Sentences with phrase «since higher government»

... the nutritional profile of school meals in the United States had improved substantially since higher government standards went into effect in 2012.

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A rise in U.S. government borrowing costs to their highest since 2013 this week has tempered some investor appetite for risk, but analysts said Brent crude futures, the global benchmark, may yet rise toward new 2018 peaks above $ 75 a barrel.

The main stock index dropped by as much as 2.4 percent earlier, while the benchmark 10 - year government bond yield rose to 6.944 percent, the highest since August 2017.

The federal government has housed condemned inmates since 1999 at a high - security institution in Terre Haute, a town of some 60,000 people in western Indiana.

The Canadian Medical Association, argued in its pre-budget submission that the government should maintain access to the small business deduction for physicians, since they enter the workforce later in life and often with significant debt, and unlike small businesses are unable to pass on higher costs to clients.

Fernandez has consistently polled as Catalonia's «highest rated» politician in regional government surveys since he joined the chamber in 2012.

Prodi, the head of Italy's 61st government since World War II, made the unpopular mistake of suggesting higher taxes would be the way to fight the budget deficit.

A drop in the euro provided support, helping the exporter - heavy DAX index outperfrom with a rise of 1.5 percent, while Italy's FTSE MIB rose 1.2 percent to its highest level since October 2009, as government debt rose on dimming prospects of a snap election.

Fueled by low prices, and an improving job market, consumption of gasoline in the U.S. rose by 2.6 per cent last year to 9.2 million barrels a day, the highest level since 2007, the government said.

For instance, it's unclear how preserving guaranteed insurance eligibility for people with pre-existing medical conditions can work without the unpopular coverage mandate (since people could then just buy insurance when they get sick, bankrupting insurers), or how governments would fund historically pricey «high - risk pools» for the sickest Americans.

According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the combined government debt held by the world's advanced economies is at its highest point since the Second World War.

In the first quarter, its index showed 4.8 % growth — less than the government's official release of 6.7 % growth, but the highest rate Capital Economics» index had measured since the end of 2014.

«I'd like to set the record straight: Neither I nor anyone in my office has spoken with the president or any high - level member of the Trump administration, including Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, regarding government business since August.»

Part of what has supported this recovery since the crisis has been fiscal policy, so we have much higher government debt than we had before, where is the room for governments to do fiscal expansion in a renewed downturn?

Rising inflation expectations in recent months have been reflected in U.K. government bond (gilt) prices with the yield on 10 - year gilts touching its highest level since April this year at 1.509 percent in Monday's session.

«Since the securities regulator is still tightening up such activities, the stock market will continue to be very volatile despite the high - profile rescue package launched by the government in the past few weeks,» they added.

The cost of borrowing in China has been cut aggressively since the autumn of 2014 in response to the slowdown in the economy and the distress caused to property owners, local government and corporations by high debt - servicing costs.

The two leaders, who realized they stand to benefit more from cooperating in order to push prices higher, agreed to work together to help world oil markets clear a glut that had more than halved oil prices since 2014, pummeling Russian and Saudi government revenues.

Since 2011, APC has assisted Member companies gain over $ 200 Million in government and commercial business, while helping to create over 2,000 high technology jobs, principally in the Upper Midwest.

The Direxion 30 - year Treasury Bull 3X ETF ($ TMF), an index that tracks the performance of long - term US government T - bonds, has been in a long - term uptrend since February of 2011, but has been in an intermediate - term downtrend (correction) off its highs since July of 2012.

Bond yields — from government to high yield to corporates — have all fallen precipitously since the financial crisis.

The job growth is fake, there's been no wage growth since 1999, inflation numbers are false, government debt is too high, corporate profits are too low, corporate profits are unsustainably high, companies aren't reinvesting their profits, companies are buying back too much stock, the Federal Reserve is propping up the market, the Federal Reserve is keeping rates artificially low, and so on.

Since the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, governments and businesses have made changes to gun and safety policies in response.

Since U.S. government debt is not long - term in nature, higher refinancing costs are extremely vulnerable to rising interest rates.

Resurging confidence in the economy and employment is boosting homebuying intentions among Canadians to the highest levels since 2010, despite the Federal Government...

Government has often played a role in promoting performance - enhancing work practices to enhance overall economy - wide outcomes from higher productivity and innovation, such as the long history of agricultural extension services (since 1887) to spread information on best practices in farming, and employer education on safety practices conducted by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Toronto - Dominion Bank has lifted its posted rate for five - year fixed mortgages by 45 basis points to 5.59 percent as government bond yields touched their highest levels since 2011 this week.

