Sentences with phrase «rate in any given year»

Under the current system teachers are rated satisfactory or unsatisfactory, though less than 3 % of teachers typically get unsatisfactory rating in a given year.

The maximum amount of fluctuation in your interest rate in any given year can not exceed 1 percentage point.

Inclusion of short - term forcing agents within a rate - of - change target is a natural extension of this approach, and could provide a framework for including both emissions rates, or «flows», as well as cumulative emissions, or «stocks», into a set of climate targets that are better informed by current climate science than emissions rates in a given year or long - term concentrations.

Annual caps protect you from extreme jumps in the interest rate in any given year and are usually in the one to two percent range.

Not exact matches

Private firms like Amur have proliferated in the past few years, which is hardly a surprise, given that Canada's stubbornly low interest rates have pushed investors into alternative asset classes, and residential real estate has generated stunning returns for investors and homeowners alike.

If you were in the market to buy, he'd tell you that this machine has the highest suction rating J. D. Power gives, with «level suction,» which means the vacuum's suction will be as good in the tenth year as it does in the first.

The Swedish crown hit a six - day high after the country's central bank said it saw an interest rate hike coming in the second half of the year, but the currency quickly gave up those gains.

Consumer Reports rated the power and fuel systems of the 2012 3 Series among the worst in the industry and gave the model year an «orange» overall rating — or two out of five — on its ratings scale.

To spur manufacturing, the former Pennsylvania senator would give factory owners a 0 percent corporate tax rate in the first year of his plan, edging up to 20 percent over three years.

Given the low unemployment rate, anecdotal evidence from a variety of companies, and alternative measures such as the Atlanta Fed wage tracker showing stronger growth, wage growth may not be back at precrisis levels, but the trend over the past year shows wages are certainly headed in the right direction.

Given all of that, the big question is whether rates will sag even lower in the months and years to come.

Given the high failure rate of startups in their first year, a business plan is also an ideal opportunity to safely test out the feasibility of a business and spot flaws, set aside unrealistic projections and identify and analyze the competition.

Founded in 2007, Maxprofit Trade brought in $ 15.3 million ($ 16.4 million) in revenue in 2013, giving it a 1,038 percent three - year growth rate.

The company has also added more than 30,000 new customers in its DSS division so far this year, 42 % above the average growth rate, which will give revenue a boost.

Still, Sal Guatieri, a senior BMO economist, wrote last week that «in no way are family incomes growing fast enough to justify the rampant price moves,» nor can it be explained by a sudden spike in mortgage lending, which was given a boost by the Bank of Canada's two rate cuts last year.

«It's time to give American workers the pay raise that they've been looking for for many, many years,» Trump said in explaining his desire to slash the corporate tax rate to 15 percent, down from the current statutory rate of 35 percent.

While at the beginning of 2011 trading in euro - dollar futures was still foreseeing a return to typical interest rates over the next few years, that view has given way to expectations that rates will remain low for a decade to come.

We didn't want to give up any part of our company, but we still wanted to continue to grow at the rate that we had in our first 5 years» — Venue Kings Ticket Brokers, Anthony Beyrouti, CEO

The $ 20 billion goal refers to Salesforce's annual run rate, or an estimate of what the company will make in sales for a given year in the future.

As someone who teaches and advises in the field and has an obligation to keep current with emerging developments, given the significant rate of change in the last ten years, I could not imagine how a director of a company could remain current without ongoing requirements rather than passing familiarity or osmosis (I am speaking here of directors who have chosen not to upgrade their education).

Bain said China's luxury market should also see robust growth this year «fueled by millennials and ready to wear» attire, though the growth rate would likely slow down to «low - mid teen» levels given the fast growth in 2017.

This will give you the best exchange rate, the lowest fees and the ability to lock in the exchange rate for the entire year you are away.

While CalPERS» strategy of reducing its investment target rate if it sees big investment gains in a given year is unusual, its lowering of expectations is not.

«But given the financing opportunities that exist for us in the private - equity arena and our growth rate this year of 25 % per month, we were able to win a loan commitment from a bank that would come into effect as soon as we carried out a private placement,» notes CEO Brad Galle.

You can glean a lot of market - rate knowledge by checking contractor - hiring sites such as Elance.com, and even looking on PayScale.com or Salary.com to get a picture of how much a contractor in a given position might expect to make in a year.

Economic factors like consumer confidence, financial obligations, and delinquencies are all improving and the consumer may be more insulated than investors think from a back - up in yields, given 75 % of their financial obligations are in the form of a mortgage, close to 90 % of all mortgages are 30 - year fixed, and the average mortgage is termed out at the lowest rate ever... Taking these factors into account, we generally think it pays to remain sanguine.»

The beginning of the year's sharp rise in interest rates has finally given a jolt to stocks.

