Sentences with phrase «rates over recent years»

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His market, the New York tri-state area, already has in place many of the provisions included in the health - care overhaul, including a provision that dependent under the age of 30 need be eligible for family coverage, and he's seen rates continue to rise over recent years, making him skeptical of the plan's ability to hold costs down for small businesses.

For Costco, «Renewal rates will remain the focus for investors over the next year, given concerns about AMZN, grocery delivery and a recent fee hike,» Jefferies» Binder reiterated.

However, awards show ratings in general have fallen in recent years, with the Oscars hitting an eight - year low last February with just over 34 million viewers.

Last night's ratings were also up 7 % from the most recent Game 7 of an NBA Finals series, in 2013, in addition to easily beating out already strong ratings from earlier games in this year's NBA Finals, which saw just over 20 million viewers tune in for Game 5 last week.

Viacom, whose networks include Comedy Central, MTV, and Nickelodeon, has taken much criticism in recent years over its high executive pay even as it struggled with slipping ratings while more consumers ditched pricey cable television subscriptions.

According to a recent Morgan Stanley Research report, U.S. commercial real - estate pricing in 2017 could drop by as much as 10 %, year over year, amid slowing revenue growth, rising interest rates and tightening lending conditions.

For those who prefer simpler methods, a third measure, which just takes out volatile food items and petrol, and adjusts for the recent change to the child care rebate, shows essentially the same trend over the past couple of years, though at a slightly lower rate (Graph 15).

Business investment has been a major driver of growth in recent years, expanding by 18 per cent over the past year, and at an average annual rate of 14 per cent over the past three years.

The Fed, however, has been signaling rate increases for quite some time now, so it might be a bit surprising that the markets would adjust that drastically to the recent changes in the 10 - year treasury rate, which has grown by 35 basis points over the past year.

This is a subject that's been hotly debated over the years, but the most recent data seems to suggest that organic click - through rates (the percentage of people who see your entry in SERPs and click through to your site) does have a direct and significant bearing on the ranking of your site.

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.

While these data are only for one month, we have not seen so many increases in default rates in a year or more, and more recent data on both consumer confidence and the economy in general are good reasons to watch these data over the next few months.

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.

The more pronounced movements in longer - term bond yields saw the spread between the yield on 10 - year bonds and the cash rate rise in net terms over recent months to around 65 basis points.

However, the recent weakness of the exchange rate is likely to result in larger increases in the price of tradeables over the coming year (see below).

As I noted in the most recent Undervalued Dividend Growth Stock of the Week article on this stock, Enbridge grew its ACFFO at a compound annual rate of 7.94 % over the last ten fiscal years.

Liaison with market participants suggests that spreads on ABCP picked up sharply in August, as in the US, to be around 30 — 50 basis points above the bank bill rate relative to 2 - 5 basis points over recent years (Graph 8).

Dividends per share have grown consistently over the past 7 years, but the rate of growth has slowed significantly over the most recent 3 year period.

The most recent and thorough of these, by Lukasz Rachel and Thomas Smith at the Bank of England, concluded that for the industrial world, neutral real interest rates have declined by about 4.5 percentage points over the last 30 years and are likely to stay low in the future.

While the inevitable climb of mortgage rates has had false starts over the past couple of years, the recent hikes could be the first phase of a long - term trend.

Finally, while mortgage arrears rates have increased slightly over recent years, they have increased more noticeably in regions exposed to the downturn in commodity prices and mining investment.

An alternative, and perhaps more likely, interpretation is that the market expects that the target cash rate will remain below its average over recent years for some time, and this expectation is reflected in bond yields.

The main driver behind the recent move higher in U.S. 10 - year yields has been a rising U.S. 10 - year inflation breakeven rate, which now implies average headline inflation above 2 % over the next decade.

Growth of non-farm GDP over the latest four quarters for which we have data was just over 4 per cent; domestic demand, while slowing a little from its most recent peak, expanded by 5 1/2 per cent over that period; employment growth over the past year has been around trend, though lower in recent months, and the unemployment rate has remained close to the lower end of the range in which it has fluctuated over the past two decades.

Unemployment has edged up over the recent period, reaching a rate of 8.7 per cent in March, and labour force participation has come off the peaks recorded two years ago.

Excluding the volatile fresh food component, consumer prices have been flat over the past year, compared with deflation rates of almost 1 per cent in recent years, although part of this improvement is attributable to increases in administered medical prices and tobacco taxes earlier in 2003.

