Sentences with phrase «rates than a year»

All of these indicator s show inflation running at substantially lower rates than a year ago.

Naw — once The Mitt releases all his tax returns the nay - sayers will be pretty upset he paid a far lower rate than them year after year.

Forty percent of firms had lower interest rates than a year ago.

Median sale prices have still been increasing overall, but at a lesser rate than the year before.

Not exact matches

Oklahoma has seen a massive spike in earthquakes in the past few years, registering 2-1/2 earthquakes daily of magnitude 3 or greater - a seismicity rate 600 times greater than before 2008, according to the Oklahoma Geological Survey.

Cagle, who has earned an A + rating from the NRA every year he has served in elected office, said companies should take different action than punishing the NRA.

More importantly for consumers, DBS revealed that the average amount sent in digital red packets in Singapore last year was S$ 26 (about $ 19.60)-- several times higher than the going rates of physical red packets, which is between S$ 6 ($ 4.50) and S$ 10 ($ 7.60).

Interest rates on 15 - year mortgage terms are typically lower than those on longer - term loans because the shorter duration of the loan makes it less of a risk to the lender.

Perth has suffered the biggest drop in house prices, falling 2.4 per cent in the June quarter, as capital city house prices across Australia decline by the sharpest rate in nearly than three years.

These are the best ratings in more than 10 years, according to the National Federation of Independent Businesses.

While the high level of existing debt means rate hikes will have a stronger impact in cooling demand than they did in previous years, it is still too soon to know just how much of an effect the bank's three rate hikes have had, Poloz said.

Solar power has grown at a whopping 68 % average rate over the past 10 years, but still accounts for less than 2 % of total U.S. electricity generation.

EBRI found that 46 % of retirees spend at a faster rate in the first two years after leaving their jobs than they did before retiring.

Women are starting companies at a faster rate than men, as they have been for years.

The minutes showed that Fed officials thought it may be appropriate to raise interest rates over the next few years faster than previously expected.

The 3 - year recidivism rate in California for comparison is more than 50 %.

He declines to share specific figures but says sales are increasing at a faster rate than did sales of Soylent 2.0, the neutral - flavored meal - replacement drink the company introduced a year ago.

Gold fell 1.2 percent on Friday after stronger than expected U.S. payrolls data shored up expectations that a pick - up in inflation will spur further U.S. interest rate hikes this year, boosting the U.S. currency, in which it is priced.

HR director Monika Fahlbusch boasts that Salesforce hired merely 4.5 percent of its more than 100,000 applicants last year — a lower acceptance rate than Harvard's.

If the Bank of Canada hikes two more times this year, some households could be renewing at a rate 75 basis points higher than what they previously paid, according to Rob McLister, CEO of intelliMortgage Inc. in Toronto.

The status quo for hundreds of thousands of people, meanwhile, is untenable: More than 333,000 Americans will be diagnosed this year in any of four cancer types in which the five - year survival rate remains lower than 20 %, and in all, nearly 600,000 U.S. deaths are expected from cancer in 2016.

-- Scott and Missy Tannen, founders of Boll & Branch, a New York - based company with a line of accessibly priced luxury bed linens that launched in January 2014 with first - year revenue topping $ 2 million and more than a $ 10 million run rate in its second year in business.

For one, drug offenders have a more than 75 % recidivism rate within five years of their release.

By this time next year, short - term rates might be a full percentage point higher than today.

The odds of another interest - rate cut this year are lower today than they were at the start of the week.

In many cases, acceleration should lower their costs, as nominal interest rates will likely be higher two years from now than they are today, and idle construction crews in Alberta are relatively abundant.

The benchmark 10 - year Treasury note fell from a more than four - year high to below 3 percent after the European Central Bank kept interest rates unchanged and reaffirmed its stimulative monetary policy stance.

Private equity returns remained strong but were lower than the prior year quarter, while income from our fixed income investment portfolio increased due to a higher average level of fixed maturity investments and higher short - term interest rates.

