Sentences with phrase «than the current levels of»

Last summer, as NASA went back and forth with OMB officials in a preliminary draft of a 2013 budget, Weiler says it became evident that the budget for the Science Mission Directorate would be smaller than its current level of $ 5 billion.

NASA would receive $ 18.5 billion rather than its current level of $ 18.7 billion.

The Governor recommended a reduction of $ 168 million, representing 2.8 percent less than the current level of funding.

The grades are therefore an indication of the pupils» relative position in the cohort rather than their current level of achievement.

However, when we look back over the Earth's history, we see many periods where CO2 is higher than current levels of 384 ppm.

If they did not soak up any CO2, atmospheric CO2 levels would be much higher than the current level of 355 parts per million by volume (ppmv)- probably around 500 - 600 ppmv.Plankton influence the exchange of gases between the atmosphere and the sea.

Such tactics are far more dangerous to our way of life than the current levels of CO2.

The climate was hot and dry, with atmospheric carbon dioxide levels sitting at about 2,000 parts per million (ppm)-- far higher than our current level of about 405 ppm.

Not exact matches

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.

And if he wants to keep all of his pay, Valeant stock will have to rise 460 % from its current level in just a little more than three years.

The notes from the meeting show that a number of Fed officials feel that interest rates could begin to be raised from their current artificially low levels sooner than the current target of sometime in 2015 should certain economic factors continue to improve at a rapid pace.

The demand may prove a bigger problem than potentially increasing the overall North American automotive value content from the current level of 62.5 % for tariff - free shipments of vehicles within the region, which officials say Trump's administration also wants to raise.

A 25 percent jump would take the Dow to over 30,400, a gain of more than 6000 points from current levels.

If the current market would follow the 1990s bull that ended with the dot - com bubble burst, that would push the S&P 500 to 5,300 by the end of 2020, or more than double the current level, he said.

Still, Fitbit has something of a first - mover advantage that's likely to keep its share price floating at its current level of around $ 32, which is more than 40 percent higher than its trading start price.

Several states have set their minimum wage rates at a higher level than the federal rate, including California, which has a current rate of $ 10 per hour.

She believes the current high unemployment levels are an effect of the recession, rather than of structural shifts in the economy, and that the Fed must fight joblessness before dislocated workers become permanently detached from the labour force.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

And now that the time for revisionist history has arrived, and strategists no longer have to serve a political agenda and scare investors and traders into voting with their wallets, the research reports calling for precisely the outcome that we expected are coming in fast and furious, starting with none other than Goldman, whose chief strategist David Kostin issued a note overnight in which he says that «the equity market response to the election result will be limited» and adds that «our year - end 2016 price target for the S&P 500 remains 2100, roughly 2 % below the current level of 2140.»

Gordon projected the length of that rally on to the Feb. 2 lows of 1,981 to reach a level of 2,254 or 7 percent higher than current prices.

Against this backdrop of delayed rebalancing, we now see oil prices fluctuating around current levels, in a lower range than we had expected earlier this year.

I don't know exactly what's going to happen, but simple math based on the current level of interest rates leads me to believe that these risk premiums will be much wider in the future over longer time frames than they've been in the recent past.

Twitter, or any other company with a payroll of more than $ 1 million that moves into that «rehabilitation zone,» would have its payroll tax capped at its current level for the next six years.

Seeks to provide a high level of current income, while providing lower volatility than a fund that invests in fixed - rate securities.

These behavioral finance influences can skew a portfolio's overall allocations toward an overemphasis of potentially higher - yielding equities that in some instances may represent more downside risk than upside potential at current valuation levels.

Skechers» PEBV of just 1.2 means that the market expects the company to increase NOPAT by no more than 20 % from its current level for the remainder of its corporate life.

Rather than looking at actionable swing trading stock and ETF trade setups in a market that has not exactly been conducive to new swing trade entries lately (whipsaw city), today we will instead assess the current technical support and resistance levels of several broad - based ETFs that track the main stock market indexes.

