It is also more than one standard deviation below the historical average of 30%, making this an unusually low reading.
This low reading, says Burke, is near low readings that preceded sharp rises in precious metals stocks during the past 12 years.
That surpasses the prior year-to-date high of 5.05%, from May 14, and is well above the recent low reading of 3.38%, from June 6.
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After all, the loan default rate by principal amount was tracking to 0.21% in March, just off its near-record low reading of 0.17% at year-end.
The measure may still be distorted by recent cold weather and a Monday holiday, however, making analysts hesitant to use the low reading as a solid indication of improvement.
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Although consumer confidence is a lagging indicator, the low reading did not surprise me, and I believe is an accurate assessment of the collective mindsets of consumers at present, given all of the volatility that we saw in the stock market during the month of August.
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On the dovish view at the Fed the economic recovery is just fragile and accompanied by a low core reading for inflation.
We think there will be an inflection point when the Fed finally takes the punch bowl away, but the low core inflation reading for March further delays tightening.
Though bullish sentiment is at a five-week high and bearish sentiment is at a five-week low, neither reading suggests individual investors have become too optimistic about the short-term outlook for stocks.
There are, for instance, the low-tech rewards of reading a book, magazine or newspaper: I hoped my daughter would continue her summer reading of Treasure Island and dip into other urban-island treasures of the literary kind.
Still, the index is near the 28-year low of the 56.4 reading given in 1980.
In fact, the change in the core CPI reading is at a record low.
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By third grade, children from low-income families who are not reading at grade level are six times less likely to graduate from high school than students who are proficient.
Under Vallas, elementary school reading and math test scores, though still low, are at seven-year highs.
Another legacy of primary education's origins is the relatively low emphasis given to the spoken language, compared to reading and writing.
Such tardiness lends strength to an alternative reading of the past 15 years: that low prices were as much a result of firms sweating their assets as of competition and ingenuity.
The beauty of the Starc bands is that they are one of the few indictors than can give you an objective reading on whether it is a high- or low-risk time to buy or sell.
This program will provide extra help to middle- and high school students who fall behind in reading and math, expand Advanced Placement programs in low-income schools, and invite math and science professionals from the private sector to teach part-time in our high schools.
At low speeds, an accelerometer determines the position of the lights by reading the pull of gravity.
Then it's back to government legislation, with the third reading of the Public Service Pensions Bill - the startlingly low-key measure to cut the cost of public-sector pensions.
The March consumer confidence reading, meanwhile, checked in at a four-month low, while the housing market continues to slump.
You can do this on your own by reading investment books, or you can get help from a low-cost investment advisor.
The latest reading on jobless claims is at an almost four-year low.
After reading all of the previous reviews, our expectations were pretty low.
States receiving waivers still must test the covered students annually in math and reading, but they can design their own policies to help low-scoring campuses and won't have to subject them to closings or staff firings.
But the researchers putting forward the starch theory say focussing on reading does not explain why the levels of short-sightedness are low in societies that have adopted Western lifestyles but not Western diets.
No Child Left Behind has gotten us to a place where I can tell you where the low-performing schools are and how the African-American and Hispanic kids do in reading and math on that campus.
Since the room is small, having low heat and noise output is important, but these kinds of intangibles are difficult to tell from reading a spec sheet.
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But critics say it labels too many schools failures, prompts teachers to focus on math and reading at the expense of other subjects, and sets too-stringent mandates to fix low-performing schools.
Perhaps Nokia thought the same thing, because in reading over the Lumia 620's spec sheet, there's a lot of decidedly low-to-middleweight hardware.
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