Sentences with phrase «small increases over»

The most recent Australian Bureau of Statistics data estimating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander life expectancy indicates small increases over a five year period from 2005 - 07 to 2010 - 12.

Its motor zaps the rear wheels with 184 horsepower and 199 pound - feet of instant torque, small increases over the garden - variety i3 that lower the car's zero - to -60-mph to 6.8 seconds.

The industrial and resource sectors have both shown relatively small increases over the past year; stocks of financial companies are up by 15 per cent (Graph 35).

That number, which grew nearly one percentage point every year from 2008 to 2011, grew only 0.3 % last year — from 17.5 % in 2011 to 17.8 % in 2012 — making it the smallest increase over the past five years.

«Giving minimum wage workers a small increase over three years and linking it to a business tax break that will actually encourage the creation of more minimum wage jobs is unconscionable, especially in a state that already has the most inequitable income distribution in the nation,» said Donohue.

Further spending reductions are called for but unlikely; the Legislature and Paterson had enough trouble «cutting» the budget down to a small increase over last year.

The most successful age group overall was 60 to 64, with a 25.1 % funding rate — just a small increase over the 35 to 39 group.

In the first look at second - quarter North American production, continued strength in trucks will lead to a small increase over the same year - ago period.

UK sales are set to start in December 2011, with a small increase over the outgoing Swift Sport's # 12,995 price tag likely.

Nationwide, 5.5 percent of single - family homes and condos were flipped, a small increase over the second quarter of 2015, but still well below the peak in 2006, when 9 percent of sales were flips.

There were 2,268 properties listed in May, a small increase over May of last year.

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Rent increases in neighborhoods that experienced the biggest influx of those workers have risen 65 percent faster over the past five years than areas with the smallest influx, according to Zillow.

For instance, you can arrange a graduated payment mortgage that initially has very small monthly payments, with the cost increasing over the lifetime of the loan.

Indeed in a recent survey of over 1500 small businesses, email ranked top as the marketing channel with the highest ROI and an impressive 89 % of the SME's surveyed planned to increase their use of email marketing during 2014.

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«The total volume of small - business financing increased by 18 % over the same period last year, and reached the highest level since Feb. 2008, its latest data show».

«As interest rates begin to rise over time, financial institutions will find it necessary to pass along their increased costs in the overall cost of credit to small business and commercial customers.»

That cost to small companies was about $ 11 billion in 2011, also a 32 % increase over the prior year.

There were 3,400 legal defenses mounted by small businesses in 2011 for patent cases, a 32 % increase over the prior year, according to research paper from 2012 by Boston University law professors James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer.

December wages grew just 1.7 % year over year, the smallest monthly increase since October 2012.

Commercial and industrial lending is increasing for larger companies, but according to the Thompson Reuters / Pay Net Small - Business Lending Index, the number of traditional bank loans to small businesses has fluctuated wildly over the past Small - Business Lending Index, the number of traditional bank loans to small businesses has fluctuated wildly over the past small businesses has fluctuated wildly over the past year.

Pro-rata anchor occupancy improved to 98.3 %, a 100 - basis - point increase over the same period in 2017 and a 20 - basis - point increase sequentially; Small shop occupancy was unchanged at 89.6 %.

While the consumer spending report is only one small data point among a dozen factors, it could be a sign that we will see pay stabilization, and even show us a slight increase over the next few months.

One way Amazon is attempting to win over small businesses — and, by default, increase its own dominance in the marketplace — is by creating Amazon Storefront, a platform that businesses can use to advertise and sell goods on Amazon.com.

Small business hiring continued its very slow and steady climb up since the beginning of the year, increasing 0.1 percent over July to bring us to a year - to - date increase of 4.2 percent.

A recent survey from eBay Canada shows 70 % of small and medium sized businesses say the current state of the economy is good for their business, an increase of almost a third over the previous year.

Considering that the construction industry accounts for over a trillion dollars in the US alone, even a small percentage increase in productivity can unlock tremendous value.

Of the 50 statistical divisions outside the capital cities, only 15 recorded an increase in the number of small businesses over the five year period.