GWW is not quite as cheap as some of the other stocks on this list, with a PEBV of 1.2, which means the market expects profits to grow by no more than 20 % from current levels for the remainder of its corporate life.

The economic gains and market returns that emerged during the Reagan Administration began from a starting point of 10.8 % unemployment, a current account surplus, and market valuations that - on the most historically reliable measures - were less than one - quarter of present levels.

Pacific Crest Securities initiated coverage on Nutanix Inc (NASDAQ: NTNX) with an Outperform rating and a price target of $ 37, implying an upside potential of more than 25 percent from the current levels.

Digging deeper, across all wealth levels measured, more than one third of current retirees actually grew their assets — leaving a considerable amount of money on the table.

Also, it's worth noting that even under this more than doubling of rates from their current levels, these losses are a fraction of the 50 % declines that investors have experienced in stocks over the past two decades.

Our actual expectation is that the completion of the current market cycle is likely to wipe out the entire total return of the S&P 500 — in excess of Treasury bill returns — all the way back to roughly October 1997; an outcome that would require a market retreat no larger than it experienced in the past two cycles, and that would not even carry historically reliable valuation measures to materially undervalued levels (see When You Look Back On This Moment In History).

While overall consumer sentiment levels have risen to the highest reading since the beginning of 2004, the current conditions component is at the highest level recorded since the measure was first published more than 40 years ago.

That lends support to the stock's average 12 - month price target of $ 47, some 17 % higher than its current levels around $ 40.

After a 10 % drop from its peak, GOOGL's share price of $ 1,070 gives it a price to economic book value (PEBV) of 1.6, which implies that the company's after - tax profit (NOPAT) will never grow more than 60 % above its current level.

As we have argued before, structural factors may mean prices take longer to respond to the current higher levels of activity than would normally be expected at this point in the economic cycle.

Structural factors may mean prices take longer to respond to the current higher levels of activity than would normally be expected at this point in the economic cycle.

At the current point in the recovery from the 2001 recession, employment at all levels of government had increased by nearly 600,000 workers; in contrast, in the current recovery, government employment has declined by more than 700,000 jobs, a net difference of more than 1.3 million jobs.

The group believes the bill should also cover semi-automated systems like Tesla's Autopilot - a lower level of technology than what is included in the current proposed legislation.

Specifically, an announcement by the Fed that it was going to maintain its balance sheet at the current bloated level would be a tacit admission that QE involved a permanent addition to the money supply rather than a temporary exchange of money for securities.

The current level of share prices nonetheless remains 25 per cent higher than two years earlier.

However, unlike in the late 1980s, the current increase in the ratio has been mainly driven by the decisions of households to increase their levels of debt, rather than by a significant and unexpected increase in interest rates.

Finally, rather than falling, if the value of loan approvals was to grow by 2 per cent per month from the November 2003 level until the end of 2004, housing credit growth would be expected to remain at around its current rate of close to 25 per cent.

Our initial, high - level review shows more economic stimulus and potentially stronger equity - market support than indicated in our current forecasts, which we made after the House passed its version of tax reform in November.

Prices are down more than $ 30 over the past two weeks to reach the current level of $ 61.00.

Why is it so difficult to admit that some things are inexplicable because of our current level of intellect, rather than attributing them to a mystical being?

The current rate of burning fossil fuels adds about 2 ppm per year to the atmosphere, so that getting from the current level to 1000 ppm would take about 300 years — and 1000 ppm is still less than what most plants would prefer, and much less than either the nasa or the Navy limit for human beings.

If the current fertility level continues, Europe's population of 727 million will plummet to 556 million by the year 2050, requiring more than three million immigrants per year for the next fifty years if Europe is to remain economically viable.

Yet at certain other points he did definitely lift the position of women to a considerably higher level than that current in Arabia before his own time.