Sentences with phrase «by historic standards»

Interest rates and bond yields remain very low by historic standards.

Mortgage interest rates should rise gradually to 5.5 percent by the end of the year and average 6.0 percent in 2012 — still relatively affordable by historic standards.

The swing we achieved was massive by historic standards.

But when they are more narrow, but wide by historic standards, the question is tough.

That doesn't happen often, and this rally is getting increasingly unusual by historic standards.

Interest rates are still low by historic standards, and home prices are recovering from the bust but aren't out of reach.

Temperatures have dropped a bit since the end of the latest El Niño event, as we saw in the surface record, but are still quite high by historic standards.

But I would add a fifth, monetary policy, while highly accommodative by historic standards, may still not have been sufficiently accommodative given the economic circumstances.

Every midterm since 1994 has been highly nationalized by historic standards, a result not only of huge events — the first health care reform proposal (1994), the looming impeachment (1998), the 9 - 11 attack and the prospect of the Iraq War (2002), the Iraq War (2006), and now Obama's «change» agenda (2010)-- but also of sharpening party conflicts that draw clearer divisions on national issues.

If you don't want to rent anymore and are considering becoming a homeowner, even if mortgage rates rise next year, your borrowing power will remain strong by historic standards.»

This would bring valuations down from 20.7 times earnings to well below the historic average of 18.7, while the competitive returns from banks and government bonds will remain derisory by historic standards.

After October 4th that will be an additional.90 percent for most FHA borrowers, meaning the effective cost for our borrower will be 5.4 percent — a remarkably cheap loan by historic standards but not 4.5 percent.

I was out on the Hudson River most of Wednesday, watching New York State biologists net, study and release a 120 - pound, 80 - inch male Atlantic sturgeon (a small one by historic standards) as part of a project tracking what appears to be a slow recovery after a terrible population crash from overfishing.

Meanwhile, price / earnings valuations for US and European utilities are extremely low by historic standards.

In the past few months temperatures have fallen a bit from the El Niño peak, but are still quite high by historic standards.

«While higher mortgage rates will likely have some downward impact on demand, housing remains very affordable by historic standards, and we anticipate another year of healthy home sales.»

«By historic standards, or the sorts of fluctuations that other currencies experience, this has been a fairly minor move in the currency,» he said.

While market volatility was low by historic standards, helped by accommodative monetary policies, it was out of sync with increased overall uncertainty, the fund said.

RP: By historic standards, we raised a lot of money.

By historic standards, that's modest.

For the time period in question, the federal funds rate was low (by historic standards), leading the Fed to dismiss the yield curve's «prediction» of recession.

Today's mortgage rates are remarkably low by historic standards, and did not spike as a result of Harvey.

Not only are recent mortgage rates low by historic standards.

By historic standards, 12 years isn't a very long time, but it is long enough for Naperville residents to have embraced the tradition of visiting Naper Settlement, a 19th Century living history museum village, during the days before and after Christmas.

What's not generally recognized is that today's interest levels are astonishing low by historic standards.

Even today, rates are still incredibly low by historic standards.

Today's borrowers have become quite accustomed to paying rates of around 4 percent on a 30 - year fixed - rate mortgage, which is unusually low by historic standards.

OTTAWA — Canada's national annual inflation rate rose to 1.2 per cent last month, slightly higher than in November but still low by historic standards.

By historic standards, it was routine.

But even 64 % was neither high by historic standards nor unaffordable as interest rates were at their lowest since the Bank of England was founded in 1694.

Interest rates are also going up but remain low by historic standards,» Severino said.

«Home sales will ease but will remain extremely high by historic standards, so 2005 promises to be yet another extraordinary year,» says NAR Chief Economist David Lereah.

NAHB expects this sales level to sustain itself through the end of the year as pent up demand continues to feed the market, as interest rates remain low by historic standards and as the supply of existing homes for sale remains low.