Sentences with phrase «upward bias»

Another potential upward bias on assessments of special language programs, particularly bilingual education programs, is differences in opportunity.

The US Dollar Index ($ UUP) had a slight upward bias in the sideways price action while US Treasuries ($ TLT) were biased to continue higher.

Indeed, because the market has a long - term upward bias (i.e., it has always moved higher eventually), some analysts argue that DCA is a bad idea if investing sooner is an option.

Their charts agree with a continued upward bias but with the IWM the strongest on the short term basis and the QQQ strongest on the intermediate term.

Of course, leveraged ETFs performed in stellar fashion during this period due to an unprecedented upward bias with very little downward volatility (see how leveraged ETFs can lose 90 % even -LSB-...]

You have to balance the benefits of a buy - and - hold approach — such as lower taxes and transaction costs, the historical upward bias of the market and the peace of mind that comes from removing yourself psychologically from active investing — against the possibility of a major drawdown or a permanent loss of capital.

The numeric average of different forecasts can be argued to provide a sense of confidence that the government is not providing upward bias to its projections that would facilitate hitting its 2015 budget balance targets.

Before discussing selection that would bias assessments of special language program performance downward, I will address two factors that could introduce upward biases.

We have been judicious to avoid errors that would lead to magnified upward biases between historical returns and future results.8 Even so, common sense dictates a sensible reduction for forward - looking returns.

It looked for Gold ($ GLD) to continue to consolidate with a slight upward bias while Crude Oil ($ USO) continued higher.

The WMO quotes only surface temperature data, which may be subject to upward biases from meteorological stations sited in cities and ships that are thermal sources.

If someone is working on that then all might be clear sooner rather than later, as it seems to me that there is some evidence of conscious and unconscious upward bias in the record for the last 100 years and more.

This effectively gave a much greater weight to the high emission (A1) scenarios compared with scenarios in the other families that the SRES authors elected not to explore in the same detail, and led to a significant upward bias in the probability distribution.

The US Dollar Index has a slight upward bias in the sideways price action while US Treasuries are biased to continue higher.

In regard to some of the metrics on the US economy, she remained fairly positive about the US employment outlook, even mentioning wages and a slight upward bias was noted there.

Of course, leveraged ETFs performed in stellar fashion during this period due to an unprecedented upward bias with very little downward volatility (see how leveraged ETFs can lose 90 % even when the underlying index is flat over a given period), but there are even some sector / country conventional ETFs in there as well:

So we do see some upward bias to inflation, but modest, and our economist says the Fed is raising rates only three times this year is a result.

This gives an upward bias to the price activity.

This will put an upward bias to GDP growth and domestic interest rates.

However, we have no way to objectively measure the extent of these problems — either the upward bias for Q4 and Q1 or the downward bias for Q2 and Q3.

This would put an upward bias in the inflation adjustment for OAS and GIS benefits.

However, some seasonality appears to remain in the CFLP data, as shown in the below chart, with an upward bias especially evident for the month of March, which is likely the main reason why the surveys sent conflicting signals.

The Sports Investing Index continues its upward bias, showing that profits can be earned from sports betting — with a systematic and value - driven approach to investing in the sports marketplace.

The Sports Investing Index continues to show an upward bias, based on Sports Insights» research, pre-published plays and betting percentages.

This estimate assumes full use by existing private school families (likely an upward bias) and no additional adoption by public school families (likely a downward bias).

But we believe there is an upward bias, particularly from the new 7 - and 9 - inch models, which we expect to launch in mid-2012.»

«We believe there is an upward bias, particularly from the new 7 - and 9 - inch models, which we expect to launch in mid-2012,» Bartley wrote in a note to clients.

«But we believe there is an upward bias, particularly from the new 7 and 9 - inch models, which we expect to launch in mid-2012.»

The chart shows the average monthly returns for 20 groups of stocks sorted by size before and after correcting for the upward bias in the database.

Although there are few market adages that hold less water than «gaps were meant to be filled» (look at that up gap from last August, for instance), DLTR's proximity to the down gap, the upward bias of its consolidation pattern, and the fact that the specialty retail industry has exhibited relative strength during the recent market correction puts Dollar Tree in an interesting position.

The Shanghai Composite may get a short term bounce and Emerging Markets look to continue sideways with an upward bias.

Their charts shared an upward bias but more decidedly so in the IWM, possibly the next leader in the rotation, with the SPY and QQQ a bit more cautious and consolidating.

Elsewhere look for Gold to consolidate or pullback in its uptrend while Crude Oil consolidates with an upward bias.

Volatility ($ VXX) looked to remain elevated and with an upward bias keeping the bias lower for the equity index ETF's $ SPY, $ IWM and $ QQQ.

Volatility looks to remain elevated and with an upward bias keeping the bias lower for the equity index ETF's SPY, IWM and QQQ.

The US Dollar Index seems content to move sideways but now with a upward bias as US Treasuries move lower in the broad consolidation zone.

This would obviously lead to an upward bias in value returns.

If you all are correct, there will be an upward bias after 194x (where x is the end of WWII) and SST will still have an upward trend.

It is not clear if Schmidt's advocacy for the GRACE estimates was guided by his persistent protection of the global warming meme, or if his interviewers omitted any honest discussion of papers demonstrating the upward bias in most GIA estimates.

By adjusting the de-glaciation history, Whitehouse 2012 revised their GIA model so that the upward bias was reduced to 1.2 mm / year with error estimates of 2.3 mm / year.