Sentences with phrase «historic norms»

The typical amount of time it takes to sell a home is shrinking, and for traditional sellers is now in the range of historic norms for a balanced market.

Inventory levels are still below historic norms at 3.9 - months supply.

Further, the uniqueness of each includes a unique superiority, namely, the ability to achieve what, by its own historic norms, is most important.

However, low interest rates have also allowed the monthly cost of buying a home to remain well below historic norms.

The S&P is trading at just about 17.1 times 2018 earnings, in line with historic norms but well below the 18.5 multiple earlier this year.

However, first - time buyers accounted for 29 % of April sales, down from historic norms of around 40 %.

At the other end of the spectrum, the Swiss franc and Australian and New Zealand dollar's are deemed to be the most overvalued currencies right now, although Been and Specchia say their deviation is not extreme and remain within historic norms.

Permit volumes and somewhat stingier lenders signal a slowdown on the horizon, but development levels remain well above historic norms, with over half a million units under construction in the nation's largest 100 markets at the end of 3Q 2016.

This question has become a political issue in other coastal states - notably North Carolina, where the state's Coastal Resources Commission issued a report, based on the latest computer models, advising coastal communities to plan for up to 39 inches of sea sea - level rise by 2100, well beyond historic norms.

«For the U.S. overall, even if affordability were to deteriorate as forecasted, affordability would still be reasonable by historic norms.

Small consolation, that the Mora et al timeline for the Alps to exceed historic norms is a few years later than the 2040 date mentioned by Lynas as «possible» for the Alps to experience a +2.3 C rise.

«Our current forecast is for the median existing home price to rise 4.5 to 5 percent this year and about 5 percent in 2013, which is somewhat stronger than historic norms because of the inventory shortfall that is most pronounced in the low price ranges,» Yun says.

A new measure shows the typical amount of time it takes to sell a home is shrinking, and for traditional sellers is now in the range of historic norms for a balanced market, well below the cyclical peak reached in 2009, according to the National Association of REALTORS ®.

FOMC members now seem more eager than ever to «normalize» policy, that is raise short term rates into line with historic norms and, to the extent possible, unburden their balance sheet of the huge bond holding they had acquired over the last few years.

Temperatures around the world have been broadly static over the past five years, though they were still significantly above historic norms, and the years from 2000 to 2012 comprise most of the 14 hottest years ever recorded.

On a longer - term basis, it may be that this Fed interest - rate cycle will end with rates well below historic norms.

For example, Brown - Forman's forward P / E ratio of 28.5 is far higher than the S&P 500's forward PE of 17.4, as well as the industry median of 22.9 and the stock's own historic norm of 21.6.

It would take a decade for you to recover that lost value (assuming your home appreciated at the historic norm of 2 % in value per year).

Today — outside of California, with its botched energy deregulation — the cost of electrical power is only a little higher than historic norms.

But while it seems appealing to conclude that what goes down must go up — that today's ultra-low rates are an anomaly that must necessarily return to historic norms — we should remember it isn't necessarily so.

DCT and its peers will benefit as prices begin to rise in line with their historic norms.

This pattern is consistent with the historic norms: When economic growth and the central bank policy rate are both low, the correlation between stocks and bonds tends to be negative.

Concerned that Fed - provided liquidity would dry up, and further spooked by the news that some committee members saw equities as pricey (at least relative to historic norms,) the market turned down immediately, quickly reversing all the morning's gains and closing down for the day.

Hussman calculates that stock valuations are stretched 175 percent above their historic norms and predicts the S&P 500 will see negative total returns over the next 10 to 12 years.

But this is also occurring in an environment in which the broader stock market (i.e., the S&P 500) is elevated off of historic norms.

Even after the market's recent correction, stocks are more expensive today than historic norms.

In the past, the state recognized marriage, giving it legal forms to reinforce its historic norms (or, in more recent decades, to relax them).

The president of their dreams, who identified with them, gave them little and took much so far as their historic norms were concerned.

The white paper does not model how competition in the market place would result in lower prices and work to prevent the significant cost overruns and schedule slips that have been the historic norm for government programs with a single winner.

High schools have no historic norm for current achievement testing.

This pattern is consistent with the historic norms: When economic growth and the central bank policy rate are both low, the correlation between stocks and bonds tends to be negative.

But, how would affordability then compare to historic norms?

Rates would need to jump to 7 % in order for the percentage of necessary income to be greater than historic norms.

Median home prices rose faster than wages in 87 percent of local markets; 45 percent of markets less affordable than their historic norms, an eight - year high.

As home values continue to increase at levels greater than historic norms, some are concerned that we are heading for another crash like the one we experienced ten years ago.

With a P / E ratio below its historic norm and a massive moat in telecom, I like the company's chances.

But this is also occurring in an environment in which the broader stock market (i.e., the S&P 500) is elevated off of historic norms.

The historic norm is 13 or 14.

Nevertheless, the truth is that many stocks are now significantly overvalued based on both historic norms and fundamental values.

That's at interest rates around 4 percent — very low compared to historic norms.

And while mortgages remain «affordable» relative to historic norms, as growth in housing costs continues to outpace growth in wages, affordability should be expected to continue to deteriorate.

But how does that make sense when PE / 10 is 26 times earnings, bonds yield next to nothing or even negative yield and depending where you live and real estate is often grossly over priced to historic norms.

I believe dividend yield is most stable and reliable part of Gordon Equation and today's dividend yield is much lower than the historic norm.

Is a CAPE of 27.27 too high, especially when the historic norm is closer to 16?

And so the relative valuation compared to historic norms, and what — asking yourself what are the good things that can happen, what are the bad things that can happen, from where we are today.

And China will move heaven and earth to make it happen; for them, it is the best chance yet to take firm hold of the global leadership role which they see as the historic norm.