Sentences with phrase «average by historical standards»

Accounting for today's low rates, valuations on stocks are about average by historical standards.

Not exact matches

World growth will remain low on average but negative in the UK and Europe; price inflation will remain sufficiently subdued for a while longer so as to impose no constraint on monetary expansion; central banks will sustain a regime of negative real interest rates and rapid monetary expansion; the risk of a eurozone collapse is off the table for now; finally, stock markets should continue to perform better than expected, even though the four - year old cyclical bull market is long by historical standards.

While that's still fairly low by historical standards, it's the highest average we've seen since April 2014.

But by historical standards the current black unemployment rate is consistent with the average from 1972 to 2004, and the ratio of black - to - white unemployment rates is actually below the historical average.

By historical standards, 2 percent is a small pay hike on a nominal basis — although, as noted, it is still ahead of the current and recent average inflation rate.

In his new paper, Lovejoy applies the same approach to the 15 - year period after 1998, during which globally averaged temperatures remained high by historical standards, but were somewhat below most predictions generated by the complex computer models used by scientists to estimate the effects of greenhouse - gas emissions.

Different versions of risk are usually measured by calculating the standard deviation of the historical returns or average returns of a specific investment.

So you add nearly 2 % of after - tax return per annum if you only achieve an average return by historical standards from common stock investments in companies with tiny dividend payout ratios.

So you add nearly 2 % of after - tax return per annum if you only achieve an average return by historical standards from common stock investments in companies with low dividend payout ratios.

Since September 2014, the average balance transfer period has hovered around 14 months, which is low by historical standards.

The average interest rate is now about 4.5 percent, still low by historical standards, but as they continue their upward movement the universe of home owners who can refinances shrinks.

NAR expects the rate on a 30 - year fixed rate mortgage to average 6.5 percent in 2006, about one percentage point higher than in 2003 and 2004, but not much above the expected average for 2005 of 5.9 percent — all extremely low by historical standards.

Even through property prices are very high — and cap rates are very low — by historical standards, average cap rates are still significantly higher than the interest rates available for financing.

(Although down from October, this is still relatively high by historical standards, as the average fee on new home loans has only been as high as 1.27 percent five times since 1996.)