Sentences with phrase «relative low point»

If you look at the history of United States defense spending, the percentage of GDP (3.3 %) is actually at a relative low point now.

Why did the CFIB use the year 2000 as a starting point? In another example of selecting statistics to fashion your claims, they chose 2000 because that was a recent relative low point for municipal spending.

Not exact matches

Additional analysis points that when a low - performing female employee switches to work for a high - performing female supervisor from her previous male manager, she actually ends up doing significantly worse — earning 30.1 % less relative to men who make the same switch.

No wonder Nanos Research now reports that Canadian confidence in our country's economic prospects has hit its lowest point in 24 months despite the relative heath of our nation's financial affairs.

Relative to the five - year average, Korean credit default swaps, the cost of insuring against defaults, is 3 basis points (hundredths of a percentage point) higher while the Korean Won is 3 % lower.

Growth was more than 1 percentage point lower relative to normal periods, and the average duration of the overhang was 23 years.

That scenario presented a relative value opportunity because the market was pricing the convertible 300 basis points lower (3 %) than the equivalent duration straight debt.

CenterSquare aims to uncover low relative price opportunities across sectors and at different turning points in the real estate cycle by looking beyond the obvious factors of stock price and underlying real estate value.

If issuance remains low as expected, the value of triple - A rated muni yields relative to 10 - year Treasuries should compress by five to ten basis points, from the current 82 - 85 % to 72 - 75 % of the 10 - yr Treasury yield.

A high open interest tends to correlate with a bearish COT structure — i.e. a high commercial bank net short — and a low relative o / i correlates with a cyclical low - point in gold.

The relative cost of mortgage interest is only part of this equation, which means lower mortgage rates based on a falling 10 yr yield would likely not stimulate home buying at this point.

Victor points out that money is starting to move into the sold out Commodity sector which relative to stocks is down 75 % in the last 7 years to an 18 year low.

Further, although we could detect enhancement of granzyme B production in DKO T cells relative to WT, DGKζ − / −, or Cbl - b − / − T cells at early time points (Fig. 3B, upper panels), we did not observe enhanced granzyme B production in DKO relative to DGKζ − / − or Cbl - b − / − T cells at later time points (Fig. 3B, lower panels), at higher or lower concentrations of anti-CD3 Ab, or with addition of anti-CD28 Ab (Supplemental Fig. 2B).

Half of those in the house have a motive for the murder, but the investigation isn't the point, and Altman has fun by letting Thompson and his assistant Constable Dexter (Ron Webster) mirror the relative competence of the upper and lower classes in the house.

In schools that had a chance to achieve a Recognized rating, low - scoring students who were not designated as eligible for special education in 8th grade were 2.4 percentage points more likely to be newly designated as such in 10th grade, an increase of more than 100 percent relative to the 2 percent designation rate in other schools.

Whereas the schools identified for closure experienced an increase of 6.5 percentage points relative to their projected graduation rate, the other low - performing comparison schools experienced an increase of 1.4 percentage points.

Evaluations of unions climb by 5 percentage points if the respondent's district is ranked high relative to other districts statewide, but falls by 12 percentage points if it is ranked low.

Before getting to those, however, they point out that finance reforms increased overall spending, and increased spending more in low - income districts relative to high - income districts, which means at least some «equalization» happened.

They do this, as Knack points out, because «someone with a low sense of civic obligation may nonetheless vote to avoid displeasing a friend or relative with a stronger sense of duty.»

Chrysler's corporate average fuel economy is low relative to its competition, to the point that it is buying carbon credits from other automakers.

The Model 3 is a compact sedan with a much lower price point than other Tesla vehicles and despite this, the goal was to combine relative affordability and segment - exclusive technology into a package that still accurately represents the Tesla brand.

The fiction e-publishing industry is still in its relative infancy as regards persuading a whole new potential market to switch from paper, or at least to get over the hurdle of reading on a screen, so a low price point makes sense.

The actual ETFs invested in resulted in annual returns that were 1.69 percentage points lower relative to what would have been realized through the buying and holding of an MSCI World Index ETF.

In a lower return environment, the true tax deferral benefit of extending the average holding period of an investment from 2 years to 5 years — chopping the portfolio turnover rate from 50 % down to 20 % — is actually less than 5 basis points, which can be made up in the blink of an eye through a lower cost investment change or a mere day's worth of relative returns (not to mention weeks, months, or years)!»

