Sentences with phrase «with slow rates of growth»

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Same - restaurant sales at KFC rose 2 percent in the first quarter of 2018, missing analysts» target with the slowest growth rate in four quarters.

Western Australia has maintained the country's fastest annual population growth rate of 2.9 per cent, however the rate of growth has slowed compared with last year's figures.

Some of that is for good reason — the eurozone's recovery is still extremely modest, China's growth is slowing (along with most other emerging markets) and investors are uncertain over the ability of the halfway - recovered US and UK economies to sustain higher central bank interest rates.

The sector isn't devoid of challenges: Canada's banks are contending with an ongoing low - interest - rate environment, slower consumer lending growth and weakness in the securities business.

Though all measures of inflation were coming down as summer turned to fall and the economy clearly was slowing following a July brush with $ 4 - a-gallon gasoline, the FOMC decided to hold the fed funds rate at 2 %, concluding that «the downside risks to growth and the upside risks to inflation are both of significant concern to the committee.»

Amazon on Thursday said that Amazon Web Services revenue is continuing to grow strongly, with an annual run rate now of about $ 16 billion, although the company noted that revenue growth for the public cloud giant has slowed down.

Yet volatility is still below its long - term average, and the low - volatility climate of the past few years is incompatible with a world marked by slow growth, unstable inflation expectations and a likely Federal Reserve rate hike before year's end.

The fashionable view at the Federal Reserve and elsewhere when Yellen took office in 2014 was that growth was slow despite very low interest rates because of «headwinds» — transitory factors associated with the financial crisis that would soon recede.

The slowing in 2015 results from a further decline in the growth of trend labour input coupled with no change in the growth rate of trend labour productivity.

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San Jose is already building at too slow a rate to keep up with job growth, so the addition of 116,250 Amazon HQ2 jobs over ten years would send rents through the roof.

After almost a decade of slow growth, we may finally be returning to what one might call «the old normal»: faster economic growth coming together with the return of increasing costs, inflation, rising interest rates, and greater volatility.

The rate of growth slowed since February, but was broadly in line with the average for 2011.

It also found oil inventories are beginning to top off in OECD countries, with growth coming in at its slowest rate since the final quarter of 2014.

While China's rate of growth is slowing, China along with India, Indonesia and many other emerging markets may continue to outgrow the United States and other industrialized countries for the foreseeable future.

Looking forward, even if we assume the unicorn growth rate slows to 20 % per year over the next five years, there will be more than 350 of them, with an aggregate market cap of over $ 1 trillion dollars.

The answer would appear to be yes, with the economy chugging along at a slow rate of growth and unemployment stuck above 8 %.

Many forecasters were also slow in recognizing that the potential growth rate of the economy had increased in the late 1990s with the advent of new information technologies.

There are certainly problems with some of the earlier data, but this appears to be the slowest expansion since the turn of the 18th Century and our households are the main problem for the growth rate lag.

Looking forward, there is little evidence to suggest that the rate of credit growth is likely to slow in the near term, with new loan approvals for housing having increased by 24 per cent over the six months to August.

With revenue growth rates slowing to single digits and the stock boasting a P / E in excess of 40, I feel that further appreciation is unjustified.

The rates of growth however were slower compared with the annual average growth rates since 2012.

In contrast to housing credit, the growth rate of personal credit has slowed somewhat over recent months, to an annualised rate of around 12 per cent over the six months to December, compared with 16 per cent over the six months to September; the slowdown in the growth rate of fixed - term and credit card lending was particularly marked.

After a long stretch characterized by ultra-low interest rates, slow growth, minimal inflation, cheap oil, and little policy progress due to a conflicted Congress, we are now doing a dramatic 180 degree turn to a lower tax, less regulation, pro-growth environment, with higher rates and higher inflation — a normalization of sorts.

Jeremy Bowman (Starbucks): Starbucks has fallen out of favor with investors of late as the company's once - blistering growth rate has slowed down, but I think there are still plenty of reasons to count on the coffee giant for the next 25 years.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has published very robust research involving more than 140 countries around the world which demonstrates that countries with extreme levels of inequality (1) tend to experience much slower rates of economic growth; and (2) are far more susceptible to the kind of severe financial / banking / credit crisis that America just went through five years ago.

