Sentences with phrase «slower than an increase»

However, while overall debt levels increased sharply last year, it was actually slower than the increase recorded in nominal GDP, seeing the global debt - to - GDP ratio fall to 318 %.

Margin lending by banks and brokers grew by 3.6 per cent in the June quarter, somewhat slower than the increase of around 10 per cent in each of the previous three quarters.

It is a progressive tax in that your benefits increase slower than an increase in earnings.

In fact the historic increase in CO2 emissions has been much slower than the increase in GDP (and slower than the population growth rate, as well, as pointed out above).

Not exact matches

The Fed sees annual price increases of 1.8 % next year, slower than its target of 2 %.

The last time prices were increasing at a slower rate than one per cent was May 2015, when the headline CPI increased only 0.9 per cent.

SAP had been slow to move into the cloud, said Reuner, but after making the shift with acquisitions such as procurement software company Ariba in 2012, the first quarter of 2017 saw it sell more subscriptions than expected, with new cloud bookings increasing by 49 percent to 215 million euros ($ 244.9 million) and shares hitting a record high.

In the latest quarter, CIBC's U.S. commercial banking and wealth management division reported net income of $ 134 million in the latest quarter, up $ 105 million from the same period in 2017, contributing to a more than 22 per cent increase in adjusted net income year - over-year despite slowing mortgage growth.

«If you'd asked me six months ago if we'd be getting the kind of growth we've been getting — with the tax increase, the sequester, the problems in Europe — I probably would've expected a slower economy than the one we've actually been finding.»

The once fast - growing smartphone market has slowed this year, especially at the high end, with worldwide shipments forecast to increase less than 2 %, according to IDC.

Over time, he expects the company's sales growth to slow as competition increases, and sales become weaker in the U.S. than they are in Canada.

In Melbourne, where the population is growing very strongly, housing prices are still increasing faster than incomes, although the rate of increase has slowed.

A faster than expected downturn in print advertising and slower increase in digital revenues, combined with the costs of international expansion, means that the company's outgoings have outpaced revenues over the past five years.

«We believe export growth will slow due to yuan appreciation and rising trade tensions... China's imports could be more resilient than exports in our view as China has pledged to increase imports,» Wang said.

It appears that's partly because increased promotional expenses (though they are lower than some rivals) and recent moderation in North American comps (versus prior periods) have raised investor concerns about whether Michael Kors» growth will slow soon.

Real income decreased due to nominal income increasing at a slower pace (+0.3 %) than consumption prices (+0.7 %).

Overall operating expenses were up just 27 %, showing a dramatically slower rate of increase than revenue.

Household sector financial assets increased by 1.7 per cent in the March quarter, a somewhat slower rate than in previous quarters, as a reduction in the value of direct equity holdings partially offset strong gains in the value of funds held in superannuation.

While a candy bar might be part of my spending, it not a big part of my spending, and the prices of other things that I spend my money may be increasing at a slower or faster rate than candy bars.

Texas service sector activity «continued to increase in April, albeit at a slower pace than last month,» according to business executives responding to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas» Texas Service Sector Outlook Survey, as the revenue index decreased to 14.7 from 20.0.

Repayments of principal could also slow in the months immediately following an increase in interest rates, if borrowers who were making more than the contractually required repayment chose to maintain their total repayment as interest rates rose, thereby allowing the amount of principal repaid to fall.

The S&P / Case - Shiller Home Price Indices released for February 2018 indicated that home prices nationwide, the National Home Price Index, rose at a seasonally adjusted annual growth rate of 6.3 % in February, modestly slower than the 6.7 % increase in January.

See Appendix 5 for details on how TRV grew invested capital while slower than revenue and also raised its invested capital turns from.72 x to.74 x. Appendix 7 (in the ROIC section) shows how the company's increase in NOPAT margin and invested capital turns result in an increase in ROIC (from 8.4 % % to 11.0 %) and economic earnings, which rose by $ 827 mm.

And as far as spending by big cities growing too fast, their operating spending has increased at a slower pace than overall municipal government spending while their responsibilities have arguably grown at a faster pace.

