Sentences with phrase «at decade lows»

While active listings are near all - time highes, sales are at decade lows.

Meanwhile, four years ago, when stocks were at a decade low, no one wanted to have anything to do with them.

«The willingness of financial institutions to lend is at a decade low,» says Moore.

Not exact matches

At various points in the Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, new stock market records and historically low unemployment rates were used as a synonym for a booming economy, or after the financial crisis, to signal that the economy was recovering — even though many workers and households experienced stagnating or steadily declining incomes for years or even decades.

With the loonie at lows not seen in a decade, and the U.S. recovery finally building steam, conditions seem ideal for a revival of Canada's manufacturing exports.

The low - interest - rate environment has allowed it to borrow to fund operations at levels that are about half the 10 percent interest rate the company paid for its financing more than a decade ago, says Clark Balderson, the company's chairman and chief financial officer.

According to the Bank, corporate Canada's overall debt - to - equity ratio — under 0.9, down from 1.5 in the mid-1990s — is at a historic low, the result of two decades of private - sector deleveraging.

At the end of the year, several urgent fiscal issues will converge, including the expiration of lowered individual income tax rates enacted a decade ago under President George W. Bush.

The labor market is tighter than it has been in decades, with unemployment near an all - time low at 4.1 % and unfilled job openings near an all - time high at about 6 million.

Over the past decade, domestic consumption's share of the economy has plunged from around half to a miniscule 35 %, the lowest of any significant economy ever, according to Michael Pettis, a finance professor at Peking University whose online writings have become must - reads for those eager to divine what's really going on in China.

In fact, of those eight films, five of them have made less at the box office than Crash, which is currently the fifth - lowest grossing film of the past four decades (in terms of sales adjusted for inflation).

Further, with government approval at an all time low and an upcoming election with two of the most disliked candidates in decades, we may simply be no longer able to rely on the actions of our elected officials to regulate social goods.

But it won't happen for a while for one reason: On average the folks who pocketed those nearly double - digit gains in past decades were buying at far lower prices than the big valuations prevailing today.

«Gas prices are currently at the lowest levels in more than a decade, thanks to a glut of supplies around the world,» said Julie Hall, AAA spokeswoman.

This wasn't unexpected, since the market was rising in just the right mix of conditions: Volatility as measured by the Cboe's index was at historic lows, the GOP was set to pass the most comprehensive corporate - tax reform in decades, and economies around the world were in growth mode.

The company's basic idea of selling goods at a low price with great service has remained constant for two decades but it keeps investing in new technology and improving operations to stay ahead of rivals.

While at the beginning of 2011 trading in euro - dollar futures was still foreseeing a return to typical interest rates over the next few years, that view has given way to expectations that rates will remain low for a decade to come.

At the same time, however, these figures are lower than average U.S. - Mexico trade imbalances for most of the past decade.

With the dollar now at the lowest level it's been in a decade, receipts in foreign currency are starting to translate into higher earnings, faster sales growth or both.

Even with a boost in ticket sales potentially on the way, though, Birdman is currently among the lowest - grossing Best Picture winners at the Academy Awards over at least the past four decades.

Even with the unemployment rate at the lowest in four decades, Canada still has plenty of untapped potential, such as underemployment among youth and female workers, the governor says.

In fact, credit spreads in many markets are trading at the lowest levels as a percentage of their overall yield in a decade (see chart below).

Although most analysts at the time considered my forecasts to be shockingly low and wholly implausible, and thought so even two to three years ago, I have always said that before the end of the decade it will have become the consensus.

They have access to both surging light - tight oil production, which will be in demand as low - sulfur requirements tighten in shipping at the end of the decade, as well as captive (and cheaper) Canadian heavy barrels.

The refinance share of mortgage activity is now at its lowest in a decade.

Labor market reforms have expanded the workforce in Japan, helping explain why wage growth remains limited even with the country's unemployment rate at three - decade lows.