Our exchange rate against the US dollar and the currencies of most of our trading partners has shown little net change over the past year, and the rise in the trade - weighted index in recent months has been due mainly to the weakness being experienced by the Japanese yen.

The consistently strong credit growth suggests that the level of interest rates has not posed a significant hurdle to those households and businesses wishing to borrow over recent years.

Movements in the exchange rate have had an important influence on inflation outcomes recently, as they have over recent years.

The main reason for the recent decline in inflation is the dampening effect from the exchange rate appreciation over the past two years.

In October, Fitch Ratings upgraded Cyprus to BB with a positive outlook: «The economic recovery has broadened, and GDP growth has consistently outperformed forecasts over recent years.

The new estimates confirm the upward trend in the debt - servicing ratio over recent years evident in the earlier RBA estimates, with movements in the implied average interest rate now consistent with those in market rates.

Currently all three of the national series show prices rising at a relatively fast pace over the latest year for which data are available, though they also show that the rates of increase have come down from their most recent peaks.

With the cash rate up by 50 basis points in late 2003 and yields on 10 - year bonds down a little over recent months, the spread has narrowed since early November to stand at around 50 basis points (Graph 67).

While the measured participation rate has been quite volatile over the past year, in recent months it has stabilised at around 63 3/4 per cent, a little above the average of the past decade.

Over recent months the unemployment rate has fallen to 5.6 per cent, after it had moved in a narrow band of between 6 and 6 1/4 per cent for most of the past year.

Even so, this rate remains 1.9 percentage points under the previous cyclical low early in 1994, reflecting the trend decline in bond yields over recent years.

The important fact is that while recent news reports of declining marriage rates among young people 25 to 34 have focused on the recession as an explanation, marriage rates over the past thirty years have been declining, through boom and bust alike, especially among less - educated Americans.

«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.

The company estimates unfavourable exchange rates impacted sales by $ 14.4 million over the 2010 - 11 financial year, but said in its recent results it was putting more effective hedging strategies in place to minimise impact.

We've seen this over recent years with the policies that have been introduced by this government and their recent support for cuts to penalty rates for weekend workers in Australia.

This will increase the recycling of carton packs across the whole of UK, so the north east campaign is perfect timing as Malcolm Allum, managing director of SIG Combibloc said: «It's been rewarding to see the steady growth in collection and recycling of carton packs in the UK over recent years and the new recycling mill will encourage more local authorities to collect carton packs from kerbside, offering easy access for consumers and hence increasing household recycling rates.

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 am pessimist by nature and have watched Arsenal for 40 + years — but I see sustained evidence that we have significantly improved our team balance, addressed the gung - ho antics of recent times and upped the work - rate all over the pitch.

Having made seven Premier League appearances over the past two seasons, the 20 - year - old midfielder is one of the most highly - rated talents to emerge from the club's youth academy in recent years.

Already Buhari has started giving excuses for the abysmal performance.He attributed the quagmire to drop in the price of oil globally and cleverly laid the blame on the doorsteps of all Nigerian accusing them of relying solely on oil.All renowned rating agencies including fitch continue to downgrade Nigeria ever since Buhari took over and it is projected that Nigeria will not be able to repay its debt obligations.Fitch for instance downgraded Nigeria's longterm foreign currency issuer default rating to B + from BB - and longterm local currency IDR to BB - from BB.The general position expressed by almost all the Briton wood institutions is that Nigeria's fiscal and external vulnerability has worsened under Buhari and it is projected that the government's general fiscal deficit could grow up to 4.2 % by the end of 2016 after averaging 1.5 % under the previous regime.A recent capital importation report by Nigeria Bureau of Statistics confirms that, last year, the country recorded total inflow of capital into the economy stood at $ 9.6 billion which was a 53 % drop from previous year and the lowest recorded total since 2011.

It should be noted that these findings aren't in keeping with a recent Siena poll that pegged Cuomo's favorability rating at 70 percent — the highest it has been in well over a year.

Again most analysts and academics know that if anyone wanted to demonstrate the strange hypothesis that multiple and widely divergent exchange rates do not affect foreign investment, he could cite the evidence of more recent years, but that obviously not being consistent with the facts, our economist then went over two decades back to 1994 to cite an exception, a single investment in an environment of otherwise grossly low investment, in a sector where people invest even in times of war, to justify a faulty hypothesis!

There have been substantial declines in smoking prevalence over the past half century in the United States, although the rate of this decline has decelerated in recent years among various groups.

In recent years, breastfeeding rates in the United States have increased, with the percentage of infants who are ever breastfed rising from just over 70 % in 2000 to 80 % in 2012, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.