Sentences with phrase «rates over the past couple of years»

Virginia was of the few states to have a relatively flat crash rate over the past couple of years, and drivers in the state will need to work a bit harder if they want to see that total come down in the future.

We have enjoyed historically low interest rates over the past couple of years and our tendency is to get comfortable and think that these rates will not change in the foreseeable future.

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Though the rebound in growth over the past couple of years has seen unemployment across the bloc fall, the jobless rate remains elevated at 8.5 percent.

Over the past couple of years, insurance companies like Progressive and State Farm have created tracking devices that can lead to lower insurance rates for safe driving.

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).

As a result, we should have grown much faster than the 2 1/2 percent pace evident over the past couple of years and seen an inflation rate much higher than what we experienced.

Though the US dollar has remained the strongest fiat currency in a pool of rapidly devaluing fiat currencies over the past two years, if one calculates the declining purchasing power of the US dollar in the past couple of decades when using real rates of inflation inside the US (versus the bogus rates produced by federal entities), then one can easily reach the conclusion that the US dollar has crashed as well.

Over the past couple of years, speculators have also used short sales of gold to obtain low cost funds to invest in other assets — for example, by shorting gold (borrowing it and selling it in the spot market), market participants have been able to obtain US dollars at between 1 and 2 per cent, well below the rate of return available on US assets.

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.

Over the past couple of years gold has rallied when the greenback has been making gains, as well as when it was weakening, therefore investors must now take note of the inverse relationship between US real interest rates and gold, which has been observed more consistently.

One factor supporting the Australian dollar over the past couple of years has been that interest rates right across the yield curve in Australia, and perceived returns on other assets, have been higher than those in a number of other countries, particularly those which experienced a recession and a collapse of share prices in the early part of this decade.

The international comparisons shown here suggest, however, that growth in unit labour costs in Australia has still been on the high side over the past couple of years, given the rate of unemployment.

Profits after interest have tended to decline over the past couple of years, reflecting the impact of the 1994 interest rate increases and a tendency for corporate leverage to increase, but they remain at high levels compared with historical averages; they can be expected to receive a further modest boost as interest - rate reductions in the second half of last year begin to feed through into profit results.

Studies over the past couple of years have found nightclub and festival attendees report high rates of use.

Over the past 200,000 years, replacement - level fertility rates have ranged from 2.1 to 3.0 children per couple, he said, noting that global population remained remarkably stable until the beginning of the 19th century, when decreased mortality in newborns resulted in fertility rates exceeding replacement levels.

The author of the «Entries to arts subjects at Key Stage 4» publication, Rebecca Johns, has stated that the findings show that entries to arts subjects by Key Stage 4 cohorts have declined over the past couple of years, following several years of gradual increases, with the 2016 entry rates being the lowest of the decade.

«By using A2A, we have improved our attendance rate by two percent over the past couple of years.

E Ink has upped the resolution of their 6 - inch screens from 800 x 600 to 1024 x 758 over the past couple of years, and the Kobo Aura HD has a unique 1440 x 1080 6.8 - inch Pearl screen, but overall E Ink advances at a slower rate than other technologies, and color E Ink has still yet to become effective enough to really take off.

Even bankruptcy rates have increased alarmingly over the past couple of years.

Student loan debt has been increasing at an alarming rate over the past couple years; in fact, the debt tally has surpassed $ 1 trillion which makes it one of the largest types of consumer debt second to mortgages.

Over the past couple of years, I've talked with countless attorneys and consequently formed an opinion on the diverse rates of technology adoption by General Practice (GP) Solos.

When it comes to crash rates, drivers in Oklahoma have been showing improvements over the past couple of years.

In fact, some of the lowest down payment programs like FHA and USDA Rural Development have made their programs even more affordable over the past couple years by reducing private mortgage insurance rates.

(MCT)-- As interest rates have slid over the past couple of years, Gabriel Bousbib of Englewood, N.J., refinanced his 15 - year mortgage not once, but twice — cutting his interest rate in two steps from about 4.6 percent to 3.375 percent.

«Over the past couple of years, commercial property pricing has cooled as investors take stock of record prices, slowing fundamentals, and higher Treasury rates,» said Peter Rothemund, Senior Analyst at Green Street Advisors.