Sentences with phrase «highest measured optimism»

The S&P 500 just posted its best January since 1997, and also had its highest measured optimism, a 6.6 % risk premium, since October 2015.

The S&P 500 just posted its best January since 1997, and also had its highest measured optimism, a 6.6 % risk premium, since October 2015.

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Any optimism over preserving the eurozone quickly deflated when industry executives at the Paris auto show last month warned Europe likely will not see improvement for at least the next two years as strict austerity measures and high unemployment keep the economy weak and stifle consumer demand.

One of the best measures of that remaining optimism is the P / E multiple on normalized earnings, which presently remains stubbornly high.

«Three months after the presidential election, measures of consumer optimism regarding personal financial prospects and the economy are at or near the highest levels we've seen in the nearly seven - year history of the National Housing Survey,» says Doug Duncan, senior vice president and chief economist at Fannie Mae.