Days later, we learned that not only was oil still leaking, but that the rate of flow was more like 5, 000 barrels per day.
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The initial calculations, there was agreement among BP and NOAA scientists that the likely, approximate rate of flow was around 1, 000 barrels a day.
They should examine rate of flow, average time between orders, balance between buy and sell orders, and order sizes, to determine whether the order flow has become anomalous.
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The analyst is concerned with the growth rate of cash flow (the numerator) and the interest rate by which those cash flows are discounted (the denominator).
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With the majority of CDOs being backed by mortgages, the principal-only tranche has a known future cash flow, but at a variable rate of return, while the interest-only tranche has both an unknown cash flow and an unknown rate of return on that cash flow.
It's biggest US holding, Fox Entertainment Group, is predicted to see the growth rate of its cash flow plummet from well above 30% to between 10% and 15%.
If a firm can deploy the incremental dollar of cash flow at a rate of return greater than its cost of capital, it should pursue acquisitions or internal capital projects, as these methods will be the fastest way to build shareholder value.
We have two models for a flow out of the wellhead that were done by our Flow Rate Technical Group under Marcia McNutt of the U.S. Geological Survey.
Opening the well for a few minutes revealed a true gusher: a flow rate of 37, 500 barrels per day.
Mix and other engineers had worked tirelessly to calculate the flow rate of oil from the Macondo Well in order to develop a means of stopping the spill.
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Assuming an average flow rate of about 1.5 million homes per year, you can eyeball the stock deficit by comparing the mass above and below the zero on the following graph.
While Bullard said forward guidance is ineffective, and asked for a modification in the flow rate of asset purchases (Fed code for more money printing), they both agree the Fed has to do more to stimulate the economy.
He is creating computer simulations to model the liver, so optimum channel size, flow rate and density of cells can be calculated as accurately as possible, before the artificial liver is constructed in the laboratory.
"It is telling that the Department of Justice's charges against Kurt Mix surround efforts to cover up the fact that BP's public estimates of the oil flow rate were far lower than the actual flow rate, " the group said in a statement on the arrest.
Most of it went in 90 minutes, at a rate that at its maximum was faster than the average flow of the Niagara Falls.
But this is -- simply observing where the oil is coming out is insufficient to really calculate any flow rate with any degree of accuracy.
Both the change in the death rate and the change in the infection rate are partly a consequence of the natural flow and ebb of any epidemic infection.
Conversely, free cash flow declined at a rate of 15.6%.
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Mr. LIN SHAO-WEN (Deputy Newsroom Director, China Radio International): The government here is saying that this is a market economy so it will take some measures to work for a manageable, freer flow of the exchange rate.
To this end, Aerovironment is working on a system of miniature gyroscopes and air-flow detectors to measure Black Widow's speed and rate of turn.
Over the same time period its revenue per share increased at an annual rate of 5.2%, free cash flow at 19.3% and book value at 8.1%.
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And that the rise in the top marginal tax rate on capital gains will stop the flow of capital out of one investment and into another.
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Bullard seems to agree, even though he does suggest the flow rate, or pace, of asset purchases, should be the way for them to signal their intentions to markets.
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Some economists are expecting wider fluctuation of the exchange rate due to uncertain foreign capital flow.
My assumption is enormous free cash flow accumulation is reinvested at a high rate of return plus aggressive share buybacks.
The remaining criminal count pertains to two BP communications made to a member of Congress during the spill response about flow rate estimates.
Free cash flow in the same period declined at a rate of 11.8%.
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"Before Top Kill commenced, Mix and other engineers had concluded internally that Top Kill was unlikely to succeed if the flow rate was greater than 15, 000 barrels of oil per day, " the Justice Department said in a statement announcing the charges.
To be see-through SmartGlass needs a constant flow of electricity, which trickles through at a rate of 1 milliampere per square foot.
The value of any such asset (real estate, stock share, or bond) is the sum of the future stream of cash flow or benefits, discounted by the interest rate.
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