Sentences with phrase «such low levels for»

Despite VIX being at such low levels for such a long time, there is strong demand for VIX options, especially on the call side of the board.

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But low interest rates, at least in Canada, have pushed household debt to such vertiginous levels that officials like Carney know they shouldn't be counting on consumer spending to drive the recovery — ergo, the call for more corporate investment.

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

«When hiring for an opening in a team with low levels of interdependence, such as sales teams, hiring the most talented individuals may be a good strategy, as these individuals will not have to work with each other,» he said.

Blacks in Minneapolis were 8.7 times more likely than whites to be arrested for low - level offenses, such as trespassing and disorderly conduct, according to a study of arrests from 2012 to 2014 that the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota published last year.

Today's realized levels of volatility stand at historically low levels — even for a low - vol regime such as the one we see persisting today.

The number of competitor studios and other venues such as fitness clubs that offer lower pricing for a cycling experience and a lower level of service continues to grow in our markets.

However, the Fed, in its wisdom and at the behest of intelligent idiots such as Paul Krugman and Paul McCulley, kept interest rates at artificially low levels for years and aggressively ramped up the money supply with the aim of speeding the recovery process.

But what if the mean value for interest rates has itself shifted to a much lower level such that today's term structure is the new normal?

A: When a company receives low support for its say - on - pay proposal (generally less than 75 %), we believe at a minimum the company should provide some level of disclosure regarding the company's response to shareholder opposition; such disclosure, which often includes a discussion of engagement meetings and feedback received, should be accompanied by relevant changes and / or rationale intended to address outstanding concerns.

The resulting high level of interest rates in the wholesale money market, the main source of funds for lenders such as mortgage managers, made it difficult for potential new lenders to compete with banks, who had access to low - cost retail funding.

Consistent with this, indicators of financial stress for the household sector, such as loan arrears and personal bankruptcy rates, remain at relatively low levels.

While the country's largest metros — New York and Los Angeles — were among the lowest levels of strong support for the project, large metros such as Chicago and Dallas had much stronger levels of support.

Corpuscular societies consisting of low — level occasions, such as rocks and billiard balls, display little originality, thereby providing ideal instances of efficient causality for mechanistic science.

the seeming absence 0f other selves within experience is what my theory implies would characterize human experience, since a self on that level could not conveniently manage other selves as clearly and distinctly manifest to it, but only selves on such a low level that only vague mass awareness of them would reach full consciousness, for individually taken they are too trivial to notice.

The addition of the doctrine of internal relations as a necessary condition for evolution can clarify three arguments used by Birch to support his claim that low levels of order, such as particles, must have a subjective as well as a mechanical aspect.

But this would be most marked for those philosophers of physics who tend to reduce all to a posited low - level common denominator such as bosons, or atoms or (in Richard Dawkins case) genes.

The success of the East Asian economies» first Japan and more recently the other East Asian market economies» shows that there is a crucial governmental role in providing services such as widespread education and health care, which it is quite possible for governments to do successfully at a fairly low level of per capita income.

We may, by such reasoning, justify our use of any means to achieve what we think are good ends on the assumption that — since history is a perennial tragedy, and collective actions are always on a lower ethical level than individual actions — we are not obligated to strive for the highest ideals possible, or to present an alternative to the usual way of the world.

Robert T. Miller of First Things commented that «Wielgus, long ago, did some seriously wrong things, but they were the kinds of bad things that generally good people might do — low - level collaboration, which he probably perceived to be harmless, in exchange for things that in any decent society would have been his by right, such as the ability to travel to pursue his studies.

Bottomline, there are thousands and thousands of Ethiopian Jews and they've been in Ethiopia for as long as anyone can remember and, in fact, many of them grow up not knowing about the existence of very very light skinned Jews, (such as myself, of the Jews who fled to Northern Europe at the great dispersion after the destruction of the temple, and after thousands of years living in the frigid north, with low levels of sun, and exposure to the sun, our skin slowly became lighter and lighter, hence I am considered «White», but it simply means my ancestors gravitated northward to the land of little sun, and Ethiopian Jews, and of course South African and West African Jews (identified positively by DNA) have much darker skin, even to that of very very deep velvet Black...) Black is beautiful!

They found that most of the items typically tested for in coconut oil, such as free fatty acids, moisture levels, etc. were about the same in virgin coconut oils, although a few brands were lower in quality.

The predisposition to perfection — call it low - level OCD if you must — is terribly handy for activities such as folding fitted sheets (I have the most organised linen cupboard ever, to RJ's chagrin I never quite make it to... [Read more...]

Coconut flour is therefore an excellent flour source for individuals seeking a low carbohydrate diet, diabetics or any individual with problems regulating their blood sugar levels such as those with hypoglycemia.

The entry - level semi-automatic QX -300-Flex tray sealer is ideal for low volume production runs, such as niche markets or for new product development, using the right balance of sealing pressure and temperature to ensure excellent pack appearance and seal integrity.

yep i do agree with what you said, but it does nt contradict what i mean i once had a little clash with a teacher of mine, who said that we should be grateful to her that she teaches and i said that i do nt really have to be particularly grateful to her, cause it wasnt like she did it for free or in charity she did get paid well and thats why i myself am not «grateful» to wenger too why should i he gets paid 8.5 million a year:O thats the pay he gets he does nt have to get gratefulness, but what i say is, if i had insulted my teacher that would be wrong and on the topic we do nt have to grateful to wenger but we shouldn't insult a man who has been with arsenal for 20 years on such a low level as some guys here..

what they have to do is be professional about their line of work but they can simply view it as their work and if you do nt like their performance as employee of the brand, you can demand change and criticise but just being disappointed with the results do nt give the fans the right to insult on such a low level like some guys on here and in this kind of view insulting a man who worked 20 years absolutely professionally for a club is just downright wrong, i never said you shouldnt criticise him

It could do so by requiring school districts that charge lower prices to increase prices gradually so that, when combined with the federal subsidy provided for such meals, they eventually at least equal the federal reimbursement level for free meals.

