Another follow-up question is: how does this default rate compare to the historical rate of default?
This is would suggest that the legislature intends to grow State spending nearly 3 percent ABOVE the historical rate of inflation.
Although several new drugs for fighting bacteria are in development, experts caution that we are decades behind in comparison with the historical rate at which we have discovered and developed new antibiotics.
The historical average rate (after an adjustment for inflation) is roughly 3.25 to 3.5 percent.
This compares to the historical beat rate of 62% and miss rate of 21%.
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Subscribers however continued to flee the Nextel iDEN network as Sprint accelerated its shutdown, but the company managed to absorb a majority of them back into the core Sprint network at almost double the historical recapture rate.
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If the notebooks and netbooks market can grow close to its historical growth rate of 24% based on increasing needs professionally for mobile computers that may require more functionality than tablets offer and continued surging demand growth in emerging markets, this figure could reach around 900 million units by the end of the Trefis forecast period, implying 30% to our price estimate.
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Johnson further notes that if the Dow had grown at its historical average annual rate of 10% since July 1982, it would have only reached 5, 440 by now.
Although we expect IBM to maintain its high margins given the strength of its GBS business, a contraction in GBS profit margin in the future to historical average of rate of 12.5% would result in downside of 5% to the Trefis price estimate.
Average earnings are rising by just 2.1%, a very muted rate by historical standards.
On the one hand, a combination earnings growth and liquid capital markets will depress default activity across the general leveraged loan population, keeping the rate inside the historical average of 3.4%.
This higher rate is consistent with historical rates paid for the inclusion of Dolby disc playback software.
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With the Bank of England's bank rate still at a historical low of 0.5%, the BSA warned that interest rates were so low that this year savers might take more money out of their savings accounts than they put in.
You get a sense there's been a more than cyclical change in risk appetite amongst the community, which is why the savings rate has gone up to historical highs and in businesses, boards have changed their attitudes to risk.
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You know, today they are just under 2% now, so we are at historical lows on the ten-year Treasury rate.
Still the rate remains well short of the historical average of 3.4%.
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Novelists trafficking in the present would do well to abandon their lingering prejudices against historical fiction as something ready-made and second-rate.
The default rate on corporate debt is still very low by historical standards.
Robert Stammers, Director of Investor Education at the CFA said that while Baidu represented the potential for opportunities in the global market, investors should not expect to earn a great rate of return by simply choosing investments with high historical returns like Baidu or choosing the stock as a means to participate in the Chinese economy.
Senator Ian Gorst said he recognised there were historical differences which needed to be reviewed including nurses on a lower equivalent rate.
Our most recently reported unemployment rate, at 8.2 percent, is higher than historical data would lead us to expect this long after a recession.
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For historical evidence, we can look at what happened when the bonus depreciation rate dropped from 50% in 2004 down to 0% in 2005.
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This is a unique response to a rate action by the ECB that cut interest rates to a historical low at 1%, a 25 basis-point drop.
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By comparison, the spread between 10-year Treasurys and a standard 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is just 1.93 percentage points, near historical averages, according to mortgage-data provider HSH Associates.
The consensus default rate estimates for 2012 and 2013, in fact, are inside the historical average of 3.4%.
On a break-even basis, this is basically saying that you would start losing money if you started to realize more than a 13% annual default rate for the next 5 years, if you had lower than the historical recovery rates of 40 cents.
According to Moody's, a rating agency, the third-quarter delinquency rate of 3.89% was almost a full percentage point below the historical average.
Suggesting that we make cut the growth rate of spending to keep the ratio of government-to-GDP near historical levels, as Paul Ryan has suggested?
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At an implied cap rate of 6%, REITs are trading at the low end of the historical 5% to 10% range reported by the CCIM Institute in Chicago.
Switching gears, the loan market default rate inched down to 1.4% in February and remains well inside the historical average of 3.3%.
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