Almost everything abroad looks, and is, cheap, compared with the past and with domestic alternatives.
Compared with the past two years, the market may look dismal, but compared with the past 20 it looks quite normal.
Zhang Hanya, director of the Investment Research Institution with the National Development and Reform Commission, said compared with the past two years, the delivery of central government funding had significantly improved.
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But this is relatively thin gruel compared with the recent past.
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The fear is that the relative calm in Iraq, compared with the violence of the past years, could be shattered if the elections are perceived to be unfair or corrupt.
Michael Blum, an MLP analyst at Wells Fargo Securities LLC, figures MLPs are trading at a multiple of 11.8 compared with 12 over the past five years using discounted cash flows, the standard metric for valuing MLPs.
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"Although volumes of business activity continued to worsen across the UK services sector in the past quarter compared with the previous quarter, there are some tentative signs that conditions may be levelling out, " said Ian McCafferty, CBI chief economic adviser.
So far she's shed four pounds in four weeks, but the pace feels slow compared with her diet regimens in the past, she said.
This part of the company is the black sheep, with a margin (EBIT) averaging 3% over the past three years, compared with 13% for the rest of Honeywell.
Compared with the glacial pace of past years, Syria has seen a whirlwind of economic reforms in recent months.
It restricted trash collection to whatever could fit in a single 96-gallon container, compared with unlimited pickups in the past.
If current pay practices are compared with those of the recent past, then the option explosion may be the most beneficial change in corporate policies in the post-war period.
We'll see how 2010 measured up for the Welsh economy compared with other parts of the UK at half past nine tomorrow.
The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index has fallen nearly 17% over the past year, compared with a nearly 13% drop in the broader Dow Jones Asia-Pacific index over the same period.
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The fund has returned 7.22% annually over the past 15 years, compared with 6.32% from the benchmark index.
The stock is up about 12% over the past three months, compared with a 21% increase in the NASDAQ index.
On Wednesday, it said like-for-like sales, which strip out the impact of sales from shops opened or closed in the past year, fell 3.5% in the past 14 weeks compared with a year earlier.
For more than 25 years, her newsletter has been a top performer among letters tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest, turning in a 17.6% average annualized gain since 1995, and an 8.6 average annual gain since 2000 (compared with the Wilshire 5000's average annual loss over the past five years of 2.03%).
Estimates have broadly come down in the past sixty days, with only one estimate going higher in the past month, compared to five lower in the same time period.
The three economists looked at actual portfolio flows during the crises, and compared them with the flows they would have expected from extrapolating past trends.
In the fourth quarter, the difference between the stock with the biggest returns and the stock with the worst returns was about 30 percentage points, compared with the average difference of 50 percentage points over the past decade, Ms. Subramanian says.
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On top of that, the frequency of major U.S. hurricane strikes over the past several decades is down about one-third compared with the first half of the 20th century.
By contrast, she has compared the typical person going bust in 1997 with those doing so earlier in the past two decades.
Military spending has increased at a similar rate for most of the past two decades, but this year's increase comes as China's overall economic growth begins to slow, with parliament expected to approve an official GDP growth target of 7.5% for the second year running, compared with an average of more than 10% for most of the past decade.
As many as 854, 708 shares of Coal India were traded on the Bombay Stock Exchange Monday, compared with its average daily volume of 278, 000 shares over the past two weeks.
Front-runner Mitt Romney got 75, 525 media mentions during the past month, compared with 21, 784 for Paul.
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These have fallen by 10% over the past year, compared with a surge of 35% in early 2008, suggesting that incomes and output have tumbled.
With this small bias comes increased risk, but PXI has managed to generate excess risk-adjusted returns of more than 9.5 percent over the past year when compared with a cap-weighted benchmark of U.S. energy firms.
Military spending has increased at a similar rate for most of the past two decades, but this year's increase comes as China's overall economic growth begins to slow, with parliament approving an official GDP growth target of 7.5% for the second year running, compared with an average growth of more than 10% for most of the past decade.
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