Sentences with phrase «surprised by a rate»

Victoria Knight - McDowell, who created the phenomenally successful Airborne, was surprised by the rate of her success.

You'll never be surprised by a rate hike.

You may be pleasantly surprised by the rates.

Residents who keep on top of what's happening can avoid being unpleasantly surprised by some rate hike.

Not exact matches

My goal was for them to send out 100 surveys and I was surprised by the high response rates.

The unemployment rate across Australia, and especially in Western Australia, has recorded a surprising fall, with the local number affected by a special adjustment by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Western Australia's unemployment rate has fallen by a surprising 0.9 per cent in the month of December, while job numbers were up for a record - equalling 15th consecutive month nationwide, with economists giving positive assessments of the labour market.

Russia's central bank took drastic action to defend its rouble currency in a surprise midnight raising of interest rates by 650 basis points to 17 percent.

Will we be surprised again by interest rates in 2015?

In Asia, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut its key repo rate by 25 basis points to 7.75 percent on January 15, more than two weeks before its scheduled meeting, catching markets by surprise.

Investors had reason to be surprised by the Bank of Canada's Jan. 21 interest rate cut.

Imagine their surprise when investors in a small business I once worked for received the company's internal loan repayment spreadsheet, showing that the business owner was pulling out bucks by paying his family exorbitant interest on loans while investor loans were repaid at rock - bottom rates over as long a time period as possible.

OTTAWA, Oct 19 (Reuters)- The Bank of Canada cut its growth forecast on Wednesday and said it actively discussed adding more monetary stimulus to speed up the nation's economic recovery, surprising financial markets by shifting tone dramatically after its initial rate decision.

Though I do think that Yellen is incorrect to believe that suppressed interest rates are de facto stimulatory to the economy or the labor market, I'm pleasantly surprised by the tone she has struck otherwise.

Despite the mainland's capital controls, its bond market joined the global market ructions on Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve surprised by saying it expected to hike interest rates three times next year, rather than the previously forecast two hikes.

Although most scenarios resulted in portfolio success (the portfolio was able to sustain a 4 percent withdrawal rate over the 35 - year period), we were surprised by the proportion of scenarios that resulted in portfolio failure — 18 of the 100 scenarios.

The Fed, however, has been signaling rate increases for quite some time now, so it might be a bit surprising that the markets would adjust that drastically to the recent changes in the 10 - year treasury rate, which has grown by 35 basis points over the past year.

U.S. financial markets were little moved by Thursday's data, with attention focused on details of a ceasefire agreement between Russia and Ukraine and a surprise interest rate cut and bond purchasing program announced by Sweden's central bank.

However, the ratings struggle for the NFL has caught sports fans and investors by surprise this year.

The Bank of Canada's rate cut caught everyone by surprise.

Stocks rose sharply in the United States and Europe on news the referendum plan had been scrapped, as well as a surprise move by the European Central Bank to cut interest rates.

A more seismic impact from a different set of rate expectations has been set in motion by the surprise outcome of the November election.

After market participants appeared largely prepared for a hawkish update from the Fed in March, to accompany a well - flagged 25 basis - point rise in the fed funds target rate, some were surprised by the restrained tone of its statement.

A rising rate on the 10 - year partly reflects the desire to make progress on monetary policy normalization, which has been impeded by a series of unrelated surprises over the course of the year.

The reduction in eurozone interest rates announced on September 4 by European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi came as a bit of a surprise to some market players.

Economic growth fell to a five - year low of 7.3 percent last quarter but investor sentiment was recharged by Beijing's surprise interest rate cut Nov. 22 that is expected to put a floor under the slump.

Economic growth fell to a five - year low of 7.3 percent in the latest quarter but investor sentiment was recharged by Beijing's surprise interest rate cut Nov. 22 that is expected to put a floor under the slump.

Their focus is on the the Bank of Japan (BOJ) which last month surprised the markets by implementing a negative rate policy, but their explanations work for any country.

It's been a year since China surprised the world by allowing greater flexibility in the renminbi exchange rate, resulting in its drop in value by a record 1.9 percent against the US dollar.

