Sentences with phrase «rates than in the past»

Berkshire appears primed to continue growing, even if it will likely be at a slower rate than in the past because of the conglomerate's huge size.

On the similarity side, we have low volatility and a flattening yield curve; on the other side, we seem headed into an elongated hiking cycle and a much lower neutral rate than in past cycles.

Now, new research shows that one of the planet's largest and most important carbon sinks, the forests of northern Eurasia, may be pulling in carbon at a slower rate than in the past.

«For whatever reason, the technology that's available for treating people seems to be improving at a slower rate than in the past,» Cutler said.

This is a far lower fatality rate than in past diphtheria outbreaks.

Young teachers — those with less than five years of experience — are leaving the Appleton School District at noticeably higher rate than in past years, according to an analysis by the Appleton Post-Crescent.

Young teachers — those with less than five years of experience — are leaving the Appleton School District at a noticeably higher rate than in past years, according to an analysis by the Appleton Post-Crescent.

On the similarity side, we have low volatility and a flattening yield curve; on the other side, we seem headed into an elongated hiking cycle and a much lower neutral rate than in past cycles.

That said, today's crop of high yield corporate debt is lower rated than in the past.

For instance, I linked to several studies confirming that recent sea level rises are occuring at a faster rate than that in the past, including studies of the Mediterranean.

«Vehicles are also being scrapped at higher rates than in past years.

This will have a substantial impact on the number of cancer survivors who will qualify for better rates than in the past.

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.

A sea change in economic conditions has pushed interest rates considerably lower than they were in the past and are likely to stay there for a while, San Francisco Fed President John Williams said Friday.

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.

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.

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.

Their average five - year growth rate of 1,933 % is also higher than that of any other class in the past five years.

Over the past decade and a half, McDowell has lost people to prescription opioid overdoses at a higher rate than any other county in America but one (its neighbor, Wyoming County).

However, rates have also been slowly creeping higher on their own, as regulators look set to persist with the current «de-risking» campaign taking much longer than policy crackdowns in the past.

That means policy makers may have to raise interest rates sooner than they have in the past to keep prices in check.

«The number of established small businesses that are not micro-enterprises used to increase about the same rate or more than micro-enterprises in the past decades,» Morelix says.

The maternal mortality rate in the U.S. is higher than that in most similarly wealthy nations — and it's actually been on the rise over the past two decades.

In the past six years the company has amassed more than 100,000 customers, revenue upward of $ 55 million and an enviable product return rate of only 5 percent.

Because of how the Bank of Canada has incorporated federal fiscal projections in its forecasts, there's a risk markets might over-read any tension over rates and interpret the government «as having more influence on the governor than it would past Bank of Canada governors,» he said.

I don't know exactly what's going to happen, but simple math based on the current level of interest rates leads me to believe that these risk premiums will be much wider in the future over longer time frames than they've been in the recent past.

The inflation target was achieved, the average rate of unemployment was low and the variability of both real GDP and unemployment were if anything slightly lower than in the past.

Venture investments in Canada have fallen over 70 % in the past 10 years, and are less than half the rate of the U.S. (as a percentage of GDP).

The speech goes on to note that, although the economy performed well overall, the average growth rate of real GDP has been lower in the past decade than the one before.

In a low - inflation environment, nominal interest rates are also low, and households are able to service much higher levels of debt than they could in the pasIn a low - inflation environment, nominal interest rates are also low, and households are able to service much higher levels of debt than they could in the pasin the past.

There is probably truth in both of those, but I do think it is important, in considering claims of irrational exuberance, to note that the earnings price ratio - interest rate relationship is in a very difference place than it has been in past peaks.

«The economy has never been as levered as it currently is, and the economy is far more interest sensitive than it has been in the past, to a degree that we don't have certainty over how each interest rate hike is going to affect Canadian consumers,» said Frances Donald, senior economist at Manulife Asset Management, by phone from Toronto.

My second reason for disappointment in Jackson Hole was that Chair Yellen, while very thoughtful and analytic, was too complacent to conclude that «even if average interest rates remain lower than in the past, I believe that monetary policy will, under most conditions, be able to respond effectively».

Given the nation's debt load — as of February, households had a record $ 2.1 trillion of mortgage and non-mortgage debt — Poloz estimates the economy is 50 per cent more sensitive to rate hikes than in the past.

In fact, the rate of greenhouse gas emissions have increased globally more in the past 20 years than it has in the previous 100 yearIn fact, the rate of greenhouse gas emissions have increased globally more in the past 20 years than it has in the previous 100 yearin the past 20 years than it has in the previous 100 yearin the previous 100 years.

In other words, the median asking rent is $ 184 higher today than it would be if rental rates had risen only as fast as inflation over the past two decades.

And thirdly, of course, higher leverage means that monetary policy's impact via its effect on the behaviour of borrowers will be bigger than in the past — especially in a country like Australia where the majority of household debt is at floating rates.

Consumer prices, usually more stable than producer prices, have also accelerated on a similar basis from a recorded inflation rate of less than 1.0 percent last summer to 2.4 percent over the 12 - months ended this past March, also a smart acceleration in a brief time.

It's not just that future returns will be lower from current interest rate levels than they've been in the past; it's that volatility in bonds will be much higher from -LSB-...]

In the past, marketers have struggled to deliver the higher response rates they need from existing customers — a smaller group than potential new customers.

Also, it's worth noting that even under this more than doubling of rates from their current levels, these losses are a fraction of the 50 % declines that investors have experienced in stocks over the past two decades.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

However, we expect the gains to be moderate over the short term, as Fed rate rises will likely be slower than in past cycles given relatively tame U.S. inflation.

«While in the past, interest rates have been lower and for longer than people expected, they may go higher and faster than people expect,» Dimon said.

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 in the past, interest rates have been lower and for longer than people expected, they may go higher and faster than people expect.

Step 4: On February 11, 2010, with Treasury backing in place, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (whose delinquency rates have more than doubled over the past year) announce the purchase of $ 200 billion in delinquent mortgages that they had previously guaranteed.

This leaves roughly 1.4 % of historical long - term returns which can be attributed to past expansion in the Price / Earnings multiple (i.e. over the past 50 years, prices have grown somewhat faster than the 5.7 % average rate of earnings growth).

For example, a borrower with an excellent credit score might qualify for a lower rate than someone with credit problems in the past.

This time around he was a little more subdued than he has been in the past on the topic of bitcoin, for instance, but seized the opportunity to point out that the US tax rate had historically stayed at 40 % while it had fallen to 20 % elsewhere, driving «brains and capital» overseas.