The official Denver report on the Democrats» largesse four years ago includes testimonials from small business entrepreneurs, including a taxi company that reported a 42 % increase in business over comparable weeks, and a shuttle bus company that did 60 % more business than usual.

Me: «I help small and medium businesses drastically increase their authority over their competitors and help them attract qualified buyers to their brand»

«Often in the hands of entrepreneurs or families, small businesses with up to 99 employees are typically more flexible when economic shifts occur but can lack the deep pockets to survive a major decline in the economy,» notes the Index besides a graph showing a sharp decline in wages during the worst years of the economic crisis and a steep increase over the last three quarters of last year.

Over the past several weeks, we've been discussing the increasing relative strength in small - cap stocks, compared to the rest of the broad market, and that bullish divergence continues to widen.

In other words, abstracting from cyclical downturns, the structural deficit, although initially small, should increase steadily over the longer term.

The Fund's investments in smaller - company stocks carry an increased risk of price fluctuation, especially over the short term.

In fact, the increasing number of financing options available (currently over forty different types) may actually be complicating matters for small business owners.

Over the past three years, MillerCoors's greatest growth has come from smaller brands such as Blue Moon, and the company is putting increasing emphasis on its imports, like Pilsner Urquell.

Core inflation has been lower than expected in recent months... Core inflation is expected to increase gradually over coming quarters, reaching 2 per cent by the middle of 2013 as the economy gradually absorbs the current small degree of slack, the growth of labour compensation remains moderate and inflation expectations stay well anchored.

More than 2,400 SBA 7 (a) loans were made in fiscal year 2016, a 12 percent increase over last year, the U.S. Small Business Administration said.

For turnover in FX derivatives, several things stand out (Graph 4): (i) activity has generally risen over the past decade even when scaled by a measure of cross-border transactions; (ii) developed Asian markets stand out as having a high degree of turnover; (iii) there was a particularly strong increase in turnover in these markets between 2013 and 2016; and (iv) FX derivatives turnover in emerging Asian economies has also increased significantly in the past few years, but remains a small part of the global market.

The number U.S. small businesses exporting goods and services has increased substantially over the last decade.

We also note with concern that the new small business payroll tax comes on top of previously announced minimum wage increase (of 34 % over four years), an increase in the general corporate tax rate of 9.1 %, a 14 % increase to the personal income tax rate of most «skilled professionals», and a previously scheduled increase in the BC carbon tax of 16 %, moving up a further $ 5 to $ 35 per tonne of GHGs emitted.

Over 200,000 small and medium sized businesses use Privy's highly targeted pop ups, banners, bars, flyouts, and email automation to rapidly grow their email lists and increase their online sales.

However, the company is slowing down its growth policy with a CAGR of 8.45 % over the past 5 years, 6.85 % over the past 3 years including a small 4 % increase this year.

A new meta - analysis of studies with 102 samples covering 56,984 firms finds a small but significant positive relationship on average between employee stock ownership and firm performance.25 The positive relationship holds across firm size and has increased over time, possibly because firms are learning to implement employee stock ownership more effectively.

However, rather than having a fixed payment for the length of your loan, your payments start small and increase over time.

Options can be favored over shorting due to increased liquidity, especially for stocks with smaller floats, or due to increased leverage and a capped maximum loss, since the investor can not lose more than the premiums paid.

That said, B.C.'s strong economic growth over the past three years, combined with a) the announced small business tax relief, b) the new training and youth employment programs (also announced today), and c) a lower - than - average percentage of our working population who actually make minimum wage (about 5 %, compared to 7.1 % nationally), leaves us in a position to cautiously view the announced increases as «reasonable.»

The centralised component of wage increases has become a progressively smaller part of the total over recent years, thereby easing earlier concerns that national wage increases would put a floor under future inflation.

Over the past year, mergers and acquisitions have increased considerably in the healthcare IT sector, with smaller deals yielding big returns on investment, according to report from New York - based investment bank Berkery Noyes released Jan. 11.

Finally, over time I'd expect a fund with more small caps / mid caps to outperform a large cap fund over time but it's not a slam dunk and comes with an increase in risk.