Sentences with phrase «stable the trend of»

The more stable the trend of the broad indexes - like the S&P 500 - the more confident investors can become, especially those who have been patiently waiting on the sidelines for obvious signs of safety before dipping their toes back in.

Therefore, «solid» support for the continued existence of CREA is thus far being displayed as weak at best, according to the ongoing stable trending of this poll.

Not exact matches

This revision was made to align with how management measures performance internally and focuses on trends of a more stable base of stores.

If you're affected by more than one or two of them, it's time to step back, reassess your circumstances, and take action to reverse the trend and become financially stable.

A spokesman for PetroChina said the company was trying to keep salaries of front - line workers stable, but declined to comment on this particular case or recent salary trends for back office staff.

One key factor contributing to the trend is the major spike in fatalities related to drugs, including prescription painkillers containing addictive opioids (like oxycodone and fentanyl) and illegal drugs like heroin; another is the second straight year that gun deaths have risen after 15 years of remaining relatively stable.

A lot of the initial excitement has worn off and we've settled into a stable trend (read: avoided a bubble!)

The S&P shows a very strong and stable uptrend with no end - of - trend patterns, providing a good buying opportunity.

Over the short term, a reasonably stable market this week would create at least the possibility of favorable trend uniformity.

Apparently under the gold standard, bond investors regarded long - term prices as stable, and took little heed of short - term economic and price trends.

While emerging market sovereign ratings have been largely on a stable trend, we also see divergent signs in a number of sovereigns.

LONDON (Reuters)-- Banks» metals - related revenues exceeded their earnings from the oil sector last year for the first time since 2014 as low and relatively stable crude prices discouraged hedging activity, but this is unlikely to be the start of a new trend.

Over the week, Tron prices showed a stable growth trend as the currency went from $ 0.034 to $ 0.037 over the week - a growth of almost 10 % over the week.

Get a sense of the trends we pay attention to, specifically how industries react in relation to one another in search — what industries are stable, and which are volatile?

The overall bearish picture is unchanged, as although some of the largest coins broke their steepest trendlines, for a trend change, stable bullish momentum and an established leadership would be necessary.

MiMi also determines trends and movement within each housing market, to determine if they are moving toward, of further away from, their stable ranges.

Thirdly, the chaosmos need not «include a stable actuality whose mutual implication with the remainder of the things secures an inevitable trend towards order» (AI 115); rather the «system, is neither stable nor unstable, but «metastable,» endowed with a potential energy [the so - called divine «energy of disjunctions»] wherein the differences between series are distributed» (LS 103).

«We had a difficult year 2012, mainly because of a sharp drop in production, but trade flows mostly held stable,» OIV Director General Federico Castellucci told reporters, referring to total wine exports which were stable at 101 Mhl after a long - term upward trend.

A graph of the warming trend largely replicates the so - called «hockey stick,» a previous reconstruction that showed relatively stable temperatures suddenly spiking upward in recent history.

Among older women, the prevalence of current drinking trended upward an average of 1.6 % per year, while average volume remained stable; moreover, the prevalence of binge drinking increased an average of 3.7 % per year.

Instead, we will be trending toward a balance between men and women, and therefore, a prolonged period of moderation in all things political and social: a stable divorce rate, reasonable satisfaction in relationships, and greater gender equality.

The northern stretches of the East Coast, including New York City and Boston, bucked the trend found in the study by being more neurotic and less emotionally stable but still faring well during the recession.

When evaluating trends from 2007 - 2008 to 2011 - 2012, overall prevalence of the metabolic syndrome remained stable, as did prevalence trends among men and all race / ethnic groups, whereas prevalence among women decreased from 39.4 percent in 2007 - 2008 to 36.6 percent in 2011 - 2012.

He added that based on «several sources of biases in the [study's] method and the wide uncertainty ranges, we express reservations that the paper's conclusions of declining catch trends can be strongly opposed to FAO's reports of stable capture production trends in recent years.»

This size reduction could be linked to the spread of semi-free foraging practices of cattle during the Early Middle Ages, a trend seen elsewhere in Europe and which has been confirmed by the analysis of stable isotopes; this work was carried out by the research group which Idoia Grau belongs to and was published a few months ago in Quaternary International.