In 2013, I always worked hard to make sure that everything was 100 % perfect, but I know that if I keep growing at a 90 % rate that is 90 % perfect, I will get a lot farther than I did last year.

Giving 25 % of the market rate for a position each year, rather than a lump sum grant that covers the next four years, will smooth out the vesting process so the employee never reaches a cliff.

The more complex debt market has worked wonders in the past few years allowing somewhat riskier companies like Valeant amass more debt, at lower rates, than they would have been able to past.

China «s official unemployment rate has been around 4 % for years, despite the rapid slowdown in the economy from double - digit growth to quarter - century lows last year of less than 7 %.

The Journal also says that cutting the pass - through rate to 15 percent would add more than $ 1 trillion to the 10 - year cost of any tax plan.

The IMF predicts the global economy will expand 3.5 % in 2015 — about the same as last year, but dramatically slower than the 5 % rates that preceded the financial crisis.

With a five - year growth rate of more than 19,000 %, Pac - Van tops Inc.'s inaugural ranking of the 100 fastest - growing inner - city companies.

Yemeksepeti is seeing more than 50 percent annual growth in its fourteenth year, Aydin told Inc., with international operations expanding at a 200 percent growth rate.

Hence the question: Is it reasonable to expect that marginally looser policies would now lead to more than tripling of the growth rate (to 1.5 - 2 percent) over the next two years, while raising the inflation rate from -0.3 percent to 2 percent — as the Bank of Japan is promising?

Moreover, the rate of growth in the fraction of non-employers (28.2 percent) run by women has been higher than the rate of increase in their share of non-employers (23 percent) over the past five years.

Under the consent decree, Trader Joe's agreed over the next three years to reduce its leak rate to less than half the average in the grocery store sector, and to use non-ozone depleting refrigerants at all new and heavily remodeled stores.

It has been more than five years since credit ratings firm Standard & Poor's downgraded the U.S. economy from the prized AAA score to AA — and that is unlikely to change in 2017, Standard and Poor's chief sovereign rating officer told CNBC Wednesday.

Gold got a boost Friday on weaker - than - expected inflation and retail sales figures, casting doubt on the Federal Reserve's ability to continue normalizing interest rates this year.

The rate of auto repossessions in the second quarter took a significant jump, up more than 70 percent (to 0.62 percent) from a year earlier.

The rate of women who had their first child between 40 and 44 has more than doubled in the past 20 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

That's almost 2 points higher than the overall satisfaction rate for all the companies and services we deal with throughout the year.

Average five - year growth rate among the 2001 Inc 500 that had Venture - capital funding at start - up: 4,619 % CEO with an M.B.A.: 2,542 % CEO who took 5 days or fewer of vacation yearly: 2,385 % Open - book management: 2,283 % CEO who took more than 10 days of vacation yearly: 1,983 %

Much the year - end maneuvering noted by the Rockefeller Institute involved the country's millionaires and billionaires rearranging their finances to maximize the portion of their income that would be taxed in 2012, at lower rates, rather than in 2013, at potentially higher rates.

That's exactly what sparked the stock market correction last month: a higher - than - expected average hourly earnings number in January's jobs report ignited fears that inflation might finally be coming to life, and in response the Federal Reserve may look to hike rates more aggressively than the three projected increases for this year.

While the average five - year growth rate among this year's Inc 500 was 1,933 %, the growth rate among VC - backed companies on the list was more than double that.

Traders are suddenly worried about interest rates (although anyone older than 30 has to be amused that 2.85 % on the Treasury 10 - year is a source of panic), worried about inflation (although after the last decade of stagnant wages, Friday's 2.9 % rise should be cheered, not jeered), and worried about a tax - fueled spike in growth (with this report from Powell's Atlanta colleagues leading the way.)

He identified three obstacles that could affect any possible recovery in the global employment rate: «Over the fore ¬ seeable future, the world economy will probably grow less than was the case before the global crisis,» complicating «the task of generating the over 42 million jobs that are needed every year in order to meet the growing number of new entrants in the labor market.»