Sentences with phrase «which remain low»

Prices tend to rebound sharply following a steady decline, sometimes after a prolonged «trough» during which they remain low.

The Republicans weren't asked any direct questions on climate, which remains a low - priority issue for television news pundits (see my recent post on the Sunday talk shows).

Not exact matches

The status quo for hundreds of thousands of people, meanwhile, is untenable: More than 333,000 Americans will be diagnosed this year in any of four cancer types in which the five - year survival rate remains lower than 20 %, and in all, nearly 600,000 U.S. deaths are expected from cancer in 2016.

Then, any remaining profits from the company can be distributed to the owners as dividends, which are taxed at a lower rate than income.

Shares in Toshiba, which remains on the Tokyo bourse's watch list due to concerns about internal controls, finished 12 percent lower, giving it a market value of around $ 14.2 billion.

The high court's action was a blow to Vivendi SA's Capitol Records (vivef) and units of Sony (sne), which warned of rampant online copyright abuse if a ruling by a lower court shielding Vimeo from liability remained in place.

This will offset the impact of market conditions which remain challenging in the near term, contributing to lower (year - on - year) underlying revenue.

Not so fast, says JPMorgan, which argues the likelihood of a full rebound will remain low until investors get more clarity on Facebook's relationship with political - research company Cambridge Analytica, and how much liability the tech giant has.

Your success rate is not 10 out of 10, but your cost is lower and you are keen to stumble upon value, which otherwise could remain hidden or be eventually found at your competition's camp.»

That means that 957 stations which did not sell their licenses in the auction have to be moved to lower frequencies that are remaining assigned to UHF TV broadcasting.

Still, he insists that not very much has changed since Trump took office; the wage minimums remain the same, which means that U.S. companies can theoretically onboard foreign employees, who generally are willing to work for lower salaries than U.S. workers.

Research from price - comparison site Parting.com found that in New York City, costs for a direct cremation — which entails only collection of the body, cremation and return of the remains — can run as low as $ 550 or as much as $ 10,125.

So - called «sweat equity» remains taxable at a founder's ordinary income rate, which, assuming that he or she selected pass - through status as described above, could be as low as 20 percent.

As technology commoditizes the lower end of recruiting, more and more search firms are targeting C - suite engagements at global corporations — assignments for which the barriers to entry remain high and client sensitivity to fees relatively low.

Significant debate remains between the White House and Hill Republicans on elements of any final tax reform package, including which deductions to target, how low to push the corporate rate and how companies deduct business investments.

The world crossed a boundary in which prices are not only lower now but will probably remain lower for some time.

West remained neutral on the company and has a price target of $ 120, which is about 17 % lower than the company's current price of $ 148.55.

With lower external debt than other regions, Asian economies have been less vulnerable to a strengthening U.S. dollar, which remains one of the main risks to our outlook for emerging markets.

I like the idea of having gold for inflation risk and long - term treasuries for deflation but I can envision a future where interest rates and inflation remain low for years which would be bad for returns on both.

That half a degree is the difference between low - lying island states surviving, or Arctic ice remaining over the North Pole in summer, or increasing the risk of losing the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet or Greenland ice sheet (either one of which implies an eight - metre sea level rise.)

This parched patch of land, under which lies the largest oil - producing rock formations in the United States, is the epicenter of a growth binge that shows just how tight the link remains between low unemployment, rising wages, and upward pricing pressure.

However, if real rates remain low, gold will continue to attract attention as a potential store of value which may offer a ballast to equity market volatility.

Another unusual aspect of current global interest rates is that long - term rates, which are set by the demand for and supply of funds in capital markets, have remained quite low in the face of rising official interest rates.

«Absent material equity valuation improvements for Ares and KKR, we expect further conversions of Fitch - rated alternative investment managers to be decreasingly likely, given that the remaining managers generally have more incentive income which would not benefit from the lower tax rate,» said Meghan Neenan, head of North American Non-Bank Financial Institutions at Fitch.

The combined federal - provincial tax rate for small businesses in B.C. will remain at 13 per cent for 2016, which is reasonable when compared to other jurisdictions (and lower than all other Canadian provinces except Manitoba and Saskatchewan).

Meanwhile, the CBOE volatility index (which measures option premium costs and is a very good intermediate - term indicator) remains at an uncharacteristically low 20 % reading, with virtually no increase during the recent selloff.

Accounting earnings may have rebounded from 2015 lows, but economic earnings — which reverse accounting distortions and account for the weighted average cost of capital (WACC)-- remain in a persistent downturn.

