And, as Michael Feroli of JPMorgan points out, the affordability gauge depends on what measure of home prices you look at.
Sarah Smith of the University of Bristol and Kimberley Scharf of Warwick University recently carried out a series of experiments for the Treasury to gauge how sensitive higher-rate taxpayers are to changes in tax incentives.
With a flip of the traction-control switch and a depression of the accelerator, the needle red-lined on the rpm gauge and the car sprang out of the snow with the alacrity of a mountain goat.
The four-week moving average of new jobless claims, a better gauge of underlying labor trends because it irons out week-to-week volatility, rose to 375, 250 from 372, 000 the week before to the highest reading since April.
The four-week average of new jobless claims, a better gauge of underlying labor trends because it irons out week-to-week volatility, rose to 378, 250 from 376, 000 the week before, the highest reading since October 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Finally, if you do use price momentum to gauge when to buy into and sell out of a security, consider the fact that many other people are looking at the same charts as you are.
While I was trying to gauge the awkwardness of Bradley bending himself all out of shape to greet some particularly elfin Japanese Prime Minister, my confreres, concluding that Janet Reno's decision not to sic an independent counsel on Gore tied up the last loose end, had the entire matter settled.
Chirac, who dismisses the Commission as a bunch of civil servants with no political role, chose to leave them out of the "confessionals" he conducted with all the other leaders , seeking to gauge their bottom lines in negotiation.
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When President Bill Clinton took office, he sought out on his own journey for the White House, traveling thousands of miles in a car to gauge whether there was support for his potential bid.
Given that real estate is so local, the best way to gauge the downside potential of your home or commercial real estate is to find out what it was worth at the beginning of 2000 at best and the beginning of 1996 at worst.
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Mr. Nomura said he had instructed the 10 members of his team to prepare a list of possible easing measures and gauge how aggressively the bank was pursuing each one, shouting out "strong'' or "weak'' after each step was announced.
Right now the tool is geared toward assessing the sustainability of existing products, but plans are in the works to roll out a tool that could be integrated into design and manufacturing processes early on to help gauge the potential impacts of various decisions and enable companies to design more sustainable products.
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Observers believe the provincial vote will be a gauge of the country's political direction and an indication of how the parliamentary elections will turn out later this year.
Berman's firm was thriving spitting out VAR calculations, but he was convinced that such number-crunching was only a sliver of what was required to gauge an institution's overall riskiness.
Details should be provided on how the maintenance visits will be carried out (i.e. number of repeat visits per year, involvement and on-site training of local tide gauge operators, costing etc.).
The cia doesn't think Pyongyang could roll out a fleet of the beefy new Taepo Dong-2 missiles before 2010, but it's extremely difficult to gauge how quickly the secretive regime is jumping technological hurdles.
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