Sentences with phrase «rating in a decade»

The euro zone economy expanded at its fastest rate in a decade in 2017 and European equities are set to end January with gains of around 3 percent.

«Even though the economy will be slowing, we still think the unemployment rate is likely to fall further next year — and that means we're going to be pushing up against the lowest unemployment rates in decades in this country,» Porter added.

He ended the year with 19 goals and 53 points; his 0.65 points per game and 0.23 goals per game paces were his lowest rates in a decade.

Last year, the Associated Press reported that U.S. women are dying from childbirth at the highest rate in decades, with the jump in C - sections partly to blame.

Paris is back on the map for luxury shoppers: tourism grew by 10 percent in the first six months of 2017, the fastest rate in a decade.

With a solid R rating in a decade of safer disaster movies, there's still plenty of good reasons to go back into the lake.

The beginning of the previous year saw attractive offers yielding lowest mortgage rates in decades, and with that, an era of «mortgage wars» came into motion, with every major bank decreasing its mortgage rate to a shocking low value in order to attract customers at a time of economic instability.

After all, the press keeps saying jobs are growing at the best rate in decades, and all the jobs lost since the beginning of the 2008 recession have been recovered.

Data from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac show that 2009 mortgage originations have the lowest default rates in decades, with 1.2 defaults per 100 loans backed by Fannie Mae and 1.1 defaults per 100 backed by Freddie Mac.

Many Wall Street investors followed, amassing about 200,000 homes largely through foreclosure auctions and purchases of individual properties, to take advantage of the lowest homeownership rate in decades.

Rates dropped gradually through the 1990s, and by 2000 had reached their lowest rates in decades.

New investors are entering the real estate market at the highest rate in a decade.

Despite heavy retail shopping in December, many savvy buyers and sellers still had time to shop real estate for their long - term investment at the lowest interest rates in decades.

Not exact matches

A new report from the city's Department of Small Business Services found that, over the last decade, women - owned businesses in the city grew by 43 %, outpacing the average company growth rate of 39 %.

Over the past decade, social websites have continued to grow in popularity at exponential rates.

Latina - owned businesses explode: In the last decade, Hispanic Americans have been starting and growing new businesses at twice the rate of the general population, according to a new study by researcher Geoscape and the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

At various points in the Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, new stock market records and historically low unemployment rates were used as a synonym for a booming economy, or after the financial crisis, to signal that the economy was recovering — even though many workers and households experienced stagnating or steadily declining incomes for years or even decades.

Consequently, Salt Lake City has enjoyed among the highest rates of salary growth in the country over the past decade, according to BLS data.

The Fed's decision to edge off of a crisis - level rate policy was long anticipated and experts say this first rate hike in nearly a decade might not have much of an impact overall.

«The credit quality, this move up in interest rates, this loss of a four - decade uptrend in bonds, downtrend in yields, that's the source of the volatility which I think far surpasses these amazing developments technology has come across in the last couple of decades,» said Gordon.

The Dow, S&P 500 and Russell 2000 hit record highs this week as investors put the congressional testimony of former FBI Director James Comey and Attorney General Jeff Sessions on the back burner and await what could be the fourth rate hike in more than a decade on Wednesday.

But for decades, that hasn't been the case for the U.S.: A worldwide glut of savings from Chinese, Japanese, and other overseas investors holds our rates in check.

When the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation announced earlier this week that mortgage delinquency rates had fallen to the lowest level in decades during the fourth quarter, there was a rash of stories patting Canadians on the back for their financial prudence.

But an increase in the rate to 66 %, which we had in 1988, or to 75 %, which lasted for a decade from 1990 to 2000, is a distinct possibility.

Fortune ran numbers to calculate how much extra revenue the U.S. would need to raise, over the next decade, if it lowered the rate of growth in Social Security by one percentage point, reduced increases in Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care spending by a proportional amount, and held discretionary spending below growth in GDP (albeit from the higher base established by the new laws).

If you can leave this decade with minimal debt, you're in good shape — focus on paying off your highest interest rate debt, and your credit card balances monthly.

