Sentences with phrase «historically weak rates»

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As I mentioned earlier, business investment collapsed during the Great Recession, and its much - weaker - than - expected recovery since, despite historically low financing rates, has been a major source of disappointment in advanced economies.8

But as Bernanke noted: «Despite this improvement, the job market remains weak overall: The unemployment rate is still well above its longer - run normal level, rates of long - term unemployment are historically high, and the labor force participation rate has continued to move down.

By now, everyone knows the story: Throughout the recovery, home values rebounded strongly and income growth (until very recently) has been weak at best — leading to a housing affordability pinch for many, particularly renters unable to take advantage of historically low mortgage interest rates.

Multifamily markets have been in a weak patch over the last three years as renters took advantage of historically low interest rates to move into homeownership.

«What we've seen historically is that REITs have more often had strong positive returns than weak or negative returns when interest rates are going up,» Case noted.