Local government wages have also increased at a slower pace than the overall average (industrial aggregate) since 2000: by an annual average rate of 2.5 % compared to 2.9 % for the overall average.

Meanwhile, retail sales clocked 10.2 % growth in the two - month period, slower than December's 11.1 % increase.

Lowe's executives attributed a same - store sales gain of 2.7 % — less than rival Home Depot's 5.5 % increase — to slowed store traffic in August and September.

The latest NAB business survey shows total labour costs increasing at close to their fastest pace of the past five years, although still considerably slower than in the mid 1990s.

As animals get larger in size, their metabolism must increase at a slower rate than their volume.

It will be cheaper, they tell us, to adjust to increased storm damage, build more dikes and seawalls, relocate people and pay the costs of increased air - conditioning than it would be to take steps to slow global warming.

Because of the slowing birth rate in developed countries which have a higher than average amount people who profess no religion (minus the united states), the developing countries, such as Brazil who are highly religious, account for an increase in religious profession.

For Mann and Ornstein, problem solving means compromising with Democrats so that the size of the national government continues to increase, but at a slower rate than Democrats prefer.

«Although this «rise of the nones» has increased dramatically over recent decades, the rate of increase slowed last year, suggesting the possibility that there may be a leveling off in this measure in the years ahead,» reports the Gallup study, which is made up of more than 350,000 interviews.

• The building and maintenance of muscle in comparison to animal - based whey protein; • Its superior attributes of the amino acid leucine; • Increased satiety; • Ability to affect skeletal muscle hypertrophy in a geriatric population and • Slower absorption than whey to aid in athletic endurance.

If Ward increases his weight more than 210 lbs, who knows how much slower he will be and how much quicker he will tire.

Understanding the mechanics can help manage it either way, but I hear more women trying to increase supply than slow it, it's also good to understand how it all works as new Moms establish supply.

Increasing production may help push prices down, while yesterday's price hike in China - where prices are set by the government rather than the market - may also help slow the rise.

Azzopardi said Cuomo has signed a property tax cap, approved a law to encourage local governments to stay within the cap and increased state spending at a slower rate than recent predecessors.

The coalition's messaging on this immediately before and after the 2010 election was powerful and effective (basically, «Brace yourself»), but since then it has been more focussed on trumpeting «how clever we are for reducing the deficit», rather than explaining sufficiently that it was simply slowing the rate of overall debt increase.

This is already faster than the current timetable, which wouldn't begin the increase to 66 until 2024, but slower than the pensions bill proposals, which aim to begin the increase in 2018.

Job growth over the last year statewide showed an increase of 110,000 private - sector jobs, a 1.5 percent increase, which slower than the national average of 2.3 percent.

De Blasio explained that more than two decades of rapid growth in housing costs, combined with slower growth in wages, had contributed to a 115 percent increase in the number of people living in city shelters from 1994 to 2014, when de Blasio took office.

The county also experienced slower than average increases in sales and use taxes.

«Rather than slowing down the use of these materials, really the push will be to increase the level of knowledge to handle them safely,» he said.

The rate of increase for cornea surgery was slower than cataract surgery.

This also means that other generators, such as those powered by fossil fuels, can scale their power output in advance rather than rapidly ramping up or slowing down to compensate for wind, increasing their efficiency and improving the grid's reliability.

They expected the stars» speeds to slow with increasing distance from a galaxy's heart, just as Pluto orbits the sun more slowly than Earth.

Results showed that participants with GWI performed significantly slower and less accurately than matched healthy veterans, and their efficiency decreased with increasing task difficulty.

Spending on the two programs for 2013 to 2023 is projected to increase at an average rate of 3.7 percent per year, which is slower than the projected growth for private health insurance, despite that Medicare and Medicaid generally serve populations with more illness and health problems.

The drought in California has been building for more than four years, as winter precipitation deficits slowed streams to a trickle and sent reservoir levels dipping, while unusually warm temperatures increased water demand.