Sentences with phrase «than the historical average for»

It's nearly five inches shorter than the historical average for the position.

His 9» 1 broad jump was 10» shorter than the historical average for running backs.

Not exact matches

For example, a portfolio that starts out strong in retirement and has losses later will likely be in much better shape than one that has down years early, even if strong performance in later years brings its average return back in line with historical averages.

World growth will remain low on average but negative in the UK and Europe; price inflation will remain sufficiently subdued for a while longer so as to impose no constraint on monetary expansion; central banks will sustain a regime of negative real interest rates and rapid monetary expansion; the risk of a eurozone collapse is off the table for now; finally, stock markets should continue to perform better than expected, even though the four - year old cyclical bull market is long by historical standards.

The favorable market performance associated with many historical economic expansions is fully accounted for by 1) favorable post-recession valuations, with the S&P 500 averaging less than 9 times prior peak earnings at the recession low, expanding to just over 11 times peak earnings in the first year of the bull market, and 2) favorable trend uniformity, which typically emerges almost immediately in the form of a powerful breadth thrust off of a bear market low, and is confirmed within a few weeks by much broader trend uniformity.

We simulate failure rates if today's bond rates return to their historical average after either 5 or 10 years and find that failure rates are much higher (18 % and 32 %, respectively for a 50 % stock allocation) than many retirees may be willing to accept.

When the sentiment index is more than one standard deviation above (below) its historical average, monthly returns average -0.34 % (+1.18 %) for the value - weighted market and -0.41 % (2.75 %) percentage points for the equal - weighted market.

While there's a great deal of variation across individual market cycles, that's roughly the historical average for a 5.25 year market cycle: a 135 % gain, a 30 % loss, and a 65 % full - cycle return (about 10 % compounded annually, with the full - cycle return coming in at less than half of the bull market gain).

In January, Deutsche Bank's top economists offered an even more alarming figure, saying that, relative to historical averages, houses are selling for 60 per cent more than they're worth — the highest overvaluation in the world.

While spreads between yields on highly - rated corporate bonds and government bonds have remained above their historical averages, this continues to reflect strong demand for Commonwealth Government bonds rather than concerns about corporate credit quality.

One can relate this directly to a 10 - year prospective return by recalling that historical tendency for market cycles to establish normal prospective returns — if even briefly as in 2009 — at their troughs (and it's typical for troughs to reach below average valuations and much higher prospective returns than the 10 % historical norm).

The ultimate defensive aim of the team is to concede less goals across an entire season, with historical averages correlating a «goals conceded» tally of less than thirty to achieve Champion's League qualification in the English Premier League and to challenge for the title.

DePreSys's predictions for 10 years on from the date of the historical data were on average only 19 per cent more or less than the actual numbers (Nature Geoscience, DOI: 10.1038 / ngeo1004).

Unlike previous Pliocene models, this «no ice» version returned temperatures 18 to 27 F warmer than today's average annual temperatures for the Canadian Arctic and Greenland, coming closer to what the historical data pulled from the ground said.

August was 0.9 °F warmer than the 20th century average for the CONUS and ranked in the warmest third of the historical record.

Nearly all of Eurasia, Africa, and the remainder of South America were much warmer than average, or within the top 10 percent of their historical records for their regions, according to the Land & Ocean Temperature Percentiles map above.

From this perspective, grains probably never accounted for more than 1 - 3 % of our historical calorie intake... and as you know from one of my recent articles, currently our modern processed diet that the average person eats consists of 67 % of total calories from grains such as corn, soy, and wheat and their derivatives... now THAT»S a shocking revelation in why our entire food supply is backwards, and how that affects your waistline!

The historical evidence here is ambiguous; since 1991, the average return for the S&P 500 has been higher in months when interest rates rose than in months when rates fell.

Interest rates rise much higher than their historical average and reach previous highs (this would be a worse case scenario for variable rate student loan borrowers)

For instance, the blue dot on the value factor scatterplot suggests that prior to March 2016 the valuation level of 0.14 — meaning the value portfolio was 14 % as expensive as the growth portfolio measured by price - to - book ratio, and lower than the historical norm of 21 % relative valuation — would have delivered an average annualized alpha of 8.1 % over the next five years.

To sum up, although it's pretty clear we should expect lower than historical average returns for stocks, there is little evidence for a strong downward force on stock returns due to expected interest rate increases that is anything like the bond situation.

If a business is trading for lower than its historical average price - to - earnings ratio, it is likely trading at fair value or better.

A quick way to tell if a stock is worthy of further research is to determine if it is trading for less than its historical average price - to - earnings ratio.

A thirty year mortgage is a great thing at these rates (I wish I could get a 50 year mortgage), especially if inflation returns to its historical averages of 3 — 4 % or higher, and if you can invest the difference between the monthly payments for the 15 and 30 year mortgage and earn more than 3.88 % on that money you will be much better off than if you'd gotten a 15 year mortgage.

For example, a portfolio that starts out strong in retirement and has losses later will likely be in much better shape than one that has down years early, even if strong performance in later years brings its average return back in line with historical averages.

Thus if one plots all the minima of the different historical measurements, that gives a better impression of the real «background» CO2 level than the averages: see The same for ocean data and coastal data: all are around the ice core level.

As the chart reveals, today's per century trends are dominated by cooling for the different time periods; today's trends are multiple times below prior period, historical highs; the 5, 8 and 10 - year trends are definitely below the average modern trend (1950 through 2013); and all the trends are significantly less than those reached 15 years ago (see black dotted lines for year - end 1998 trend levels).

The study also looked at «long» fire seasons, defined as any season more than one standard deviation longer than the historical average season for that area.

org, US reductions need to be much greater than average reduction levels required of the entire world as a matter of equity because the United States emissions are among the world's highest in terms of per capita and historical emissions and there is precious little atmospheric space remaining for additional ghg emissions if the world is serious about avoiding dangerous climate change.

However, this does represent a lower rate of increase than the historical average — China's average annual growth rate for coal consumption from 2000 to 2013 was 8.8 percent.

[2] The Historical simulations have an average temperature anomaly of 0.84 °C for 1996 — 2005 relative to 1850, whereas HadCRUT4v4 shows an increase of 0.73 °C from 1850 — 1859 to 1996 — 2005, and Figure 7 of Miller et al. 2014 shows consistently greater warming for GISS - E2 - R than per GISTEMP since 2000.

NAR expects the rate on a 30 - year fixed rate mortgage to average 6.5 percent in 2006, about one percentage point higher than in 2003 and 2004, but not much above the expected average for 2005 of 5.9 percent — all extremely low by historical standards.

Even through property prices are very high — and cap rates are very low — by historical standards, average cap rates are still significantly higher than the interest rates available for financing.

I would argue that the first - time buyer share is lower than historical averages because access to mortgage credit is particularly tight for younger buyers.

So the forecast for the Salem, Oregon housing market is still higher than historical averages.