"Depressed levels" refers to a situation where something is lower or reduced compared to normal or expected levels.
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As every lender knows, the current environment is one of sustained
depressed levels of credit quality, and naturally increasing competition among lenders for the least risky borrowers.
Even though the stock price has risen since then, it's still trading
at depressed levels compared to the general market's run - up.
These are the stocks of otherwise strong companies whose stock is at
depressed levels due to poor recent performance, industry factors or just plain bad luck.
He sets out the interest rates and investor expectations about returns to provide some color and explain the elevated /
depressed level of the market.
But with consumer confidence remaining
at depressed levels, it is unclear how sustainable this is.
Yes, I know that everyone «knows» that interest rates will rise from their
current depressed levels and that bonds will lose value when they do.
A recent pullback in headline consumer price inflation across developed economies has challenged the notion of steady, if unspectacular, increases in inflation
from depressed levels.
«After flatlining at
depressed levels for over a year, a growing share of consumers indicate that it is a good time to sell, suggesting rising optimism for the housing market.
Whatever next steps the ECB decides to take, the goal is to raise inflation from its
very depressed levels and achieve price stability.
But the automaker later admitted it was hiding a problem with «sticky pedals,» the accelerators getting stuck at
partially depressed levels, and it also was minimizing the scope of the floor mat entrapment.
The long - lagging sector could be on the verge of late cycle gains as production accelerates off
recent depressed levels.
Economists from Duke and the London School of Economics have shown that interest rate uncertainty
significantly depresses the level of investment both on an individual firm level and throughout the economy.
With value at
such depressed levels relative to its own history plus this wide dispersion, which tend to be a driver of value's performance, we expect to see a narrowing of value gaps both between and within sectors.
For S&P 500 options you can currently look up the volatility that's priced into the options using the ticker symbol VIX (it's currently 10.33 %, which is an extremely
depressed level indicating that investors have little concern about market fluctuations here).
Specifically, if there is a weak prospect that foreign lenders will achieve a total return on U.S. Treasuries competitive with what they can earn in their own country, and every prospect that short - term interest rates in the U.S. will remain depressed or fall even further, the only way to attract capital is to immediately drive the value of the U.S. dollar to such a
sharply depressed level that it will be expected to appreciate over time.
Regarding currencies, he said, «I would rate the Singapore dollar as a less ugly currency than others, probably the U.S. dollar, at the
present depressed level.»
This year, China is expected to demand only 14 million tons of potash, down from an
already depressed level of 16 million tons last year.
Although seabirds are adapted for the vicissitudes of life — forage fish numbers have large natural fluctuations — seabirds populations may decline when
fishing depresses levels for many years in a row.
The management has wisely bought back shares of the stock at
severely depressed levels, and doesn't seem to get too carried away with regular buybacks, preferring to return excess cash to shareholders in the form of special dividends (much preferred to buybacks).
While the rest of the trading world is mired in a seemingly «riskless» environment, with implied volatility offered at
historically depressed levels across most all asset classes, the cryptocurrency space is a beacon of light for the thrill seekers.
When valuations move
from depressed levels to historical extremes over the span of several market cycles, the result is a «secular bull market» and headlines about permanently high plateaus.
Whatever next steps the ECB decides to take, the goal is to raise inflation from its
very depressed levels and achieve price stability.
Yet Japanese stocks have been trading at
depressed levels for close to a decade now, and show no signs of reviving.
It hasn't yet broken above its 70 - week MA, but the reasons to expect that a reversal will be confirmed within the next few months are the
extremely depressed level from which the CRB Index is rebounding and the second of the following charts.
Depressed levels of mutual fund cash are a specific reflection of bullish sentiment among mutual fund managers as a group.
The shares of City Investing Liquidating Trust traded initially
at depressed levels for a number of additional reasons.
Wholesale power prices have stayed at
depressed levels this year due to cheap natural gas, growth in renewable energy and, in some states, subsidized nuclear power.
The key is to ask whether elevated levels are associated with weak subsequent changes, and
depressed levels are associated with strong subsequent changes (at least in evidence up to the present date).
The bigger risk might be
a depressed level of overall economic growth.
You already know that I do not chase high yield fantasies but gravitate to value, sustainable yield and stability and for now, at
these depressed levels the Canadian banks seem to fit that bill.
Eurozone inflation expectations have perked up from
depressed levels, and we see global reflation reinforcing Europe's comeback.
However, I do think sugar & coffee prices look interesting down at
these depressed levels.
Silver prices are still trading under their 20 and 100 day moving average as the trend remains mixed as were stuck in a tight consolidation as I will be looking at a bullish position if we break 16.81 as I will not go short as I think the downside is very limited at
these depressed levels.
The chart structure is terrible as the risk / reward is not your favor to enter a trade in either direction so be patient & wait for that gap to be filled as a possible retest of the 100 level could be in the cards as I think the downside is limited from
these depressed levels.
Value remains at
depressed levels — close to 60 % below its 2006 peak, so there's plenty of scope for value to catch up, with several factors helping to reinforce this catch up.
Housing starts have edged up but remain at
a depressed level.
However, investment in nonresidential structures is declining, housing starts have been flat at
a depressed level, and employers remain reluctant to add to payrolls.
Those figures represent trough - to - peak recoveries from
depressed levels, not sustainable earnings trends that are appropriate for valuing stocks over the long - term.
Investors of companies that make it through the increased scrutiny unscathed could be richly rewarded if they enter at
depressed levels; however, substantial risk still abounds in the sector due to a lack of trust and transparency.
And as though the holiday season weren't difficult enough, recent politics have heightened the tensions in our society to exhausting and
depressing levels.
«In just 13 months, the coalition government has secured
a depressing level of public anxiety which took the previous Conservative Government eighteen years to achieve.
Rats fed protein - deficient diets have decreased DBP concentrations and a decreased ability to regulate calcium metabolism.38 Humans with acute liver failure also have
depressed levels of DBP.39 This may be because the synthesis of DBP in the liver declines during such a condition, but DBP also plays a secondary role in scavenging harmful cellular debris from the blood; therefore, any kind of acute tissue damage can overwhelm our supply of DBP.