For produce with relatively low pesticide levels — such as asparagus, avocado, corn, cantaloupe, honeydew, kiwis, mangoes, onions, peas, pineapple, and sweet potatoes — buying organic isn't as crucial.

The exact reason for the link between morning sickness and miscarriage risk is not known, but one possible explanation is that non-viable pregnancies, such as those affected by chromosomal abnormalities, have lower hCG levels and this might lead to fewer pregnancy symptoms.

That still doesn't mean you can't include a trip to the voting station when it is voting day (usually at most three times every 4 years or such, at different schedules for the different levels and lower levels depending on state).

In Japan, a system of lifetime employment in many big businesses, a tradition of employer provided benefits such as housing in many cases, and a wage system in those kinds of businesses where workers receive a substantial share of their annual income in the form of an annual bonus whose size can be used to buffer good and bad years for a company sharing risks and rewards with workers instead of limiting the risks and rewards to an investor class, have contributed to low levels of income inequality in the Japanese economy relative to comparably developed countries with comparable levels of government spending on welfare state type programs in other countries.

Cops are still arresting tens of thousands of New Yorkers — the vast majority black and Latino — for low - level pot possession despite a pledge by de Blasio to move away from such arrests, a new report found.

De Blasio and his campaign have often touted the mayor's record on policing as a strength, pointing to the drop in crime, improvements in police community relations and reductions in the number of arrests for low - level crimes, such as possessing small amounts of marijuana.

But it does not turn over individuals arrested for low - level crimes such as possession of small amount of marijuana or blowing a stoplight without damaging people or property, or even for more serious nonviolent violations like money laundering, grand larceny or harassment.

The NYC Council passed a series of criminal justice reforms to sharply curtail the punishments for low - level offenses such as littering and peeing in public, an overhaul intended to help unclog the courts and jails of the nation's largest city.

If Marcie's # 225 earnings are derived from being on or near the minimum wage, then there is a double hit for her because she also can not salary sacrifice to save 12 per cent National Insurance, if such an arrangement would take her pay below the level of the applicable minimum wage rate (# 7.83 per hour in 2018/19 for those aged 25 and over).3 Anne Fairpo said: «One of the concerns about allowing the lowest earners to sacrifice salary has been the risk of their pay dropping below the point at which entitlement to contributory benefits is triggered (the Lower Earnings Limit - # 116 per week in 2018/19).

Have things reached the perverse situation where in order to get elected Labour have to cut public spending for their first term although they want to increase it and the Conservatives have to increase public spending in order to get elected, usually when people vote for a different party it is because they expect something to be different from the way it was, such plans leave it wide open for the Liberal Democrats to come out and propose a series of economy measures and be the one of the 3 parties proposing the lowest levels of public spending and tax cuts targeted at the poor.

Starting next month, the city is tossing 700,000 old warrants seeking arrest for low - level crimes such as public urination, sources said — reversing...

He noted that the potential National Chairman of PDP will be putting himself out to be scrutinized, to be harassed and to be dealt with because the party is not in power at the national level, stressing that the Chairman is taking over a party that is at the lowest ebb for repackaging, reprogramming, re-strategizing and re-orientation and as such it needs a hardworking and experienced person like him as the Chairman.

Under the proposed Trump policy, cities would lose funding if undocumented and even legal immigrants are not reported to federal authorities for deportation after being charged with low - level criminal offenses, such as

Such a rapid response, he says, «could be very important for hypoglycemic [low glucose level] episodes in children, which can cause children to go into shock.»

Once researchers adjusted for other factors that could affect dementia risk, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and smoking, people with high levels of cynical distrust were three times more likely to develop dementia than people with low levels of cynicism.

In principle, lower levels of leisure time sitting may strengthen protective effects of higher physical activity, either through independent physiological mechanisms or as a marker for greater engagement in low - intensity activity, such as standing.

Currently, the algorithm works well for fixing easily recognizable «low - level» structures in images, such as sharp edges.

Such concerns related to the issue of the digital divide and ageism stress the need for lowering elders» level of expected efforts for using new technology.

For example, high levels of cholesterol are associated with a lower rate of neurological disorders, such as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

Researchers for the past decade have focused on the T cell approach, based on studies showing that monkeys receiving such vaccines against simian immunodeficiency virus, related to HIV, lived longer or had lower viral levels than usual.

Attanasio, an assistant professor of health policy and management at UMass Amherst's School of Public Health and Health Sciences, explains that a growing body of research at the individual level has shown that compared to women cared for by physicians, women considered at low - risk for complications in childbirth who receive care from midwives have good outcomes that include lower use of interventions such as cesarean delivery.

The median funding level for PIs publishing in journals with lower impact factors — such as PLOS ONE and the Journal of Biological Chemistry — was not much lower, about the 70th percentile, but the distribution of funding brackets was more diverse.