Sentences with phrase «rates over the past few»

Given the company's impressive growth rate over the past few years, such a pessimistic expectation seems unwarranted.

That is a reflection of WMT's low earnings growth rate over the past few years and the low projected rate looking forward.

Recent developments, including a further net decline in the exchange rate over the past few months, appear to have marginally increased the prospective inflation rate in the near term.

The decline in world interest rates over the past few years has seen the servicing burden of foreign debt fall to around the levels of the early 1980s.

Overall, despite these regional divergences, the world economy has expanded at above - average rates over the past few years providing a very favourable backdrop to the Australian economy.

Although West Coast teams have covered the spread at a high rate over the past few seasons, this seems like a regression to the mean.

That said, it's worth pointing out that West Coast teams traveling east have covered the spread at a high rate over the past few seasons.

E-readers have been growing in popularity at a fairly rapid rate over the past few months and not only have such devices seen tremendous sales, but hardware makers have even begun to launch new devices in this category, finally setting the basis for price competition.

Its yield is good at 3.4 %, but its dividend growth rate over the past few years has been in the 2 % -3 % range per year.

The decline in mortgages rates over the past few weeks echoes the recent signs of weakening confidence in the strength of the economy, particularly the housing and consumer sectors.

The Chevy Spark EV sold 98 units last month continuing its monthly growth rate over the past few.

Even though the number of patent applications is on the rise, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has been rejecting them at an unprecedented rate over the past few years.

Of course, the falls do not yet make up for the steep hikes in premium rates over the past few years.

In addition to law enforcement seizures of bitcoin, global central banks will likely begin to acquire large sums of bitcoin, Ether, and other major cryptocurrencies because the digital currency market has grown at an exponential rate over the past few years.

Traders in South Korea still invest in bitcoin with a high premium despite South Korea being the third largest bitcoin market because the supply of bitcoin from the local market is low and the demand has increased at an exponential rate over the past few months.

The divorce rate among military members has reached an alarming rate over the past few years.

Record - low interest rates over the past few years have led many apartment tenants to vacate their...

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The Federal Reserve's decisions over the past 12 months to continuously raise interest rates from the near zero percent level of the past few years have made it more profitable for big banks to lend money.

The employment rate for 25 - 54 year old men fell during the recession, recovered somewhat, but has been flat over the past few years.

The German bank has struggled over the last few years due to weak earnings, a low - interest rate environment and penalties on past misconduct.

The rising cost of homeownership is pushing more people to rent, and the vacancy rate in Toronto has tightened over the past few years to 1.3 per cent, according to CMHC.

Over the past few years, public pensions including California Public Employee's Retirement System (CalPERs) and California State Teacher's Retirement System (Calstrs)-- the largest in the country by assets — have posting mediocre returns due to low interest rates and growing retirement obligations.

The rate cut also comes in the face of growing scrutiny of the wireless industry from both the Canadian Radio - television and Telecommunications Commission and the government, which have both received an earful from Canadians over the past few months.

«Over the past few months, they've reopened the path for another rate hike,» he said.

The growing recognition of the negative effects of corporate tax rates explains why Canada and other OECD countries have made it a point to reduce corporate income taxes over the past few decades:

The rate of new entrepreneurs is the second - lowest among the best cities to start a small business, but it's been steadily rising over the past few years.

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

The plans themselves have been adapting to the low - return environment over the past few years by hiking contribution rates from both employees and employers.

Interest rates will inevitably rise, as the Bank of Canada keeps pointing out, and the federal government has instituted numerous changes over the past few years that will make a home purchase more difficult for first - time buyers.

Senior writer Cat Clifford breaks down a new report from the Kauffman Foundation which found that the rate of new entrepreneurs starting a business each month rose from 0.28 percent in 2013 to 0.31 percent in 2014, reversing a downward trend over the past few years.

Many bond investors have learned the hard way over the past few years that predicting the direction of interest rates can be extremely difficult.

As shown in Exhibit 5, forward real rates five years ahead have declined notably over the past few years.

Upcoming economic data are likely to matter more for interest rates and currencies than they have over the past few months, when market participants waited for the launch of QE2, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Brick and mortar banks offer CD's but the trend over the past few years for interest rates has been down hill, however online only banks like Ally have become very popular, because they can offer higher interest rates because they don't have a physical location.

In fact, over the past few years, credit unions» average personal loan rates have been approximately 1.24 percentage points less than those offered by banks.

The unemployment rate has edged lower over the past few months to 6.1 per cent in September, and other indicators, such as new claims for unemployment benefits, are also showing signs of stronger labour demand.

Over the past few years, the unemployment rate in Augusta has dropped dramatically as the local economy improves.

Unit labour costs (based on compensation per hour worked) grew by 1.3 per cent in the June quarter to be 2.8 per cent higher over the year, which is around the average growth rate of the past few years.

Strategists doubt that the Fed will initiate any major policy changes or increase rates with inflation making slow gains over the past few months.

Over the past few years, Domino's has become the takeaway outlet of choice for many Australians, with Roy Morgan Research recently revealing a sharp increase in its visitation rates, whilst Pizza Hut and Eagle Boys visitation rates both fell.

Although overall deforestation rates in the region are still lower than they are in parts of the Amazon and Southeast Asia, deforestation has accelerated over the past few years, driven mainly by the establishment of large - scale agricultural and mining operations.

Surprisingly after achieving so much for his club and the Spain national team over the past few years, new Barca head coach Luis Enrique really doesn't rate Pique.

His tremendous strike rate in blue is rivalled by few in the league and has proven himself over the past two seasons to be more than deserving of a spot in City's squad.

The rate of twins and multiple babies has increased over the past few years, mostly because of the use of fertility drugs and other assisted reproduction techniques.

I should look closer at the cancer data, but given the rates of breastfeeding over the last few decades, especially of breastfeeding past 1 year, I would guess that most of the cancer data comes from women with several shorter lactations.

And that's before accounting for some of the factors that the model doesn't consider: the disagreement in the polls, the unusual nature of Trump's candidacy and the demographic changes it is producing, Clinton's superior turnout operation, the possibility of «shy Trump» voters, the fact that the news cycle is still somewhat fluid headed into the final weekend, the declining response rates to polls, and the substantial number of high - profile polling misses around the world over the past few years.

Cuomo's favorability rating has dropped a few points over the past month to 68 - 21 — the «lowest» since he took office in January, but still better than three - to - one and a number most electeds would kill for.

Miliband's ratings remain far worse — only 20 % think he is doing a «good job», with 55 % saying the opposite — a net score of — 35, considerably worse than his always - negative average over the past few years.

Over the past few years, theorists have turned to black holes as dark matter concentrators, where WIMPs can be forced together in a way that increases both the rate and energies of collisions.

They have receded at a rate of 45 metres per year over the past two decades, according to Australian scientists, and one of the glaciers is likely to disappear altogether over the next few years.