Sentences with phrase «half year low»

«We're near record production in oil and gas but we're at a 20 - year low in our carbon emissions.

That helped lower the unemployment rate in February to 7.7 per cent, a four - year low.

That suggests ongoing job growth in an economy many regard as near full employment, with the jobless rate at a 17 - year low of 4.1 percent.

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

«The percentage of Americans that hold individual stocks is at a 16 - year low.

Claims had fallen to 229,000 in the prior week, near a 44-1/2 - year low, and remain well below the 300,000 level generally regarded as signaling a healthy labor market.

It hit a three - year low earlier this year, weighed by comments from Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin that indicated a preference for a weaker currency.

But despite the Trump administration's call for urgency, data from the Customs and Border Protection agency actually show that arrests for illegal border crossing has been falling for years and now hovers near the bottom of a 40 - year low.

Over the next 19 months, its price dropped more than 70 %, to a 13 - year low of $ 28 on Jan. 20, 2016.

After falling to a 50 - year low, the U.S. homeownership rate has been steadily rising, driven by millennials.

In Dalio's view, the rising inequality is contributing to increased political polarization and reduced trust in government, financial institutions, and the media, which are all at 35 - year lows.

In 2013, only 3.6 percent of households headed by adults younger than 30 owned stakes in private companies — a 24 - year low.

BP disappointed analysts on Tuesday morning, reporting lower - than - expected net income in the fourth quarter and annual earnings that dipped to at least a 10 - year low.

August 14 - The ringgit, which had been on a downward trend, plunges to a 17 - year low, losing as much as 2.6 percent to 4.1180 per dollar, in part due to concerns about the Federal Reserve's expected rate hike, and also because outside investors are concerned about the turmoil surrounding Najib.

Gov. Mitt Romney set fact - checkers scrambling during this week's debate when he stated that new business startups were at 30 - year lows.

CREA said Friday the level of sales activity marked a four - year low for the month of March and was seven per cent below the 10 - year average.

Belarusian Potash Co. supplied about 42 per cent of the world's potash exports before it broke up and sent prices to a four - year low as major buyers like China and India waited to see how far prices would fall.

The British pound plunged to a 2 1/2 - year low on the treasury's new - found appetite for inflation and monetary easing.

In the U.K., economic growth slowed to a one - year low of 0.3 percent from 0.7 percent in the last three months of 2016, the Office for National Statistics said on Friday.

The gains were enough to lower the unemployment rate to a 4 1/2 - year low of 7.4 per cent, a good sign in an otherwise lacklustre report.

Oh, and crude oil futures have also hit new 13 - year lows as Iran marks its return to markets by dumping millions of barrels that have been stored, sanctions - bound, for years.

Canada's energy producers are hurting as the North American oil benchmark dropped to a fresh six - year low Monday, closing at US$ 38.24 a barrel.

Weighed against unemployment, which has dropped to a 16 - year low at 4.1 percent, that weakness has puzzled economists and made some policy makers declare the Fed should hold off on additional rate increases until prices respond more briskly.

But the figures are further illustration of how even an ultra-loose monetary policy from the European Central Bank, which has driven the euro to a 12 - year low against the dollar this year, still hasn't created a self - sustaining recovery in the region.

Petrol prices reached 14 - year low averages in the past year but gross retail margins hit fresh highs, the competition watchdog says.

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.

I mean M2 money supply is only 5 percent now year over year — that's a six - year low in terms of monetary growth.»

In response to the vote, the British pound had collapsed to a 31 - year low against the US dollar, falling below $ 1.35, while stock futures were collapsing with US futures off more than 3.5 % while London's FTSE 100 down almost 9 %.

On Thursday, again, the price of oil tumbled with the spot price slipping below $ 75 a barrel; that's a four - year low.

The appointment did little to restore investor confidence in HP, with shares now trading at a six - year low.

The unemployment rate also fell to a 16 - year low of 4.2 percent.

The American Association of Individual Investors found last week that only 15.6 % of those it polled were bearish, a three - year low, and down from 34 % a month ago.

In reality, according to the Kauffman Foundation, entrepreneurial activity is at a 40 - year low in America.

The percentage of Harvard MBAs headed into investment banking is back into the double - digits, 10 % this year from a six - year low of 6 % in 2009.

The British pound hit a new seven - year low against the dollar after Bank of England Governor Mark Carney on Tuesday ruled out an interest rate rise any time soon.

Interviews were conducted before the announcement on April 28 that weak consumer spending had slowed economic growth to a three - year low.

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

A 14 - year low on jobless claims reinforced expectations that slack in the labor market was being reduced.

U.S. crude imports are at a 16 - year low, reconfiguring the map of global oil trade.

The report stated home prices in the borough are at a 10 - year high, increasing 14.7 % year - over-year, with inventory at a seven - year low.

The euro hit a new 9 - year low of $ 1.1894 against the dollar in response.

Delinquencies on bank card payments, which are not part of the composite, fell to 2.41 percent during the quarter, a 22 - year low.

Bond prices made a high for the year on Tuesday, and credit spreads are at year low's.

In Russia, the RTS index was down 3.7 % by lunchtime in Moscow, close to a seven - year low, as the ruble hit a new low against the dollar.

Overnight, crude oil futures had fallen to a new 13 - year low of $ 29.72 a barrel, although by 0600 ET they had recovered by nearly $ 1 to stand at $ 30.73.

Labor: U.S. job growth surged in January and the unemployment rate of 4.1 percent is at a 17 - year low.

Editor's note: The below is a fictional letter by an imagined banker on how the foreign exchange market looks from London's financial district at the end of a week when the pound slumped to a 31 - year low against the dollar, rounded off by a humiliating «flash crash» of 6 % in overnight trading on Friday.

Seasonal adjustments tend to be more difficult around holidays, and claims remain near a 45 - year low, indicating a persistent shortage of qualified workers is keeping employers reluctant to fire staff.

Viewership for last year's show was down about 1.4 % from 2015, marking a seven - year low.

However, awards show ratings in general have fallen in recent years, with the Oscars hitting an eight - year low last February with just over 34 million viewers.