The fertility regulator, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, aims to reduce the multiple birth rate.
That spells more trouble for the stockmarket, which tends to perform poorly after multiple interest-rate increases.
Consumers in multiple states will see rate increases of 20 percent or more, and some could see their premiums double.
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Scotland's Orkney Islands have the highest rate of multiple sclerosis (MS) in the world, according to a major new study.
Dr Nygren said the natural rate of multiple births was around 1%, but was between 20% and 40% for women who used assisted reproductive techniques.
Not long ago the doughnutmaker was a glamour stock with a 60% earnings-per-share growth rate and a multiple to match-70 times trailing earnings.
And, I expect the earnings estimates to increase (thereby lowering the multiple, increasing the growth rate and making the stock more attractively valued), as they tend to do after each quarterly earnings report.
Much like Manhattan apartment brokers who resist putting their best properties on a central listing service, PE firms use performance measurements like multiple of investment or internal rate of return that make it virtually impossible to compare one fund against another unless they started the same time and have had similar cash inflows and outflows.
Keep in mind, Apple does not command such a multiple even with its tremendous growth rate.
The homeless rate for veterans is multiple times higher than it is for non-veterans.
Moreover, we believe that LQDT resembles a mixture of eBay and Ritchie Bros. and therefore deserves a multiple that factors in a growth rate somewhere in between the growth rates experienced by both companies in the past.
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But they warn IVF treatment carries no guarantees - with a high failure rate and extra risks of multiple pregnancies where it is successful.
The dispersion is somewhat larger when measuring average annual returns (annualized return, recall, is the compounded or geometric rate of return during a multiple-year time period).
He was an avid reader, reading tens of thousands of books, at a rate of several a day in multiple languages.
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On the traditional Price to Earnings Growth criteria, where investors want to pay a multiple equal to or less than the growth rate, Netflix is delivering a value at this price.
Linton organized a sting operation earlier this year by hiring an Uber vehicle and then fining the driver for multiple violations, including not disclosing an hourly rate before the ride starts as the law requires.
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This means that even the 15% capital gains and dividends tax rates on top of the corporate tax rate are unfair, economically counterproductive, multiple taxation.
Until then, piecemeal fixes by courts or legislatures would be like trying to fix a massive multiple generational government budget deficit by tweaking a little tax rate here, a spending program there.
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He looks for companies trading at a multiple of earnings, not more than two times their growth rate, and exits his positions when the growth slows down.
The prospect of choosing between multiple job offers may seem unlikely these days, given all the talk of joblessness and the real unemployment rate of 15.1% (counting people who have given up looking for work, and those working part-time who wish they had full-time jobs).
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