Sentences with phrase «seen as a measure»

(Note: multifactor productivity, or MFP, is commonly seen as measure of technical progress — the increase in output that can not be explained by the accumulation of labour and capital inputs.

The Commerce Department revised March orders for non-defense capital goods excluding aircraft, which are seen as a measure of business spending plans, to show them falling 0.4 percent instead of dipping 0.1 percent as reported last month.

As a result, test makers have avoided such questions, viewing them as problematic rather than seeing them as measuring real cognitive processes.

For it was seen as a measure to help lessen the burden of backpacks and to make it easy to access new books, while also being kind to mother nature and saving some money in the process.

The PE10 can be seen as a measure of investor sentiment.

A credit score is a measure of your financial responsibility, and most providers see it as a measure of your likelihood of submitting claims as well.

Not exact matches

With epic cinematography, «Amazing China» — produced by China Central Television and the state - owned China Film Group Co. Ltd. — articulates a message of how China would like to be seen as it pursues President Xi Jinping's vision of a globally resurgent nation, against a reality that doesn't always measure up.

And to this day, because she fears being seen as «stupid,» she pushes herself to learn as much as she can in an attempt to measure up.

They shouldn't be seen as a guaranteed payment, but instead should be measured by performance of the individual, team or company.

The Fortune 500 has long been the ultimate scorecard for big business success in America — and soon investors will be able to see how it measures up as a way to play the market.

And as measured by the S&P 500, which is seen by many as a better, wider market gauge, the recent stock market run isn't all that historic.

«As you can see, a yawning 50 - point gap opened at year - end between the two measures of confidence, with dumb money optimism having soared, while smart money optimism became decidedly more subdued.

As of mid-2015, the measure (see blue line in chart) shows that less than a third of disposable income is required by a representative Canadian household for mortgage payments and utility fees — below the long term average (brown line).

Our sense is that in light of the oil shock and weak economic growth recorded in Canada this past year, the SEPH is likely telling the more accurate story, meaning we could see employment as measured by the LFS slow significantly during the first half of 2016.»

As you can see, there's quite the gap growing between the two measures, and the Fed targeting the PCE rather than CPI measure could potentially be pivotal.

Instead, use these numbers as a jumping - off point to determine where you should begin engaging, but be sure to measure your performance on each site to see when and if you need to change course.

Willy Schlacks told me that he sees an even bigger opportunity in more advanced analytics, such as using predictive analysis to lower maintenance costs, using drones to monitor entire construction sites and aggregating data so that contractors can measure their performance against industry benchmarks.

The four - week moving average of claims, seen as a better measure of labor market trends as it irons out week - to - week volatility, fell 3,250 to 289,750 last week.

Because of the uncertainties in the marketplace — and the very real threats to many companies» survival — many, many leaders see the concept of «culture» and the tasks of defining and managing it as luxuries that only get attention once more concrete and easier - to - measure objectives are handled.

As a measure of profitability, investors will want to see that number improve if the efficiency gains of going cloud are to mean anything in terms of improved margins.

As for last week's market activity, Jones said that on Thursday we saw a five standard deviation (that's a volatility measure) kind of movement in one day.

There's also the positive spin: others in financial markets see it as proof that past stimulus measures have done their job in avoiding a «hard landing» for the economy.

«There are issues with the medium or smaller banks... Our review may not be as intensive, we will have to see what measures they have put in place once we get there,» Tedesco said in an interview.

As it is a non-cash charge, however, and highly dependent on our share price at the time of equity award grants, we believe that it is useful for investors and analysts to see certain financial measures excluding the impact of these charges in order to obtain a clearer picture of our operating performance.

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People see the costs of citizenship behaviors much more clearly because they see them as coming at the expense of exceeding their targets or whatever is being measured.

You could use social listening software (such as Hootsuite, SproutSocial, or SocialMention) to see how often your brand is mentioned on social media channels, news articles, or blogs, or you could conduct a wide - scale survey to see who has heard of your brand before and who hasn't, but these are indirect measures of a qualitative characteristic.

But in negotiating a new deal this week to bail out Greece, Germany displayed what many Europeans saw as a harder, more selfish edge, demanding painful measures from Athens and resisting any firm commitment to granting Greece relief from its crippling debt.

A key risk measure in money markets known as the Libor - OIS spread has risen to levels not seen since worries mounted in 2011 and 2012 over the debt troubles of European countries Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain.

Already the most dominant Chinese leader in generations, Xi has made it all too clear that China has entered a «new era,» and that it sees itself as a top global power, in stark contrast to the past four decades of «Hide your strength, bide your time,» as put by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, who spearheaded the market - opening measures in 1978.

It looks to be seeking to test the water to see how much of the workings of platforms» algorithmic blackboxes can be coaxed from them voluntarily — such as via measures targeting bots and fake accounts — in an attempt to stave off formal and more fulsome regulations down the line.

The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its reasonable valuation levels and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures.

The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, reasonable valuation levels, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and notable return on equity.

I agree the stock market can be measured as overvalued by a few metrics, but it is another thing to say the market will see a correction or long term bear market.

The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its reasonable valuation levels, expanding profit margins, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and notable return on equity.

The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its expanding profit margins and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures.

It represents the difference between a fund's actual returns and its expected performance, given its level of risk as measured by beta (see definition of Beta).

The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and reasonable valuation levels.

Indeed, as you can see below, median corporate leverage among the largest U.S. companies is nearing a record high as measured by debt - to EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization).

Moderate interest rates were associated with a whole range of subsequent returns over the following decade, and we know that those outcomes were 90 % correlated with the level of valuations at the beginning of those periods (on reliable measures such as market cap / GDP, price / revenue, Tobin's Q, the margin - adjusted Shiller P / E, and others we've presented over time - see Ockham's Razor and the Market Cycle).

Everywhere I travel in the U.S., I see a boom as measured by the lack of open seats on airplanes, sold - out hotels and crowded restaurants, not to mention the almost out - of - control construction activity in every city.

At Berkshire Hathaway's recent annual shareholders meeting, an investor asked Buffett about the relevance of two popular measures of stock market value: 1) market cap - to - GDP, which Buffett once heralded as «probably the best single measure of where valuations stand at any given moment» and 2) the cyclically - adjusted price - earnings ratio (CAPE), which was made famous by Nobel prize winner Robert Shiller and was seen as accurately predicting the dot - com bubble and the housing bubble.

Advocates for gun rights have long argued that the Second Amendment is a necessary barrier to prevent full - scale confiscation of firearms, which they see as the end goal of many gun control measures.

For example, the dollar as measured by the Federal Reserve's broad trade - weighted index fell in the second half of the 1980s and soared in the 1990s, but both decades saw robust growth.

But in practice, as we're seeing across the eurozone right now, those measures can be self - defeating.

A 2014 Standard & Poor's report found that «corporate issuers see green bonds as an alternative financing avenue, offering access to a diversified investor base, plus a means of implementing and maintaining efficiency measures considered environmentally sustainable.»

Mr. Flaherty would be required to implement new stimulus measures, which in the end would cost Canadian taxpayers, as we saw with the recent temporary stimulus program.

That's partially because growth in real domestic investment is almost always associated with an expanding trade deficit (a regularity of the savings - investment identity - see Eating Our Seed Corn for more on this), and also because import growth drives other aspects of measured productivity growth, as explained above.

The ifo trade expert Gabriel Felbermayr sees the transatlantic tariff dispute as, «the deepest trade policy crisis of the post-war era, regardless of whether US President Donald Trump decides to postpone tariffs on 186 European steel and aluminium products, or postpone this measure again.»

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