During his speech Friday, Powell said with unemployment at 4.1 percent — the lowest level in nearly two decades — the labor market was «in the neighborhood of maximum employment.»

Looking out to decade's end, our projections call for earnings to advance at a low - to mid-teens percentage rate.

That is the lowest for both in at least a decade and down from $ 3.9 billion for metals and $ 5.6 billion for oil in 2008 when the commodity supercycle peaked.

For much of the past decade there has been a growing recognition that Chinese growth has been seriously unbalanced, as Premier Wen put it, and that at the heart of the imbalance has been the very low consumption share of GDP.

In bond markets, yields on 10 year bonds are now at their lowest levels for two decades.

And now there's a new challenge: Canada's inflation is rising at the fastest pace in seven years, while at the same time, the jobless rate is at the lowest in four decades and the expansion is running up against capacity.

Low demand for steel and decades of automation are the main reasons jobs at American steel mills are disappearing, and no amount of tariffs on steel can change that tide, economists told me.

Unemployment is at the lowest point in a decade, and we're finally seeing signs of wage growth as well.

Despite reports that she has since been paid $ 130,000 to keep quiet about their affair from more than a decade ago, at the time, Trump didn't tell Stormy to lay low about their encounter.

If five years from now the yield simply returned to its level of a decade ago (and just in case you think I'm cherry picking, over the past 25 years it has averaged a 7.5 % yield and at the low in 1981 was twice that), bond investors would suffer a meaningful loss of capital.

These are helpful.You are right that market failures have hit elder popluation in heavy way in past decade or so, and on top of that the fed locks interest at artificial rate low, so if we did save like our wise elder and financial advisors told us to do, we now get about nothing at all in interest return on those life savings.

What is more, despite the increase over the past decade, household debt is still at a relatively low level in China.

Subsequent to the election, the VIX index of volatility closed at its lowest level in over two decades.

In other English - speaking countries, interest rates that intermediaries currently charge businesses are generally higher than at their previous cyclical low point for the decade.

At the annual shareholders meeting this year, Buffett explained that he thought Berkshire Hathaway's intrinsic value grew at an average annual rate of about 10 % over the last decade, but he warned that future returns would be lower if interest rates remained near generational lowAt the annual shareholders meeting this year, Buffett explained that he thought Berkshire Hathaway's intrinsic value grew at an average annual rate of about 10 % over the last decade, but he warned that future returns would be lower if interest rates remained near generational lowat an average annual rate of about 10 % over the last decade, but he warned that future returns would be lower if interest rates remained near generational lows.

The latest numbers signal that dangerously low inflation — which Japan struggled with for two decades and the U.S. central bank has labored in recent years to avoid — is at Europe's front door.

Inflation has remained at historically low levels over much of the past decade, well below the US Federal Reserve's target of 2 %.

In fact, the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) traded at its lowest level in decades for much of the year.1 Known as the fear gauge, the VIX reflects the market's short - term outlook for stock price volatility.

Today the USA has created one of the largest debts ever recorded, both the public and private sector are heavily indebted, and much of that debt was created while global central banks were keeping rates at record lows over the last decade.

There were 4.2 months of inventory on a national basis at the end of April 2017, up slightly from 4.1 months in March — the lowest reading in almost a decade.

It is tragic, therefore, that in the United States today, federal infrastructure investment, net of depreciation, is running close to zero, and net government investment is lower than at any time in nearly six decades.

Nearly a decade ago, Warren Buffett made a million - dollar bet: that by investing in a completely unmanaged, broad - market low - fee index fund, he could beat the gains earned by a high - powered hedge fund with a team of managers at the helm.

After bottoming out at decade - plus lows in February, oil prices finished the year up more than 40 %, lifting the prospects for a lot of companies across the oil and gas industry.

When I bought my home a decade ago, my high credit and low debt levels meant that I still qualified for the best available interest rate at the time, even though I got an FHA loan with a small down payment.