Sentences with phrase «than the current rate of»

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

Such an increase would be near half the 3.3 % increase awarded in the 2017/18 financial year and less than the current rate of inflation.

The contract included a 4.5 percent raise that went into effect on May 1 — higher than the current rate of inflation.

Previously, a massive outpouring of carbon about 56 million years ago had been proposed as faster than the current rate of net increase in atmospheric carbon.

CORE would also roll back the clock on the percentage of students who must score at proficient or better for a school to meet the annual growth target to the 2010 - 11 level of 67 percent, rather than the current rate of 90 percent, giving schools time to implement the new system and see some results.

This loan gives you an alternative to refinancing and an option to collect a lump sum of cash from your equity, if the interest rate on your mortgage is higher than current rates of interest.

Not until Germany's Federal Network Agency makes its assessment will it be clear whether bids significantly higher than the current rates of compensation will be awarded contracts and if new players will be among the awardees or whether the contracts will be awarded to the same companies who came out on top in the first round.

The terms and fees for these loans vary widely and when the fixed - rate period expires, homeowners could end up paying considerably more than the current rate of interest.

Not exact matches

For a list of all the cities with a current unemployment rate of less than 4 % unemployment, here's an interactive map.

A small fraction of those business owners pay the top individual tax rate of 39.6 percent, higher than the current top corporate income tax rate of 35 percent.

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.

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.

While the vast majority of investors are buying Bitcoin via exchanges, it's still possible to get the cryptocurrency for dramatically less than the current exchange rate.

This is a primary reason why France's current unemployment rate of 9.5 % is more than double the U.S.'s relatively modest 4.7 % rate.

As someone who teaches and advises in the field and has an obligation to keep current with emerging developments, given the significant rate of change in the last ten years, I could not imagine how a director of a company could remain current without ongoing requirements rather than passing familiarity or osmosis (I am speaking here of directors who have chosen not to upgrade their education).

The Bank of Canada's current estimate of the neutral rate of interest is 2.5 to 3.5 per cent, down from a range of 3.0 to 4.0 per cent a little more than three years ago.

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.

Once they've banked more than 80 hours, workers may redeem the excess hours by cashing out at their current rate of pay.

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.

That's lower than the current unemployment rate of 4.1 percent for the entire U.S. population and 14.4 percent for teens.

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).

That's lower than the current unemployment rate of 4.1 percent for the entire U.S. population and a steep 14.4 percent for teens.

«The recent behavior of both nominal and real wages point to weaker labor market conditions than would be indicated by the current unemployment rate,» Yellen said in a speech to central bankers last week.

Borrowers should keep in mind that lower interest rates at the beginning of a loan result in more actual savings than lower interest rates towards the end of a loan since the principal is lower as time goes by (interest charged is a percentage of the current loan balance).

In the 23rd Actuarial Report on the Canada Pension Plan (OCA, 2007), the Office of the Chief Actuary (OCA) certified that, in spite of the substantial increase in CPP benefit payments that would result from the retirement of the baby boom generation, the current legislated contribution rate of 9.9 per cent for employers and employees combined would be more than enough to pay for benefits through 2075.

The private sector often demands rates of return far greater than public sector borrowing costs, especially in the current low interest rate environment.

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.

It is telling us only that there is more supply of RMB than there is demand for RMB at the current exchange rate.

This is a bit faster than our current estimate of trend growth in the Australian economy, so we expect to see a gradual decline in the unemployment rate.

Instead of just working for Vox.com, I could form DylanCorp LLC, contract with Vox to provide writing services, and pay a 15 percent rate on DylanCorp's earnings rather than my current 25 percent rate.

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

This type of loan might make sense for you if you can get a better interest rate than that of your current mortgage, you plan to shorten the term of your loan instead of refinancing for 30 years, and you plan to keep your mortgage for at least several more years.

It's also because of something a little more lasting than central banks» current infatuation with near - zero interest rates.

The current rate of 4.1 % is lower today than it has been 86 % of the time over the past 70 years [2].

Every defense of current P / E ratios must assume either a higher long - term growth rate than is evident from historical data, or it must assume that investors are willing to hold stocks for a long - term return of substantially less than 10 %.

The current process attempts to minimize the impact of the pro-cyclical nature of the EI rate - setting mechanism by limiting any change to no more than 10 cents per year (employee rate).

If the combination of the two causes the savings rate to rise, or to fall more slowly than the rapidly declining investment rate, the automatic corollary is a rise in the current account surplus.

In China and other major emerging economies, growth has slowed somewhat more than expected, though there are signs of stabilization around current growth rates -LRB-...)

This hypothetical illustration assumes the investor met the holding requirement for long - term capital gains tax rates (longer than one year), the gains were taxed at the current maximum federal rate of 23.8 %, and the loss was not disallowed for tax purposes due to a wash sale, related party sale, or other reason.

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.

For Pennsylvanians thinking about refinancing a current mortgage, we found a much wider range of available rates in each mortgage type than we did for purchase mortgages.

To do so would either create massive hyperinflation (devaluation) of our current fiat currency, massive swings (politically rather than market driven) in the price of the metal, or create such a high conversion rate as to be nearly meaningless.

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.

The current environment of low interest rates and elevated equity valuations has many investors in a tight spot, as return expectations are lower than usual for both bonds and domestic stocks.

This was supported by findings in the Equality and Human Rights Commission report in 2008 which said that at the current rate of change, it would take more than 70 years to achieve a gender balance in the boardrooms in the UK's largest 100 companies.

The overall strength in demand for credit, combined with the fact that interest rates remain slightly lower than the average of recent years, continues to suggest that the current policy setting is not inhibiting the growth of the economy.

A stock's PEG ratio — its price - to - earnings ratio divided by the growth rate of its earnings — often is considered a more complete assessment of a company's current valuation than a P / E ratio because it takes earnings growth into account.

While current mortgage rates are higher than the lowest rates of 2017, they are still very much on the low end of the historical range.

The economy is now at an advanced stage of its current expansion and has continued to show greater strength than had been generally expected, with real GDP growing at an average annual rate of more than 4 1/2 per cent, and domestic final demand at over 5 per cent, for the past three years.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.