For one thing, 10 - year yields elsewhere in the world remain significantly lower, which is to say that global investor demand for U.S. notes should hold steady.

A central problem remains the weak strategic bias, which in some European markets marks new lows for the year.

It remains to be seen if oil prices will remain low for a long period of time, but the Federal Reserve's actions, which have kept lending rates near record lows since 2009, have allowed airlines like Alaska access to capital at a reasonably cheap cost.

Although we continue to monitor the market, we remain optimistic about Macau's long - term prospects, given low penetration of Chinese visitors, continued wealth creation of Chinese citizens and large infrastructure projects, which should help facilitate the growth of Macau.

Thereafter, it corrected and entered into three - year long consolidation, during which, it remained range bound between $ 17 on the lower end and $ 27.5 on the upper end.

And, despite historically low interest rates, affordability measures such as the RBC Housing Affordability Index, which measures home ownership costs as a percentage of household income, remain stubbornly high.

While the current price / peak - earnings multiple is already at an elevated level above 18, what I'll call the «P / E equivalent» multiples on other fundamentals are: 21 on the basis of book values, nearly 23 on the basis of enterprise value / EBITDA (which factors in the increasing share of debt on corporate balance sheets), over 25 on the basis of revenues, and 29 on the basis of dividends (largely because dividend payout ratios remain relatively low even on the basis of normalized earnings).

The overall picture is one in which both growth and inflation will remain subdued against the backdrop of very low money and credit growth during the past few years.

Money is now flowing out of high yield debt which has been priced as if defaults will remain very low.

Core inflation, which excludes volatile food and fuel prices, remained stubbornly low at 1.0 percent.

But the demographic profile of 50 years ago isn't coming back, which means inflation and growth will likely remain low for some time.

It goes up when investors are nervous and remains low when they are not — in 2017, it was historically low, which might have lulled some investors into complacency.

Nevertheless, the BLS's view was that data measuring the unemployment rate — which dropped to a new multi-year low of 4.2 % — remained unaffected.

From the perspective of someone interested in making investments with 20 + year holding periods in mind, you need to be careful of owning banks because of the debt to equity levels involved in the investment, you need to be wary of technology companies because they must constantly be innovating to remain profitable and relevant (unlike, say, Hershey, which could stick with its business model of selling chocolate bars for the next century), and retail stocks which are always subject to the risk of a new low - cost carrier arriving on the block.

Nevertheless, although the improving backdrop has led to some inflows in recent weeks, investor participation in the region remains low, especially after post-Brexit outflows, which outpaced those during the European debt crisis (source: BlackRock).

Even now, the Fed's benchmark short - term rate, which influences consumer and business loan rates throughout the economy, remains in a low range of 1.5 to 1.75 percent.

Growth of non-farm GDP over the latest four quarters for which we have data was just over 4 per cent; domestic demand, while slowing a little from its most recent peak, expanded by 5 1/2 per cent over that period; employment growth over the past year has been around trend, though lower in recent months, and the unemployment rate has remained close to the lower end of the range in which it has fluctuated over the past two decades.

Since the drugstore deal, the company, which owns Loblaws, President's Choice and several other grocery brands as well as the Joe Fresh clothing line, has said it remains focused on winning over customers with lower prices and a bigger selection of fresh foods.

Though the US yield curve remained some way from inversion — which historically is often cited as signaling an impending recession — investors were relatively sanguine about the significance of its flattening, with many arguing that low long - term yields were more reflective of central - bank policies and the weak inflationary environment than dimmer economic prospects.

Godfreys said in a statement to the ASX on Monday that «trading conditions have remained subdued», which meant it would come in at the lower end of a previously forecast profit range for 2017 - 18.

Prices will be found at which the remaining active funds will be willing to transact — those prices will simply be much lower, to ensure adequate protection for the funds, given that they haven't done the work necessary to be comfortable with the purchases, or alternatively, given that they need to pay for that work, and that the money has to come from somewhere.

Among the explanations that have been put forward are the increased credibility of central banks in controlling inflation (inflation rates remain below 3 per cent across the developed world), the low level of official interest rates in the major economies reflecting low inflation and the continuing weakness in some economies, a glut of savings on world markets particularly sourced from the Asian region, and changes to pension fund rules in some countries which are seen as biasing investments away from equities towards bonds.

Corporate gearing ratios remain conservative, which together with low interest rates, has meant that interest payments by firms have remained at relatively low levels.