Sentences with phrase «rates were going as»

That call was as much about where interest rates were going as it was about where housing prices were heading.

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Only two years ago they were rating AAA all the toxic bonds that created the crisis,» said Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, adding that the downgrade was executed «not because of what Greece is doing but because of the decisions being taken by the EU that are not considered as going far enough.»

You're likely going to visit Amazon and pick one that looks good based on customer feedback, but the problem is, most of us use Amazon's star - rating system, and it's not as useful as it could be.

«As interest rates rise, high yield is a fixed - income instrument, it actually will go lower.»

As official interest rates in various countries approached zero, there was talk that going negative — effectively requiring private lenders to pay to deposit their excess reserves at central banks.

«(With an alternative lender), the interest rates are higher, the qualifying rate is higher than if you were going with a traditional bank and they are going to charge one per cent of the mortgage amount (as a lender's fee) for closing, so that means your closing costs increase.»

Furthermore, the bank also said that the unemployment rate in the U.K. is projected to go up slightly to 5 percent in the near term as labor demand softens.

«Observers seem to think that go - getters exert less effort than slackers, even when they're working on the same task, and even though they themselves rated the assignment as equally difficult.

In Beijing, where the official commercial vacancy rate is 30 % but approaches 50 % in many pockets, developers go to great lengths to make empty buildings look occupied, going so far as to paint silhouettes of office workers in stairwells.

Also, notwithstanding a silly fiscal policy and the ongoing political impasse, the U.S. economy has some very good things going for it now, as even king of doom, Nouriel Roubini, couldn't help but note: the Fed is going to stick to its asset - buying regime for the foreseeable future, providing a monetary protein shake the recovery still very much needs; the housing rebound is well on its way, which is helping Americans rebuild their wealth and is boosting employment in many states with high jobless rates; and the shale oil and gas revolution continues to power investment, job creation and revenue growth.

«These issues are going to weigh much more heavily on customers at the end of the day as far as how they would rate their overall experience with the airline.»

«An increase in body temperature causes an increase in physical arousal - your heart rate goes up and your blood pressure rises as your poor body tries to cool itself off, and that can be bad news for your behavior, because increased physical arousal is known to be linked to aggressive behavior,» experts explained to USA Today.

«There is an immediate expectation that as interest rates go up, investors can find greater return on capital by investing it in lower - risk portfolios.»

There is no way the Federal Reserve is going to raise interest rates at Powell's first meeting as chair in March.

«So I think each of us is going to be taking the developments since the December meeting into account and writing down our new rate paths as we go into the March meeting, and I wouldn't want to prejudge that,» he said, in comments before the House Financial Services Commitee.

The market's going to have to start to digest a faster pace of interest - rate hikes in 2017 than what we have gotten used to, as the economy grows.

In the coming weeks, Trump is expected to mark increases in many employees» take - home pay as the IRS withholding tables reflecting the law's adjusted rates go into effect by Feb. 15.

For all the grand visions of men on Mars, SpaceX's pitch is straightforward: The company says it will send your satellite into orbit for as little as a quarter of the going rate.

On purely utilitarian grounds, it is desirable to have a higher proportion of economic growth going to low and middle - income Canadians, so long as the policies to get us there do not reduce the growth rate of the economy.

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One very important note: it's natural for companies, as they grow bigger, to start seeing their rate of sales growth go down.

If things move along as anticipated, interest rates are expected to go up in late summer.

The book Brain Rules explains how detrimental «multitasking» can be: Research shows your error rate goes up 50 percent and it takes you twice as long to do things.»

If you are going to put a video on your website, then put it on the top half of your site so people can see it quickly as it increases conversion rates.

So, to us as a bond manager, that means rates are going up.»

That's a small, subjective sampling of opinion, but given the skyrocketing growth rates of both companies, it's probably representative of the larger whole as far as service providers go.

«In the investment world when you hear «never»,» (as in rates are «never going up»), «it's probably about to happen,» said Gundlach, who is CEO of DoubleLine Funds.

