Sentences with phrase «years of declining trends»

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If you're planning to go the coupon route yourself, a primer on trends from Inmar's report: The clip - and - save renaissance forced companies to keep face values down — they declined by a penny to $ 1.44, a reversal of years of increase.

Note the trend since 2015 of diminishing year - over-year price gains that turned into actual price declines late last year (red columns) and took a bigger dip in March:

After companies from cable giant Comcast to satellite TV titan AT&T, which owns DirecTV, reported their fourth quarter results, the total number of pay TV subscribers dropped 3.4 % from a year earlier, the highest rate of decline since the trend of cord cutting emerged in 2010, analysts at MoffettNathanson Research reported on Thursday.

According to the FBI, the number of background checks of prospective firearms buyers, a proxy for gun sales, fell again in January compared to a year earlier, continuing a trend of declines for nearly every month in 2017.

Worldwide soup consumption was flat in 2013, reports consumer research firm Euromonitor International, continuing a trend of declining global sales in the category over the last five years.

Finally, by substituting the historic linear trend above into the IRR term of this equation, and the industry average investment period of 13 years into the c term, we get the following formula, which shows that nominal R&D productivity / ROI currently stands at about 1.2 (i.e., we get only 20 % back on top of our original R&D investment after 13 years), is declining exponentially by about 10 % per year, and will hit 1.0 (zero net return on investment) by 2020:

* Information efficiency * Economic slack * Contained inflation * Coordinated Central Banks * The growth of China and India and their continued purchasing of US debt * The growing perception that US dollar denominated assets are the safest assets in the world * A 30 + year trend of declining rates that is telling us we're more adept at managing inflation with each new cycle that passes

Specifically, this suggests that after several years of fiscal austerity and several decades of declining inflation, these trends are on the cusp of reversing.

The J. M. Smucker Company reported third - quarter fiscal 2018 results, wherein the company crushed its three - quarter long trend of posting year - over-year decline in earnings.

Jonathan Krinsky, MKM Partners» technician, starts the year off with a «bull market checklist» looking at trend, momentum, breadth and sentiment for the overall US stock market (Russell 3000, S&P 500) and determines that there are no current warning signs of a decline — although sentiment could be coming close.

Consequently, in the unlikely event that the current bull market in US equities continues for one more year and gold - mining stocks trend upward during that year, the gold - mining sector will then be vulnerable to the downward pull of a general equity decline.

Galaxy said such declines were part of «seasonal trends» in lithium prices, and noted that small retractions in prices were also witnessed in early 2017 only to be followed by strong price rises later in the year.

U.K. February mortgage data also showed an annual decline of 5.6 percent for approvals with analysts at Jefferies saying they anticipate a further fall in March given difficult to match comparable figures from last year before an improvement in trends returns in subsequent quarters.

While the reported number of vacancies declined in the June quarter, the series has trended upwards for some time and in the June quarter was still more than 10 per cent higher than a year earlier.

Indonesia's economy posted its lowest growth rate during the first quarter of 2013 in over the past two years despite having topped FDI records, exhibiting a mostly declining expansion trend since the last quarter of 2010.

«Suffice to say that we believe this trend is here to stay, and should offset some of the decline in demand we expect to see as a result of the significant number of rigs that have been already been laid down this year.

This was a decline of almost one - third (31 per cent) in a six - year period — a trend that had begun earlier, has continued since the 1975 terminal date for the Mission Handbook statistics, and is still continuing.

On top of that decline, we saw the average age of American farmers trending upward to 58 years old.

This was part of a general trend of dairy alternatives, the market researcher firm said, with volume sales of fresh dairy cream declining by 2 % in the UK in the same two year period, and non-dairy alternatives increasing 12 %.

The average household size has followed the national trend, continuing to decline each year, from a high of 3.8 persons in 1960 to 3.6 persons in 1970, 2.9 persons in 1980, and to 2.6 persons in 1990.

This follows a strong downward trend in offences over a five year period showing a decline of 66 % in the number of offences since 2006/07.

He said the decline is actually part of a larger trend, and that Cuomo's budget division already has projected tax collections for the new budget year will be lower than previously expected, by about $ 1.5 billion.

«After more than 50 years of stagnation and decline, we have seen the trajectory of Western New York trending upward, with transformational momentum across a range of industries.

There is a decline in people smoking, absolutely, but that is part of a long - term trend which has been taking place for years.

He says the decline is actually part of a larger trend, and that Governor Cuomo's budget division's projected tax collections for the new budget year will be lower than previously expected, by around $ 1.5 billion.

