Sentences with phrase «with weak ratings»

Under Obama's framework, teachers with weak ratings tied to student achievement could lose their jobs, while high ratings could mean bigger paychecks.

Buist and Janson's (2001) study is of moderate quality overall, with a weak rating for the lack of description regarding control of confounding variables.

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Ultimately, with inflation weak, the Bank of Canada will feel little pressure to raise interest rates quickly.

S&P said in March a rupiah exchange rate of 15,000 a dollar is «the psychological level» at which companies with weak balance - sheets could struggle with repayments and those with good cashflow might start to proactively restructure their debt.

With the domestic economy too weak to maintain China's high growth rates, and with exports to the West hurting, the Communist Party in Beijing and its regional offshoots have come to rely heavily on cheap exports and debt - fuelled investment to sustain China's fragile fortuWith the domestic economy too weak to maintain China's high growth rates, and with exports to the West hurting, the Communist Party in Beijing and its regional offshoots have come to rely heavily on cheap exports and debt - fuelled investment to sustain China's fragile fortuwith exports to the West hurting, the Communist Party in Beijing and its regional offshoots have come to rely heavily on cheap exports and debt - fuelled investment to sustain China's fragile fortunes.

While the labor market has returned to more normal levels, with the unemployment rate at around 5.1 percent, overall hiring has remained weak, per the most recent Department of Labor jobs reports.

Interest rates are low throughout the developed world, except in countries experiencing fiscal crises, as central banks and other policymakers try to cope with continuing financial strains and weak economic conditions.

With fourth - quarter sales of condensed and ready - to - serve soups down 7 %, prominent Wall Street firm Janney Montgomery Scott recently downgraded its rating on the company's stock, citing a weak packaged - soup market.

Britain's housing market continued to lose momentum data showed too, with mortgage approvals at their weakest in nearly three years following the Bank of England's first interest rate hike in a decade.

Powell in statements throughout the year, culminating with his recent Senate confirmation hearing, has been clear he sees little risk of inflation that would prompt the Fed to raise rates faster than expected, and takes weak wage growth as a sign that sidelined workers remain to be drawn into jobs.

This weak expansion, coinciding with George W. Bush's implementation of an upper income tax cut, suggests that Trump's personal income tax cut is unlikely to stimulate the rate of growth Mulvaney claims.

The U.K. had been expected to follow close behind the Federal Reserve in raising interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade, but with lower commodity prices and weak wage growth still keeping a lid on inflation, economists now think that the U.K. may not raise rates till 2017 — even though new data out Wednesday showed the employment rate hit a 45 - year high of 74 % in the three months to November.

First is weak domestic demand, the high rate of unemployment and weak household income growth... The second is Italy's poor international competitiveness and the third is the banking sector, burdened with a high rate of non-performing loans.»

Considering its strategic orientation of growing through acquisition, ACT has some latitude at the rating for periodically elevated leverage, but we believe that negative rating pressure would emerge if a transaction caused fully adjusted debt to EBITDA to exceed 3.5 x with risky prospects for a return to below 3.0 x. Moreover, the rating would be under pressure if increased competition caused weaker earnings, particularly from merchandise and services, keeping debt to EBITDA above 3x.

Major indexes are little changed as banks fall along with interest rates and weak first - quarter results hit several health care companies.

Fears about cord cutting combined with worries about sharp ratings declines and weak advertising sales prompted the mass sell - off.

«With interest rates low, commodity inflation nil and the dollar weaker than I thought, I had no choice but to put something to work,» he wrote in one of his Real Money columns Friday.

Under Armour's first - quarter results show progress toward stabilizing its sales in the weak North American market and operating more efficiently, said Jim Duffy, an analyst with Stifel Nicolaus, who has a buy rating on the stock.

Depressed interest rates were typically associated with weak market outcomes over the following decade, largely because investors reacted to depressed interest rates with yield - seeking speculation - driving valuations up and driving subsequent prospective returns down.

