Sentences with phrase «at near record»

Not only are FHA mortgage rates at near record lows, but for the first time since 2001, the FHA has reduced its mortgage insurance premiums (MIP) for many U.S. homeowners.

For example, instead of sending out a board release using their headline of «Sales down 3 per cent over last year», you can still send the same release with a new title, such as, «Sales continue climb for 4th consecutive month» or «Prices holding steady at near record levels».

This fall, students once again filled up student housing beds at near record rates.

Existing - home sales slipped in June as low supply kept homes selling at a near record pace but ultimately ended up muting overall activity.

It is currently at near record - low levels, meaning investors expect nothing much to happen in the stock market.

«The world's poor are the most vulnerable to price fluctuations in such commodities — in addition, many of the world's developing nations also depend on imports of crude oil, which is now trading at near record high prices.

The August 2016 storm had so much moisture to draw on because the Gulf of Mexico was at near record temperatures.

But with fossil fuel burning continuing at near record levels globally, and with many corporations and political bodies around the world dragging feet on greenhouse gas emissions cuts, the level of heat - trapping carbon held aloft in our airs will continue to rise for some time.

23 March 2018... KTUU Anchorage, Alaska (Quoted): Arctic sea ice hits annual maximum at near record low levels

For instance, during the «snowmageddon» winter of 2009/2010, the NAO was at a near record low value... «Given our modelling result, these cold winters were probably exacerbated by the recent prolonged and anomalously low solar minimum.

Hiring is on the rise, job openings are at a near record level, and spending on consumer services, such as recreation, is likely to strengthen as incomes rise.»

This rate has stood at a near record low of 1.00 % since September of 2010 in an effort to boost economic growth.

With student loan balances at near record highs and university tuition having tripled since 1978, college students across the country are turning to student loans to help finance the enormous cost of higher education.

«Staten Island bore a good brunt of the unprecedented rough winter we saw in 2014 and our hard - working men and women responded by repairing potholes at near record numbers,» she said.

Last week, a poll by Quinnipiac University also found the governor's approval rating at a near record low.

The Siena poll also finds the governor's job approval rating is still at near record low levels.

The prices paid to US milk producers in January 2014 were at a near record high, and are expected increase further in February.

Class III milk and milk protein prices suffered in February 2013 as cheese inventories remained at near record highs going into the month.

Not surprisingly, trading volumes in oil futures and options on May 4 were at near record levels.

On the other hand, it is important to note that the spread between earnings price ratios and real interest rates are at near record levels, and that is a crude measure of the equity risk premium.

With auto sales cruising at a near record pace, the amount of money borrowed by car, truck and SUV buyers topped $ 1 trillion for the first time ever.

2) Why are both stocks and bonds at near record highs?

A small decline in sales this year isn't a concern - I think sales will move mostly sideways at near record levels.

Saudi Arabia and Russia would be freezing production at near record levels, indicating there still would be lots of supply.

Not exact matches

«We're near record production in oil and gas but we're at a 20 - year low in our carbon emissions.

Despite the recent softness in data — the Citi economic surprise index for the eurozone is now at its lowest since June 2012 — markets remain stubbornly bullish on the euro with overall bets still near record highs as longer - term expectations remain optimistic.

Yet the Prime Minister's Office appears to think an economy that has been growing at an annual rate of around three per cent for nearly a year is too weak to absorb interest rates that still are near record lows.

After his death was recorded at 10:59, his fellow troops moved his body and buried him near where his company was posted.

Yet with global growth declining, oil inventory at record levels, and momentum on the side of increasingly cost - competitive renewable energy technologies, there remains a high possibility the energy sector will face another existential crisis in the near future.

Copper and gold miner Sandfire Resources has announced record production at its flagship DeGrussa mine near Meekatharra.

Its shares are up more than 60 percent in the last year and are now trading at near - record levels in the low $ 70s.

«Given that home builders are already grappling with 20 percent tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber and that the price of lumber and other key building materials are near record highs, this announcement by the president could not have come at a worse time.

A marketable security is near - cash asset and recorded at acquisition cost,...

«With yields already at or near record lows, can the Fed really do much more?

Household credit continues to be readily available at near - record low rates.

The move into markets comes at a time when major U.S. indexes like the Dow DJIA, +0.02 % S&P 500 SPX, -0.23 % and Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -0.18 % are all trading near record levels.

Before then, it had kept its policy rate at a record low near zero for seven years in an effort to help the country recover from the deepest recession since the 1930s.

At the time, investor sentiment was at or near record lowAt the time, investor sentiment was at or near record lowat or near record lows.

There are certainly areas of desperation, including unemployment among minority youth and individuals with disabilities, but at the current unemployment rate of 4.6 %, my impression is that the «jobs crisis» in this country is actually better described as an income crisis, because wages and salaries as a share of total income remain near record lows.

Sales fell sharply on a month - on - month basis, and revenues compared with a year ago were down at a near - record rate.

It remains to be seen if oil prices will remain low for a long period of time, but the Federal Reserve's actions, which have kept lending rates near record lows since 2009, have allowed airlines like Alaska access to capital at a reasonably cheap cost.

Alert finance directors at junk - rated firms have taken advantage of interest rates near record lows to refinance at least $ 250 billion worth of debt over the past half year.

Sergei Guriev, a former advisor to the Russian government, told CNBC that, should oil prices stay at their near - record lows of around $ 82 a barrel, Russia, which is basing its economic forecasts on a much higher oil price, would face a «serious problem.»

COT data reveals that traders have been shorting the dollar at near - record levels.

22nd Century Group, Inc. (XXII), a plant biotechnology company that is a provider of tobacco harm reduction and development of proprietary hemp / cannabis strains, broke out above multi-year resistance near $ 1.50 in 2013, rallying to a record high a few months later at $ 6.36.

Last year included another near record of $ 16.6 billion in net flows that brought total ETF assets under management in Canada to roughly $ 114 billion at the end of December.

In 2013, the stock broke out above multi-year resistance near $ 1.50, rallying to a record high a few months later at $ 6.36.

If those assumptions disappoint and it becomes clear that profit margins will not be forever sustained at record highs, it doesn't only imply near - term earnings disappointments - it implies that the whole stream of future earnings impounded into stock prices is wrong.

The Bank of Canada has underpinned the housing market by holding its key policy rate at a near - record low of 1 percent since 2010.

Under Powell's predecessors, Janet Yellen and Ben Bernanke, the Fed's board endured criticism from House Republicans over its decision to pursue a bond purchase program designed to lower long - term borrowing rates and to leave its key rate at a record low near zero for seven years.