Interest rates in the eighties tended to be much higher than over the past decade, although it's worth remembering, when Labour boasts of kickstarting interest - rate stability, that the trend of decline from double - digit rates started in 1992, four - and - a-half years before the party came to power.

(Reuters)- Carbon emissions and electricity demand in Australia have risen in the two months since the government repealed a tax on emissions, bucking a nearly six - year long trend of decline, an energy consultancy said on Thursday.

The record follows a trend over the past three years of anomalously high winter ice extents, providing a stark contrast to the inexorable decline of Arctic sea ice

The results refocus the debate on the causes of sea lion pup weight loss from episodic stresses associated with El Niño years to a decadal - long trend of declining forage quality in the waters around the California Channel Island rookeries, the researchers wrote.

The focus of the research team, which includes UD graduate student Clark Nissley, was on the Atlantic brant goose, a bird whose population has been fluctuating and on a moderate decline for many years, to learn if limitations during the summer breeding season have accelerated that trend.

One of the most striking findings, according to study authors, was the change in smoking rates, which increased from 28 to 46 percent — a finding counter to national trends, which reflect an overall decline in smoking rates over the past 20 years.

He added that based on «several sources of biases in the [study's] method and the wide uncertainty ranges, we express reservations that the paper's conclusions of declining catch trends can be strongly opposed to FAO's reports of stable capture production trends in recent years.»

This sustained climate warming will drive the ocean's fishery yields into steep decline 200 years from now and that trend could last at least a millennium, according to University of California, Irvine, and Cornell University researchers in Science, March 9.

While the successful public health campaign to improve infant sleep environments has long been associated with declines in sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), an analysis of 30 years of data by researchers from Boston Children's Hospital and Dana - Farber Cancer Institute suggests that Back - to - Sleep is one of several trends that explain the reduced rates of SIDS.

FLORENCE, Italy — Last year, Gucci chief executive Marco Bizzarri and newly — installed designer Alessandro Michele set of a remarkable renaissance at the long - ailing luxury giant, revamping the brand's aesthetic codes with a timely injection of eclectic, bohemian glamour and reversing a two - year trend of declining sales.

Dr McGrath said the rapid rate of decline in male teacher numbers occurred in both primary and secondary government schools over the past 50 years, and that this trend was generally echoed in non-government independent schools and Catholic secondary schools.

Nevertheless, these tragic events masked the overall trend: a good deal of evidence indicates that school violence has actually been declining in recent years.

The area also is in the midst of a five - year decline in the rate of charter growth, mirroring the national trend.

Johns also suggests that the decline in the take - up of arts GCSEs is set to carry on declining in the coming years as provisional data relating to 2017 exam entries indicates the trend will continue.

Washington — Continuing a trend documented in 1987, the number of federal awards for independent research in education declined in the past two years, as did the amount of federal resources devoted to evaluating education programs, a General Accounting Office official reported last week.

The google trend graph for instructional design, the term and field of study, would seem to indicate that interest has declined steadily over the last 12 years.

«It is clear that the decline in enrollment in teacher preparation programs that our state has experienced in recent years is part of a larger regional and national trend impacting the teaching profession,» the study notes.

The purpose of Amendment 23 was to begin to reverse a trend of more than ten years of declining real funding of Colorado public education by gradually restoring education funding to the equivalent of 1988 levels, as adjusted for inflation, by 2010 - 11, and to prevent further erosion of education finance from the effects of TABOR and the Gallagher Amendment.

High school funding rates have declined 9 % since the 2007 - 2008 school year, and per pupil funding rates have fallen 22 % below the cost of living trend.

And while the 2015 results are disappointing, only time will tell if those single year declines are a bump in the road or evidence of a new and troubling trend.

With pupil numbers set to rise modestly in coming years, the trend of declining teacher numbers must be reversed.

While long - term trends demonstrate a decline in walking and bicycling to school, preliminary analysis of 2009 NHTS travel data reveals the percent of five - through 14 - year olds walking and bicycling to school in the U.S. has remained stable at about 12 percent over the last 15 years.

While other mainstream auto brands head for sliding United States demand this year, Jeep is rolling out new models to buck the trend and bring 16 straight months of sales declines to an end.

Although circulation is up at TPL in pretty much all areas of print materials, one notable exception is in mass market paperbacks ---- the same trend that has been reported by the Association of American Publishers and the Book Industry Study group.1 At TPL, we are also seeing some decline in the use of compact discs, albeit to a lesser extent (1.2 million borrows per year).

Yet while nominal bond yields have declined, the credit risk component of US Treasuries has been on an increasing trend since last year.