Sentences with phrase «weaker trend of»

We observed a widespread, significant increase in tree mortality, a significant decrease in tree growth, and a similar but weaker trend of decreasing recruitment.

Compared with the growth rates, recruitment rates showed a similar but weaker trend of decrease over time (Fig. 2E and SI Appendix, Fig.

Over the same period, a very weak trend of only +0.90 % in open ocean chlorophyll a was found using a maximum of 530,579 data points per year but this trend is not considered statistically significant.

Not exact matches

Nadella is a long - term thinker who embraces new trends and weak signals early to stay ahead of the curve.

How do you know when the weaker results could be indicative of a larger trend and the whole group should be avoided?

The disappointing trends of the Great Recession and its aftermath come on the heels of the weak labor market from 2000 - 2007, during which the median income of non-elderly households fell significantly from $ 68,941 to $ 66,575, the first time in the post-war period that incomes failed to grow over a business cycle.

And despite HP's sales of PCs remaining flat its third quarter, Weisler was hesitant to say that the same trend would continue while cautioning that he agrees with major analyst firms that predict PC sales will be weaker in the second half of 2016 compared to the first half.

While a weak sterling is being keenly watched as the driver of higher prices within the country, Ben Brettell from Hargreaves Lansdown says its effect should fall out of the numbers reasonably soon and we should watch for more permanent trends.

Suki Cooper of Standard Chartered says gold prices could see gains after the Fed's meeting in June as the U.S. dollar is expected to trend weaker in the second half of the year.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- New orders for U.S. factory goods recorded their biggest increase in eight months in March, boosted by demand for transportation equipment, but the underlying trend remained weak against the backdrop of a strong dollar.

Theoretically, then there will be greater price dispersion between the stocks of weaker companies and those that are fundamentally stronger when interest rates trend higher.

The weak economic performance in the first half of this year means that Canada has more excess capacity, which is increasing the downward pressure on the underlying trend in inflation.

My own view is that the weaker trends grow out of some less benign developments, like the deleveraging from the housing bubble, austere fiscal policy, stagnant earnings, and high inequality.

But the failure of the market to generate even weak trend uniformity here continues to suggest that the recent rally is a trap.

Recently, reported U.S. earnings have been mixed, with some large companies surprising on the downside due to a combination of rising costs and weaker than expected sales, giving rise to concerns that the trend of total profits may be heading lower.

Technology is just one of many major trends that are contributing to weak inflation.

The coin is still the weakest of the majors, and although the long - term picture remains encouraging, short - term traders should still wait with new positions until a new trend is established.

This is partly a result of slowing U.S. payrolls growth, a clear trend in April's weaker - than - expected jobs data.

«The basic elements are 1) the market is in a rising trend, defined as the NYSE Composite being above its 10 - week average, 2) both daily new highs and new lows exceed 2.2 % of issues traded, and 3) the McClellan Oscillator is negative — meaning that market breadth as measured by advances and declines is relatively weak (there's some dispute, which I will not join, as to whether the Oscillator has to be negative that day or turn negative later).

Similar trends are seen in pending home sales which are +1.1 % YoY in the West, the weakest of all regions, while PHS are strongest (+22.2 % YoY) in the Midwest.

What we have seen over the last several cycles is a sustained pattern of weaker economic growth (see Exhibit 2) and a strong tendency toward disinflation — meaning inflation that is persistently low or trending lower.

U.S. producer prices unexpectedly rose in November as the cost of services increased, but the underlying trend continued to point to weak inflation pressures.

Citing weak external demand and the prospect of below - trend growth, the Bank of England cut official interest rates by 25 basis points in July.

The December quarter national accounts continued the pattern of previous quarters, showing weak growth in GDP alongside above - trend growth in domestic demand.

«The weaker performance combined with the relatively high fees have definitely created a trend out of hedge funds,» said Atlanta - based consultant Jay Love, U.S. director of strategic research for Mercer Investment Consulting.

In any event, a careful reading of the text suggests that the counterculture thesis is only the best of a variety of rather weak statistically grounded «explanations» of the trends.

