Sentences with phrase «broke record lows»

Second, interest rates, which broke record lows in 1998, are expected to stay down in 1999.

Yields on the 10 - year Treasury sank below 1.6 % breaking a record low set back in 1946.

Back then, what she and a colleague found was not only groundbreaking, it pretty accurately predicted what is happening now in the Arctic, as sea ice levels break record low after record low.

For instance, the National Weather Service reported a temperature of minus 15 F in Omaha on Sunday, breaking a record low dating back to 1884.

In the first few days of February 2018, Arctic sea ice extent has been running about 8 - 10 % below the seasonal average for the period 1981 - 2010, and it's been breaking record lows that were set just last year (in 2017).

Not exact matches

The GAAP consolidated pretax income for 1Q18 of $ 707 million unfavorably compared to GAAP consolidated pretax income of $ 1.69 billion in 1Q17 by $ 982 million primarily due to the net gain associated with the terminated merger agreement, mainly the break - up fee, recorded in 1Q17 and lower pretax earnings year over year in the Retail and Healthcare Services segments, partially offset by higher Group and Specialty segment pretax earnings.

The Bank of Canada is sounding like a broken record, having again announced a lowering of its growth forecast for the Canadian economy.

However, the current recession, as noted, is unusually severe, and consumer confidence and trust in business are at record - breaking lows.

«These results were literally record - breaking — the lowest wind power prices in Canadian history.

Results from the first round results of Alberta's Renewable Electricity Program were record - breaking, with the lowest wind power prices in Canadian history, making them competitive with natural gas power prices.

So we have Bernanke essentially bragging that he broke the law and helped create mass unemployment, because it's his only way of defending himself against those Senators who want him to break the law even more egregiously - to create even lower than post-war record low inflation in order to create even higher unemployment.

The forint fell to a record low against the euro last week after the International Monetary Fund and the European Union broke off talks on Hungary's bid for a bailout as Orban refused to withdraw new central bank regulations the institutions objected to.

Like a broken record, I will reiterate, in 2013, the year that saw the S&P 500 soar 30 %, S&P 500 consistently revised their guidance lower, quarter after quarter.

U.S. oil inventories continued to streak lower for a record - breaking 10 weeks in a row even as U.S. oil production is approaching record levels.

Following a record - breaking year for worldwide mergers and acquisitions, dealmaking declined to a two - year low in the first quarter of 2016.

He had broken the existing record earlier in the year with a 58.8, only to see it lowered by Scott Spann of Greenville, N.C. to 58.2.

While this was seen as big money at the time as it broke the world transfer record (though several fees have since dwarfed it, pushing it already as low as fifth on the all - time list), United actually saved around # 100m as a result, or so claims Raiola.

One of the many records Lewis Hamilton has broken this season is one no - one probably imagined he'd ever get: by finishing ninth in the Mexican GP, he set the record for the lowest a driver has ever finished in order to clinch a title.

Overseas, indoor world records were broken in separate meets as WENDELL MOTTLEY of Trinidad lowered the 440 - yard mark by [3/10] of a second with a 47.3 in a Cosford, England meet, and MICHEL JAZY of France clipped 1.2 seconds off the 1,500 - meter record of 3:41.9 (set in Berlin by East Germany's Jurgen May a week earlier) at a meet in Lyon, France.

The turnout in the lower bowl looked pretty good for a spring game (or did around kickoff) but I don't think that attendance is breaking any records or anything.

His Mercedes team - mate Lewis Hamilton already broke the record in FP1, and lowered the benchmark further in FP2.

John: Losing to a lower league team in the USOC and breaking the points record.

We've charted the highs and lows across a record breaking campaign, covering all the twists and turns in one of the most one sided title races in Premier League history.

Analysts are predicting a record - breaking low turnout.

The new chancellor provided a typically low - key response to the Bank of England's record - breaking announcement.

The governor has faced pressure to step aside from the race for months as record - low poll numbers rolled in, and that pressure reached the breaking point this week when the New York Times reported his office had intervened in a domestic violence case involving one of his top aides.

Germany has lower rates of family break - up and a better education system, less immigration and a more durable record on skills, higher living standards and less housing volatility.

Once in orbit, the fully automated rig will create BECs and do other cold atom experiments, taking advantage of weightlessness to attain record - low temperatures and break ground for ambitious studies of quantum mechanics and gravity.