This size reduction could be linked to the spread of semi-free foraging practices of cattle during the Early Middle Ages, a trend seen elsewhere in Europe and which has been confirmed by the analysis of stable isotopes; this work was carried out by the research group which Idoia Grau belongs to and was published a few months ago in «Quaternary International» (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618214003516).

In the face of changing climate, forest managers can best maintain stable forest health and product yield by understanding past trends and planning for a range of climate scenarios.

In the face of changing climate, forest managers can best maintain forest health and stable product yield by understanding past trends and planning for a range of climate scenarios.

In spring and summer 2016 collections, sandals on stable and straight platform, masculine style, have become a trend of the new season.

Further research released by the government today on «trends in arts subjects in schools where English Baccalaureate entry has increased» found the proportion of pupils entering at least one arts subject has remained broadly stable, both for schools whose EBacc entry has seen a large increase and for other schools.

This is a type of poverty that Johnson could not foresee: a decline in blue - collar jobs, rooted in global trends, requiring workers to gain skills that schools could not reliably impart, leaving whole communities economically depressed and isolated, while many children were deprived of economically stable and supportive two - parent families, leading to dangerously stalled social mobility and creating divisions of class that are inconsistent with the American ideal.

It is also important to note that these stable enrollment trends exist even for schools serving lower - income and minority children; St. Richard, which is 88.6 % Latino, has 72 % of its students on free or reduced lunch and breakfast (St. Richard School, 2015).

While long - term trends demonstrate a decline in walking and bicycling to school, preliminary analysis of 2009 NHTS travel data reveals the percent of five - through 14 - year olds walking and bicycling to school in the U.S. has remained stable at about 12 percent over the last 15 years.

Entrekin will share his thoughts on striking rights deals, expanding Grove's stable of literary talent that includes such notables as Jim Harrison, and on trends he foresees as inevitable.

Postscript 2: «While adult ebook sales had been pretty stable through most of the year, the trend that started in September (with sales falling almost 8 percent) deepened in October, as adult ebook sales of $ 83.6 million were down $ 23.7 million — or 22 percent — compared to the same month a year ago [as tabulated by their pool of approximately 1,200 publishers].»

Sustained global expansion with inflation slowly moving back toward trend provides a positive backdrop for credit in the form of low default rates and stable default expectations.

Presuming that asset prices fluctuate around a stable, long - term equilibrium, extreme deviations serve as lead indicators of trend reversals.

But a better definition of a bull market is an extended period of time when markets are stable with an upward trend.

The Committee will maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 0 to 1/4 percent and continues to anticipate that economic conditions, including low rates of resource utilization, subdued inflation trends, and stable inflation expectations, are likely to warrant exceptionally low levels for the federal funds rate for an extended period.

Outside of the two hottest markets, RBC's affordability measure is generally close to the historical average, and recent trends have been either stable or improving slightly.

This preference for growth manifested in the outperformance of both stable growers, like defensive consumer staple companies, as well as technology firms benefiting from secular trends.

This is a function of several trends: a preference for safe, stable companies, the growing popularity of minimum volatility funds and the quest for yield.

The industry is now turning to factor exposures that more directly screen for attributes traditionally sought by active funds — cheap, trending, high quality, more stable and smaller names — weighted by the strength of these metrics.

including low rates of resource utilization, subdued inflation trends, and stable inflation expectations

While the investment objectives of these products are essentially the same — preserving capital, generating relatively attractive stable returns while trending rates, and providing liquidity for benefit payments1 to participants at book value — there are nuances to each product type and additional features that should be investigated.

The positive trend in the company's financials was mainly the result of favorable currency movements, cost - reduction efforts, and stable sales volume.

The Committee will maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 0 to 1/4 percent and continues to anticipate that economic conditions, including low rates of resource utilization, subdued inflation trends, and stable inflation expectations, are likely to warrant exceptionally low levels of the federal funds rate for an extended period.

While we expect our clients» portfolio values to trend higher over the long run, focusing on dividend growth provides a more stable estimate of what matters most in retirement: Portfolio Income.

Lehmann Maupin Adds 70 - year - old Chilean Artist to Stable: The trend of reclaiming the art historical position of aging artists hasn't abated yet with the news released late last week through the Financial Times that Lehmann Maupin has taken on the artist Cecila Vicuna:

I just meant that a thousand year period of stable temperature which happens to have a rapid warming trend at the end of the series is absolutely nothing out of the ordinary with regards to «other» thousand years periods in the Holocene.