials have no plans to slow down.

Even though cats didn't fare as well, with a mortality rate of 5/10, 000 surgeries (0.05 percent), the overall mortality rate of 3.3 / 10,000 (0.03 percent) closely approached that found in human surgical practice.

It's an approach to seasonal rehoming that's long standing, outdated and not in line with reassuring research, that shows that by allowing people to rehome pets as gifts, even at Christmas, this doesn't result in higher rates of giving up those pets later.

Even when performed by an experienced surgeon with excellent post-surgical monitoring, the fatality rate of this surgery can approach 10 %.

8 ways to negotiate better credit card fees, interest and debt — Under certain circumstances and with the right approach, cardholders may be able to have their interest rates, account fees or even their balances lowered.

This is a great rate for business class to Europe and it even approaches the insane business class redemptions of ANA that go for 88,000 miles to Europe.

Veteran analyst Billy Pidgeon said «For games with development budgets approaching $ 100 million to be truly profitable, ratings have to be above 8.5 and sales need to be in the five to ten million unit range» Therefore, with Microsoft handling a heap of these costs, Square Enix can expect to make more profit off this sequel than the original in 2013 even if it only goes to the Xbox One and PC.

In some states, like California, the retail rate for energy varies throughout the day, with higher rates at times when there is higher demand, typically in the afternoon and evening (an approach known as time of use, or TOU, rates).

It's absolutely the right approach, despite rising wages, holding the key rate for the time being will ensure that the housing market remains on an even keel.

This approach gives even small legal teams access to the most advanced technology at a monthly rate.

Regardless of the amount of effort, time and creative thinking put forth, even the most innovative structure is susceptible to erosion from rate creep if the legal services purchaser does not think beyond the current year's procurement of services when structuring their approach to external counsel management.

Never fear — even if your rates are somewhat high, you can get them down through a judicious and tactical approach.

Insurers know very well about this approach to reduce insurance rates and it even has a name — «fronting».

In the context of our small sample size, our excellent attendance and zero drop - out rate fare well when compared to drop - out of approximately 40 % in standard PCIT (Boggs et al. 2004; Werba et al. 2006), and even more impressive relative to other evidenced - based PT programs with attrition rates approaching 50 % (Reyno and McGrath 2006).

Interest rates are approaching to boost via 2018, creation shopping a home with a debt reduction affordable for many — even younger Americans who aim to compensate off their home in 20 or 30 years and reap a appreciation of a arise in home values.