Joachim Fischer of the German National Metrology Institute in Berlin, who heads the CIPM task group on redefining the kelvin, says the margin of error in the measurement, a record - breaking 0.71 parts per million, is potentially low enough to officially redefine the kelvin.

«While concentrations measured in Antarctic ice cores are very low, the records show that atmospheric concentrations and deposition rates increased approximately six-fold in the late 1880s, coincident with the start of mining at Broken Hill in southern Australia and smelting at nearby Port Pirie.»

Driven by drought and low snowpack, 2015 broke all the records in Washington state.

The research is timely given the extreme winter of 2017 - 2018, including record warm Arctic and low sea ice, record - breaking polar vortex disruption, record - breaking cold and disruptive snowfalls in the United States and Europe, severe «bomb cyclones» and costly nor'easter s, said Judah Cohen, director of seasonal forecasting at AER and lead author of the study.

Earlier this week, India broke its own record for the lowest bids for electricity from solar power.

Devastating floods occurred with the Mississippi River in 2011, and this marked the start of a record - breaking year of droughts and heat waves in the United States that stretched into the fall of 2012, as well as the lowest level of ice extent in the Arctic.

Both northern and southern hemispheres experienced record breaking low extents for the time of year.

Sea ice is near record low for winter, thin, and easily broken by storms.

After my first workout back on a lower - carb plan today, I broke lifetime personal records in 3 of my lifts on strength levels!

August was historically dismal, September swung to record - breaking highs, and October again badly slumped with the lowest overall gross in a decade.

The game's influence, coupled with the assumption that the baseline success shown in low - release periods like the current one holds up, allows Take - Two to aim for a record breaking year.

Budgetary Leap: «The Escapist» cost a mere $ 2 million, while in contrast, «Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes» was said by the studio to cost $ 93 million — low by tentpole standards, but thought at the time to be the biggest - ever jump in budget for a second - time director (though Marc Webb took the crown soon after, and Gareth Edwards will likely break the record again with «Godzilla»).

The impact of these Healthy Schools activities means that: pupils are more engaged in P.E; literacy has improved; pupils have better relationships with one another and are more physically active at break and lunch times; attendance is in line with national averages; there are very low incidences of bad behaviour recorded after lunch time; all pupils that attended swing high club showed improved handwriting as a result of this intervention; 55 fruit pots are sold each day to pupils in KS2; and 40 pupils attend breakfast club.

As schools throughout the eastern half of the United States reopened after last month's severe winter storms and record - breaking low temperatures, district officials faced the difficult task of restoring order to their instructional programs.

BCS 7th Graders Rank # 1 in MCAS English and Composition Statewide Schools That Can, a national nonprofit network of high - performing, urban, faith - based, charter and district schools operating in low - income communities, profiles Brooke 7th graders» record breaking composition scores.

I don't think demand from millennials will be much lower than what it has been for older generations, but I don't think the U.S. is going to break that 15 - year - old record of 17.8 million units very soon, either.

History records that's what they mostly did, as annual U.S. Evora sales infrequently broke into the low triple digits.

Exclusivity Was The Main Goal As Only Thirty Cars Had Been Offered As A Total Number, With The Split Being Only Sixteen Coupes To Fourteen Convertibles Made, To Which All Cars Sold In Record Breaking Time And If We Fast Forward To 2018 These Limited Low Numbers Have Now Meant That The Opportunities To Find One Of The 30 Cars Is A Difficult Task To Achieve For That Global Collector.

The record - breaking Bentley was largely standard except for a roll - cage, aerodynamic improvements, low - temperature fuel and calibration.

The Salem, Oregon, area isn't known for its record - breaking low temperatures, but that doesn't mean your loved one won't need to don a pair of gloves this winter.

The new LG OLED TV breaks all previous records, with a very impressive 1.2 percent Reflectance, the lowest we have ever measured for a display.

The iPhone 6 Plus matches or breaks new records in LCD Smartphone display performance for: Highest Peak Brightness, Lowest Screen Reflectance, Highest (True) Contrast Ratio, Highest Contrast Rating in Ambient Light, most accurate (pure logarithmic power - law) Intensity Scale and Gamma, most accurate Image Contrast, and the smallest Variations with Viewing Angle for Brightness, Contrast Ratio and Color.