Sentences with phrase «rate was in decline»

For the one hundred years prior to 1941, the American marriage rate was in decline.

Longer - term funds, conversely, have done better when rates were in decline.

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Further evidence of the decline can be seen in the decreasing rates of first - time patents since the 1980s, as well as increases in demand for professional licensing, which could further restrict new business opportunities by requiring expensive (and often unnecessary) credentials.

«The difficulty is that the growth rate has been little more than the increase of supply, so we have growth... but very modest declines in the unemployment rate,» he said.

The decline is attributable, in large part, to slow growth in pension values — tweaks to assumptions about interest rate and life spans had inflated them the prior year — and underwhelming corporate performance.

At various points in the Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, new stock market records and historically low unemployment rates were used as a synonym for a booming economy, or after the financial crisis, to signal that the economy was recovering — even though many workers and households experienced stagnating or steadily declining incomes for years or even decades.

His view contrasted with a number of analysts who are projecting a quicker rise in inflation after the Trump administration approved sweeping tax cuts last December that include a drastic decline in corporate tax rate to 21 percent from 35 percent.

«Job gains have been solid in recent months and the unemployment rate has declined,» the Fed said in its policy statement.

Analysts saw some weakness in the results, pointing to a decline in the profit margins on the wireless side, and Shammo's comment that the rate of device upgrades would be roughly the same as last year.

The decline is noteworthy because you'd think the stars were aligned for a boom in the construction of dream homes: the economy has been churning out jobs steadily for a year, real - estate prices are high, and interest rates are low.

How well these efforts are working remains to be seen, although the IHS» Brannon says even à la carte pricing, which the IPTV providers have also dabbled in, hasn't led to a decrease in the rate of subscribership decline he expected to see.

Now, here's a happy story: A combination of better screening, investments in drug research, and better lifestyle choices (including declines in cigarette smoking) may have helped lead to a downtick in the rate of cancer drug deaths.

Bridgewater declined to reveal how many employees it hired in 2015, but said it has 1,700 employees, and Dalio previously said its turnover rate for individual employees within their first 18 months is 25 %.

A cyclical downturn, a sharp decline in stock prices, or an unexpectedly steep increase in real interest rates dictated by skeptical overseas investors might be the catalyst that prompts legislators to get serious.

If, in contrast, the Fed were to raise rates now, before the economic recovery is fully entrenched, house prices might resume declines, the values of businesses large and small would drop, and, critically, unemployment would likely start to rise again.

Any increase in TFWs in Southwestern Ontario should be seen as a surprise, as the labour market has been in decline in the region over the last decade, with London, Windsor and Hamilton experiencing significant declines in their full - time employment rates:

If growing unemployment was not enough, a decline in labor market participation was also on the rise, the ILO said, a warning borne out by the latest U.S. jobs data from December which showed that the labor force participation rate tumbled to 62.8 percent, its worst level since January 1978.

The BRIC's worst economic performer thus far in 2009, Russia is overly reliant on energy, has a declining and aging population with Third World mortality rates and an authoritarian government too willing to intervene in its economy to the detriment of investors.

«The unexpectedly swift decline in the unemployment rate in recent years has in large part been attributed to a drop in the labor force participation rate.

«He's going to continue to raise rates and the balance sheet's going to continue to shrink... a measly 1,500 point decline in the Dow is not going to dissuade him.»

«Averaging through hurricane - related fluctuations, job gains have been solid, and the unemployment rate declined further,» the Federal Open Market Committee said in a statement Wednesday following a two - day meeting in Washington.

There are three reasons divorce rates decline in a recession.

These were the same communities that experienced the sharpest declines in their full - time employment rates.

C corps will see their statutory tax rate decline from 35 percent to 21 percent, and pass - through corporate entities — partnerships, sole proprietorships and S corps — where income is taxed at the individual level, will also see permanent and dramatic reductions in their tax liabilities.

According to Acadata and LSL property services and reported by Bloomberg, the average price of a house in London was down 2.7 % on the year in September, the decline accelerating from a rate of 0.7 % in August.