Treasury yields remained stable with a positive bias after the mixed employment report, as healthy payroll growth was accompanied by an uptick in the Unemployment Rate and weak wage growth.

Even with a weaker currency and a partial reversal in recent oil price declines, these issues will moderate any increase in long - term interest rates in Canada.

Syria, Russia say Israel launched missile strike on Syrian air base Wall St Journal Hungary's nationalist prime minister wins third term in power: Reuters Trump predicts China will blink first in trade dispute with US: Bloomberg Trump administration officials soften tone on trade dispute with China: WSJ N. Korea says it will discuss denuclearization: NY Times Kudlow: White House considering plans to undo parts of spending bill: Wash Exam US hiring growth slowed sharply in March: Bloomberg German industrial production fell by the most in over 2 years in Feb: Reuters Forward curve for 1 month overnight indexed swap rate inverts: Bloomberg Many US state govts struggling with weak revenue growth: The Economist

2015.01.02 RBC Canadian Manufacturing PMI ™ at three - month low as output and new orders rise at weaker rates Business conditions at Canadian manufacturing companies continued to improve at the end of the year, with output and new orders rising further, according to the RBC Canadian Manufacturing Purchasing Managers...

While the positives include the unemployment rate falling to 42 - year lows, a weaker pound sterling is leading to a spike in consumer inflation; in the event of a negative outcome in the negotiations with the European Union, the UK currency could slide further, leading to a rise in consumer prices and leaving the Bank of England in a very precarious situation in which easing interest rates will be ruled out due to high inflation, and hiking rates will lead to a slowdown in economic activity.

Cowen's Paul Silverstein maintains an Outperform rating on Cisco's stock with an unchanged $ 39 price target, even though the company's fiscal fourth - quarter guidance was «weak.»

With household and government balance sheets still weighed down by a large debt overhang, demand for new loans is extremely weak despite near zero short and long term interest rates.

With the exchange rate somewhat weaker in recent months, the Bank curtailed its replenishment of foreign exchange reserves.

This morning's Employment Report for May was disappointing with the unemployment rate up 0.1 to 9.1 % and weaker than expected growth in payrolls.

With the UK economy gradually picking up pace and inflation rising on the back of a weaker currency, the UK's central bank may finally go ahead with a rate hike for the first time in a decade, although it is widely expected to leave the monthly government and corporate - bond purchases untouched at # 435 and # 10 billion respectivWith the UK economy gradually picking up pace and inflation rising on the back of a weaker currency, the UK's central bank may finally go ahead with a rate hike for the first time in a decade, although it is widely expected to leave the monthly government and corporate - bond purchases untouched at # 435 and # 10 billion respectivwith a rate hike for the first time in a decade, although it is widely expected to leave the monthly government and corporate - bond purchases untouched at # 435 and # 10 billion respectively.

High - yield bonds, those from companies with weak financial positions and poor credit, are offering rates as high as 9 % for 30 - year terms but also offer the risk of bankruptcy before the bond matures.

This strength in employment is somewhat at odds with the relatively weak rate of growth indicated by the national accounts.

Risks of a Federal Reserve's interest rate hike in June moved front and center Thursday, jostling for position with a simmering China - U.S. trade war, and weaker currencies on the growing list of headaches for stock investors in Asia.

The February report, however, did contain some less encouraging news on wages, with average hourly earnings weaker than forecast, sliding 0.1 % month - on - month compared with January's 0.5 % expansion, and the annual rate falling 0.3 % from the previous month to 2.2 %.

Analysts speculated that Fortescue's weak export rate in October and November may be linked to the Chinese shutdowns and the middle kingdom's growing preference for iron ore with higher grades than Fortescue typically produces.

With data from the S&P / Experian Consumer Default Indices showing first mortgage default rates have been ticking upward since September 2012, is this a sign that municipalities may see the weak economic cycle extended?

