For example, fewer respondents reported that they expect business conditions to worsen while the share of
respondents expecting a decrease in employment ticked up only slightly.
Not exact matches
When asked about the
expected impact that external - affairs issues will have on their companies» income in the next three to five years, 42 percent of
respondents believe their income will
decrease, 15 percent believe it will stay the same, 33 percent believe it will increase, and 11 percent say they don't know or it's not applicable.
In terms of profitability and revenue, as
expected, both were down from previous years — 63 % of
respondents reported that profitability
decreased and 71 % of
respondents noted that revenue
decreased.
Regardless of whether involvement in online dating increases or
decreases with age, we
expected to find a negative association between
respondent age and rated satisfaction with non-Internet ways of finding romantic partners.
In 2018, the number is down to 55 %, and
respondents from the West Coast — home to ambitious carbon goals — are more likely to
expect a
decrease in gas generation than an increase.
(That's down from the fall 2015 survey, when 33 percent of
respondents said they thought cap rates might
decrease, and from the 2016 survey, when 27 percent
expected further
decreases.)
When asked specifically about their region,
respondents were a tad more bearish, with just 24 percent
expecting further
decreases, 16 percent seeing no change and 60 percent
expecting cap rate increases.
Whereas six months ago, no
respondents expected to see loan - to - value (LTV) ratios
decrease, now 23 percent of
respondents expect that to happen.
Only 9 percent of
respondents said they
expect to see HNWI
decrease their allocations in 2017.
In both cases, about two - thirds of
respondents expect cap rates to increase (67 percent for CBD, 70 percent for suburban), while less than one - fifth
expect cap rates to
decrease (19 percent for both CBD and suburban).
For debt service coverage ratios, nearly two - fifths of
respondents (38.5 percent)
expect an increase, while 8.4 percent
expect them to
decrease.
• The percentage of
respondents who
expect their personal financial situation to stay the same over the next 12 months
decreased 4 percentage points to 41 percent.
Forty - five percent of
respondents think that home rental prices will go up, a 2 percentage point increase from last month, while 3 percent
expect them to go down, a 2 percentage point
decrease from last month and the lowest value in over a year.
• The percentage of
respondents who
expect their personal financial situation to stay the same over the next 12 months
decreased by 4 percentage points to 42 percent, while those who
expect their situation to get better steadied at 43 percent.
57 percent of
respondents expect assignment activity to increase, 37 percent
expect it to stay about the same, and 6 percent of firms surveyed envision
decreasing their number of global transferees.
The percentage of
respondents who
expect their personal financial situation to get better in the next 12 months
decreased slightly from last month, to 43 percent.