A 2013 survey conducted near its Tasiast mine in Mauritania by local sociologists found that the number of households living below the poverty line had been cut by more than half since 2011 and the unemployment rate had declined from 47 per cent to 24 per cent.

«Twitter faces declining expectations and easing comps as it approaches 2016, which should be a perfect backdrop for a product - focused founder to look like a savior,» Stifel, which raised its rating on the stock, said in a note.

After studying the decline in U.S. crime rates that occurred in the 1990s, it concluded that a drop of two percentage points in unemployment was responsible for a 9 % decline in burglary, 14 % drop in rape and robbery and 30 % plunge in assault.

The city is weighed down with debt, billions in unfunded pension obligations, declining credit ratings, a police department often accused of using excessive force against African - Americans, a rising tide of murders, and a host of other troubles.

If you're an advertiser who drives website traffic through pay - per - click (PPC) ads, you may or may not see a small decline in your click - through rate (CTR) as paid ad listings become more obvious to search users.

Peterson: Two major risks are a spike in interest rates and a rapid decline in the value of the U.S. dollar.

While we might not like the decline in startup rates, intervening in the market to boost start - up rates would be a bad idea.

If the Fed raises rates this year, as most of his colleagues expect, «things could go okay, but you are creating a risk of further declines in where market - based inflation expectations are, basically to the credibility of our inflation target, and I think you are creating downside risks our pursuit of our employment mandate.»

There's been a lot of hand - wringing over the past few years about the declining rates of entrepreneurship in the United States.

Yet as production there declines — Saudi Arabia is pumping out its oil at more than four times the rate of the oilsands, Talwani noted in a New York Times op - ed titled, «Canada: the next oil superpower?»

The recent popularity of junk goes counter to multiple warnings from Wall Street experts who believe the sector is in trouble due to looming interest rate hikes and declining earnings for companies particularly at the lower end of the credit spectrum.

Before policymakers and pundits conclude that the rise in student loans is the cause of the decline in rates of entrepreneurship among millennials — and decide that debt relief is the way to boost entrepreneurial activity among young people today — they should consider that waning interest in entrepreneurship predates the student loan crisis by many years.

The conventional wisdom in the economics community is that the labor force participation rate would have continued to decline even if the great recession never occurred, because as the nation ages the share of retired workers would grow.

That number is an improvement on the 12 - percent decline in subscription revenue AOL saw during the second quarter of last year, which was the lowest rate of decline in five years, the company said.

While these studies suggest that the rising level of student debt contributes to the decline in rates of entrepreneurship among young people today, mounting student debt is unlikely to be the sole cause of low levels of entrepreneurship among millennials.

If they do, it will indicate a shift in the direction of the personal savings rate, which has been declining since June and stood at 4.4 percent in November (the most recent month for which figures are available), according to Federal Reserve data.

The state's labor market is also suffering: The November 2015 unemployment rate of 6.5 % was the third highest in the country, and West Virginia was one of only five states to see a drop in nonfarm payroll employment between November 2014 and November 2015, with a 1.4 % decline.

«If you are a city or state with a rising concentration» of chain stores, or branches of existing businesses, «you see a faster decline in your startup rate,» says Litan.

The decline is steeper still for those working in certain business lines, such as credit, rates and cash equities.

This rate moreover declines from East to West in Europe, having been 24.1 in Russia in 1926 and 5.9 in Vienna in 1929.

Returns from that era were boosted by a confluence of factors that are unlikely to come together again: declines in inflation and interest rates, strong global GDP, low corporate tax, and rapid growth in China.

Attendance in the U.S. stadiums declined by 20 %, and it took five years — and the famous home run race between Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire — to see attendance and TV ratings come back to the level they were at before the strike.

However, the household savings rate has been in decline for a generation.

A Federal Reserve working paper from last year found that at least three - quarters of the decline in new charters is attributable to the weak economy and low interest rates.

The consensus, according to Bloomberg, is for an increase of 220,000 non-farm payroll jobs in April (with a range of estimates between 180,000 and 335,000), and for the unemployment rate to decline to 5.4 %.