Investments in innovation and automation are critically important for shoring up competiveness; today's weak dollar and lower interest rates may mean such capital improvements are within reach with long - term benefits for those who take action now.

The pickup was spread across the currency area, with sales up 1.5 % in low - unemployment Germany, but up an even stronger 2.1 % in France, where the unemployment rate is much higher and the economy weaker.

The labour market has also remained weak, with the unemployment rate continuing to hover around 5 1/4 to 5 1/2 per cent, as has been the case for the past 18 months or so.

With continuing weak growth in the euro area, markets do not expect the ECB to begin lifting rates for some time.

The surging rates in the money markets also hammered stocks, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite falling below the key level of 2000 to 1991.25, its weakest in almost six months and down 5.9 % this year, the worst performer in Asia.

U.S. Steel reported earnings recently — another net loss, with weak demand hurting its utilization rates, and low pricing putting a pinch on cash flows.

Real EFFR plotted with one - year percent changes in investment (not shown) from 1954 to 2016 reveals a small and weak positive relationship between rates and investment — the reverse of the standard assumption.

A stable economy and unemployment rate coupled with an inflation overshoot would more than likely see the markets begin to price back in a May hike that should see the Pound recover to $ 1.40 levels, while weak numbers will be another reason for BoE to stand pat.

The current US recovery, which is now tied for the third - longest on record, has also been the weakest economic expansion since World War II, with an average annual growth rate of just 2 % over an 8 - year period.5 It may not take much to derail such tepid growth, particularly in light of continued high expectations.

«And with inflation also likely to remain a little weaker than the RBA expects, interest rates are unlikely to rise until late in 2019.

It's a shame really how people are so plastic over here.We seem to change our views so easily.Why can't people just make up their minds?It's like people don't have stance.As I've been saying and will keep saying we have many good players but as good as they are they're overrated.We've just compromised as a club.There are problems in every single role in the team, from defence to attack.Yet these problems will constantly be ignored.Some players are cleary not good enough but say it and the stats lovers will come out.The main problem wrong with the team is the centre.The other problem is Wenger and his misuse of players.I for one don't really rate Ramsey - Xhaka partnership in a sense that it's defensively weak with Xhaka not good enough defensively and Ramsey very inconsistent.The only player excellent defensively in the centre in Arsenal's team is Coquelin and I think he should be playing though many won'tsee why.Look how easily the balls went through the midfield.Coquelin should be partnered with another CM in our current team.People shouldn't deceive themselves Xhaka that Xhaka isn't a DM.He's just not good defensively admit it.We need a DM more than a CM in my opinion or a hybrid like Sanches or Jankto.

RW wouldnt be needed if Welbeck was fit, Ox progressed and Theo stayed fit but is our weak spot but if Campbell can keep progressing then maybe take a gamble on him until the summer, god knows he could do the same as Bellerin / Francis and breakout this season... he has shown glimpes of class and work rate is 4thbest at the club to Sanchez / Ramsey / Ozil imo, wings is the hardest position and Hector n him have gradually got an understanding on the wing with eachother now!

People are way too dramatic about Arteta who is more than capable of being a second choice against the weaker teams, especially paired with Ramsey who's under - rated defensively... I'd instruct Ozil to stay forward when he can, make sure Campbell and Ox track back.

New Kid On The Block — Christian Benteke (Liverpool) The big Belgian has delivered constantly for a weak Aston Villa team for the past three seasons with an exceptional strike - rate.

DENI: Do nt really know how to rate the brazilian, to me he isnt just up for a CDM job.Lack of dominance in the midfield cos of his body shape, do nt really have the potential to be a winger and will never be up for Cesc's job as an AM or being a good playmaker.Only thing i admire on him is his way to position himself on the pitch for ball recovery, a part from that to me he is useless.I also agree with SF saying:» Hes been our weakest link this season..»