Sentences with phrase «year low average»

Such slowdowns are onereason Division I scoring is at a 30 - year low average of 135.38 points a game.That's 4.77 points below the midseason total of a year ago.

Petrol prices reached 14 - year low averages in the past year but gross retail margins hit fresh highs, the competition watchdog says.

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By contrast, while the cost of older, branded pharmaceuticals continue to rise and contribute to increased spending, when discounting is considered, prices of these drugs increased, on average, 2.8 % in 2015, the lowest growth rate in years.

According to an FAQ page on the CAQ website, Quebec spends about $ 4 billion on business tax credits every year, «and the results are not forthcoming: private investment in Quebec is significantly lower than the Canadian average.»

On Thursday, it announced it would reduce its production guidance for the year by about 10,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day to an average of about 315,000 boe / d, with exit production of about 335,000 boe / d, to account for lower heavy oil production, an advanced schedule for maintenance at its Tucker oilsands project and a slower ramp up in liquids - rich natural gas output from its BD Project in Indonesia.

According to Congress's Joint Committee on Taxation, the Tax Cuts act, signed in December, will decrease expected revenues by a total of $ 1 trillion over the next 10 years, an average of $ 100 billion annually, even after any boost to growth and incomes from lower taxes.

Stronger Ties: CETA Tariff Elimination and the Impact on Canadian Exports shows that average tariffs on merchandise in Canada and Europe are low, thanks to years of successive bilateral and multilateral trade negotiations.

Though that's around twice the average over the past 50 years, it's what would be affordable given the CBO's projections of low interest rates for years to come.

Private equity returns remained strong but were lower than the prior year quarter, while income from our fixed income investment portfolio increased due to a higher average level of fixed maturity investments and higher short - term interest rates.

CREA said Friday the level of sales activity marked a four - year low for the month of March and was seven per cent below the 10 - year average.

The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is at its lowest level in four years, giving U.S. consumers billions more to spend this holiday season, but that extra money is being offset by higher food costs, which account for a bigger chunk of most consumers» budgets.

The study found that those companies with low engagement had an average operating margin under 10 percent, whereas for those with high engagement, the average one - year operating margin was close to three times higher, at just over 27 percent.

While more people booked travel on Southwest in the third quarter, fares on average were lower than they were a year earlier, especially for last - minute bookings.

While more people died in air accidents in 2014 than the average in recent years, the number of fatal accidents compared with the total number of flights was a record low, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

Some of the challenges for this are government requirements tying prices to the lowest available, and the fact that patients switch health insurance providers numerous times over the course of their lives — an average of every three years, according to Spark.

The sales last month were the second lowest March total in Greater Vancouver since 2001 and 30.2 per cent below the 10 - year sales average for the month, the board said.

Any small business that posted average annual sales over the previous three years of $ 5 million or less and employs 100 or few individuals (including all owners, partners, and principals) is eligible to apply for a Low Documentation Loan.

The city's low cost of living is great, but projected job growth over the next 10 years is below average.

The average American saves around $ 2,540 per year, which in the highest - yield account will earn only $ 28 more per year than in the lowest - interest account.

Naturally, people with a high degree of emotional intelligence make more money — an average of $ 29,000 more per year than people with a low degree of emotional intelligence.

«If you invested in a very low - cost index fund — where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years — you'll do better than 90 percent of people who start investing at the same time,» Buffett said at the 2004 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting.

He was coming off a season in which he won the U.S. Open for his first major, was voted PGA Tour player of the year for the first time, won the PGA Tour money title and captured the Vardon Trophy for the lowest adjusted scoring average.

With cheap robo - taxis available to chauffeur people around cities, households that spend an average of $ 9,000 a year on transportation could lower that outlay to just $ 2,000.

That said, Apple does have a history of building lower - cost devices geared toward the average consumer, especially in recent years.

It boasts a five - year average return of 13.2 % and has been rebounding smartly from February lows.

Despite a shortfall of workers, average hourly pay rose just 2.4 percent from a year ago, one - half percentage point lower than September's annual gain.

