Sentences with phrase «worse than low»

And given that it will probably be no worse than a low - to - mid-end Category 1 when it gets to New York City, it's not going to be their Katrina — even though significant flooding and damaging winds are possible, both inland and especially toward the coast, in both the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast.»

We have many examples from history of the contraction being worse than low, steady funding (attracting good people to a field that can take yeas to mature, then effectively neglecting them as funding drops).

Losses are worse than low returns.

Since the Coleman report, study after study has shown that low - income children who attend high - poverty schools fare worse than low - income children who attend low - poverty schools.

Do U.S. students from low - income families do worse than their low - income peers in comparable countries?

Or maybe it's that the control diet was constructed to be worse than the low carbohydrate diet in ways that wouldn't occur if the controlled study exchanged dietary protein for dietary carbohydrate in a plausibly healthful manner.

But if we're counting calories, the «real stuff» is often no worse than its low - fat alternative.

More likely, the polling points to a disinterested electorate — and the potential for a historically low voter turnout, even worse than the lowest - ever 24 % of registered voters who came to the polls to elect de Blasio in 2013, experts say.

The lowest - performing new teachers were much worse than the lowest - performing TFA teacher.

For me, it wasn't necessarily a waste of money, but it fell in the category of things I didn't expect to do very well that actually ended up doing worse than my lowest expectations.

Year - to - date returns of strategies with higher yielding stocks performed worse than their lower yielding counterparts, although the S&P Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index proved to be the slight exception.

But a lot of their other qualities (customer service, fees, etc.) were worse than a lower interest paying bank.

Not exact matches

«Higher than expected revenues in FICC, I&L (equity gains) and Investment Management (incentive fees) more than offset lower than anticipated revenues in equity trading and investment banking (DCM better than expected, M&A and ECM worse),» Barclays analyst Jason M. Goldberg said in a note.

«Expectations were very low going into [the third quarter] since the entire sector has had a tough [quarter], and Macy's results were no worse than feared,» Wells Fargo analyst Paul Lejuez said.

By the end of 2012 analysts began asking why the company was performing worse than it had during the peak of the financial crisis, when consumer confidence was even lower.

Low productivity is one of the main reasons that Millennials are the first generation since the 1800s to do worse than their parents:

«Anything much worse than that could unleash a wave of new selling, perhaps taking out key support at $ 15.50 and setting up a test of the previous lows from late last year,» said Steven Schoenfeld, founder of BlueStar Indexes, which develops indexes and exchange traded - funds that track Israeli stocks.

I explained that the massive fees levied by a variety of «helpers» would leave their clients - again in aggregate - worse off than if the amateurs simply invested in an unmanaged low - cost index fund,» he recapped, writing in Berkshire's annual shareholder letter.

Oxfam said that women workers were worst hit by global inequality as they consistently earn less than men and usually have lower paid and more insecure forms of work.

Unlike other generations, we found that Millennials tend to have less positive work experiences as they move up the ladder in an organization; Millennials in executive leadership roles not only reported lower scores than their Boomer and Gen X executive counterparts, they also fared worse than Millennials in front - line manager and department leader roles.

Ranking much lower than expected (ahem), this bad boss trait is still one to avoid.

The Food and biopharma product testing Eurofins saw its worst day in eight months, after lower - than - expected earnings.

Though our industry's gender diversity numbers are troublingly low, the worse news is that they are lower than ever.

LONDON, Oct 24 - The euro fell to a one - week low against the dollar on Wednesday after worse - than - expected German business activity and sentiment data fuelled concerns of weakness in the euro zone's largest economy.

Technicolor shares tanked, closing more than 19.6 percent lower, after the French multinational presented worse - than - expected profits for 2016.

Contrary to popular conception, wealthy women are often in worse health than lower income women.

And to make matters worse, traders weren't braced for a drop that stretched as deep as 6.3 % in the company's shares on Friday, a loss that has the stock at its lowest level in more than four years.

