Sentences with phrase «amid fears of falling»

Lenders turn to home - equity loans, adjustable - rate mortgages amid fears of falling home - purchase activity

TES reported in January that ministers were readying plans for a single exam board amid fears of falling standards.

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It was a rough first quarter for bonds, which fell in value amid fears that inflation, the archnemesis of fixed - income investors, was coming back into the picture.

Investors are more protected against a sharp fall in equity markets than at any other point since October 2008 amid Fed worries and geopolitical fears, according to a Bank of America / Merrill Lynch survey.

Property sales in Cyprus have fallen by more than a third in the last year, amid fears that Chinese buyers have been put off by «appalling practices» of the past.

And now, after watching the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index fall by several percentage points since Thursday and bounce some of the way back on Tuesday, you have a different kind of fear: that all the stock market riches have been won already or that your emotions will get the best of you amid all of the volatility.

But people throughout the affected area had to wear protective masks, and farmers and rescue workers scurried to herd thousands of sheep and other livestock away from the area of ash fall, amid fears of the deleterious effects of fluorine or other toxic elements in the ash.

Bond yields and the cost of insuring Russia against a default have risen in recent weeks amid fears over falling oil prices and intensifying sanctions from the West.