Of that small slice, just 17% of prosecuted cases brought jail time--and the average term of incarceration was just six months.
Since the launch of the euro, moreover, Italy's debt managers have managed to extend the average term of its borrowing to almost seven years, locking in then-prevailing interest rates and ensuring that less of the outstanding debt is subject to abrupt rate increases.
The average long term Treasury rate since 1870 is 4.3% and the average annual CPI is 2.1%.
This in a country where the average prison term for manslaughter is three years.
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The full year acquisitions were done at an average cap rate of 7.22% with a weighted average lease term of just over 14.5 years.
That's because the REIT's average lease term is nine years, so those renewing within the next year or so were booked at much lower rates.
However, David Cutler, an economist at Harvard, points out that this conclusion probably only applied to marginal short-term increases in health-care spending, not to the average long-term impact of higher health spending.
The average was 42 degrees Fahrenheit, a whopping 6 degrees above the long-term average.
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While shorter term traders will point to the solid run DRYS has put in the past six weeks, including overtaking the daily 50 period moving average, longer term holders of DRYS may want to insist that DRYS pop above the weekly moving average before going long.
The 30 stocks in the Dow Jones industrial average, badly battered though they may be, are priced at 19 times earnings, uncomfortably above their long-term average of 15.
During the seven-month period from January to July, the average temperature was 56.4 degrees, or 4.3 degrees higher than the region's long-term average, according to NOAA. Besides the Pacific Northwest, which saw seasonally average temperatures, the country saw record or near-record temperatures during the seven-month period.
They therefore consider it to be bullish whenever this ratio drops below that long-term average.
The rainfall during June-September will likely be 98% of the long-term average, Mr. Reddy told reporters.
First of all, I like companies that have above-average long-term track records of earnings growth.
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The current (CAPE) ratio is at 23.4 times earnings, compared with the long-term average of 16.5.
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As a matter of comparison, the long-term average rate of consumer-level inflation is roughly 2.3 percent.
By comparison, about 63 percent have exceeded earnings forecasts, just above the long-term average.
In fact, annual productivity growth since 2004 is about 1.5%, below even the long-term average of 2.25%.
While the increase in bullish sentiment was dramatic, bullish sentiment remains below its long-term average of 39%.
In 2006, federal tax revenues recovered to 18.4% of GDP, almost exactly their long-term average since 1950.
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At 76.9%, the most recent capacity utilization rate is well below the long-term average of 80.4%.
And until companies are operating much closer to that long-term average, they will hold back on hiring.
The very long-term average rate of consumer-level inflation in the United States sits around 2.3 percent per year.
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Those are pretty big revisions, much larger than the long-term average revision cited by the ONS at the time.
Last year, the average short-term bond fund gained about 9%, according to Morningstar.
Gross long positions are above their long-term average, but far off their peak.
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The CAPE model can be seen to use a long-term average ratio is calculated using market data back to 1880.
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Barclays Capital noted the gross short positions in gold are now at their lowest since May, but around their long-term average.
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In some cases, these guaranteed annual increases were set at a constant 3 percent, the long-term average, regardless of the CPI.
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