Sentences with phrase «average level since»

Natural gas spot prices in 2015 at the Henry Hub in Louisiana, a national benchmark, averaged $ 2.61 per million British thermal unit (MMBtu), the lowest annual average level since 1999.

This recovery is most evident in earnings from service exports, which rebounded strongly in the September quarter, to be about 3 1/2 per cent higher than the average level since the 2000 Sydney Olympics (Graph 45).

Non-mining investment, in contrast, grew by 10 per cent per annum, on average, over this period, and as a share of GDP it rose to around its average level since 1980.

Not exact matches

The four - week moving average of initial claims, considered a better measure of labor market trends as it irons out week - to - week volatility, fell 1,250, to 231,250 last week, the lowest level since March 31, 1973.

The four - week moving average of continuing claims fell 750, to 1.90 million, the lowest level since Jan. 12, 1974, suggesting a continued decline in labor market slack.

The S&P 500's forward price - to - earnings, or P / E, ratio is a shade under 17 times right now, putting it at its lowest level since 2016 and just 11 % above its long - term average, according to BAML.

Against a basket of its rivals, the dollar has surged past its 200 - day moving average on Tuesday, a level it hasn't traded above since May 2017, a level which typically attracts some reassessment from large institutional investors on their dollar positions, according to Morgan Stanley.

The average contract interest rate for 30 - year fixed - rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($ 453,100 or less) increased to its highest level since April 2014, 4.50 percent, from 4.41 percent, with points increasing to 0.57 from 0.56 (including the origination fee) for 80 percent loan - to - value ratio loans.

Now growth has stalled, and Bechtel's revenues are essentially stuck at 2013 levels; in 2014, the last year it reported new bookings, it added just $ 18.4 billion in fresh contracts, short of the $ 27 billion average since 2004.

Refinancing may have fallen as the average contract interest rate for 30 - year fixed - rate mortgages with conforming loan balances increased to its highest level since September 2013.

Through the first eight months of the year, full - time equivalent employees (FTEs) averaged 424,200 — the highest level since 2004 and a 12 percent gain from 2010.

Economists surveyed last week predict inflation will average 2.3 per cent in the second quarter and 2.4 per cent in the third — the highest levels since 2011.

Since banks, mutual funds, hedge funds, and other institutions frequently utilize program trading to buy pullbacks to the 50 - day moving averages, it was not surprising to see buyers stepping in each time the NASDAQ brothers neared that pivotal price level in recent days.

For example, from 2003 through 2005 mortgage rates declined to just under 6 percent on average, the lowest level since the first half of the 1960s.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that an average of 800,000 barrels per day in production were taken offline last month, contributing greatly to May's having the highest monthly level of unplanned global oil supply disruptions since the agency began tracking such data in 2011.

Since half the firms have cut their prices by 10 %, the average price level has fallen by 5 %.

At the current level of 5.5 per cent, the cash rate is in line with its average over the low inflation period since 1993.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Wall Street shares plunged on Monday as investors fled technology stocks amid resurgent trade war worries, with key indexes trading below their 200 - day moving averages and the S&P 500 closing below that pivotal technical level for the first time since Britain's vote to leave the European Union in June 2016.

If one assumes Mr. Rosengren allows the economy to hum along at the current levels (a big if since he wants to raise rates), a average 2.5 % wage gain less 2 % inflation makes you wait three more years to get back to 2007 (a lost decade plus two) and five years to party likes it's 1999 (two lost decades, plus one).

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Equity market volumes in early February hit their highest levels since August 2015 and the quarter's daily average was the highest since the fourth quarter of 2016.

Private sector GDP growth for the last year has averaged 1.3 percent a level that has since the 1960s always presaged recession.

In May, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimated that domestic output should average 9.3 million barrels a day this year and nearly 10 million in 2018, a level unseen in the U.S. since 1970.

Overall, however, traders were surprised as declines in US stockpiles since January brought them below the closely watched five - year average for the first time since 2014.3 Quarter - end US oil inventories stood at 429.9 mb, which was 19.5 % below the year - ago level.3

The Dow Jones Industrial Average posted a combined drop of more than 1,100 points on Thursday and Friday, where it closed at its lowest level since early February.

With $ EWS, notice that volume has been tapering off over the past two weeks, and the 10 - day moving average of volume is at its lowest level since March 2012.

Since housing data has lots of extreme values in it, the median is a better representation of the general level of the housing market than the average.

Heading into the June LFS, released on Friday, the 12 - month moving average for job growth was at 16K — its highest level since October 2013.

Latin America Equity Fund allocations to Brazil and Mexico, which hit their highest level since mid-3Q13 and lowest since 4Q13, respectively, coming in March, rolled over during the final month of the first quarter with the latter seeing a small gain in its average weighting.

The average level of the Sentiment Index during the first half of 2017 was 96.8, the best half - year average since the se...

In real terms oil prices remain quite low, around the average level recorded since the mid 1980s.

Dash has been hovering around the $ 500 level since the Friday low and the following strong bounce, and it is followed the segment's average closely today, despite its recent relative strength.

Above that resistance level is the 50 - day moving average, which has been sloping lower since mid-October, and is in danger of crossing below the 200 - day moving average.

Looking at the overall export levels on a 12 month moving average basis it can be seen that the fall in exports began in early 2015 and has persisted since, affecting all Asian country groupings.

Last week, the average yield on corporate bonds sat around its highest levels since January 2012.

As a result, the S&P 500's price / earnings ratio has fallen to its lowest level since 1997 — although it remains well above its long - term average (Graph 22).

US corporate spreads narrowed modestly over the three months since the last Statement, from levels already well below historical averages (Graph 16).

The average daily closing levels for the VIX Index are 19.4 since January 1990, but only 12.8 since June 2016.

Since forming a «swing high» resistance level on July 12th (see chart above), $ UUP has been selling off for the past four sessions, and is now closing in on near - term support of its 20 - day exponential moving average (EMA).

The Wall Street Journal also recently cited data that S&P 500 companies are repurchasing shares at a rate of roughly $ 125 billion a quarter this year, which is the lowest level since 2012 and down from an average of $ 142 billion a quarter between 2014 and 2016.

The facts are that the average P / E on forward EPS is 14.7 since 1927 and 15.4 since 1957, including the truly scary levels of the tech bubble and the Financial Crisis.

For example, since 1950, the S&P 500 has enjoyed total returns averaging 33.18 % annually during periods when the S&P 500 price / peak earnings ratio was below 15 and both 3 - month T - bill yields and 10 - year Treasury yields were below their levels of 6 months earlier.

Measured in real terms, variable loan rates are as much as 1 percentage point below their average level over the past five years, and up to 2 1/4 percentage points below their average since the early 1990s (Graph 65).

Nevertheless, the savings rate during last quarter averaged 5.5 %, reaching its highest level since Q4 2012.

TrimTabs Investment Research reported today that announced stock buybacks in earnings season through Monday, August 15 have fallen to the lowest level since the summer of 2012, averaging just 3.3 for $ 1.8 billion daily.

The average contract interest rate for 30 - year fixed - rate mortgages increased to its highest level since September 2013, 4.80 percent.

This is the lowest level for this average since March 3, 1973 when it was 221,250.

Drawing your levels in this manner gives you a better reference point to look for signals from since you are getting closer to the mean or average turning point price in the market, so it's basically a higher - probability level than a level that's further out but exactly at a bar high or low.

This unpleasant picture is presented after a third quarter in which Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil prices, traded at about $ 50 a barrel on average, the lowest sustained levels since the financial crisis.

The four - week average of initial jobless claims hit the lowest level since 2000.