Sentences with phrase «rate than last year»

Rent prices are predicted by most analysts to continue to rise into next year, but at a slower rate than last year.

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.

Even with the increased horsepower, the new CR - V posts slightly better fuel - economy ratings than last year's.

Not exact matches

More importantly for consumers, DBS revealed that the average amount sent in digital red packets in Singapore last year was S$ 26 (about $ 19.60)-- several times higher than the going rates of physical red packets, which is between S$ 6 ($ 4.50) and S$ 10 ($ 7.60).

HR director Monika Fahlbusch boasts that Salesforce hired merely 4.5 percent of its more than 100,000 applicants last year — a lower acceptance rate than Harvard's.

In 2013, I always worked hard to make sure that everything was 100 % perfect, but I know that if I keep growing at a 90 % rate that is 90 % perfect, I will get a lot farther than I did last year.

China «s official unemployment rate has been around 4 % for years, despite the rapid slowdown in the economy from double - digit growth to quarter - century lows last year of less than 7 %.

The IMF predicts the global economy will expand 3.5 % in 2015 — about the same as last year, but dramatically slower than the 5 % rates that preceded the financial crisis.

That's exactly what sparked the stock market correction last month: a higher - than - expected average hourly earnings number in January's jobs report ignited fears that inflation might finally be coming to life, and in response the Federal Reserve may look to hike rates more aggressively than the three projected increases for this year.

Traders are suddenly worried about interest rates (although anyone older than 30 has to be amused that 2.85 % on the Treasury 10 - year is a source of panic), worried about inflation (although after the last decade of stagnant wages, Friday's 2.9 % rise should be cheered, not jeered), and worried about a tax - fueled spike in growth (with this report from Powell's Atlanta colleagues leading the way.)

While that's more than the $ 196 billion Chinese business travelers spent last year, business - travel spending in China grew 13.2 percent — three times the 4.4 percent growth rate in the U.S.. By 2016, Chinese business travelers are expected to spend more than those from the U.S., according to the report.

«The industrial capacity utilisation rate in the first three quarters reached 76.6 %, 3.5 percentage points higher than the same period last year.»

Britain's population has grown fast in the last 15 years, at an annual rate of more than 0.5 % since the year 2000.

Upon hearing of Goodyear's plan to sell the plant, which would put more than 1,000 people out of a job at a time when France is suffering a 10.9 percent unemployment rate, Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg himself attempted to find a buyer for the plant last year.

Compound annual growth rates of the overall fashion industry have been flat or grown by 1 % to 2 % over the last 20 years, but fast fashion — driven by chains like H&M, Zara, and Forever 21 — has grown by more than 12 % each year.

Stocks have plunged in the last week as traders worried about rising interest rates and inflation, bringing an end to more than a year of historically low volatility.

A separate report from the Mortgage Bankers Association showed mortgage applications last week rose to their highest level in nine weeks as interest rates on 30 - year fixed - rate mortgages hovered at their lowest level in more than a year.

He said his own tax rate last year worked out to just 17.4 % of his income, less than anyone else in his office.

That may seem like a bold prediction, but consider that Gemvara, which is just more than a year old, had a $ 10 million run rate at the end of last year and, as of this spring, is venture capital funded to the tune of more than $ 25 million.

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).

More than US$ 500 trillion worth of contracts — everything from swaps and futures contracts, to home mortgages and student loans — were priced using LIBOR rates last year.

It's been pointed out elsewhere that if Ryan's proposals were enacted, Mitt Romney would have had an effective tax rate of less than 1 % last year.

According to its annual report, last year it earned $ 1.1 billion in premiums from homebuyers and paid out $ 51 million in claims — a payout rate of less than 5 %.

«Our users, both free and paid, have grown by more than 50 percent in the last year, which means that the run rate for artists of every level of popularity keeps climbing.

At the end of last year, the company was already providing delivery services in over 50 markets with a run rate of more than $ 200 million in gross food sales.

The Federal Open Market Committee last enacted a rate rise in December — the first one in more than nine years.

But as Neil Dutta, Chief Economist with Renaissance Macro Research points out, if you look at the actual flow data showing the number of people each month entering and exiting the labor force, the rate at which workers are entering the labor force is actually lower today than at any point over the last two years.

Stein expects Nvidia's revenue from the server market, which more than doubled to $ 830 million last year, to increase at an average rate of 61 % annually through 2020.

At his average rate of accumulation last year he would have become more than $ 200,000 wealthier during his seven minutes on the stage.

But the average rate on the 30 - year mortgage has jumped more than a full percentage point since May and was 4.57 per cent last week — just below the two - year high.

This week the average interest rate on 1 - year CDs rose to 0.42 percent, 1 basis point higher than it was last week.

Dignity is in dispute with Beyond, a British comparison site, which last year claimed it was charging customers far more than the market rate.

Americans spend 42 hours on average sitting in congestion every year, costing each driver roughly $ 1,400, and last week the American Roads & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) reported that more than 54,000 of the country's 612,677 bridges are rated «structurally deficient.»

BERLIN — Throughout the month, countries caught in the eye of the European financial storm, including Italy, Spain and France, have repeatedly defied expectations, selling big batches of bonds to the public at interest rates significantly lower than investors demanded at the height of the euro crisis late last year.

Gross domestic product last quarter probably expanded at a 4.7 percent rate, the fastest in more than two years, a Bloomberg News survey shows.

Last year, the turnover rate reached 133 percent, meaning that positions often had to be filled more than once.

Even though their effectiveness rating is higher than those we've seen in North America and Australia, UK marketers rated themselves less effective at content marketing versus last year (48 % vs. this year's 42 %).

Other winners include telecommunications, media and technology bankers and traders of rates options and equity derivatives — all getting 15 percent more than last year.

WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund projects moderate economic growth for Canada this year and next, albeit at a rate lower than last year's and significantly slower than in the United States.

The average rate on the 30 - year fixed at its highest level in more than four years and is not expected to fall back as it did last year.

If you're looking for maximum home equity, this could be a great place to live: home values are up 4 percent from last year and the 3 percent unemployment rate is lower than the national average.

The following factors are making me wonder if I should sell instead: market is still very high and inventory is even tighter than last year, but economy might change directions this year, rate hikes coming, I might be able to get the same cash flow from a REIT, and I have no intention of moving back in.

FOMC members now seem more eager than ever to «normalize» policy, that is raise short term rates into line with historic norms and, to the extent possible, unburden their balance sheet of the huge bond holding they had acquired over the last few years.

The average interest rate on a 48 - month new - car loan dropped to 4.1 % this summer from more than 7 % at the end of 2008, though it's changed little in the last two years.

New shale oil well productivity drove U.S. production higher in the last few years, with the average daily rate for the first month of operation rising from less than 100 Continue Reading

Many economists believe the Fed, which last raised rates in December, will hike again at its next meeting in March and some analysts think the Fed could hike more than three times this year, depending on what inflation does.

The Fed has made good on two interest rate hikes so far in 2017, but based on weaker - than - forecast inflation and growth numbers, it will likely fall short of the four rate hikes it planned late last year.

I've used it several times a week for a month and as far as I can make out, only an infinitesimal amount of the soap has been consumed so at this rate the soap will probably last me more than a year.

For example, Texas and Florida who are relative newcomers to the craft beer scene compared to other states saw higher growth rates last year than the industry average.

The general consensus this time last year was that mortgage rates would gradually rise during 2014, ending the year higher than they were at the beginning.