«With this optimistic outlook, driven in part by the spur in demand expected from the tax cuts, it is surprising that the Fed still expects just three rate hikes next year,» said Michael Fratantoni, chief economist with the Mortgage Bankers Association.

This was slightly surprising to some, given that the Federal Reserve raised rates, by 0.25 percentage points in late December, for only the second time in a decade.

Ought we to be surprised that black youths isolated from the labor market, marginalized by decrepit urban schools, devalued by alienating ideals of beauty and targeted by an unprecedented drug invasion exhibit high rates of crime and teen - age pregnancy?

In addition to possible increased capital - gains tax rates, buyers can be surprised by hidden taxes that can impact the transaction by as much as 50 percent in fees and penalties.

Jack Wilshere is over rated like every other English player, I'm not surprised by his shocking performance he's never done anything for Arsenal since that season where he played 50 games but yet some fans on here will still defend him and have you believe he's Iniesta!

He's highly - rated by many in the sport, and given the fact that he's a Mercedes junior driver, it wouldn't be surprising to see him in one of the silver cars at some point in the near future.

The one surprise was that despite increased TV ratings, bettors aren't necessarily compelled by interleague play.

Judging from ABC's ratings, I'm surprised they don't put us in prime time and try to fool people into watching by calling it «Finishing Bad».

I remain surprised how many people rate Obiang, to be shouldered of the ball by Mata, the smallest player on the pitch is woeful for someone who is supposed to be a defensive midfielder.

While we know from first hand experience that no game is a foregone conclusion pre-match, were Chelsea to drop points in this home fixture with newly promoted Blackpool, it would rate amongst some of the biggest shocks in Premier League history, although, in actual fact, most punters are worrying over how many Chelsea will win by rather than deciding whether or not Blackpool can spring another surprise at tasty odds.

These leading experts all share my serious concern about the dairy petition and so it was with some surprise that I read a new blog post by a respected fellow food blogger, Spoonfed, who seems to downplay the issue on the theory that front labels mean little and, at any rate, consumers should just focus on back - label ingredient disclosures:

Serta is an expert in all things sleeping related, so it isn't surprising that their solid wood crib is highly rated by parents.

What was more surprising was another finding: that participation in the NSLP also reduced the rate of obesity by at least 17 percent among the children studied.

Read Consumer Reports and you will be surprised that this is one of the best car seat travel system which is highly rated by consumers.

One thing that surprised me about the Horton analysis is that it didn't even suggest the most obvious way to make the LD policy more redistributive, which is to lower the threshold for the higher rate of income tax by the same amount personal allowance is raised.

This came as no surprise, as The Cook Political Report rated this race as solid Democratic, and Booker won the 2013 special election against Republican Steve Lonegan by 10.9 percent.

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) has, in a surprise move, cut its key benchmark interest rate by 200 basis points from 25.5 per cent to 23.5 per cent, citing downward trends in inflation.

BY MICHAEL RICONDA NEW CITY — Rate - payers might be in for a costly surprise if United Water New York is allowed to increase rates in anticipation of their proposed desalination project, according to an attorney retained by the Town of Ramapo and a collection of other municipal bodies who spoke to the Rockland County Legislature's -LSB-..BY MICHAEL RICONDA NEW CITY — Rate - payers might be in for a costly surprise if United Water New York is allowed to increase rates in anticipation of their proposed desalination project, according to an attorney retained by the Town of Ramapo and a collection of other municipal bodies who spoke to the Rockland County Legislature's -LSB-..by the Town of Ramapo and a collection of other municipal bodies who spoke to the Rockland County Legislature's -LSB-...]

NEW CITY — Rate - payers might be in for a costly surprise if United Water New York is allowed to increase rates in anticipation of their proposed desalination project, according to an attorney retained by the Town of Ramapo and a collection of other municipal bodies who spoke to the Rockland County Legislature's Environmental Committee on Wednesday.

The surprise implication: We are plunging — literally — in the direction of Leo at a rate of 375 miles per second, drawn in by the gravitational pull of vast clusters and superclusters of galaxies.

«A very surprising fraction of the amount of variation in the death rate is explained by one single variable — namely, income per capita.»