Sentences with phrase «rate than in recent years»

Craft beer continues to grow across the United States, as it has in New York state, but at a slightly slower rate than in recent years, according to a new report from the national Brewers Association.

Not exact matches

Powell in statements throughout the year, culminating with his recent Senate confirmation hearing, has been clear he sees little risk of inflation that would prompt the Fed to raise rates faster than expected, and takes weak wage growth as a sign that sidelined workers remain to be drawn into jobs.

Then, if the company is operating within a niche that is either huge — greater than $ 1 billion — or is growing at a rate in excess of 20 to 40 percent per year, and the company is perceived to have the best and most competitive product to enter this niche in recent memory, then it might be worth an additional $ 1 to $ 2 million.

The number of business partnerships in the U.S. has been growing steadily by an annual rate of about 5.6 percent a year to more than 3 million in 2007, according to the most recent records reported by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.

The rate at which Americans start businesses has been falling for more than three decades, and while the decline has slowed in recent years, it has shown no sign of reversing.

In that scenario, I would expect no more than one Fed policy rate hike this year, as labor market strength has been the highlight of recent economic performance.

Together, those drags on the economy of the 19 - country eurozone are a reason the bloc's unemployment rate is more than double that of the United States, and why eurozone growth has lagged the American rebound in recent years.

While there is a strong correlation between growth in gross domestic investment and growth in real GDP, the slope of that relationship is only about 0.2, meaning that even if the growth rate of real gross domestic investment was driven from the recent growth trend of zero all the way back to the previous post-war growth rate of 3.5 %, the overall impact on real GDP growth would only be about 0.7 % annually, placing the level of U.S. real GDP about 2.8 % higher 4 years from today than it would otherwise be.

That doesn't mean public debt isn't important, although low interest rates have rendered it more manageable than expected in recent years.

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.

According to the minutes of the meeting, a 25 - basis point increase in the bank rate was fully factored in by the markets in the run - up to November's MPC meeting, and the interest - rate curve underlying the November Inflation Report projected interest rates at 1 percent by the end of the three - year forecast period, higher than the recent median estimates of economists polled by Reuters.

The overall strength in demand for credit, combined with the fact that interest rates remain slightly lower than the average of recent years, continues to suggest that the current policy setting is not inhibiting the growth of the economy.

Recent movements in the exchange rate have also been reflected in indexes of trade prices; the export price index rose by more than 16 per cent over the past year, with higher prices for base metals, chemicals, and petroleum aided by higher world prices and increased demand.

It's great to bask in the recent news of low rates, but the reality is that the rates we're seeing today are higher than the rates available a year ago.

Mortgage rates for Wisconsin used to be higher than the national average rates, but rates have dropped in recent years.

The downward trend in recent years reflects a larger fall in the average interest rate received by banks than in the average interest rate paid.

«Although this «rise of the nones» has increased dramatically over recent decades, the rate of increase slowed last year, suggesting the possibility that there may be a leveling off in this measure in the years ahead,» reports the Gallup study, which is made up of more than 350,000 interviews.

In a discussion chaired by HVS chairman Russell Kett involving senior executives from Starwood Capital, Precis Holdings, citizenM and London & Regional Properties, the panel debated how it is leisure rather than corporate demand that is currently of more interest to hoteliers, as corporate rates have been relatively static over recent years.

I looked up the COLA for the past decade and found that on average the reimbursement rate for free has gone up 7 cents a year since the 2000 - 01 school year; in recent years it was higher than average (up 11 cents from 08 - 09 to 09 - 10, up 10 cents the year before that) but it was lower in other years (up 5 cents each year from 01 - 02 to 04 - 05).

Though these teen pregnancy statistics show improvements in teen pregnancy prevention in recent years, the U.S. teen pregnancy rate is still substantially higher than in other western industrialized nations.

In recent years, numerous studies have shown that bright, charming, seemingly confident and socially skilled teenagers from affluent, loving families are experiencing epidemic rates of depression, substance abuse, and anxiety disorders - rates higher than in any other socioeconomic group of American adolescentIn recent years, numerous studies have shown that bright, charming, seemingly confident and socially skilled teenagers from affluent, loving families are experiencing epidemic rates of depression, substance abuse, and anxiety disorders - rates higher than in any other socioeconomic group of American adolescentin any other socioeconomic group of American adolescents.

Its Committee on Fetus and Newborn wrote Monday that less than 1 percent of all births in the U.S. are homebirths, but that rate has been increasing among white women in recent years.

I find this shocking, especially since we know that the maternal death rate has been rising in recent years — something that isn't happening in other countries» [9] Currently, according to the World Health Organization and several United Nations agencies, the United States ranks behind no fewer than forty other nations in preventing maternal deaths (based upon an official but unreliable number).

Indeed, at 24 per cent in 2012, it is considerably lower even than the ETR observed for the fifth North Sea hydrocarbons producer, the German Federal Land of Schleswig - Holstein, whose government has been increasing the statutory royalty rate in line with rising oil prices in recent years — from 12.5 per cent in 2003 to 21 per cent as of the time of writing — with the result that the ETR in the German sector of the North Sea in 2012 came to 33 per cent.

The good news is that Brazil has in recent years begun to restrain such deforestation: annual rates fell from 28,000 square kilometers in 2004 to less than 7,000 in 2011.

