Sentences with phrase «years as a measure»

About 54 % of 401 (k) assets are invested in stocks, which fell 39 % last year as measured by the S&P 500 index.

The Fighting For Children PAC, founded by businessman and child abuse survivor Gary Greenberg, was formed earlier this year as the measure, which would make it easier for lawsuits to be filed by victims, has languished in the Legislature.

The yield of the U.S. Treasury 10 - year as measured by the S&P / BGCantor Current 10 Year U.S. Treasury Bond Index ended the week 9 basis points as month - over-month CPI was the same as prior and lower than the 0.3 % expected level.

Leveraged loans, on the other hand, have held a steady return of 0.37 % for the month and 2.33 % for the year as measured by the S&P / LSTA U.S. Leveraged Loan 100 Index.

Year - to - date the yield of the 10 - year as measured by the S&P / BGCantor Current 10 Year U.S. Treasury Bond Index is 51 basis points lower closing on Friday at a 2.52 %.

The duration of the S&P U.S. Issued High Yield Corporate Bond Index is 5 years, while the average life of senior loan is 4.48 years as measured by the S&P / LSTA U.S. Leveraged Loan 100 Index.

After having dropped to a low of 2.13 % on October 15th, the yield of the U.S. 10 - year as measured by the S&P / BGCantor Current 10 Year U.S. Treasury Bond Index has risen by 14 basis points to its current 2.28 %.

Until the 9/11 attacks, sharks were the third biggest story of the year as measured by the time dedicated to it on the three major broadcast networks» news shows.

Figure 1: Carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere over both the last 1000 years and the preceding 400,000 years as measured in ice cores

The index is based on a count of actual house searches by potential buyers throughout the year as measured by traffic on realtor.com, NAR's official property listing website.

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Companies as varied as American Airlines (aal), Walmart (wmt), and Verizon (vz) predict that the measure will swell their earnings for years to come, and marquee CEOs from JPMorgan Chase's (jpm) Jamie Dimon to Boeing's (ba) Dennis Muilenburg laud it as a powerful tonic for American competitiveness.

For years, the federal government has encouraged Canadian companies to subscribe to voluntary measures collectively known as «corporate social responsibility,» or CSR.

Over the years, the acronym has become a sort - of mantra for the famed Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers venture capitalist, who more recently turned it into a book (Measure What Matters; Portfolio, $ 14) he describes as «my love letter to our future.»

While the GGEI is recognized as a leading international measure of the green economic performance of many countries, researchers at Yale (who also produce their own green country ranking each year) have criticized it for having limited geographic coverage.

Founded only in 2008 but measured earlier this year as the third-most valuable venture capital - backed group in the world at over $ 25 billion, Airbnb also said it would help prevent its service from causing housing shortages by «ensuring hosts agree to a policy of listing only permanent homes on a short - term basis».

According to a second official, who also requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue, the short - term measures will include an extension of the Greek payments» maturities from 28 years to as much as 32.5 years.

«But measures of domestically generated inflation remain contained and inflation is likely to fall back sharply next year as the influence of the factors temporarily raising inflation diminishes and downward pressure from unemployment and spare capacity persists.

And even as exports have struggled, a measure of China's trade in services is at its highest level in almost a year.

Syriza, which broke a two - party - led system, has disappointed some on the left for implementing austerity measures and the reputation of the mainstream parties remains damaged following what is perceived as years of failed promises.

Meant as a stopgap measure, the braceros program lasted 22 years.

SCS earnings before tax as a percentage of SCS total revenue and SCS operating revenue (a non-GAAP measure) were 5.3 % and 6.8 %, respectively, both down 90 basis points from the prior year.

DTS earnings before tax as a percentage of DTS total revenue and DTS operating revenue (a non-GAAP measure) were 4.4 % and 6.5 %, respectively, up 20 and 70 basis points from the year - earlier period.

FMS earnings before tax as a percentage of FMS total revenue and FMS operating revenue (a non-GAAP measure) were 4.0 % and 4.8 %, respectively, both down 60 basis points from the prior year, primarily reflecting higher depreciation due to vehicle residual value policy changes and lower used vehicle sales results.