The lower - power warm air dryers spread contaminants further than paper towels, but the jet dryers were by far the worst culprits.

(Reuters)-- Shares of OnDeck Capital Inc (ONDK.N) soared on Tuesday after the online lender reported better - than - expected quarterly profit as it set aside less money for bad loans, and managed to keep costs lower.

Bad loans as a share of their total portfolio remains low, at less than 2.5 percent, but economists believe the figure understates the problem because banks often extend the payment dates for problem debt.

All else equal, unless it possesses some sort of major offsetting advantage that makes the risk of non-payment low, a company with a low - interest coverage ratio will almost assuredly have bad bond ratings, increasing the cost of capital; e.g., its bonds will be classified as junk bonds rather than investment grade bonds.

Further, exposure to Unattractive - or - worse rated stocks is much lower for JETS (11 % of assets) than for XLI (33 % of assets).

Lower - priced homes are appreciating much faster than higher - priced properties, making the affordability crisis even worse, said Frank Martell, president and CEO of CoreLogic.

Worst case I have to purchase shares at a price lower than market prices when I sold the put.

«The cost to the economy at this time would be close to $ 3 trillion in lowered GDP and 6.5 million industrial jobs, while households would have $ 7,000 less income and in many cases, much worse than that.»

While I'm not persuaded by the argument that Canada needs countercyclical Keynesian deficit spending (I think we're already out of recession), I do know what fiscal policy I would consider worse: arbitrarily cutting spending in a weak economy to balance the budget in light of a revenue shortfall stemming from lower than expected nominal GDP.

His thought was that the active managers who collect massive fees would leave their clients «worse off» than the amateurs who simply invested in unmanaged low - cost index funds.

If one company puts an estimated rate of return on the portal and another one puts up a lower number, will one be judged as better or worse than the other?

a) investing their own money alongside you, so your interests are aligned b) a stake in the company they work at i.e. it is a partnership or employee - owned c) a proven ability to outperform an index over the long - term (at least 10 years) d) reasonable charges — preferably no more than a 1 % management fee and no performance fee e) a concentrated, high conviction portfolio i.e. they do not just hug their benchmark f) a low - asset - turnover ratio i.e. they have a long - term investment horizon and rarely sell investments g) a proven ability to preserve capital during the bad times h) a stable team who have worked together for a number of years.

That's important because interest rates awarded to very creditworthy borrowers can be as much as 5.00 % to 6.00 % lower than those offered to borrowers with the worst credit scores.

Commodity prices have been heading lower for more than four years, and according to data accessible via Bloomberg, commodities have been the worst performing asset class of 2015, with the most severe losses in cyclical commodities, such as oil and industrial metals.

Of course, those estimates were lower than expected, which could be bad news for the stock price.

Further, exposure to Dangerous - or - worse rated stocks is much lower for Royce Small Cap Value (9 % of assets) than for IWN (36 of assets).

While nominal wage growth has been lower than normal this cycle, when adjusted for the lower inflation we have experienced, real wage growth hasn't been so bad.

Even if you have bad credit and get a loan through Personal Loans.com, you're still looking at a rate that is going to be lower than high interest credit cards so you'll still save money on the loan.

In the March quarter, revenues were down 10 % on a year over year basis, which was worse than our expectation for a low single - digit fall.

Chaplin said AT&T's entertainment business performed worse than he expected in the quarter, coming in 4.5 percent lower than his forecast.

This past week: a major advertising agency holding company, WPP, announced worse than expected results and lowered its long - term earnings per share growth guidance.

However, the fact that the average quantity of frack sand used per well has more than doubled in recent years — which has helped lower the breakeven price of U.S. shale oil — should help insulate the industry from the worst of the oil crash.

With these challenges, it would not surprise us if Perrigo's earnings come in even lower than expected, or, even worse, the company turns to more poor acquisitions in an attempt to stoke revenue growth.