Meanwhile, Albert Edwards of SocGen suggested that there has been an excessive «move away from equities» in recent years — instead of noting, for example, that the volume of U.S. government debt foisted upon the public (even excluding what has been purchased by the Fed) has doubled since 2007, not to mention other sources of global debt issuance, while the market capitalization of stocks has merely recovered to its previously overvalued highs.

Green - lentil prices are the highest since at least 1992, and yellow peas have risen 34 per cent from a year ago, according to government data from Saskatchewan.

For three - straight years — between 2014 and 2016 — the greenback surged higher as the Fed ended «QE3,» the stimulus program that had the U.S. central bank buying as much as $ 85 billion worth of government bonds per month, and did away with the zero - interest - rate policy that was in place since the financial crisis.

In reaction to the polls, the spread on French five - year government bonds rose to its highest level since the eurozone debt crisis.

That was enough to spark a sell - off on bond markets, which drove the interest rate the U.S. government must pay to borrow money to rise to its highest level since October 2011.

Since central governments are already effectively underwriting high street banks» credit creation processes, and emoney is spreading like wildfire, why bother with high street banks for the payment function, especially when they charge so much for so little?

It's also interesting to examine the changing significance and dynamics of the European bond market in general, which has almost doubled in size since 2005 to more than $ 10 trillion today, including government, investment - grade corporate debt and high yield.

Toronto — Dominion Bank has lifted its posted rate for five - year fixed mortgages by 45 basis points to 5.59 % as government bond yields hit their highest levels since 2011.

Government bond yields have surged higher in Canada and the U.S. since the summer, but that isn't equating too much for investors trying to generate income from their portfolios.

This makes sense, since often times, high net worth individuals seek the safety and yield of munis, and the market infers a slight spread above Treasuries since a municipality is more likely to default on a loan than the US government, which can always just print more money under the US Fiat currency model.

This reduced call by the Government has opened up the market to private sector borrowers; issues of corporate bonds over the past year were the highest since 1991.

On a trade - weighted basis, the rise in the Australian dollar has also been quite substantial, since the TWI gives a high weight to a number of Asian currencies whose governments have chosen to depreciate with the US dollar.

The government of Canada two - year note fell for a third day, with the yield rising to 1.01 per cent, the highest since January 2015.

Rates for newly - issued government student loans have been determined this way since a 2013 overhaul of the Higher Education Act.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

The country has had «very high levels of [government] restrictions every year since 2007, the first year for which data are available,» according to Pew.

I'm not sure this is a given, «since taxation is necessary unless you want anarchy...» And I don't think this is either, «what is the role of government in society to for the highest well - being of the greatest number» You have preconceptions even in your questions, but we all do.

The county executive tapped his first Republican (Frank Tassone) to a high - level government post since switching parties.

A horror show of decrepit political formations not seen since the inter-war years has been exhumed from the crypt and installed across Europe: national governments, externally - imposed technocrats, even — in Greece — a troika - dictated regimen «reminiscent of Austria in 1922, when a High Commissioner was posted to Vienna by the Entente — under League of Nations colours — to run the economy to its satisfaction» (Anderson, 2012, 57).

It is the first by a high level government official since the New Patriotic Party took office in January this year.

Consequently, in July 2017 Hon Justice Hadiza Rabiu Shagari following a Freedom of Information suit number: FHC / CS / 964 / 2016 ordered the Nigerian government to widely disseminate including on a dedicated website information about the names of high ranking public officials from whom public funds were recovered since May 2015 and to disclose the circumstances under which funds were returned.»

We've seen tremendous improvement in the economy and at the social level since 1992, the Rawlings regime and that of Kufour all contributed immensely to the growth we seeing, the Mahama administration has added value to what he inherited.The infrastructure development recorded under this government is the highest after Nkrumah, the improvement in the health and education sector can not be downplayed.Policies rolled out by the regime to close the yawning gap between the toiling but highly productive rural folks and city officials is commendable.The IMF director Christie Lagarde was right when she described what we called economic success between 2005 - 2008 as mediocre growth.The base of the economy was still shattered and now being built to restore the confidence of the people.

Russia does border China, but the Chinese government refused to except Gazprom's archaic higher gas prices years ago and has long since started developing their own rival pipelines, gas fields, advanced fracking technology, liquified gas technology, and China plans to import from the US.