During the first part of 2008, this average declined very slowly, but then fell off a cliff in the last couple of months of the year to a low of just over 110,000 vehicles in December.

The count of companies that did not take part in buybacks or dividends remained at a low level (20 companies), right near the average for the past three years.»

The ratio has previously been this low only six times during the past two decades; whenever that happens, stocks have rallied over the next year by more than 50 %, on average.

The average 30 - year fixed - rate mortgage is now about 4.38 percent — steadily moving further from the record low of 3.50 percent in December 2012.

While 2004 was an exceptional year for mortgage insurance, over the past 10 years CMHC has paid out at an average rate of 45 %, far lower than most other forms of insurance.

If the average customer stays with you five years before moving away or switching to another grocery store (because it's closer, has a better selection, offers lower prices, or because they've grown unhappy with your store), that customer has an LCV of $ 25,000.

One note worth mentioning: Stocks closed at lows on Friday, with all three major averages posting their worst weekly drop so far this year.

After a median four years of post-study follow - up, those in the least sedentary quartile (sitting a mean 649 minutes a day in typically 6.5 - minute bouts) had a dramatically lower rate of death from all causes than those in the most sedentary group (835 minutes at rest, in periods of relative motionless averaging just under 20 minutes each).

Second, the average time to maturity on U.S. debt is six years, meaning that most of the low - yielding bonds now on the books will be exchanged for more expensive debt over the next decade.

Economic factors like consumer confidence, financial obligations, and delinquencies are all improving and the consumer may be more insulated than investors think from a back - up in yields, given 75 % of their financial obligations are in the form of a mortgage, close to 90 % of all mortgages are 30 - year fixed, and the average mortgage is termed out at the lowest rate ever... Taking these factors into account, we generally think it pays to remain sanguine.»

Tallahassee has everything boomers say they want, from stellar health care and lower - than - average gas and food prices to weather that's sunny year - round.

As a result of our Government's low - tax plan, the average Canadian family now pays 3,200 dollars less in taxes every year.

People who gave us permission to use their Facebook data were on average younger (48 years vs. 57 years), more educated, more likely to be female (58 % vs. 50 %), and more likely to be unmarried (66 % vs. 71 %), with slightly lower scores on mental health and life satisfaction, significantly more self - reported friends (4.5 vs. 4.0), and less time spent interacting in person with real - world friends.

Wage and benefit increases of 15 to 20 percent per year at the average Chinese factory will slash China's labor - cost advantage over low - cost states in the U.S., from 55 percent today to 39 percent in 2015, when adjusted for the higher productivity of U.S. workers.

It has the second - lowest average healthcare expense at $ 5,200 per year, as well as the 10th - lowest average housing cost at $ 9,300 per year.

IQ drops of 15 points for multitasking men lowered their scores to the average range of an 8 - year - old child.

Benjamin Graham was fond of averaging profit per share for the past seven years to balance out highs and lows in the economy because, if you attempted to measure the p / e ratio without it, you'd get a situation where profits collapse a lot faster than stock prices making the price - to - earnings ratio look obscenely high when, in fact, it was low.

If you invest the same amount in Vanguard funds, which offer expense ratios 82 % lower than the industry average, * there's a good chance that 20 - year total could be even higher.

In fact, over the past 35 years, the market has experienced an average drop of 14 % from high to low during each calendar year, but still had a positive annual return more than 80 % of the time.

Maybe not surprisingly, they performed significantly worse in the years when a 52 - week closing low occurred, returning -10 % on average, versus...

The Republican tax bill, which seeks to lower the corporate tax rate to 21 percent from 35 percent, would lead to an average 14 percent in earnings growth for seven of America's largest banks next year, according to a Monday note from Goldman Sachs analyzing the plan's implications.

When it comes to foreign exchange, average daily trading volume in April 2016 was $ 4.6 trillion dollars, slightly lower than the $ 4.8 trillion of April 2015, with volumes little changed over three years.

The supply of existing homes for sale is near a record low, but the supply of newly built homes for sale just jumped dramatically, returning to its 30 - year average.

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.