Unfortunately, the ECB, BOJ and Fed continue to believe a positive rate of inflation must be maintained at all costs.
He suggests buying each ETF when it shows a positive rate of change (ROC) in price over the prior 42 trading days.
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The real false positive rate for this test is not known yet.
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If the true-positive rate is significantly less than 100%, as it would be for cheaper tests, then the posterior probability could be only 1% or even less.
Takatoshi Ito of Tokyo University, until recently a government adviser, thinks the bank should be doing much more, including making a clear commitment to targeting a positive rate of inflation.
If one in 1, 000 people have a disease and the false-positive rate for a test is 5%, then the probability that a person testing positive has the disease is at most 2%.
Most of us (myself included) will also readily agree that, if equilibrium money wage rates have been increasing at an annual rate of, say, 4 percent (as was approximately true of U.S. average earnings around 2006), then an unexpected decline in that growth rate to another still positive rate can also lead to unemployment.
Its criteria include: a better than average price-earnings ratio over the past five years, a positive growth rate in earnings per share over the past 12 months, and a positive operating margin over the past 12 months.
Continued donor assistance and solid macroeconomic policies supported a positive growth rate, despite the world recession.
Compare that to Silicon Valley, where more space is coming online and the real estate market has a positive absorption rate.
That could include increasing government-bond purchases, or setting itself a monetary target not just based on a positive inflation rate, but on robust growth of nominal GDP.
He proposes that Japan should first set a target for the level of consumer prices, one that would rise over time to allow for a small positive inflation rate.
Broad returned to take the last wicket of the night, and England go through on the basis that they end the group phase with two points and a positive run rate.
Celldex CEO Anthony Marucci has said previously that a meaningful and positive response rate in the study would be 12% to 15% with a progression-free survival of greater than 12 weeks.
The U.S. dollar looks further than ever from paying a positive real rate of interest, leaving both investors and merchants to price scarce resources in an ever-depreciating, ever-more generously supplied currency.
Only Japan has a positive real interest rate among the G-7 and that rate is barely above zero.
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Overall, the decline in the unemployment rate is positive news, but it only underscores the importance of us not letting up on our efforts.
It is a different story with their competitors in the long-haul railroad sector, where all companies have produced a positive three-month rate of return and there has been a 14.4% collective price rise in the last three months.
Industrial employment had a strong positive correlation with the interbank rate over the same period.
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Hopefully, it translates to positive dips in the unemployment rate for this age group.
The positive numbers could lead to rate hikes in the near-term if Russia is serious about eliminating its persistent inflation threat.
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He said out of 3, 654 tests carried out on beef products in the UK, only 35 have tested positive for horsemeat, a rate of less than 1%.
China's benchmark lending rate is slightly positive but this understates the extent of its recent monetary tightening: the central bank has also sharply raised banks' reserve requirements and capped credit growth.
"As economists have lowered and lowered their expectations for economic growth in 2012 it brings down the hurdle rate, " for positive surprises.
Now, a new studypublished in the Archives of Internal Medicine finds that the rate of false-positive activations is higher than expected.
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But by early next year China's exports should be growing again, its year-on-year GDP growth could be close to 10%, and its inflation rate will have turned positive.
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Even a zero interest rate gives them a positive return.
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Will the effect be mostly positive, boosting our productivity and the rate of human innovation?
But ministers say there are some positive signs such as the falling unemployment rate and increases in export growth and business start-ups.
But, again, that's a long way to go to both creating jobs on the positive side and then creating jobs on the positive side enough to either keep the rate steady or bring that rate down.
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