Sentences with phrase «rates fall even»

But suppose mortgage rates fall even further, you might say.

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Many people believe that leadership is even more vital for small businesses because small companies can fall apart at a much faster rate without effective leadership.

CNN's broadcast set a record for Democratic debates, but it still fell short of the GOP's ratings and wasn't even the night's most - watched show.

Once again, Major is going against the grain to say yields will fall even further, though the Fed has maintained that it could raise short - term interest rates this year.

Some analysts believe this has helped keep wage gains stagnant even as the jobless rate has fallen because employers don't have to raise wages as much to retain talent when there is less employee turnover.

This theory is why the Fed is thinking about raising rates even as inflation has consistently fallen below its 2 % annual target, because the central bank believes it needs to get ahead of rising inflation that a falling unemployment rate will cause.

Uncertainty over when and if the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates heightened last week when August's jobs report showed the economy added 50,000 fewer jobs than expected even while the unemployment rate fell to 5.1 %.

One way for price growth to halt or even fall is for interest rates to rise.

If firms act to reduce that tax base in response to an increase in the federal rate, then provincial revenues will fall, even if the provinces haven't changed their rates.

Even with good fundamentals and a powerful growth rate, the company's stock could fall under pressure if its private stakeholders decided to ring the register.

Its sales continued falling at double - digit rates in 2014, and its financial results came in even lower than analysts» expectations.

David Blanchflower, a former rate - setter at the Bank of England now at Dartmouth College, thinks unemployment could fall even further without inflation — probably as low as 3 %, and conceivably even lower.

The central bank has targeted 2 percent as a desirable level, but has fallen consistently short even as the unemployment rate has dropped to 4.4 percent.

The rate in California has fallen, even as the company increases it test miles, to 0.2 disengages per thousand.

Average weekly wages for airport operations workers, a category that includes baggage handlers and other support staff, fell by 14 percent from 1991 to 2011 — a growth rate that was lower even than the low - wage retail and food service industries, according to a 2013 study.

Our survey determined that demand for customization falls off precipitously if consumers think they could be stuck with something they don't like — even though early adopters of product customization have found that return rates are lower than for standard products.

Is this the month the U.S. unemployment rate finally falls to 4 % or even less for the first time since Bill Clinton was president?

Long - dated Treasury yields fell on Wednesday, while short - dated yields rose, as inflation fears abated even as investors expected the Federal Reserve to hike rates next week.

Falling tax revenues pushed government budgets even further into deficit, and rising interest rates increased rather than lowered prices.

In a little noticed comment, Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently was reported to say: â $ œDropping our tax rate has not caused the governmentâ $ ™ s corporate income tax revenues to fall, which indicates that it does in fact attract business.â $ No one seems to have questioned his statement, even though it was made on the same day -LSB-...]

Applications to refinance a home loan fell even more, down 5 percent for the week, despite no change in interest rates.

And when the Fed eventually does allow rates to rise to more normal levels — even if that really isn't until 2014 — bond prices will fall significantly.

For four consecutive months, core inflation has hovered below 2 % and it has not visibly overshot 2 % for more than 20 years, even during periods of unemployment, falling well below the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU).

Equity markets fell as investors shifted to the relative safety of bonds issued by the major countries — even though S&P had announced a downgrade of the US sovereign credit rating.

More alarming still, for 50 large companies in prolonged stall - out, we found that the onset had usually been sudden: Momentum fell sharply over just a year or two, with growth rates dropping from double digits to low single digits or even negative numbers — a finding consistent with past research (see «When Growth Stalls,» HBR, March 2008).

If the Fed tries to raise rates, business investing will fall even further, leaving more workers unemployed.

This has occurred even though interest rates have fallen substantially suggesting that it reflects a reduction in demand.

Even though federal corporate tax rates have fallen by more than half over the past 30 years, corporate income tax revenues have continued to fluctuate around two per cent of GDP.

Then inflation fell, and the Riksbank needed to cut interest rates even lower than before.

Even if provincial PIT rates don't change, they will be applied on a smaller tax base and revenues will fall.

Trump's budget assumes borrowing rates for the 10 - year Treasury bonds will remain low, even as growth picks up and unemployment falls further.

Even when 10 - year Treasury yields fell to zero, mortgage interest rates would be a few points higher.

This interest rate impact could mean the price of TIPS could fall in the short or medium term, even though the TIPS» principal value is rising.

Treasury yields fell Wednesday afternoon after the most recent update on monetary policy from the Federal Reserve showed few signs that the central bank would ratchet up its pace of rate increases, even as the Fed conceded that the outlook for inflation had strengthened.

«Even though the economy will be slowing, we still think the unemployment rate is likely to fall further next year — and that means we're going to be pushing up against the lowest unemployment rates in decades in this country,» Porter added.

Even that couldn't be found last night in most of the debt - ridden Postmedia newspapers, with their own Single - B - minus credit rating from S&P and shares that fell a penny each yesterday to an undignified 2 cents.

Unfortunately, the FOMC has since fallen into a pattern whereby longer periods of low or even zero interest rates are used to address yesterday's errors, but this action also leads us into tomorrow's financial excess.

Even more disconcerting is the fact that the relative strength of the XHB has remained below its falling 200 - day moving average in spite of the broader equity market recovery and the fact that the Fed has backed off its hawkish interest rate stance — two things that would normally translate into higher confidence for homebuilders.

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Even without any selling, the value of the fund's share price would fall (roughly as a function of the fund's average «duration», a measure of interest rate sensitivity that is a related to a bond's maturity).

As inflation expectations continue to fall, a 2015 rate hike by the Federal Reserve (Fed) looks increasingly unlikely; even the odds of an early 2016 hike appear to be fading.

With the 30 - year rate having recently fallen to a fresh 2017 low, we might see an even stronger surge in mortgage applications.

Even the strongest of secular trends, such as falling long term interest rates, may have painful reversals along the way.

The big question is whether with higher interest rates, home appreciation will slow or even fall.

Yet even with the new construction, Baltimore's industrial vacancy rate is falling, dropping to about 9.6 percent in the third quarter from 13 percent three years earlier, according to a report issued Friday by Cassidy Turley.

Even a balance that falls below $ 10,000.00 will earn 0.85 % APY at Capital One, significantly more than money market rates at banks like Wells Fargo or Bank of America.

But even after the event no one would know whether the average results in terms of the sums invested had exceeded, equalled or fallen short of the prevailing rate of interest; though, if we exclude the exploitation of natural resources and monopolies, it is probable that the actual average results of investments, even during periods of progress and prosperity, have disappointed the hopes which prompted them.

Even if growth in the region did show signs of picking up in 2015 — and recent sharp falls in energy prices should support growth, though put further pressure on lowflation — given structural constraints, ultimately growth is likely to be limited to the region's trend rate, somewhere between 1 % and 2 %.

Indeed, when our measures of market internals have been unfavorable (signaling risk - averse investor psychology), the S&P 500 has historically lost value, on average, even during periods of Fed easing, falling interest rates, or interest rates pinned near zero.

The birth rate for U.S. - born women decreased 6 % during these years, but the birth rate for foreign - born women plunged 14 % — more than it had declined over the entire 1990 - 2007 period.1 The birth rate for Mexican immigrant women fell even more, by 23 %.