Sentences with phrase «have lower interest rates during»

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Moreover, corporate America has been dependent on low rates to finance the trillions of debt issuance it has taken on during the era of zero interest rate policy, or ZIRP.

Particularly during the period of extraordinary policy accommodation — low interest rates and $ 3.7 trillion of bond buying — the Fed sometimes has struggled to communicate its intentions.

Indeed, shorter - duration, tax - free munis have a history of delivering positive returns even during economic downturns and in environments of rising and lowering interest rates.

Interest rates in the US were reduced to historically low levels during 2001, while discretionary tax cuts and government spending increases (along with the automatic stabilisers) have shifted the fiscal position in a markedly expansionary direction.

It has also meant a lower value for the Canadian dollar and two interest rate cuts during 2015.

Carney, who became governor on July 1, issued forward guidance on interest rates during his previous job as head of the Bank of Canada — the idea being that people would be more likely to borrow if they knew rates were going to remain low.

Over the past 30 years, during which earnings growth hasn't been stellar, market values have instead been driven by Federal Reserve - induced low interest rates leading to corporate share repurchase strategies and merger and acquisition activity.

Let's take a look at some of the key fundamentals that have kept gold prices on a tight leash during the last few years against the backdrop of a sharp correction in the equities markets, rising inflation, geopolitical unrest and the likely end of an era of low interest rates.

Lower interest rates have provided some lift to sales during the first half of the year.

Using your home itself as collateral, this secured financing usually touts lower interest rates than credit cards and acts as a revolving source of funds, so that you can borrow against your home and pay back the credit line as many times as you'd like during the draw period.

Despite the difficulties endured during the era of post-Lehman austerity, commercial and private - sector debt levels are low: Nonperforming loans are below 5 % and the banking system, unlike those of Poland or Hungary, did not have to tackle the fallout from high levels of foreign currency loans, because low interest rates and a stable Czech koruna meant these weren't taken up in large quantities.

Satisfactory growth, if it can be achieved, requires very low interest rates that historically we have only seen during economic crises.

Given the fact that TLT has been pushing its way lower during the past four weeks, long - term interest rates have been moving higher.

A lower neutral rate also makes it more likely that interest rates will be constrained by the effective lower bound, meaning monetary policy will have less scope to support income growth during periods of economic weakness.

«We have an opportunity, if voters in town agree with the referendum, to have new debt in place with a minimal impact to residents,» said Wilson, adding that with currently low interest rates, residents likely would see no tax increase during the first five years of the 15 - year bond sale and a minimal increase for the following 10 years.

If you look at interest rates during the past 50 years you will see that mortgage costs have rarely been lower.

During this time, interest rates have been low, and growth has not been forthcoming.

However, the performance of dividend stocks tends to be lower during periods of rising interest rates, when they have to compete with bonds for income investors» attention.

Concern about bonds began during the summer, when the U.S. Federal Reserve said it would start as early as this month to taper a program that had the effect of keeping bond yields — interest rates, in other words — low.

During the 2013 student loan controversy, Rep. Higgins (D) supported keeping interest rates low to avoid «set [ting] promising, educated young people up for failure.»

The adjustable mortgage rate is risky if the interest rates increase during the early periods when you are actually supposed to have lower interest rates.

During the initial fixed - rate period, a hybrid ARM loan will generally have a lower interest rate than its fixed - rate counterpart.

While many people have chosen to purchase their first home during these times of lower interest rates, there has also been a large movement to refinance home loans and pull out equity for home improvements, investments, college expenses, and even high interest debt consolidation.

There is a danger in just looking at the last three years, of course, as interest rates have been held low during the period.»

Household debt loads have climbed during an era of low interest rates.

During this low rate environment the interest rate paid out by many senior loans has been held to minimums or «floors».

We won't have perpetually low interest rates unless the government interferes, as they have done recently and during the Great Depression.

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But what many don't realize is students who took out loans between 2006 and 2013 may be able to substantially lower the interest rate on those loans if they have good credit and refinance their loans during today's historically low interest rate environment.

This card is great during the intro offer, but after they will not lower your interest rate even if you have excellent credit and always pay more than the min.

In many cases borrowing during this low interest rate environment has worked for many Canadian consumers, if they kept up their monthly payments.

However, one thing that is almost certain is that mortgage interest rates hit their low during the Fall of 2010 and have been headed up since then.

Canadian banks have performed quite well both during and after the credit crisis of 2008/2009 and despite a low interest rate environment have had robust mortgage numbers for a number of consecutive years.

During the past few years, record numbers of Americans have refinanced their home mortgages as a result of historically low interest rates.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

Home sales had stayed surprisingly brisk during the latest economic downturn, helped by tight supply, a mild winter, and mortgage interest rates near historic lows.

However, one thing that is almost certain is that mortgage interest rates hit their low during the Fall of 2010 and have been headed up since then.

During the initial fixed - rate period, a hybrid ARM loan will generally have a lower interest rate than its fixed - rate counterpart.