Sentences with phrase «with lesser ratings»

Companies with financial heft, a history of success, good business practices, and a track record for paying debts, issue bonds with lower interest rates than companies with lesser ratings.

Babies are also reported to be in much healthier states, have increased breastfeeding success, with less rates of intensive care when the mother has had a doula.

While it is understandable that market participants are concerned about interest rate risk in a rising rate environment, it is interesting to note that the high yield bond sector stands out within the fixed income market with less rate sensitivity.

Call your insurer and ask if they can provide you with lesser rates.

Not exact matches

For a list of all the cities with a current unemployment rate of less than 4 % unemployment, here's an interactive map.

A monthly subscription that's less than a car payment (apparently average in the US is $ 489) offering Zipcar - style car access and on - demand rides with a lower per - mile rate is really compelling, and makes it much easier to insert the autonomous vehicles these companies are working on anyways.

With unemployment falling steadily through the year, there has been less justification for crisis - era policy, and a sense among policymakers that they could balance the higher rates sought by «hawks» with a slow pace of subsequent increaWith unemployment falling steadily through the year, there has been less justification for crisis - era policy, and a sense among policymakers that they could balance the higher rates sought by «hawks» with a slow pace of subsequent increawith a slow pace of subsequent increases.

Gold is highly sensitive to rising U.S. interest rates because it becomes less attractive compared with interest - bearing assets.

But despite a steady increase in their share of entrepreneurial activity, founders from Latino communities along with those from other minority groups — which made up 40 percent of the U.S. population in 2015 — still receive less funding and fail at faster rates than their white counterparts.

With a reputed vacancy rate of less than 2 % on more than 40 million square feet of industrial, office and retail property in the GTA, the company is known for moving fast, despite the high - octane distraction of the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, Fidani's pet project.

«The startups in the tech incubator Y Combinator, whose acceptance rate is less than 3 percent, change products and markets so frequently that the idea they applied with is often irrelevant to the final product,» said Paul Graham of Y Combinator.

The decreases in individual tax rates, on the other hand, are smaller and less certain, with rates set to revert back to current levels by 2026.

That's likely an extreme case, but other investigations by state attorneys general and the Federal Trade Commission have routinely found debt - settlement companies with completion rates of 10 % or less.

Workers at companies with higher levels of openness have higher rates of job satisfaction and are less likely to quit; more women also apply to such firms because they feel less pressure to negotiate.

The markets with less developed e-commerce technologies are where we're seeing slightly higher rates of abandonment.»

With less than half of companies rating their customer experience as exceptional yet 89 percent saying that they plan to compete primarily on the basis of customer experience by 2016, according to a recent Gartner report, businesses certainly have a lot of work to do.

Another option: The Intelligent Office, a national franchise based in Boulder, Colorado, provides small - business owners with a prestigious address for meetings, as well as phone - answering and mail services, all for about $ 275 a month — far less than the rate for commercial space.

«There was no significant difference in failure rates between women and men, between highly educated and less educated creators, between teams and individual projects, between single or partnered creators, or between creators with children and those without,» wrote Mollick in his paper analyzing the results.

Starting Oct. 17, all insured mortgages will have to undergo a stress test to determine whether a borrower could still make mortgage payments if faced with higher interest rates or less income.

The Guardian spoke with several of the brand's workers at the PT Buma Apparel Industry factory, who told the publication that they are paid one of the lowest minimum wages in Asia — less than $ 6 a day — while at the same time being tasked with high production rates.

To figure out what that would do, the ISP tracked what 92 public companies that already pay the 20 % rate (or less) did with their money from 2008 to 2016.

For SBA loans between $ 25,000 and $ 50,000, maximum rates are not permitted to exceed 3.25 percent (for loans that mature in less than seven years) and 3.75 percent (for loans with longer terms of maturity).

The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

For SBA loans totaling less than $ 25,000, the maximum interest rate can not exceed the prime rate plus 4.25 percent for loans with a maturity of less than seven years (for loans that mature after seven years, the interest rate can be as much as the prime rate plus 4.75 percent).

From 1997 through 2001, the median growth rate for companies that had less than $ 1,000 in seed capital was 846 %, compared with 953 % for companies that were started with more than $ 100,000.

