Sentences with phrase «than increased rates»

As far as the high interest rate goes, its no different than increased rates on car insurance for high risk drivers.

'' Promoting women's entrepreneurship requires more than increasing the rate in which women start businesses,» said Donna Kelley, a professor of entrepreneurship at Babson, in a release.

Look no further than our increasing rates of obesity, heart disease, diabetes — humans have not adapted well to our new dining situation.

The increase rate of the model simulation is significantly lower (~ 1/2) than the increase rate of the data during the same period.

Not exact matches

«The difficulty is that the growth rate has been little more than the increase of supply, so we have growth... but very modest declines in the unemployment rate,» he said.

Instead, the crucial levers would be productivity (keeping the cost of shipping each carload in check through smart investments to increase the average speed, length, and reliability of trains) and pricing (ensuring that rates consistently rose far faster than costs).

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.

He declines to share specific figures but says sales are increasing at a faster rate than did sales of Soylent 2.0, the neutral - flavored meal - replacement drink the company introduced a year ago.

As they won wage increases higher than the current rate of inflation they would, for a short time, gain real wage increases.

The International Labor Organization estimates that the participation rate of workers older than 55 will increase to more than 18 % in 2030 from 14.3 % in 2014.

Private equity returns remained strong but were lower than the prior year quarter, while income from our fixed income investment portfolio increased due to a higher average level of fixed maturity investments and higher short - term interest rates.

Gordon is curious about an untested policy called «price - level targeting,» which would refocus monetary policy on achieving an absolute increase in prices over time, rather than the current emphasis on the rate of change.

These risks and uncertainties include, among others: the unfavorable outcome of litigation, including so - called «Paragraph IV» litigation and other patent litigation, related to any of our products or products using our proprietary technologies, which may lead to competition from generic drug manufacturers; data from clinical trials may be interpreted by the FDA in different ways than we interpret it; the FDA may not agree with our regulatory approval strategies or components of our filings for our products, including our clinical trial designs, conduct and methodologies and, for ALKS 5461, evidence of efficacy and adequacy of bridging to buprenorphine; clinical development activities may not be completed on time or at all; the results of our clinical development activities may not be positive, or predictive of real - world results or of results in subsequent clinical trials; regulatory submissions may not occur or be submitted in a timely manner; the company and its licensees may not be able to continue to successfully commercialize their products; there may be a reduction in payment rate or reimbursement for the company's products or an increase in the company's financial obligations to governmental payers; the FDA or regulatory authorities outside the U.S. may make adverse decisions regarding the company's products; the company's products may prove difficult to manufacture, be precluded from commercialization by the proprietary rights of third parties, or have unintended side effects, adverse reactions or incidents of misuse; and those risks and uncertainties described under the heading «Risk Factors» in the company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10 - K and in subsequent filings made by the company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission («SEC»), which are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.

«(With an alternative lender), the interest rates are higher, the qualifying rate is higher than if you were going with a traditional bank and they are going to charge one per cent of the mortgage amount (as a lender's fee) for closing, so that means your closing costs increase.»

Moreover, the rate of growth in the fraction of non-employers (28.2 percent) run by women has been higher than the rate of increase in their share of non-employers (23 percent) over the past five years.

That's exactly what sparked the stock market correction last month: a higher - than - expected average hourly earnings number in January's jobs report ignited fears that inflation might finally be coming to life, and in response the Federal Reserve may look to hike rates more aggressively than the three projected increases for this year.

American Express» 2017 State of Women - Owned Businesses Report estimates that from 1997 to 2017, the number of women - owned firms increased by a rate of roughly more than 2.5 times the national average (114 percent vs. 44 percent).

We prefer owning — even though, at $ 366,000, the average Canadian home today costs more than twice as much as its U.S. equivalent; even though a small increase in the lending rates will push scores of over-leveraged homeowners into crisis; even though Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney is practically guaranteeing that those higher rates are coming.

Success: She's still out $ 20,000 in savings, but by the end of 2012 the website had nearly 2 million users in more than 160 countries, increasing at a rate of 30 percent every month.

Asked about rate hikes in 2018, the Fed Chair signaled that the option for more than three increases remains open.

The FOMC should remain data dependent and defer its first increase in policy rates until there are greater signs of wage or price inflation than are currently evident.

