While health care shows a strong upward trend in priorities and investment spending,
it remains below average in the priority attached to innovation and in spending plans.
Both the cash rate and other variable lending rates
remain below their averages over the past decade (Graph 66).
An alternative, and perhaps more likely, interpretation is that the market expects that the target cash rate will
remain below its average over recent years for some time, and this expectation is reflected in bond yields.
By itself, this below - average spread might normally be taken to imply slightly tighter - than - average conditions, although a more likely interpretation is that bond yields have been held down by offshore bond - market developments reflecting expectations that short - term interest rates around the world will
remain below average for some time.
While the Australian dollar has appreciated more than some of these other currencies, the additional appreciation is not that large (see Graph 24), and, as noted above, the Australian dollar
remains below average levels against currencies such as the euro and yen.
Fixed lending rates on housing and business loans have also risen over recent months in response to higher bond yields, although they too
remain below the average of the past decade.
The index revealed both the House and Senate
remain below average for the fifth straight Congress when measured against the historic baseline, said Lugar Center President Richard G. Lugar, a former U.S. senator from Indiana.
Although more pupils were now reaching expected levels in reading, writing and maths by the end of year six, inspectors said results
remained below average in four of the trust's primary schools.
Even if you are already earning more than you used to, your low credit score may
remain below the average.
If the company starts missing earnings quarter after quarter, the stock can quickly lose value and
remain below your average cost.
Despite low debts and a healthy utilization rate of available credit, the city's credit score
remains below average for the group, held down by defaults in past years.
Merriman's upstairs
remains below average — poor service and high prices.
The profile indicates that temperatures
remain below the average over the first half of the twentieth century.
This season's Arctic ice retreat ranks well behind the extraordinary ice retreat of 2007 and also last year's but
remains below the average ice extent for the stretch since 1979, when satellites started monitoring Arctic conditions with some precision.
As of September 5, sea ice extent
remains below average everywhere except for a small area within the Laptev Sea.
The Statement also highlighted that long - term indicators of climate change such as increasing carbon dioxide concentrations, sea level rise and ocean acidification continue «unabated», with Arctic sea ice coverage
remaining below average and the previously stable Antarctic sea ice extent at or near a record low.
Average insurance rates for Georgia drivers tend to fluctuate over the year, but on a statewide basis
they remain below average when compared to the rest of the country.
New - home sales at 555,000 in 2016 are up from recent years, but
remain below the average pace of 700,000 per year since 1990.
(Don't) Act Now If two - thirds of the millennial demographic
remain below the average age of first - time buyers, it stands to reason that real estate agents who want their business should get started today trying to reach them.
An increase in sales in 2015 over 2014 is expected, but unfortunately, they will likely
remain below average levels.
Though economist Kevin Gillen, of the University of Pennsylvania's Fels Institute of Government, continues to point out that «home sales overall
remain below average,» some of what is selling is being fought for.
Not exact matches
Curtin noted that sentiment this year
remains below the three year
average of 105.3 recorded from 1997 to 2000.
Indeed, airlines»
average price - to -2017-earnings ratio
remains more than 40 %
below the S&P 500
average of 18, a sign of investors» lack of faith.
Deferral requests and cancellations
remain well
below the historical
average.»
The unemployment rate has
remained steadily
below the national
average.
Yet the VIX
remains comfortably
below its long - term
average of around 20, after a stretch of near - record lows.
And ticket prices
remain on
average far
below those in other parts of the world, a serious problem for a company like Imax, which depends on premium pricing to justify higher production costs.
Despite rising 0.3 points last month, the National Federation of Independent Business Small Business Optimism Index
remains below its pre-recession
average, mired in what the association's economists call its «recession range.»
Although the
average level of after - tax income of the top 1 percent of households
remains well
below its 2007 peak, the percentage increase in their
average after - tax income from 1979 to 2013 was five times larger than that of the middle 60 percent and four times larger than that of the bottom fifth.
The August score of 50.7, just barely indicating manufacturing expansion, is the sixth consecutive monthly reading to
remain below the three - month moving
average.
