Sentences with phrase «at near record high»

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

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

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

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.

Not exact matches

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 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.

«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.

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.»

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.

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.

Why are stocks at or near record highs after the economy shrank for the first time in three years last quarter?

This begs the question: with the stock market at near - record levels and Treasury bond prices at all - time highs, how is it at all possible that these pension funds are still underfunded to this extent?

The correlations between the S&P 500 and crude oil and emerging markets are also at or near record highs.

With abortion clinics closing at record rates as abortions hit near - record lows and state restrictions hit near - record highs, a respected report released today reveals that U.S. abortions have dropped to their lowest rate since 1973 — the year the U.S. Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade.

The levels of dioxin measured in the air near the smoldering pile «were the highest ambient measurements of dioxin ever recorded anywhere in the world,» levels at least 100 times higher than those found downwind of a garbage incinerator, according to an analysis published by EPA scientists [pdf] in 2007.

Several stations in the North Slope of Alaska and the Brooks Range had record or near - record high temperatures in the permafrost at depths of about 65 feet, showing how much the warming is affecting the Arctic environment.

Despite a mediocre track record of school improvement, Ohio was a winner, partly for its «simple, yet bold, long - term aspirations,» including «a near - 100 % high school graduation rate from schools teaching at internationally competitive standards,» elimination of achievement gaps, and higher - ed completion rates «that are among the highest in the nation and world.»

Industry sales are expected to remain at or near record levels, with higher GM retail sales and market share on a year - over-year basis.

Due to the length of the bull market, which has been big in gains, all the U.S. market averages currently are at or near record highs, so the desire to know when the advance will end is even more acute.

With that track record, it's no surprise that the stock is trading near all - time highs, and at an elevated P / E ratio of 42.

The restrictions come at a time when housing prices are still near record highs.

Or is it the bears, who see the FTSE 100 at record highs and a near - decade old bull market which must be well into -LSB-...]

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.

And it's not just U.S. indexes like the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 that are at elevated levels, other measures of stock valuations are at or near record highs.

With the bull market now into its sixth year and stock prices at or near record highs, many investors may be investing more aggressively than they realize — and unwittingly jeopardizing their financial security.

As the U.S. economy enters the second quarter of 2018, the positive economic momentum continues, U.S. business confidence remains high, along with consumer confidence, jobless claims are near a generational low and the ISM Manufacturing Index is at record levels as well.

Rate survey: Average card APR remains unchanged at 15.22 percent — September 21, 2016: The average APR on new card offers remained near record highs this week, according to the CreditCards.com Weekly Credit Card Rate Report.

After starting out the year near record highs, at 15.22 percent, average rates hovered between 14.9 percent and 15 percent for most of the year.

Rate survey: Average card APR holds steady at 15.18 percent — Nov. 9, 2016: The average APR on new credit card offers remained near record highs Wednesday, according to the CreditCards.com Weekly Credit Card Rate Report.

Average card APR remains unchanged at 15.19 percent: Weekly Credit Card Rate Report — April 27, 2016: Average rates on new card offers remained near record highs this week, according to the CreditCards.com Weekly Credit Card Rate Report.

Rate survey: Average card rate remains at 15.16 percent — Feb. 17, 2016: The national average annual percentage rate remained near a record high Wednesday, according to the CreditCards.com Weekly Credit Card Rate Report.

For six weeks, the national average APR hovered at 15.22 percent — a near - record high.

That figure doesn't come near Christie's record - toppling $ 692 million total the previous night, but it does establish a record as the highest - grossing sale ever at the auction house.

Among the works that did well were Lot 16, a charming small sculpture, one of three examples down in 1945 - 6, by David Smith, shown above, that sold for $ 220,000 (not including the buyer's premium) and had had a high estimate of $ 150,000; Lot 5, «Atantolone,» a gloss household paint on canvas of colored dots on a white field that sold for $ 170,000 (not including the buyer's premium), well over its high estimate of $ 120,000; Lot 14, a large 1943 painted wood and wire sculpture, «Constellation,» by Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) that sold for $ 1,982,500 (including the buyer's premium), more than double its high estimate, and Lot 24, a larger Calder sculpture, «Trepied,» that sold near its low estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 20, a large and very interesting and abstract but not very colorful 1953 Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992), «Two Figures at a Window,» that sold above its $ 1.2 million high estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 27, «Tour III» by Brice Marden (b. 1938) that sold within its estimates for $ 1,487,500 (including the buyer's premium), tying the artist's record; Lot 41, «Grillo,» by Jean - Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988) that sold for $ 1,102,500 (including the buyer's premium), also within its pre-sale estimates; and Lot 31, «Vierwaldstätte See,» a large black and white 1969 landscape by Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) that sold for $ 1,047,500 near its low estimate of $ 1 million.

