Sentences with phrase «below year ago levels»

Inventories are still 0.9 below year ago levels and are at a 5.3 - month supply at the current sales pace.

Dr. Lawrence Yun, NAR Chief Economist said, «While the housing market gained a little more momentum last month, sales are still below year ago levels because low inventory is limiting choices for prospective buyers and keeping price growth elevated.»

Existing - home sales and contract signings saw strong gains in October, but both remained below year ago levels because of the persistent supply and affordability barriers in much of the country.

For the first time in more than two years, existing - home sales were below year ago levels.

«While the housing market gained a little more momentum last month, sales are still below year ago levels because low inventory is limiting choices for prospective buyers and keeping price growth elevated.»

With the draw, the region is sitting with gasoline inventories below a year ago levels.

According to the National Association of Realtors ®, «Pending home sales inched higher for the second consecutive month in March, but unrelenting inventory constraints once again kept overall activity below year ago levels.»

Not exact matches

The most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers show that the fraction of the civilian, non-institutionalized population that is self - employed and running a corporation (incorporated self - employment) was 5.1 percent below its level five years ago, when the current economic recovery was getting underway.

Natural Gas Natural gas futures were among the quarter's key decliners -LRB--7.5 %, to US$ 2.73 per million British thermal units) as production growth outweighed seasonal consumption and higher exports of the fuel.1 Spot prices saw an even larger drop of 20.6 % (to US$ 2.81) as the support of December's weather - related demand spikes faded and a more normal winter pattern developed.1 Natural gas generally took its downward price cues from elevated US production and growth in the natural gas - focused rig count, which increased from 179 to 194 in March alone.2 Despite the price drop, traders remained optimistic given surging US shale - gas exports and a supply deficit that was 20 % larger than the five - year average at March - end, the biggest in four years.3 Moreover, total natural gas inventories of 1.38 trillion cubic feet were nearly 33 % below their year - ago level.3 Meanwhile, the market appeared focused on an anticipated production surge (2018 is projected to be a record growth year for gas supplies) and may have overlooked intensifying demand as US exports increasingly helped drain supplies.

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

Of course, this outlier was also corrected, as the S&P 500 remains below its level of 6 years ago.

House approvals are well below the average levels observed over the past couple of years, and the Housing Industry Association series of new home sales — which are commitments to build — is below levels of a year ago.

Wool prices have continued to fall sharply, and are now 18.5 per cent below levels of a year ago in Australian dollar terms, inducing some wool producers to switch to prime lamb production.

The labour market, meanwhile, continues to benefit from the economy's strong performance over 1997 and early 1998, and unemployment remains below the levels of a year ago.

The current week's level was well below the 210,955 level in the comparable week a year ago.

Up front we have a few world - class players surrounded by some serious pretenders... Sanchez is by far the most accomplished player in our attack but the controversy surrounding his contractual mishandling could see him go before the window closes or most definitely by season's end... obviously a mistake by both parties involved, as Sanchez's exploits have never been more on display than in North London, but the club's irresponsible wage structure and lack of real intent have been the real undoing in this mess... Lacazette, who I think has some world - class skills as a front man, will only be as good as the players and system around him, which is troubling due to our current roster and Wenger's love of sideways passing... Walcott should have been sold years ago, enough said, and Welbeck should never have been brought in from the get - go... both of these players have suffered numerous injuries over their respective careers and neither are good enough to overcome such difficulties: not to mention, they both are below average first - touch players, which should be the baseline test for any player coming to a Wenger - led Arsenal team... Perez should have been played wide left or never purchased at all; what a huge waste of time and money, which is ridiculous considering our penny pinching ways and the fact that fans had been clamoring for a real striker for years... finally Giroud, the fact that he stills wears the jersey is a direct indictment of this club's failure to get things right... this isn't necessarily an attack on Giroud because I think he has some highly valued skills, but not for a team that has struggled to take their sideways soccer to the next level, as his presence slows their game even more, combined with our average, at best, finishing skills... far too often those in charge have either settled or chosen half - measures and ultimately it is us that suffer because no matter what happens Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke will always make more money whereas we will always be the ones paying for their mistakes... so every time someone suggests we should just shut - up and support the team just think of all the sacrifices you've made along the way and simply reply... f *** off

Library Funding Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer has requested an additional $ 65 million for libraries, arguing that the need for library services is growing and that funding is below levels of several years ago.

More than 12,000 years ago, Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers were grounded on top of a large wedge of sediment, and were buttressed by a floating ice shelf, making them relatively stable even though they rested below sea level.

This new data suggests that it was at around 360 million years ago, in the latest Devonian Period, that this threshold was reached and probably never went below this level for the rest of geological history.

Global sea level was around 50 metres below present levels from 60,000 to 20,000 years ago, and much lower by 18,000 years ago.

«While binge drinking among eighth, 10th, and 12th grade students remains well below the levels seen a decade ago, the downward trend in binge drinking appears to have slowed somewhat in recent years,» said George F. Koob, Ph.D., director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet sits below sea level today, but 34 million years ago, it sat on a much higher mountain range.

