Sentences with phrase «at near record low»

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

«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.

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.

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.»

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.

The Fed's latest rate hike marks its sixth since it began tightening credit in December 2015, after having kept its benchmark rate at a record low near zero for seven years to help nurture the economy's recovery from the recession.

Last month, the Fed modestly raised its benchmark short - term rate for the first time since December 2015, when it had raised it after keeping the rate at a record low near zero for seven years.

The Fed kept its key interest rate at a record low near zero for seven years until December 2015.

Morale in Jerusalem was at a near - record low.

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.

Mauricio Pochettino says respect is key to his near perfect record against lower - league teams so far at Spurs - and that won't change as we face League One side AFC Wimbledon in the third round of the FA Cup on Sunday.

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

The mayor said shootings are down 2.5 percent compared to a year ago, and murders are at «near record lows.»

The news that the British Crime Survey has found crime levels at the lowest level since records began more than 30 years ago has been greeted with near - universal acclaim in today's papers.

John Reynolds, a conservation biologist at Simon Fraser University near Vancouver, reports that the pink salmon have come back with a vengeance this year, on the heels of record lows in 2007 and 2008: «The grizzlies, of course, can eat the pinks, so it's not all doom and gloom right now.»

Arctic sea ice coverage is still below average and the previously stable Antarctic sea ice extent was at or near a record low, the statement adds.

This lack of opportunities for diverse engagement and advancement negatively affects teacher satisfaction, which is currently at a near - record low of 44 %.

Their stock is at or near record lows and costs about as much as a meal at a fast food restaurant.

According to Freddie Mac's latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, interest rates for a 30 - year fixed rate mortgage are currently at 3.92 %, which is still near record lows in comparison to recent history!

The study showed that almost half (46 percent) of Canadian homebuyers believe that the near - record low mortgage rates of today are going to stick around for at least another 12 months.

In fact, many are only covering the interest payments, which are at near - record low rates.

With VA Streamline Refinance mortgage rates near all - time lows, it's no wonder that VA loan volume is at record levels.

It's not uncommon to see loans stretch out to eight or nine years, with interest rates still sitting at near - record lows.

This is the common, intuitive, yet specious claim that because yields on 10 - year Treasury notes are near record lows at 1.64 %, stocks are so flattered into appearing cheap by comparison that surely they must rise.

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.

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.

I STILL don't understand the reactions — on one hand the models are «predicting» triple the current ice (since ice has a short memory, initial conditions should only have a weak influence), yet on the other hand people seem to be predicting another record or near record low while at the same time not objecting about the «super-flawed» models.

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).

''... 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 first half of 2017 has seen record low sea ice extents at both poles and near - record global average temperatures — despite the absence of a...

After mid-October, ice growth returned to near - average rates, but extent remained at record low levels through late October.

«It is also evident from these long records that relative velocity is steadily increasing over time, peaking at or near the recent end of the time series record, driven by low and continually changing rates of acceleration.

Then things took a turn for the worse, and sea ice was at record or near - record low conditions for most of the summer.

Ice cover has been at or near record lows since 2001, says the report, which predicts the Arctic Ocean will be nearly ice free during the summer within 30 - 40 years.