David Zwirner, sitting near the back of the packed crowd fended off a handful of bidders on the phones and in the room to pick up the Hammons, a combination basketball backboard and chandelier from 2000 (one of three unique editions), for its high estimate, $ 7 million hammer ($ 8.01 million with premium), trouncing the artist's previous record of $ 2.27 million, which was set at Sotheby's New York for an assemblage two years back.

Rising production, record end - of - winter storage inventories, and mild weather contributed to spot natural gas prices nearing their lowest levels in a decade until prices rebounded at most trading points to the high $ 2 / MMBtu range by the end of June.

In just two years, Nevada's snowpack has gone from near record low in 2015 to a record high in 2017, reaching 17 ′ at Mt. Rose and outstripping measurement tools (Spillman 2017).

To suggest that because near surface temperatures have flattened at or near the highest on record requires «abandoning» a sinking ship is to be grossly underinformed about the full scope and scale of the multiple changes going on and the confidence that anthropogenic climate continues unabated as it will so long as humans continue to increase greenhouse gas concentrations.

By picking one specific area of only one of the spheres (surface temperatures), while it might be one piece of interesting information and it certainly it is quite true that surface temperatures have been flat at or near record high levels, focusing on this fact alone and the fact that climate models failed to have forecast it, does very little overall good if the goal is to educate the public about the bigger picture, i.e. anthropogenic climate change as an energy imbalance affecting the whole Earth energy system, including all the spheres discussed above.

''... worked with two sediment cores they extracted from the seabed of the eastern Norwegian Sea, developing a 1000 - year proxy temperature record «based on measurements of δ18O in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma, a planktonic foraminifer that calcifies at relatively shallow depths within the Atlantic waters of the eastern Norwegian Sea during late summer,» which they compared with the temporal histories of various proxies of concomitant solar activity... This work revealed, as the seven scientists describe it, that «the lowest isotope values (highest temperatures) of the last millennium are seen ~ 1100 - 1300 A.D., during the Medieval Climate Anomaly, and again after ~ 1950 A.D.» In between these two warm intervals, of course, were the colder temperatures of the Little Ice Age, when oscillatory thermal minima occurred at the times of the Dalton, Maunder, Sporer and Wolf solar minima, such that the δ18O proxy record of near - surface water temperature was found to be «robustly and near - synchronously correlated with various proxies of solar variability spanning the last millennium,» with decade - to century - scale temperature variability of 1 to 2 °C magnitude.»

The rather striking graphic above demonstrates just how strong this elevational snowpack gradient has been in 2017 — with near - record snow water equivalent comparable to 1983 at the highest elevations and dramatically less accumulation further down the slopes.

«The authors write that «the Mediterranean region is one of the world's most vulnerable areas with respect to global warming,»... they thus consider it to be extremely important to determine what impact further temperature increases might have on the storminess of the region... produced a high - resolution record of paleostorm events along the French Mediterranean coast over the past 7000 years... from the sediment bed of Pierre Blanche Lagoon [near Montpellier, France]... nine French scientists, as they describe it, «recorded seven periods of increased storm activity at 6300 - 6100, 5650 - 5400, 4400 - 4050, 3650 - 3200, 2800 - 2600, 1950 - 1400, and 400 - 50 cal yr BP,» the latter of which intervals they associate with the Little Ice Age.

Finally, the fact that both the oceans and the atmosphere are at their all time highest temperatures over the past 10 year average from instrument record and through extrapolation to near - term paleodata, we can see a remarkable consistent effect of what increasing greenhouse gases do to overall alterations in Earth's non-tectonic energy storage.

With both atmosphere and oceans running at or near record highs, we know that the climate has been accumulating energy right on through the much beloved «hiatus».

In a period of static temperature that is at a near term high in a very tiny window of coherent reliable observation — any positive short term displacement is a record.

Despite generating some disappointment among the most ardent environmentalists for not making the preservation of nature his highest priority, Lula's success in declaring bold targets in the reduction of greenhouse gases and reducing the rates of deforestation in the Amazon to record lows has nevertheless put him at or near the top of the list when it comes to eco-conscious world leaders.

We continue (AFAIK) to have some high sea surface temps; the troposphere continues at record - or near - record levels; and we may or may not have reached the seasonal maximum yet.

The NOAA extended forecasts temperature predictions from late November were for the middle northern tear states to be at or near record high temperatures, what changed?