Even as legislators and presidential hopefuls discuss gun control measures, investors worry that a year - long surge in firearm sales is losing steam.

A paper last year by Princeton University's Alan Blinder and Moody's Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi credited the Fed's measures as the most effective alexipharmics employed to end the recession.

«As you can see, a yawning 50 - point gap opened at year - end between the two measures of confidence, with dumb money optimism having soared, while smart money optimism became decidedly more subdued.

Last year, a handful of spots hit on topics such as immigration and diversity but took measured tones aimed at appealing to a broad range of viewers, Taylor said.

Shim predicts that in the next two years, «measuring omnichannel ads to store visits will be as common as thirrd party ad serving on digital advertisements.»

Use this as a scorecard for your business where you measure the pluses and minuses each year compared to what you planned and forecasted for.

In an industry where longevity is often measured in months, James has managed to craft a nearly 30 - year career as an actor.

Given the low unemployment rate, anecdotal evidence from a variety of companies, and alternative measures such as the Atlanta Fed wage tracker showing stronger growth, wage growth may not be back at precrisis levels, but the trend over the past year shows wages are certainly headed in the right direction.

For the second time, Inc. crunched the data to find the fastest - growing private businesses in Europe, as measured by three - year revenue growth.

The airline last year said it would target HK$ 4 billion ($ 510 million) in cost savings as part of the turnaround, which includes more than 740 individual measures, such as adding economy class seats in its Boeing 777 jets.

It's a broad range that, according to your interpretation of the measure's wording, would include even very early - stage startups so long as they've received more than $ 1 million in funding over the course of a single tax year.

Almost without exception, exemplars are scrappy young businesses whose brands were born on the same clean sheets of paper as their products were, whose history is measured in months or years rather than decades, and whose founders still show up for work in the morning.

The company considers same - property NOI as an important operating performance measure because it is frequently used by securities analysts and investors to measure only the net operating income of properties that have been owned by the company for the entire current and prior year reporting periods.

For example, starting in 2008, Congress passed a measure as part of the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 that let businesses deduct the full price of qualifying equipment purchased or financed during that tax year.

Structure: The size (revenue - based) and age of the company are strongly correlated to vitality loss, which may however be compensated by revitalization, as measured by sales growth in the past five years.

Our sense is that in light of the oil shock and weak economic growth recorded in Canada this past year, the SEPH is likely telling the more accurate story, meaning we could see employment as measured by the LFS slow significantly during the first half of 2016.»

Based on three factors — the number of job openings, earnings potential as measured by median base salary, and the rating of the career opportunity — Glassdoor compiled a list of the «best» jobs in America this year.

The number who believe that life in the U.S. is better than life in Mexico has fluctuated over the years, but as of last year was measured at 48 %, a slight decrease from 51 % seven years earlier.

U.S. data on Monday showed that consumer prices accelerated in the year to March, with a measure of underlying inflation surging to near the Federal Reserve's 2 percent target as last year's weak readings dropped out of the calculation.

Now, he wants to get as many people as possible around the world to kick the habit, pouring $ 300 million over the next five years to boost anti-smoking measures across the globe.

To be fair, Huawei is not «new» to servers: it's been building them for years and is ranked as the fourth largest server provider as measured by units sold by Gartner (it).

Plus, as a result of previously passed measures, automatic tax increases are scheduled in the years ahead — such as an extra $ 5 billion in Employment Insurance premiums to be collected annually until 2015.

Together over the course of the past year, Uber and Lyft have spent up to $ 9 million in a vain effort to overturn the city's proposed safety measure, viewing Austin as an important test case in the broader struggle between local regulators and Silicon Valley upstarts with novel business models and global ambitions.

Because PE is a measure of earnings over time, you can think of it as representing the number of years required to pay back a stock's purchase price (ignoring inflation, earnings growth and the time value of money).

Bonds, as measured by the Vanguard Total Bond Market Index ETF (BND), were down more than 2 percent year - to - date through the end of February.

One sector is financials, as measured by Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLF) and iShares U.S. Regional Banks ETF (IAT), which are up by approximately 5 percent and 8 percent, respectively, this year.

But I can find a reason to be optimistic: both the income sprinkling and passive income measures are constructed as extensions to existing tax measures that have been tested in courts and in practice for years.