Sentences with phrase «five year low»

Good news — the economy is improving and unemployment is at a five year low point.

Trading near its five year low with a dividend yield of over 4 %, no debt and over $ 500 million in cash, I don't see why this stock isn't trading in the $ 15 - $ 20 range.

Despite the assertions of the insurance industry, the number of whiplash claims has fallen to a five year low, with 60,000 fewer claims last year.

For the first time in the Premier League two clubs scored over 100 goals (Manchester City - 102 & Liverpool - 101) despite the divisional total slumping to a five year low; (1052 vs 942); Jose Mourinho lost his first EPL home game in 78 matches and that victory helped Sunderland to become only the second team ever to survive the drop having been bottom at Christmas.

The VIX Index which is suppose to measure investor fear is mired near a five year low.

Average cash balances among portfolio managers also fell to 4.4 % this month, a five year low, the survey found.

Couple this economic softness with the fact that just about any commodity you can think of from iron ore, to orange juice, to silver, to coffee, to copper is at or near a five year low and it becomes increasingly difficult to find any significant inflationary pressure and hence the imminent need for a (small) rate increase.

Mortgage Volumes Hit Five Year Low The volume of home mortgages originated during the fourth quarter fell to its lowest level in five years, according to an analysis published Thursday by Inside Mortgage Finance, an industry newsletter.

«Mt Cuthbert is a low cost copper producer recognised by its ability to return profits during the recent twenty - five year low copper price slump.

By most accounts, commodity prices are at five year lows.

She reported that the average age at diagnosis was five years lower in both South Asian women and Black women (55 years) than in White women (60 years).

And taking the pill for five years lowers risk of ovarian cancer by 50 percent

In one case in Houston we had a campus that went from five years low performing to the second highest rating you can get in our system within one year.

Not exact matches

Economists expect similar job gains in March, in part because a measure of unemployment benefit applications fell this month to a five - year low.

On Thursday, the U.S. Labor Department announced that the number of new jobless claims had hit its lowest mark in five and a half years, down 19,000 to 326,000.

Hyundai Motor on Wednesday said it expected competition and protectionist measures to increase, after posting its lowest quarterly profit in about five years.

The NSFC's president, Yang Wei, said that further advancing China's renewable energy sector was a crucial part of its 13th five - year plan and would help to «drive future economic growth and advance the cause of low - carbon development.»

The status quo for hundreds of thousands of people, meanwhile, is untenable: More than 333,000 Americans will be diagnosed this year in any of four cancer types in which the five - year survival rate remains lower than 20 %, and in all, nearly 600,000 U.S. deaths are expected from cancer in 2016.

That is a lower return than the past five years yielded, but MacMaster's not worried.

Under Welch, the firm downsized more than 100,000 workers in five years, one strategy being to dump the lowest 10 percent of performers.

This alone, however, does not explain why almost half of the 30 positions that existed in Richmond five years ago have disappeared, or why, according to various surveys, SBA employees have just about the lowest morale in the federal bureaucracy.

Choosing the lower number on the no - fee loan would save a borrower almost $ 4,000 over the first five years.

Here are the five lowest - grossing Best Picture winners of the past forty years.

A LendingTree survey found that customers who received five quotes on its platform for a typical 30 - year home loan of $ 223,000 witnessed a difference of 52 basis points from the highest to the lowest quotes.

After a five - year bear market in most metal commodities, miners finally had a bull run in 2016, with some stocks» prices more than doubling off their lows.

They wanted to know if they should break their mortgages and refinance at BMO's limited - time, bargain - basement 2.99 % rate — the lowest rate ever officially offered by a Canadian bank for a five - year, fixed - rate mortgage.

The mining sector has reached a new five - year low, with confidence levels likely to take years to recover, according to industry leaders surveyed in the latest Mining Business Outlook report.

The single biggest element is $ 17.6 billion over five years in spending restraint, including anticipated lowered operating costs of $ 6.8 billion over the same time period.

So, after a multi-year decline in Canadian venture capital funding — hitting a low of just $ 1 billion in 2009, despite US$ 132 billion invested by venture capitalists south of the border over the past five years — the March budget finally screamed an end to business as usual.

Mark Bello (above) opened Pizza a Casa on New York City's Lower East Side, he says, after spending nearly five years as a «nomadic pizza - teacher - for - hire,» sharing his pizza skills at various locations around the Big Apple.

«Shoppers tends to be a Top Five company, but last year was a low point for them with the fight for generic drugs,» says Susan Quinn - Mullins, a senior adviser to the Research Institute.

Analysts said that would be a slight increase on 2017, when the automakers are estimated to have sold about 7.3 million vehicles, their lowest in five years.

Although upstart mattress companies are challenging brick - and - mortar incumbents like Sleep Country by offering lower prices and a hassle - free experience, the company plans to open up to 12 locations annually for the next five to seven years.

Nest will install one million of its thermostats, meant to save on energy usage and costs, in low - and moderate - income households over the next five years.

«Once an agency has been on board with Evidence.com for five years, we think the churn rate will be quite low,» CEO Rick Smith told Reuters.

When college dropouts Andrew Perlman and Mark Land founded Cignal Global Communications, a fiber - optic data - communications company, five years ago, they ran it out of a low - rent apartment in Cambridge, Mass..

Starbucks» stock price reached an all - time high in early November, up more than five times from its 10 - year low in 2008.

The 2012 numbers marked the lowest in five years.

Elevated valuations, low volatility and secularly low interest rates are unlikely to be allies for robust financial market returns over the next five years,» the fund company cautioned in its report.

If you have products or services that help firms lower their environmental impact, as well as costs, you'll see even more growth opportunities over the next five years, says IBISWorld analyst Lauren Setar.

It boasts a five - year average return of 13.2 % and has been rebounding smartly from February lows.

But in the last five years, that lower age has decreased.

Valeant, meanwhile, fell to its lowest point in more than five years, down nearly 90 % since its peak last summer.

Up to five years in the making, the new chips are intended to outperform products from Intel and Nvidia, not just compete with lower prices.

TSA PreCheck, valid for up to five years, allows low - risk travelers to enjoy expedited security screening.

That number is an improvement on the 12 - percent decline in subscription revenue AOL saw during the second quarter of last year, which was the lowest rate of decline in five years, the company said.

New Hampshire residents enjoy the lowest poverty rate of any state in the entire country, and it also boasts the sixth - best nationwide employment rate over the last five years.

«It's essentially been a flattish market for the last five years; now 2017 is plus 20 percent, that's an amazing rebound,» said Bruno Lannes, Shanghai - based partner at Bain, adding lower pricing and government support were key drivers.

Maybank expects those payouts will be raised by around 100 - 150 ringgit from 2015's 950 ringgit for low - income households, noting that in 2013, the government pledged BR1M payouts of 1,200 ringgit within five years.

SABMiller's strategic shareholders, who hold 41 % of the company's stock, would receive a lower offer worth 37.49 a share paid overwhelmingly in the form of a new class of unlisted share with a five - year lock - up period (a premium of only 28 %).