Sentences with phrase «cycle lows»

And just as lower interest rates can boost earnings and drive the business cycle upward, higher rates can turn the business cycle lower and put the earnings trend in reverse.
While combined new and existing home sales in June fell to a fresh cycle low of 5.4 million annualized units, and are now down roughly 35 per cent from their late 2005 peak, the rate of decline has moderated since the spring.
Last month when home sales missed estimates, we heard the howls that an inventory crisis was preventing sales from rising, even though sales for the previous months were the highest in the cycle with inventory at cycle lows.
Three of the five condo markets followed by the S&P / Case - Shiller home prices indices recorded new cycle lows with the release of March 2011 data.
Los Angeles, however, recorded a new cycle low with the release of April 2011 data -LSB-...]
Since cycle lows and on a one - year moving average basis, the average size of new single - family homes has increased 14 % to 2,694 square feet, while the median size has increased 18 % to 2,478 square feet.
He could scale out near the bottom of the next cycle low (again, ideally this would coincide or exceed method # 1, but the market doesn't always give us that).
A couple weeks ago I called for gold prices to form a temporary bottom, make a failed rally and then continue lower into the 6 - Month cycle low (December).
In our view, today's margin levels will not revert to previous cycle lows given the S&P 500's current makeup.
Now, a public - private team led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has created a new international standard that can «map» the critically important environmental aspects of manufacturing processes, leading to significant improvements in sustainability while keeping a product's life cycle low cost and efficient.
By cycling low and high levels, the body never gets a chance to adapt.
With credit yield spreads near cycle lows, in our view, we are being selective and disciplined with purchases, as we do not anticipate much price appreciation within fixed income markets, in general.
The earlier you spay the better — performing the operation before her first estrous cycle lowers her risk of mammary cancer later in life and can stop her from developing bad habits like urine - marking.
Spaying a cat before their first heat cycle lowers their risk of developing mammary adenocarcinoma by lowering estrogen levels that promote cancer cell growth.
The ongoing consolidation could serve as a base for another leg higher in the rally, and that could cement the lows as a likely long - term cycle low.
With unemployment at cycle lows and inflation ticking up, some economists are arguing that the Fed has met its objective and that it is time to «normalize» the interest - rate environment.
Since cycle lows and on a moving average basis, the average size has increased 13 % to 2,673 square feet, while the median size has increased more than 17 % to 2,471 square feet.
It's a bit wonky, but indexes representing credit - derivative spreads, which represent a type of hedge or insurance investors pay for their investment - grade corporate - bond exposure, have plunged to near - cycle lows.
And it comes just as U.S. interest rates may have seen their cycle lows and bond yields look set to rise.
Unemployment is at cycle lows and inflation is quiescent.
The rate of homeownership appears to be on a sustainable upward trend after reaching a cycle low of 62.9 % in the second quarter of 2016.
Although it is unlikely (barring a massive slump in confidence) that we will return to cycle lows seen post-Tohoku, buying on dips toward 14,000 might prove a favourable strategy should wages indeed show signals of rising.
After dropping to a cycle low of 62.9 % in the second quarter 2016, the national homeownership rate seems to be on a sustainable upward trend now.
The rate of homeownership appears to be stabilizing after reaching a cycle low of 62.9 % in the second quarter 2016.
The rate of homeownership is on an upward trend after dropping to a cycle low of 62.9 % in the second quarter 2016.
In this case, the stochastic oscillator indicated that price was making a cycle low and was near the oversold level (20).
The Federal Reserve's campaign to cut interest rates to a four - decade low of 1 percent in 2003 pushed the 10 - year yield to a cycle low of about 3.08 percent.
Since there is a bullish price movement, and the stochastic indicator is in the overbought area (by the time the second inside bar is formed), the odds are in the favor of price making a bearish move — at least a cycle low.
10) Home prices continue to fall, and estimates to the nadir (cycle low) range between 0 - 50 %, with 10 - 20 % being the most common.
Nonetheless, construction spending levels are up more than 20 % year - over-year and up 36 % from the cycle low of mid-2011.
Under the new tally, home building employment is up 4.7 % from the cycle low as of December.
But she says the expected moderation in underlying housing demand comes at a time when affordability is at a cycle low, supply conditions are becoming better balanced and pent - up demand has largely been satisfied.
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