But despite a steady increase in their share of entrepreneurial activity, founders from Latino communities along with those from other minority groups — which made up 40 percent of the U.S. population in 2015 — still receive less funding and fail at faster rates than their white counterparts.

The Non-Manufacturing Business Activity Index increased 6.5 percentage points to 63.5 percent, reflecting growth for the 13th consecutive month at a faster rate than in November.

«Customized landing pages — which send the user directly to the item or offer featured in the e-mail — can increase conversion rates by more than 25 percent,» the authors write.

While men sustained more than 70 % of the job losses during the recession, new numbers from the National Bureau of Economic Research in the U.S. suggest that through 2010, male employment rates increased and eventually surpassed those of women.

Giving a recipient more than one call - to - action reduces rather than increases your response rate.

O'Reilly's ratings have even increased amid the controversy, with his show averaging more than 3.7 million viewers (a 12 % bump) last week.

Generated new leasing spreads of 15.6 %, representing the sixteenth consecutive quarter that the rental rate for new leases increased by more than 10 % over the prior rent for the comparable space.

Snag Google's coveted featured - snipped spot, and you could increase your click - through rate by more than 180 percent.

The Federal Reserve appears to be ready to increase interest rates sooner than many economists were expecting, said Alan Krueger, former chairman of President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers.

But concerns the Fed may increase interest rates sooner than expected following last week's strong jobs report are starting to creep into the market.

From 1996 to 2011, the business startup rate of immigrants increased by more than 50 percent, while the native - born startup rate declined by 10 percent, to a 30 - year low.

According to FiveThirtyEight, the dismal approval rating makes this plan the least popular tax bill in at least 30 years — even less so than two in the 1990s that increased some taxes.

While this is the case for both genders and most age groups — the exception is people older than 75 — the rate of increase is particularly alarming for girls between the ages of 10 and 14.

Since 1997, the workforce participation rate for Canadians aged 55 and over has increased 12 percentage points to 34 % and is now higher than it was in 1976.

LONDON, March 19 - Gold touched its lowest in more than two weeks on Monday as markets remained nervous ahead of a U.S. central bank meeting that could raise interest rates and signal three more increases this year.

Depending on which period you're looking at, I suppose you can pick out a recent episode in which employment rates in the U.S. increased more than in Canada, but the most striking thing to me in that graph is the much steeper fall in the U.S. employment rate.

«The number of established small businesses that are not micro-enterprises used to increase about the same rate or more than micro-enterprises in the past decades,» Morelix says.

The combination of entry and exit intent popups resulted in a 32 percent increase in our conversion rate and more than tripled our email database in two months.

They say the pollution in the vortex is «increasing exponentially and at a faster rate than in surrounding waters.»

Many Albertans find it rich that Quebec — which provides families with subsidized daycare and offers university tuition at less than half the rate of other provinces — criticizes Ottawa for capping equalization payments in 2009 to the rate of the economy's increase.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

However, nonfarm payroll jobs increased by 1.1 % in Minnesota between November 2014 and November 2015, lower than the national growth rate of 1.9 % over that year.

«The growth of electronic payment systems and the increasing marginalisation of cash in legal transactions creates a much smoother path to negative rate policy today than even two decades ago.»

However, the state's job - growth rate was somewhat below average, with a 1.3 % increase in nonfarm payroll jobs between November 2014 and November 2014, a bit lower than the national increase of 1.9 %.

However, post - 9/11, the dynamics began to shift and ticket prices rose faster than the rate of inflation as demand for the seats increased and the industry was reorganized.

President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House John Boehner are unlikely to reverse several scheduled tax increases, including the 0.9 percentage point increase in the Medicare tax rate on wages and salaries of more than $ 200,000 for single filers ($ 250,000 for married filers); a 3.8 percent Medicare tax on unearned income of higher income filers; and an increase in the capital gains tax rate.

That would require the center to increase the number of staff per student but also would permit charging higher fees than the current weekly rate of $ 115 per full - day child and $ 78 for after - schoolers.

While Yellen had hinted recently that further rate hikes were imminent, the Fed chair announced last week that the benchmark rate would hold steady and that future increases would come more slowly than the Fed originally planned.

September now is the next most likely date for a rate increase, with a better - than - a-coin-flip chance of 52 percent.