Sentences with phrase «than the estimated rate»

Although the study by Beekman et al differs from several others in that it is primarily concerned with assessing the performance of a screening test rather than estimating rates of depression, the scale's validity might be questioned if the rates differed wildly between studies.

Not exact matches

To find the wealthiest people in the world, Wealth - X looked at its database of dossiers on more than 110,000 ultra-high net - worth people and used a proprietary valuation model that takes into account each person's assets, then adjusts estimated net worth to account for currency - exchange rates, local taxes, savings rates, investment performance, and other factors.

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.

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).

A 2013 analysis of the Senate's immigration reform bill by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates its passage would have resulted in nine million more people entering the U.S. work force in the next 20 years, with new immigrants participating at a higher rate, on average, than other U.S. residents.

Askari noted the discrepancy between the estimates is mostly due to the fact the PBO used a higher projected interest rate for its calculation than the budget predicted.

Corporate travel will rise more than 6 percent this year, the highest growth rate since 2011, Deloitte recently estimated.

Buffett, who's worth an estimated $ 63.1 billion, has long advocated for raising taxes on the rich, often citing the fact that he pays a lower tax rate than his secretary.

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»).

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.

In Venezuela, for example, the government has not consistently released homicide data (though it did this year), so to find the rate for Caracas, the Council made an estimate based on entries at the Bello Monte morgue — though, as the Council admits, that morgue receives bodies from an area much larger than Caracas itself.

Today, Peekaboo Beans has more than 700 sales agents across Canada and is growing at an estimated rate of 30 new consultants every month.

If I have a guesstimate that Iron Dome's success rate is probably less than 5 percent, and Dick Lloyd has an estimate of 10 percent to 20 percent, how would this indicate that the probable level of success exceeds 90 percent?

And the only reason solar customers» electricity rates are even up for debate is that the installation cap under the old rate was hit last week, six months earlier than the utility estimated.

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.

Since changes in interest rates impact bond funds differently than bonds and CDs, estimates of price sensitivity may be less accurate the larger the shift in interest rates.

Global spending on drones is likely to reach $ 9 billion this year and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 30 percent in the next five years, according to research firm IDC, which estimates more than half of that spending will be on drones for commercial use.

Real GDP rose at a 2.3 % annual rate in the advance estimate for the first quarter, a bit stronger than anticipated (the median forecast was...

And estimates of the neutral rate have been far lower for far longer than anyone would have predicted a decade ago.

At the high end, the tax loss is estimated at $ 1.7 - billion, which assumes 50 per cent of the salary income was not earned for real work performed, and the family member had a 15 - per - cent - lower marginal tax rate than the company owner.

Given the nation's debt load — as of February, households had a record $ 2.1 trillion of mortgage and non-mortgage debt — Poloz estimates the economy is 50 per cent more sensitive to rate hikes than in the past.

Overall, TD's mortgage rates tended to be slightly lower than similar estimates obtained from the bigger banks.

A lower down payment means a higher LTV, resulting in a rate estimate that's higher than average.

The changes wrought by the proposed legislation will have a much bigger effect on some groups — especially those who get insurance through their employers and those on Medicaid — than estimated by recent analysis from independent healthcare policy experts such as the Brookings Institution and credit rating agency S&P Global Ratings

A June 2013 Pew Research report estimated that mobile phone penetration rate reaches 86 % among American households earning less than $ 30,000 per year.

According to the minutes of the meeting, a 25 - basis point increase in the bank rate was fully factored in by the markets in the run - up to November's MPC meeting, and the interest - rate curve underlying the November Inflation Report projected interest rates at 1 percent by the end of the three - year forecast period, higher than the recent median estimates of economists polled by Reuters.

Rather than forecasting how fast a company's earnings will grow, look to estimate the growth rates that are implied by the current share price.

The rate of growth was solid, albeit weaker than that previously estimated by flash PMI data.

-LRB-...) Government debt sales will more than double this year, to a net $ 1.44 trillion by JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s estimate, raising the specter of buyers» fatigue just as the Federal Reserve is shrinking its $ 4.4 trillion balance sheet and raising interest rates.

The following chart, constructed from data in the paper, summarizes average equity return (ERP plus risk - free rate) estimates in local currencies for the 59 countries with more than five responses from finance / economic professors, analysts and company managers.

If one company puts an estimated rate of return on the portal and another one puts up a lower number, will one be judged as better or worse than the other?

In both cases, the drop in estimated term premia more than offset the upward revision in expectations about the future path of short - term interest rates»

The BlackRock GPS — which combines traditional economic indicators with big data signals such as web searches and text mining of corporate conference calls — suggests a higher growth rate over the coming 12 months than currently reflected in consensus estimates.

The estimated funds rate equation that is part of the VAR - based expectations mechanism has more inertia than the Taylor - type policy rule used in FRB / US itself for these simulations.

Unemployment is also generally lower than the national average in this state, with July 2017 estimates at 4.3 % compared to the national rate of 4.4 %, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

This report also comes out less than six hours after the Commerce Department had reported that the nation's gross domestic product (GDP) had been revised upward for the second quarter from an initial estimate of 1.5 % growth to a mildly more reassuring rate of 1.7 %.

According to the «advance» estimate released this Friday by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.3 percent in the first quarter of 2018, which is higher than the market expectations of 2.0 percent.

Government spending shrank an annual rate of 0.9 per cent in the second quarter, much worse than the 0.4 per cent drop initially estimated.

They estimate the impact of the corporate tax rate reduction from 18 % to 15 % in 2012 at $ 6.2 billion [3], in line with Finance's first estimate but considerably higher than their latest estimate..

This is a percentage point lower than average potential growth in the decade prior to the crisis... We estimate that the real neutral policy rate is currently in the range of 1 to 2 per cent... This translates into a nominal neutral policy rate of 3 to 4 per cent, down from a range of 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 per cent in the period prior to the crisis.»

This is a market - based estimate of the amount of fear in the bond market Bass - rated bonds are the lowest quality bonds that are considered investment - grade, rather than high - yield.

The second estimate is 0.1 percent point less than the 2.6 percent growth rate recorded in the first or «advance» estimate....

This new calculation now implies that a 1 - point change in the corporate tax rate would change corporate tax revenues by only $ 1.3 billion, rather than the original estimate of $ 1.7 billion.

In September, the rate of unemployment in the single - currency area dipped below 9 %, a level not seen since 2009, but the initial estimate of inflation for October was weaker than widely expected.

Nevertheless, the apparent success of the ECB's policy in overcoming the threat of deflation increased speculation about a potential tightening of monetary policy, possibly even before the cessation of the central bank's bond purchases — scheduled to continue for at least the rest of the year — and in the wake of the ECB meeting pushed market estimates of the odds of a rise in official interest rates before the end of 2017 to more than 50 %.

The estimate for annualized second - quarter 2017 growth was revised up from 2.6 % to 3.0 % — its quickest rate of expansion since the start of 2015 — due to higher levels of consumer spending and business investment than initially thought.

In addition, the unrepatriated past foreign earnings back to 1986 are taxable, and at a higher rate than we initially estimated.

The stock briefly traded for less than 17x 2018 earnings estimates because investors feared that rising interest rates and changing tax policies would depress debt issuance.

A two - year study by a VA researcher says the U.S. veteran suicide rate is much higher than it was estimated to be in 2007.

A friend points out that the rate of attrition of American Jews is much higher than the standard estimates suggest.