Teacher experience levels are barely below where they were five years ago and about the same as they were ten years ago.

Many years ago, in my third year as a public school teacher, I discovered that about half of my 7th - grade students read four or more years below grade level, and about half read four or more years above grade level.

A year ago, Carnegie and McKinsey concluded, «The short answer is no: even coordinated, rapid, and highly effective efforts to improve high school teaching would leave millions of students achieving below the level needed for graduation and college success as defined by the Common Core.»

This is clear from the fact that 12 percent fewer black children read Below Basic this last school year than in 2002 — and that five percent more Latino children are reading at or above grade level in 2015 than 13 years ago.

Forty - five percent of Latino fourth - graders read Below Basic (a two point decline over 2013 and an 11 point decrease over 2002); 48 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native fourth - graders read Below Basic (unchanged from 2013, and a mere one point decline over 2002); 21 percent of white fourth - graders read Below Basic (unchanged from 2013, but a four point decline over 2002); and 18 percent of Asian fourth - graders read Below Basic (a two point decline over 2013, and a 12 point decline over levels 13 years ago).

Thirty - four percent of Latino eighth - graders read Below Basic (a two point increase over 2013, but a nine point decrease over 2002); 15 percent of white eighth - graders read Below Basic (a one point increase over levels two years ago, but one point lower than in 2002); 37 percent of Native eighth - graders read Below Basic in 2015 (one point lower than two years ago, and two points lower than in 2002); and 14 percent of Asian eighth - graders read Below Basic (unchanged from 2013, but 10 points lower than levels 13 years ago).

Meanwhile 17 percent of middle - class and wealthier students not eligible for school lunch read Below Basic in 2015, unchanged from 2013, but a six point decline over levels 13 years ago.

Melva Matkin said that when she became principal of Esparza Accelerated Elementary School in the Northside Independent School District more than 20 years ago, most students were functioning below grade level on standardized tests.

Meanwhile, 29 percent of young female fourth - grade classmates read Below Basic in 2011, a four point decline from nine years ago; 36 percent of young female fourth - graders read at Proficient and Advanced levels, a two percent uptick over that time period.

Thirty - nine percent of fourth - graders attending urban schools scored Below Basic in 2011, a one point drop from the levels four years ago; while the percentage of rural fourth - graders who were functionally illiterate declined from 31 percent in 2007 to 29 percent in 2011.

It is currently trading below its levels of even four years ago.

All loan types remain below their respective levels a year ago.

According to the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA), national home sales in September rose modestly from the previous month but remained below levels recorded one year ago.

John Mercer, in 1968 and 1970, called attention to the fact that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) was grounded mostly below sea level, calling it a «marine ice sheet» that was therefore inherently unstable, and proposed that the higher sea level resulted from its LIM collapse 125,000 years ago.

«Global sea level was about 125 meters below today's sea level at the last glacial maximum about 20,000 years ago (Fairbanks, 1989).

From depths of 300 metres below the landlocked basin, drillers brought to the surface a core that contained 30 metres of thick, crystalline salt: evidence that 120,000 years ago, and again about 10,000 years ago, rainfall had been only about one fifth of modern levels.

As the chart reveals, today's per century trends are dominated by cooling for the different time periods; today's trends are multiple times below prior period, historical highs; the 5, 8 and 10 - year trends are definitely below the average modern trend (1950 through 2013); and all the trends are significantly less than those reached 15 years ago (see black dotted lines for year - end 1998 trend levels).

This winter's 5.1 % capacity margin is lower than last year's 6.1 %, but above the levels seen a decade ago when the lights conspicuously failed to go out (chart, below).

«sea levels are rising» They are since we got out of the last ice age 20.000 years ago when the sea is 130 m below the current level and when carbon emission was not considered a problem.

[Sea levels] are [rising] since we got out of the last ice age 20.000 years ago when the sea is 130 m below the current level This is a very weak argument.

The number of homes for sale continues to remain at record lows with the nationwide inventory of for - sale single - family homes, condos, townhomes, and co-ops is about 19 percent below inventory levels from a year ago, Realtor.com reports in its analysis of July housing data of 146 markets.

Eight out of 10 respondents said office and industrial leasing activity is below historic levels, and seven out of 10 said asking rents are below a year ago.

Finally, home sales have risen over the past two years but remain below levels from a nearly a decade ago.

The vacancy has not budged all year, wedged at a level that is only 80 basis points below the cyclical high observed four years ago.

NAR's Pending Home Sales Index, a forward - looking indicator based on contracts and not closings, is 8.8 percent below year - ago levels.

«While the housing market gained a little more momentum last month, sales are still below year - ago levels because low inventory is limiting choices for prospective buyers and keeping price growth elevated.»

The delinquency rate fell 2.11 percent in May and is 12.01 percent below year - ago levels, according to «first look» mortgage performance data from Lender Processing Services.

This was the highest monthly rise since August 2011, but existing home sales remain 5 percent below year - ago levels.