Ecumenism may be weak as an attempt to unite all Christians organizationally, but the trend toward interchurch cooperation on matters of education is strong.

Supermarket and grocery store sales rose just 2.9 per cent - the weakest rate of growth since September 2013 and well below the six month trend - as Woolworths, Coles and independents supplied by Metcash cut prices to regain market share lost to Aldi.

The UFC Charlotte ratings hit a record low, of course it was a relatively weak card, but do you think it is a more overlaying trend?

The club seems to have added wilting against top competition to it's season - long trend of underperforming against weaker sides.

This terrible away trend has come about through their weak forward line, one which has managed just five away goals all season, failing to score in five out of eight away outings.

The gravitational pull of this trend was weaker for baby boys.

«But if you plot the same information as a function of the sample size, the datasets, in fact agree, and display the same general trend — the larger the indentation in the material tested, the weaker the olivine becomes.»

Although weak relationships are often a disappointment in disease research, he says, this trend was illuminating «because that tells us that we're getting at a different part of the puzzle» — to which «there are so many pieces,» he notes.

For Japan, the results are again mixed with similar proportions of sites showing significant positive and negative trends for SOMO35 and AVGMDA8, but more significant negative trends for 3MMDA1 (~ 30 %), in addition to a large fraction of sites showing weak or no indication of change for both site types.

Mean annual minimum relative humidity showed a weak but significant trend of − 0.127 % per decade but showed no significant changes in affected area.

In addition, a weak trend is suggested for a correlation of disc sizes and an anticorrelation of disc temperatures with the stellar age.

Fresh off of the runways across the globe, there were a number of incredible trends that had me weak at the knees.

With our dollar as weak as it is at the moment, with no signs of an immediate recovery we are witnessing weaker markets as they go through their respective rectification trends.

Codemasters could of made a better looking game on wii you only have to look at Sony liverpool to see what they achieved on the very weak ps2 and you can see a trend that Codemasters just wont push wiiu even if the wiiu was a 8 core with 32 treads and 4 gig of RAM it still wouldnt mean a definitive game for Nintendo where as every else is jumping all over it take2 and Codemasters are lickin Sonys ass end of.

Which means if I see that Blue - Green Love: When Jig the Goblin got Lucky made the bestseller lists and decide to chase that trend, I'm a lot more likely to try to end up writing a weak imitation of that story instead of coming up with a truly new and original twist on hot goblin / leprechaun love.

Another indicator that the publishing / book industry has become one that relies too much on «trend» buying and not in building a solid customer core by expanding their mid-list offerings, etc., is that BN knew the quarter would be weak «in part because sales of coloring books and other art supplies have slumped.

The future of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) remains highly uncertain at this juncture in the Trump presidency and the combination of oil prices stalling around US $ 50 / barrel and a declining trend in U.S. car sales points to a weaker contribution from trade in the second quarter.

One of our customers who we often mention, the well - known «Pitbull» (Marty Schwartz), has been repeating that weak trends rally early in the day and early in the week and fail late in the day and late in the week.

The process by which the fast trend followers profit from the slow trend followers also alters the distribution of returns experienced by the latter group: returns during times of positive, negative and weak trends are different; in ways that we observe in real markets.

In short, the weaker hands in the market get scared at the slightest move against their position and most of these people naturally tend to enter when the trends are very old and concomitantly about to change course.

While delinquency rates increase during the early life of a loan pool, this worsening trend confirms our initial assessment that very weak underwriting and mortgage origination fraud, and not simply payment resets, has been the primary cause for elevated subprime loan delinquencies for loans originated through at least the middle of 2007.

Dart's down nearly 20 % on the back of weak consumer confidence and spending — but if these trends are cyclical as I believe, the long - term prospects of the business are as rosy as ever.

Work like Rowe's owes a lot to artists like Richard Tuttle, Dan Graham, etc., and is (also) so gallery / institution / trend / self - aware that it can't possibly enjoy being classified under Groys» definition of «weak images.»

According to the most recent evidence, there does not seem to be any sort of trend toward more hurricane activity and the signal for a possible increase in intensity is weak.