Sentences with phrase «decade low as»

Canada Elderly wife, husband both die in bitter cold in Exeter, Ont., Toronto Star Canada's jobless rate hits four - decade low as hiring surges, Globe and Mail

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At various points in the Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, new stock market records and historically low unemployment rates were used as a synonym for a booming economy, or after the financial crisis, to signal that the economy was recovering — even though many workers and households experienced stagnating or steadily declining incomes for years or even decades.

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His thesis is that the primary drivers of the banks» growth over the past two decades (lower corporate taxes, a favourable regulatory environment allowing consolidation in the sector) will no longer be as significant, and a number of challenges — including new regulations — will slow their growth.

That comes as long - term investment returns from U.S. public pensions have hit their lowest point in more than a decade and a half, according to Wilshire Trust Universe Comparison Service.

ETFs, which typically have lower fees than mutual funds, have enjoyed several-fold growth in assets over the past decade as investors have sought to reduce the overall cost of their investments.

Sales of vacation homes slumped nearly 22 percent in 2016 to the lowest level in three years, even as overall home sales hit their highest level in a decade, according to a new report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR).

This wasn't unexpected, since the market was rising in just the right mix of conditions: Volatility as measured by the Cboe's index was at historic lows, the GOP was set to pass the most comprehensive corporate - tax reform in decades, and economies around the world were in growth mode.

The state's oil production grew tenfold over the past decade as it built a thriving oil shale industry virtually from scratch, driving unemployment to a national low and filling government coffers with surging tax revenue.

OPEC oil output rose slightly in October, keeping the global market well supplied, as additional exports from Iraq, Angola and Libya offset disruptions in Nigeria and a further decline in Iran to its lowest in two decades, a Reuters survey found on Wednesday.

«While the strategic rationale for launching the (low - cost carrier) unit as a defensive move against further penetration by other low - cost leisure carriers such as Sunwing Vacations, Transat and WestJet make sense, we remain skeptical of the magnitude of earnings impact until additional scale is obtained later this decade with additions to the mainline fleet.»

But Subway's decade of growth was also the result of sticking to its winning concept: The footprint for a Subway can be as little as 600 square feet, initial costs can be as low as $ 84,000, and a lack of griddles, fryers and drive - thrus means franchisees can open their restaurants almost anywhere.

«Over the next 10 years — come hell or high water — I fully expect that Lower Manhattan will continue to grow as a neighborhood, as a business district, as a creative community and as a destination for visitors,» he told a business audience a decade after the terrorist attacks.

Brazil's World Cup is a fiscal fiasco: Brazil has enjoyed a certain swagger over the past decade, as rising incomes and low unemployment fuelled a sustained burst of growth.

Even with the unemployment rate at the lowest in four decades, Canada still has plenty of untapped potential, such as underemployment among youth and female workers, the governor says.

In fact, credit spreads in many markets are trading at the lowest levels as a percentage of their overall yield in a decade (see chart below).

Now as economic indicators like low unemployment and increased consumer spending tick toward the positive, many economists are pointing to a limited rate hike as a way to move the economy towards normalcy after the volatility of the past decade.

They have access to both surging light - tight oil production, which will be in demand as low - sulfur requirements tighten in shipping at the end of the decade, as well as captive (and cheaper) Canadian heavy barrels.

my current scenario: 60k annual + bonus of 15k - 50k Live in Texas (very low cost of living) age: 26 Have 50k in equity in my home, prices continue to soar where I purchased as well as for the next half decade.

The past decade has been a relatively good time for companies to hold debt as funding costs were low and bond investors were willing to snap up virtually any new offering.

Although this might still be regarded as quite high in absolute terms, it is towards the lower end of the range in which it has fluctuated in the past two decades.

Thus, many emerging markets» growth rates in the next decade may be lower than in the last — as may the outsize returns that investors realised from these economies» financial assets (currencies, equities, bonds, and commodities).

To conclude, over the past decade and in a very volatile world, Australia has achieved the inflation target, avoided a major economic downturn, seen remarkably little variability in real economic activity in the face of enormous shocks, experienced a fairly low average rate of unemployment, and had a stable financial system as well.

As interest rates in Europe fell to unfathomably low levels over the last decade, lenders found themselves in a tough position: Mortgage interest — and therefore income — fell in lock step with the Euribor, and yet banks only had so much leeway to cut interest paid on deposits, which are their primary source of funding for mortgages.