Additionally, competition may emerge from more aggressive lenders offering lower rates and with less stringent underwriting standards.

«The world is telling us that our energy is more valuable than it used to be, and it's telling us to invest more in that and less in areas that are highly exchange - rate dependent with small margins,» Poloz said in the late summer of 2014, when I interviewed him for The Globe and Mail.

With rates moving up and the world resetting to less quantitative easing, inflation might accelerate.

Because equity investors — that tend to get what they ask for — increasingly are saying enough is enough, and a lot of releveraging activity was front loaded, and with an expected more benign rate hiking cycle there is less urgency to pull the trigger on deals, we continue to think that corporate balance sheets (ex-energy, ex-materials) will improve in 4Q and into 2016.

In the base year used in the five - year growth calculation (e.g., 2012), any companies with revenue of less than $ 200,000 will have their revenue for that period lifted to $ 200,000 for the purpose of calculating five - year growth that is not grossly exaggerated by immaterial differences in the base - year revenues of otherwise equal candidates (for instance, a company that grows from $ 1 to $ 2 million would have a higher growth rate than a company that grows from $ 2 to $ 3 million).

If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 - year oil sands project is a lot of risk for less than a 10 % rate of return — but even there, you can see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.

It seems as if a considerable portion of the committee is less on board with «below normal» rates than perhaps they had been.

In the base year used in the two - year growth calculation (e.g., 2015), any companies with revenue of less than $ 200,000 will have their revenue for that period lifted to $ 200,000 for the purpose of calculating two - year growth that is not grossly exaggerated by immaterial differences in the base - year revenues of otherwise equal candidates (for instance, a company that grows from $ 1 to $ 2 million would have a higher growth rate than a company that grows from $ 2 to $ 3 million).

Yellen said the Fed should have been raising interest rates faster in those years, and with less predictability.

The outsize default rates also expose some less savory aspects of the franchise industry, Fillet says, namely that many franchisors are primarily interested in the hefty fee associated with the initial franchise purchase.

With large segments of the population now deeply in hock, central bankers have far less latitude to raise rates to combat inflation.

Canadian exporters who used to rely on NAFTA duty - free rates have relied less on those preferences almost in lock - step with falling MFN rates.

«Those monthly gains are simply unsustainable in an economy with a potential economic growth rate of less than 2 percent.»

Many Albertans find it rich that Quebec — which provides families with subsidized daycare and offers university tuition at less than half the rate of other provinces — criticizes Ottawa for capping equalization payments in 2009 to the rate of the economy's increase.

According to rate - tracking website Ratehub.ca, youth accounts at Tangerine, the online bank owned by Scotiabank, pays the highest interest rate for young savers at 1.2 per cent compared with typically less than one per cent at the country's big banks.

Investors are set to snap up the bonds with an interest rate of less than 3.4 %, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, or about half the rate Sprint would have had to pay if it issued the bonds without any backing.

The average contract interest rate for 30 - year fixed - rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($ 453,100 or less) increased to its highest level since April 2014, 4.50 percent, from 4.41 percent, with points increasing to 0.57 from 0.56 (including the origination fee) for 80 percent loan - to - value ratio loans.

Unsecured loans won't require collateral and typically come with less stringent credit requirements, but also higher rates.

This explains why ecommerce sites that take a long time to load have higher bounce rates, and online stores with clunky interfaces sell less.

However ads using DKI are actually less likely to produce ads that are among the top 5 % or top 1 % of ads with highest click - through rates, normalized by ad position (AKA unicorn status).

If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 year oil sands project is a lot of risk for less than a 10 per cent rate of return — but even there, you can see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.

With the potential for additional volatility and rate rises on the horizon, credit assets are less attractive at these levels.

In a study issued this week (Aug. 11 - 15), Goldman Sachs Bank USA economists Eli Hackle and Hui Shan showed that the homeownership rate of young adults, ages 25 - 34, who were carrying more than $ 50,000 in student, was 8 percentage points lower than for college graduates with less than $ 50,000 in student debt.

But the researchers also saw high rates among those with low sodium intake, defined as less than 3,000 mg a day.

It's the same thing with bounce rate — a decent rate means it shows up in coveted positions, but a ridiculous bounce rate is less likely,» Kim said.