But what the configuration points out is that when the curve is humped, where 10 - year yields are high relative to 5 and 20 - year yields, mortgage REIT yields have tended to be low relative to 5 - 20 year Treasuries.

In Table 3, of the 96 tests for factors, only 2 have the «wrong» sign, with higher valuation pointing to (negligibly) higher subsequent returns; both instances of the «wrong» sign are in the emerging markets, for which we have shorter history, and are for the low beta factor, for which the current valuations, in the 99th percentile, are quite extreme relative to history.

The low beta, or relative risk and performance to the market, will show that these stocks tend to either perform better - or at least not as poorly - as cyclical stocks in bad times and will usually not be most investors» focal points during the boom part of the business cycle when investors are busy chasing technology stocks and high - growth companies.

So if you're going to go active, looking at lower - cost active relative to a higher - cost active counterpart is a very, very good starting point to do that.

Others point out that because interest rates are so low, the debt service payment on the national debt (about $ 250 billion) relative to the size of the economy is less than it was throughout most of the past three decades — 1.6 percent of American output vs. 3 percent or more during the four administrations prior to Obama.

Reward redemption begins at a lower point level requirement relative to industry competitors, and free nights earned can be redeemed at any Best Western branded hotel worldwide, with no blackout dates.

BWR redemptions have a lower point level threshold relative to other hotel brands and free nights can be redeemed at any of Best Western's more than 4,200 hotels worldwide, with points that never expire and no blackout dates.

BWR redemption begins at a lower point level requirement relative to other hotel brands, and free nights earned can be redeemed at any Best Western branded hotel worldwide, with no blackout dates.

With a goal to bring real value to today's travelers with instant rewards and gratification, BWR offers a lower point level threshold relative to other hotel brands, enables members to redeem free nights at any of Best Western's 4,200 + hotels worldwide, and awards points that don't expire and don't have blackout dates.

More importantly, the points required relative to amount spent is low compared to other hotel chains.

Previously, the base of the spine was used as a player's primary node (i.e. the reference point that movements are measured relative to), but the... erm... lower back area is completely obscured by the sofa when players sit down.

While India's greenhouse gas emissions have been rising steadily for years, Russia's emissions in 1990 represented a relative high point; its emissions bounced along at lower levels throughout the»90s and even into the new millennium.

This will lead to a rise in Median Sea Level, with the elevation of that oscillation of relative Sea level «then» maintaining «high and low» points both much higher than that «presently seen».

Critics of the DEA policy point out that cannabis cultivars used to produce industrial hemp have relatively low concentrations of THC relative to plants grown to produce marijuana.

Although the whole point of a carbon tax is to penalize emissions - intensive businesses relative to low - emissions businesses, the incentives no longer work as intended if the high - emission businesses move outside of BC.

Fahrenheit is RELATIVE to the lowest point Daniel Gabriel managed to reach by mixing ice, water and salt., and Celsius is RELATIVE to the freezing point of water.

The study found there was a 1.5 % (percentage points) decline in relative humidity in the very lower levels of the troposphere and a 1.5 % increase in relative humidity in the upper layers of the troposphere.

All it takes at that point is a day or two of extreme fire weather, and the main components are simple: strong winds and very low relative humidity (RH).

Since BCH was trading at such a low value relative to Bitcoin (as low as 0.06 BTC at one point), this made mining BCH unprofitable.

At times when the yield spread was less than 80 basis points — when REIT dividend yields were extraordinarily high, reflecting REIT stock prices that were especially low relative to current distributions — REIT performance over the next year tended to be especially strong, with total returns that averaged 20.81 percent and outpaced the broad stock market by 5.67 percentage points.

At times when the yield spread was greater than 180 basis points — that is, when REIT dividend yields were extraordinarily low, reflecting REIT stock prices that were especially high relative to their current distributions — REIT performance over the next year tended to be weak, with total returns that averaged 6.98 percent and underperformed the broad stock market by 1.84 percentage points.

Although the assessed value may be an indicator of relative market value (as when comparing the assessed values of similar properties), actual fair - market value may be considerably higher or lower than the assessed value at any given point in time.

Paying points lowers your interest rate relative to the interest rate you could get with a zero - point loan at the same lender.