One prime example of their destructive policies during the 2008 recession can be determined by Moody's downgrade of 83 % of $ 869 billion in mortgage - backed securities that were given a rating of «AAA» just the year before.

Given the movements in interest rates in the past year along with the dollar's fall it is reasonable to estimate that expectations of exchange rates of the dollar against the euro 10 years from now have fallen by perhaps 15 per cent.

We expect the Fed to raise rates just once this year — likely in December — and to proceed cautiously given the unevenness of the domestic economic recovery, as highlighted by weak retail sales data released last week, and global growth uncertainties.

In its 1997 year - end summation, the firm gave suburban office product three stars out of a possible four - star rating.

For example, if the inflation rate is 2 %, then a pack of gum that costs $ 1 in a given year will cost $ 1.02 the next year.

What's actually true is that yield - seeking speculation in response to quantitative easing and zero - interest rate policies has elevated current valuations, giving investors returns (at least on paper) that they would have waited many more years to accrue.

This way, if a bear market occurs, you have a year of cash becoming available at the maturity date so that you do not have to sell stocks, and in a bull market you can buy new bonds as the ones you own mature, and you thereby benefit from the higher interest rates that high quality bonds give versus cash or CDs.

Simply Safe Dividends gives ALL of the criteria items I need in just one place in both numerical as well as graphical format for each stock: dividend yield, P / E ratio, Dividend Safety & Growth scores, EPS & FCF payout ratios, ex-dividend dates, pay dates, 1 -, 3 -, 5 -, and 10 - year dividend growth rates, dividend payout history, return on equity, and more.

Given existing U.S. demographics, even if we assume an unemployment rate in 2024 of just 4 %, civilian employment would reach 157.2 million jobs in 2024, resulting in an average annual growth rate for civilian employment of just 0.4 % annually over the coming 8 years.

Given the current status of the EI Account, the annual increases in the premium rates will be restricted to increases of 10 % for at least another 5 years, if not longer.

I wrote years ago that raising rates in the face of the data is all about giving the banks higher profits.

Currency strategists gave weaker exchange rate forecasts for major emerging countries such as China, Brazil, South Africa and Turkey in the monthly survey, pointing to a sixth straight year of dollar gains against most high - yielding currencies.

Although Wall Street continues to assert that valuations are «reasonable given the level of interest rates,» keep in mind that the most reliable measures of valuation imply negative 10 - 12 year total returns for the S&P 500.

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 poinIn 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 poinin coming years is unlikely at this point.

«We had anticipated a rebound in activity from earlier this year when the harsher than normal winter weather took hold, but the biggest drop in fixed mortgage rates in almost four years and resulting improvement in affordability also gave the Canadian housing market a boost of extra energy.»

We are planning with the fourth quarter tax rate of 31 %, given the lower tax rate in the third quarter, we are now planning the full year with the tax rate of roughly 28 % and we now expect annual CapEx to be approximately $ 90 million.

I haven't seen any good estimates of this effect, but given the current «cost» of the federal dividend tax credit regime (roughly $ 3 billion a year), it's probably not unreasonable to think that a 50 + % increase in the federal corporate tax rate (from 15 % to 24 %) might cost the fisc.

Yet on the whole, given their positive experience both with receiving more income than they could get from the fixed - income sector in recent years and the potential for capital appreciation over the long haul, dividend stocks and the ETFs that own them have demonstrated their long - term value to the investors who've gravitated toward them during the low - rate environment of the past decade.

Looking at the gold price chart since year 2000 gives us a clear picture as to how well gold actually works in protecting your buying power against inflation, which today's interest rates are not even close to being able to.

Investors have all but priced out the chance of a rate hike at the end of the Fed's two - day policy meeting on Wednesday, particularly given its adherence in recent years to only raising rates at meetings that are followed by press conferences.

In other words, for two years of economic recovery, the labor market in the U.S. has been doing only slightly better than treading water, and much of the improvement in the unemployment rate can be attributed to people dropping out of the labor force either because they've given up looking for work or because they've retireIn other words, for two years of economic recovery, the labor market in the U.S. has been doing only slightly better than treading water, and much of the improvement in the unemployment rate can be attributed to people dropping out of the labor force either because they've given up looking for work or because they've retirein the U.S. has been doing only slightly better than treading water, and much of the improvement in the unemployment rate can be attributed to people dropping out of the labor force either because they've given up looking for work or because they've retirein the unemployment rate can be attributed to people dropping out of the labor force either because they've given up looking for work or because they've retired.

Euro - Zone Producer - Price Inflation Slows Euro - zone producer - price inflation slowed to its weakest rate in more than two years in May, pointing to a slowdown in consumer prices that would give the European Central Bank more room to cut its key interest rate.

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