Or at least that is likely what executives at NBC and parent company Comcast (cmcsa) are hoping for in generating ratings and justifying billions of dollars in investments to secure the U.S. airtime rights for decades now.

In its spring forecast, the European Commission said it expects economic growth across the 28 - country EU to dip to 2.3 percent this year, from last year's decade - high rate of 2.4 percent.

Any increase in TFWs in Southwestern Ontario should be seen as a surprise, as the labour market has been in decline in the region over the last decade, with London, Windsor and Hamilton experiencing significant declines in their full - time employment rates:

The Fed lifted rates from near zero last December — the first rate hike in nearly a decade — but has since stood pat given an economic slump at home and volatile markets overseas.

The Fed raised interest rates last December for the first time in nearly a decade, and at that time projected four more hikes in 2016.

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.)

It was also the largest annual increase in crime rates for a decade.

Biogen is among companies that have been singled out for criticism in recent months; the Wall Street Journal called out the company for hiking the price of MS drug Avonex — 21 times, and at an annual average rate of 16 % — over the past decade.

They're leaving countries, particularly the tri-border region — El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras — Mexico now has its worst murder rate in over a decade, and many people are just trying to get out of there.

In the last couple decades, the growth in the number of women's businesses (up 68 percent), employment (up 11 percent), and revenues (up 72 percent) blows past the growth rates of all but the largest publicly - traded businesses, and tops growth rates among all other privately - held businesses over this perioIn the last couple decades, the growth in the number of women's businesses (up 68 percent), employment (up 11 percent), and revenues (up 72 percent) blows past the growth rates of all but the largest publicly - traded businesses, and tops growth rates among all other privately - held businesses over this perioin the number of women's businesses (up 68 percent), employment (up 11 percent), and revenues (up 72 percent) blows past the growth rates of all but the largest publicly - traded businesses, and tops growth rates among all other privately - held businesses over this period.

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).

In private industry, says the Bureau of Labor Statistics, wages and salaries rose at 2.6 % for the 12 months ended September 2017 — 20 basis points above the rate the prior year and notably higher than what we saw in the first half of the decadIn private industry, says the Bureau of Labor Statistics, wages and salaries rose at 2.6 % for the 12 months ended September 2017 — 20 basis points above the rate the prior year and notably higher than what we saw in the first half of the decadin the first half of the decade.

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

Second, approval rates by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have steadily risen over the past two decades, climbing from 23 percent in 1994 to 89 percent and 77 percent in 2014 and 2015, respectively.

Britain's housing market continued to lose momentum data showed too, with mortgage approvals at their weakest in nearly three years following the Bank of England's first interest rate hike in a decade.

When the Federal Reserve hiked interest rates in December 2015 for the first time in nearly a decade, Wall Street expected it to be the beginning of a trend.

I recalled this decades - old memory when I read an investigation published online yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine entitled, «Comparison of Hospital Mortality and Readmission Rates for Medicare Patients Treated by Male vs. Female Physicians.»

At the end of 2015, the Fed raised interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade after they'd previously been near zero.

Recording Industry Association of America's CEO Cary Sherman admits the U.S. music market grew at a healthy rate «for the first time in over a decade.»

The U.K. had been expected to follow close behind the Federal Reserve in raising interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade, but with lower commodity prices and weak wage growth still keeping a lid on inflation, economists now think that the U.K. may not raise rates till 2017 — even though new data out Wednesday showed the employment rate hit a 45 - year high of 74 % in the three months to November.

However, in the past decade, this massive generation became invisible at the rate of 10,000 members per day as they passed the five - decade mark.

The death rate in the United States rose last year for the first time in a decade — do you think loneliness is partially to blame?

While at the beginning of 2011 trading in euro - dollar futures was still foreseeing a return to typical interest rates over the next few years, that view has given way to expectations that rates will remain low for a decade to come.

This corresponds to more than one seventh of the average annual OECD growth rate in the last decade.