They found that neutering before 37 weeks of age was associated with a slight increase in the rate of growth, whilst neutering after 37 weeks was associated with a slight slowing of the growth rate.

(If that seems slow, compare it with growth rates of a few millimeters in a thousand years found in caves in arid regions like the Sierra Nevada.)

A 2014 study that included 163,820 children between the ages of three and 18 showed that those taking stimulants to treat their ADHD had slower rates of growth from early childhood to the middle years compared with control subjects who had no history of ADHD or stimulant use.

Scientists with the USGS and Michigan State University, funded by the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, found that slower sea lamprey growth rates during the larval phase of development may increase the odds of sea lampreys becoming male.

In the cold seep worm, the cells at the edges of the trophosome die at about the rate that new cells are produced, slowing the worm's growth and keeping the worm stocked with young cells.

«The HALT - PKD findings show that people with polycystic kidney disease do not need to take both of the drugs studied to slow their rate of kidney cyst growth and decline in kidney function.»

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Spending on the two programs for 2013 to 2023 is projected to increase at an average rate of 3.7 percent per year, which is slower than the projected growth for private health insurance, despite that Medicare and Medicaid generally serve populations with more illness and health problems.

Decorin is a protein that is part of connective tissue like bone, but that also plays a signaling role, interacting with growth factors to slow the rate that cells divide and multiply, unless turned off by too much p53.

Some symptoms of someone with an imbalanced thyroid function are difficulty regulating the heat in the body (cold hands and feet and hot and cold flushes), irregular menstrual cycles, poor growth, insomnia, low bone density, lack of energy, slow metabolism, bulging eyes, irregular heart rate, tiredness and infertility.

In men having prostate cancer, a low fat diet supplemented with 30 grams of ground flaxseed reduces serum testosterone by 15 %, slows down the growth rate of cancer cells, and increases the death rate of cancer cells.

«According to publishers the rate of growth and penetration of eBooks has slowed with value penetration estimated to be around 15 % — 18 %, with growth closer to 20 % than the 100 % we have seen in recent years.»

The international rollout is taking longer than anticipated, with Nook still focused in the US, UK, and now Australia (some additional global markets can access the Nook ebook store through specific tablet apps, however), but at a time when there's a high rate of turnover within the digital division, maintaining a slow but steady pace of international growth may be the smarter move to take.

The Bookseller's editor Philip Jones attributed the decline to «a natural slowing down of growth and adoption rates» in digital, along with a slowdown in sales of Kindles.

The quintle of countries with the highest growth rate over the previous five years, produced average returns over the following year of 6 %; those in the slowest - growing quintile produced returns of 12 %.

After the stimulative effect of low rates evaporates, all we'll be left with is slow economic growth and high unemployment — hardly the kind of environment in which house prices normally surge.

Deflation is generally considered to be an environment of slow economic growth and where there is actually a negative inflation rate, with the end result being an actual increase in the real value of money.

And in this new era of slow growth and low interest rates, the golden rule is still diversification, explains Ayana Forward, CFP, also with Ryan Lamontagne.

It would have been nice to see why it should be worth less such as sum of the parts is worth less than whole, or on a relative analysis, or even just showing a simple cash flow analysis with a slower growth rate creating a terminal value less than the current value.

The yield is lower than most, but the growth rate is very high with no sign of slowing down.

Subsequently, the slower growth rate compared with littermates, retention of puppy coat, and lack of primary guard hairs gradually become evident.

It is possible to make economic growth fall even faster, with 1) monetary policy of higher interest rates, or 2) slower rates of money creation.

Without this drastic USA cutback, IPCC estimates that we will reach 600 ppmv CO2 by 2100 (average of cases B1 and A1T, both assuming no special «climate initiatives», population growth rate slowing down reaching 10.5 billion by 2100, with medium and fast economic growth rate).

Yet even if the high price of energy from fossil fuels and power plants combines with regional climate initiatives to slow the current rate of growth somewhat, we will probably hit 11 gigatonnes of carbon emissions per year by 2020.