For much of the past decade there has been a growing recognition that Chinese growth has been seriously unbalanced, as Premier Wen put it, and that at the heart of the imbalance has been the very low consumption share of GDP.

Further, nonperforming loans as a percentage of gross loans are the lowest in a decade.

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After all, the amount of global GDP that has accrued to investment, as the global economy has «grown» these last two decades is why we have a demand - deficient, deflation prone, stagnant prospect, low - interest world, we have.

Unemployment is at the lowest point in a decade, and we're finally seeing signs of wage growth as well.

The Trump administration's plans to impose $ 50 billion in tariffs on Chinese imports, as well as tariffs recently placed on imported steel and aluminum and on imports of solar panels and washing machines, mark a distinct break from decades of U.S. trade policy, which long has generally favored lower tariffs and fewer restrictions on the movement of goods and services across international borders.

Venezuela's oil production plunged last year to the lowest in decades as Maduro's socialist government contended with quadruple - digit inflation, a contracting economy and social unrest.

If you'll recall, the root cause of the collapse a decade ago was the market realization that all this debt that was being sold to investors as high yield and low risk was suddenly reevaluated.

Over the past decade lower volatility stocks in the S&P 500 have outperformed the index as a whole.

Not only are mortgage lenders approving more purchase and refinance loans than during any period this decade, but there is a growing number of low - and no - downpayment programs for today's first - time and repeat buyers to use; and for investors to use, as well.

The job market has proved remarkably resilient even as quarterly growth has wobbled, and the unemployment rate sank to 4.5 percent in March, the lowest in nearly a decade.

In fact, the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) traded at its lowest level in decades for much of the year.1 Known as the fear gauge, the VIX reflects the market's short - term outlook for stock price volatility.

In my view, investors who view current valuations as «justified relative to interest rates» are really saying that a decade of zero total returns on stocks is perfectly adequate compensation for the risk of a 45 - 55 % market loss over the completion of the current market cycle - a decline that would historically be merely run - of - the - mill given current valuations, and that certainly can not be precluded by appealing to low interest rates.

The S&P 500 Index has been virtually flat since the beginning of the decade, but it has been as high as 1,576 and as low as 667.

With the incentive, mostly a $ 28 million, low - interest loan, AQR said it would keep its 540 employees on this side of the New York - Connecticut line and add as many as 600 in the next decade.

As a result, the relative wage in mining — that is, resource extraction — has risen by about 10 per cent (by far the largest increase of any single industry), after having trended lower over the decade leading up to the boom (Figure 12).

JCT expects that business investment would likely fall later in the decade, as the repeal of accelerated depreciation in 2016 and the longer amortization of intellectual property expenses begin to outweigh the positive effects of lower tax rates on business income.

Presently, the likely range of S&P 500 annual total returns for the coming decade is in the 2 - 3 % range based on average and median scenarios, with outside possibilities as low as -3 % in the very bearish case and still less than 8 % in the very bullish case.

Mortgage lenders are making new low - and no - downpayment loans available to today's home buyers; and purchase loan approval rates are markedly higher as compared to earlier this decade.

A simple low cost index fund should earn you on average 10 percent a year and double every 7.2 years as long as you hold it for a decade or more.

As a quick aside, I could not help but notice monthly RSI has so far put in a series of lower highs at each major nominal price top over the last decade plus.

Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

On the whole, however, the Congress, helped greatly by the moral prestige of Gandhi and Nehru, succeeded in becoming a truly pan-Indian party in the first two decades after independence, able to appease the potentially conflicting interests of Muslims and low - caste Dalits as well as upper - caste Brahmins.

A few decades ago, the low fat message for heart health was born and has since been adopted as the golden rule of nutrition — but have we got it all wrong?

«The Mediterranean diet has been the gold standard dietary regimen for decades, and with good reason: it has been linked to lowered risks of chronic conditions such as heart disease and diabetes.

we have at most 4 real quality outfielders i.e. players that other top european teams would take... ozil sanchez santi and kos... in my books you need 6... we are two short but worse the quality of others is lower than needed... only bellerin coq and wilshere have that potential... and there are problems with each still... we should have put in bids in june for griezman kondogbia and the Burussia striker as all could have been prized away with right bid plus players thrown in IMO... now its too late and wenger is in some weird gallic world of existential hope and denial and fans are just praying we do nt lose opening 2 matches for first time in over two decades... but no one is really confident against a team which is sure to finish around mid table...