Although large - cap stocks continue to show relative strength, which enabled the Dow Jones Industrial
Average to finish at a new 52 - week high (on the weekly chart), the important Nasdaq Composite
remains well
below its prior highs from September of 2012.
«While delinquencies have picked up as the credit box widens, levels
remain below cycle
averages and far from pre-crisis levels,» says Roberts.
Median home price change expectations was steady at 3.7 percent,
remaining somewhat
below average 2013 and early 2014 levels
Thus, even though the Fed has now restored the funds rate to a relatively normal level of 4.5 per cent, world policy interest rates on
average remain well
below normal.
Growth in household credit has
remained relatively stable at around 5.5 per cent since the beginning of the year, a pace
below the historical
average (Chart 22), following an extended period of rapid growth that led to a substantial buildup in household debt.
While investors appear more convinced that the Federal Reserve (Fed) will indeed hike rates later this year, real yields
remain well
below where they started the year and even further
below their long - term
average.
We plan to continue holding $ EPI as long as the price action
remains above the 20 - day exponential moving
average (beige line on the chart
below):
Natural Gas Natural gas futures were among the quarter's key decliners -LRB--7.5 %, to US$ 2.73 per million British thermal units) as production growth outweighed seasonal consumption and higher exports of the fuel.1 Spot prices saw an even larger drop of 20.6 % (to US$ 2.81) as the support of December's weather - related demand spikes faded and a more normal winter pattern developed.1 Natural gas generally took its downward price cues from elevated US production and growth in the natural gas - focused rig count, which increased from 179 to 194 in March alone.2 Despite the price drop, traders
remained optimistic given surging US shale - gas exports and a supply deficit that was 20 % larger than the five - year
average at March - end, the biggest in four years.3 Moreover, total natural gas inventories of 1.38 trillion cubic feet were nearly 33 %
below their year - ago level.3 Meanwhile, the market appeared focused on an anticipated production surge (2018 is projected to be a record growth year for gas supplies) and may have overlooked intensifying demand as US exports increasingly helped drain supplies.
Our unemployment rate
remains below the national
average, and our real GDP is forecast to grow by a solid 3.0 per cent in 2015 and 3.1 per cent in 2016.
In Figure 3 the price has been moving in an uptrend, as indicated by the price
remaining well above the 200 - day moving
average, but on a couple occasions it drops
below the 50 - day moving
average.
EUR - USD has
remained comfortably
below its 200 - day moving
average at 1.2054.
The salient points are (I) inflation is
below target and expected to
remain well sub-target for the next 5 10 20 and 30 years; (II) it has been well
below target and Fed forecasts for a decade suggesting great skepticism about models that predict acceleration (iii) the 2 percent target is supposed to be an
average so inflation should sometimes exceed it especially after a long shortfall (iv) if the 9th year of expansion with unemployment approaching 4 percent is not the time for above target inflation when will that moment ever come?
Wall Street's fear gauge, the VIX,
remains below its long - term
average, even after last week's spike.
Orange juice is trading right at their 20 - day moving
average, but still
below their 100 - day as the chart structure
remains solid therefore the monetary risk is relatively low for such a historically volatile commodity so look to play this to the upside.
The Fed has made it clear that rate «normalization» will happen gradually, meaning rates will likely
remain below historical
averages for the foreseeable future.
In Wisconsin, women - owned businesses have grown by almost 30 % in the last 10 years, but that growth still
remains well
below the national
average, according to data from the U.S. Small Business Administration and studies by the Kauffman Foundation.
However, because those gains occurred from extremely low levels, the so - called «fear index» has frequently
remained below its long - term
average between 19 and 20.
While rural prices are
below the drought - induced peaks of 2002, they
remain higher than the
average of the past decade in both SDR and Australian dollar terms.
Minnesota may have high income taxes, but mortgage rates in the state have
remained below the national
average for the past 10 years.
The
average rate for a 30 - year fixed mortgage loan in California
remained below 4 % for most of 2016.