If the Fed raises rates this year, as most of his colleagues expect, «things could go okay, but you are creating a risk of further declines in where market - based inflation expectations are, basically to the credibility of our inflation target, and I think you are creating downside risks our pursuit of our employment mandate.»

When you create a modern office design that meets these four work modes, you could see productivity rates go up as well as overall well - being among your company's workforce.

«How banks feel that they're going to achieve above - average growth levels by pursuing capital intensive strategies in a market that is as slow as the Canadian market is a mystery to us,» says Brad Smith, an analyst with Stonecap Securities in Toronto, who has an Underperform rating on the stock.

«The fact that inflation didn't heat up as much as most economists had expected plays into the narrative that the Bank of Canada is going to be very patient with regards to future rate hikes,» Royce Mendes, CIBC World Markets director and senior economist, said in an interview.

«I think you're going to see higher interest rates, I think you're going to see higher growth rates from GDP, that's going to benefit Goldman in a lot of ways, one of which is M&A activity should be picking up, particularly as cash gets repatriated from abroad and companies use that cash to purchase other companies,» he argued.

«If you raise all the rates, anything that you do later on to cut them, is going to be scored by the Congressional Budget Office as a tax cut,» Manley says.

«The cumulative effect of interest rate hikes is going to begin mounting,» said Greg McBride, Bankrate.com's chief financial analyst, particularly on variable - rate loans such as credit cards, home equity lines of credit and adjustable - rate mortgages, which could rise within one to two statement cycles.

Video is personal and different, so it increases our initial response rates and saves our team time as they don't need to go through an entire cadence.»

A decade ago, residents of northern European countries such as the Netherlands and Sweden were going online at a faster rate than in just about any other area in the world, thanks in part to substantial investments in broadband infrastructure.

«Most informed investors believe that when interest rates go higher, as they are expected to within the next few years, condo prices will be hit very hard,» says MacKenzie.

If you can get your ad rated as a ten, your cost - per - click is guaranteed to go down, and it will be shown more often.

As you spend more time searching, you'll start to get a general idea of the going rate for homes in the neighborhoods you're interested in, and will be able to weed out the fishy listings.

The job market is on a tear, growth is picking up, the Fed may continue to raise rates, and other countries and regions such as China and Europe are going through their own changes and weakness.

But analysts will be keeping an eye on how the bank's earnings change as rates go up.

Her goal is to make Progressive the go - to source when it comes to auto and home insurance as well as policies for motorcycles, boats and small businesses, which will allow Progressive to keep rates low and grow revenues.

SARA EISEN: So do you worry that we're gonna see rates spike, interest rates spike, as the debt picture becomes clearer?

A year ago, there was a debate going on as to whether banks would pass along interest rate increases to their customers.

And what happened to us was that our salaries stagnated and fell while the cost of the things we couldn't do without went up at rates well beyond that of inflation for decades as the social safety was being pulled out from underneath us.

Rates are based on factors such as the cost of the wedding, with coverage kicking in to cover nonrefundable costs related to natural disasters as well as other wedding woes, such as a vendor going out of business.

Borrowers should keep in mind that lower interest rates at the beginning of a loan result in more actual savings than lower interest rates towards the end of a loan since the principal is lower as time goes by (interest charged is a percentage of the current loan balance).

And now that our careers are going, we're looking at maxing out two traditional 401Ks and two Roth IRAs this year, and we see the Roth IRA portion as a small hedge against rising future tax rates (or what I think is a bit more likely to happen — tax brackets that don't keep pace with inflation, so keep sucking in more and more people to higher brackets).

Frank - «As real interest rates fall / go negative, productivity improvements are no longer required to remain profitable»

yields will hit the highs on close end of the day... equity markets setting up to be slammed tomorrow maybe but today they have run over weak shorts in the face of rates... the federal reserve see's this and again will wonder if they are behind on hikes, strong data, major expansion in credit, lack of wage growth rising bond yields and ballooning debt... rates will go much higher and equities will have revelations as to what that means for valuations