While recent policy interventions (such as the Good Agricultural and Environment Condition requirements of the CAP, and the EU Soil Thematic Strategy) have reduced the rate of soil loss in the EU by an average of 9.5 % overall, and by 20 % for arable lands, the study finds that four million hectares of EU croplands have unsustainable rates of soil loss (more than 5 tonnes per hectare per year).

Instead, they reflect a propensity for natural temporal variations in uplift rates where recent (not more than 10,000 years ago) uplift has been greatest due to temporal clustering of large - magnitude (bigger than M7) earthquakes on upper - plate faults.

In recent years, the decline in smoking among individuals with mental illness was significantly less than among those without mental illness, although the rates of quitting smoking were greater among those receiving mental health treatment, according to a study in the January 8 issue of JAMIn recent years, the decline in smoking among individuals with mental illness was significantly less than among those without mental illness, although the rates of quitting smoking were greater among those receiving mental health treatment, according to a study in the January 8 issue of JAMin smoking among individuals with mental illness was significantly less than among those without mental illness, although the rates of quitting smoking were greater among those receiving mental health treatment, according to a study in the January 8 issue of JAMin the January 8 issue of JAMA.

India is believed to have more cases of dengue than any other country in the world, and except for a slight dip in 2011, the incidence rate has grown steadily there in recent years.

Recent estimates suggest that as many as 1.9 million children younger than 18 years have a sport - or recreation - related concussion each year in the United States.1 This injury is biomechanically induced, with symptoms resulting from neuronal dysfunction due to functional and neurometabolic alterations rather than gross structural abnormalities.2 Compared with boys involved in similar activities, girls experience higher rates of sport - related concussion,3 - 7 report more severe symptoms,8 - 11 demonstrate worse cognitive impairment,8 - 10, 12 and take longer to recover.11 The neural mechanisms behind these postconcussion sex differences are poorly understood but have been attributed to differences in neuroanatomy and physiology, 13 cerebral blood flow, 14 and the female sex hormones estrogen and progesterone.15 - 17

And others believe clathrates of a whatever kind are already accelerating in their melt rates (which, paradoxically may show up better in atmospheric CO2 than methane since a recent study said 50 % of methane is converted to CO2 via methanogenesis, perhaps helping with the accounting re: last year's massive increase)...

In recent years, however, managed honeybee colonies have declined at the rate of more than one million per year, representing annual losses between 30 and 40 percent.

A recent study by a research team from Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine reveals that the TV Parental Guidelines rating system developed by the entertainment industry more than 20 years ago has been ineffective in helping parents identify shows that contain content that might not be appropriate for children, including tobacco and alcohol use — behaviors strongly associated with increased cancer risk.

Autoimmune disease rates have skyrocketed in recent years, affecting more people than heart disease and cancer combined.

Indeed, in recent years, prices of luxury fashion products have grown at more than twice the rate of general inflation.

Imagine if the Oscars, rather than offering up another canned montage of Hollywood classics, had seen fit to properly celebrate their most extraordinary best picture winner in recent memory, reminding us that the academy's legacy extends well beyond this year's crop of movies and their ability (or lack thereof) to move the ratings needle.

The decade between 1999 and 2009 saw a dramatic expansion in CMO schools, with increases of approximately 20 percent per year, a higher growth rate than seen by independent charter schools, according to a recent study by Mathematica Policy Research.

This can be seen in Figure 1, in which default rates for the recent cohort are actually slightly lower in Years 2 - 4 than for the earlier cohort.

In order to qualify for the funds, schools have to meet certain criteria such as an «inadequate» rating from their most recent Ofsted inspection, receiving a warning notice during the past three years, or having an overall Progress 8 score of less than -0.25.

Classroom observations are not new, but they have been largely perfunctory in recent years, with more than 98 percent of teachers receiving the same «satisfactory» rating.

More than 80 districts including Newark, Orlando, and Los Angeles, have increased their published graduation rates by at least a percentage point in recent years while sending more students to alternative programs, ProPublica has found.

Meanwhile, the 534,450 requests from pupils sitting exams under adverse circumstances, which might include «a traumatic experience, or a recent illness of a serious nature» and serious flooding — as the country saw in December last year, particularly in Lancashire and Yorkshire — were approved at a higher rate than last year.

In order to qualify for the funding, schools must meet certain eligibility criteria including an «inadequate» rating from their most recent Ofsted inspection, receiving a warning notice during the past three years, or having an overall Progress 8 score of less than -0.25.

The nosediving rankings could be alarming to parents and educators, but testing experts say the dramatic swings say more about a rating system that's been in turmoil in recent years than it does about individual schools.

Under a new federal formula, Utah's high school graduation rate is significantly lower than it has been as calculated by state officials in recent years, according to data released Tuesday.

Studies reveal that Newark's district and charter schools are providing better results for students, showing improvement in growth rates in recent years in English / Language Arts (ELA) and Math that are consistently higher than the state average.

The District's public charter schools have expelled students at a far higher rate than the city's traditional public schools in recent years, according to school data, highlighting a key difference between two sectors that compete for the District's students and taxpayer dollars.

«According to publishers the rate of growth and penetration of eBooks has slowed with value penetration estimated to be around 15 % — 18 %, with growth closer to 20 % than the 100 % we have seen in recent years.»

Executives in recent years have been too keen to borrow at ultra-low rates to repurchase shares, and to grow by purchasing rivals rather than organically.

Similarly, Newfound Research managing director Justin Sibears has warned in more recent research that to the extent the huge run - up in stock values of recent years leads to modest investment returns in the years ahead, retirees may need to go with an initial withdrawal rate of less than 4 %.