Sentences with phrase «level near year»

Caps were set at the same $ 30 billion level in 2014, and both agencies started approaching that level near year - end.

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Elsewhere, the dollar held at a three - month high against a basket of currencies, after having received a boost from U.S. 10 - year Treasury yields holding near the key 3 percent level.

The Federal Reserve's decisions over the past 12 months to continuously raise interest rates from the near zero percent level of the past few years have made it more profitable for big banks to lend money.

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.

In the bond market, the 10 - year US Treasury yield fell less than 1 basis point, to 2.79 %, near the key 3 % level that traders are closely watching.

CEO Randy Eresman noted in the Calgary - based company's 2011 year - end results: «For the industry as a whole, near - term natural gas prices are at levels below what it costs to add most new production, and in some places, may even be below what it costs to produce from existing wells.»

«We expect this combination to drive cash levels near $ 7.5 bn by the end of the fiscal year, which is roughly in - line with the level achieved when the 2015 payment was made.»

«Over the last couple of years, the number of new brewery openings has been at near unprecedented levels,» said Bart Watson, Ph.D., staff economist at Brewers Association, a craft beer industry group.

When examining the IWM over the past two years, Nathan noted that group is nearing a key technical level at its 200 - day moving average.

The S&P 500 Index should still produce healthy gains for the full year, though political uncertainty has introduced a level of volatility in the near term, says Calvasina.

The yield on 10 - year Treasury bond is hovering near its highest levels in four years.

A spokeswoman for Morneau disagreed, saying that since the Liberals came to office, the economy has created more than 600,000 jobs and the unemployment rate has been near its lowest level in about 40 years.

Corporate profit margins have been rising for 15 years and are now near their highest levels ever.

The count of companies that did not take part in buybacks or dividends remained at a low level (20 companies), right near the average for the past three years.»

Chief Financial Officer Brian Gilvary said the London - listed company might consider raise the dividend later this year if oil prices remain near current levels and debt declines.

Equity markets are up so far this year, while volatility in the U.S. bond market is near its lowest level since late 2014.

Personal consumption rose 4.2 % in the second quarter of the year, the best reading since the fourth quarter of 2014 and near the best level we've seen since before the financial crisis.

Short - term yields turned positive, with the two - year note yield near its highest level of the year after comments from the Fed's Stanley Fischer.

Its shares are up more than 60 percent in the last year and are now trading at near - record levels in the low $ 70s.

A small decline in sales this year isn't a concern - I think sales will move mostly sideways at near record levels.

The stock then built a 5 - year basing pattern at that level and is now trading near a 2 - year high.

The stock found support near 70 cents in the second half of the year, testing that level three times ahead of a March 2017 uptick that has now reached ranged resistance.

Within a bull market, a shallow correction of just 5 - 6 % that holds near that level would be a bullish sign that could lead to a strong Q3 and Q4 of this year.

The euro, which had already been near its lowest level in 11 years on expectations of action by the central bank, weakened further against the dollar, falling about 1 percent to around $ 1.14, a move that could help European exporters.

Shareholders want Levy, more than seven years at the helm, to come up with a strategy to revive a stock that is trading near its lowest level in nine years.

Precious and Industrial Metals Inflation concerns, geopolitical tensions and interest - rate levels, especially real yields, contributed to a 1.7 % rise in the spot price of gold (to US$ 1,325 per troy ounce), as did swings in the US dollar.1 Gold prices traded within the US$ 1,305 — 1,360 range throughout the period, reached 18 - month highs in March and capped their third straight quarterly gain, a feat not seen since 2011.1 Haven demand was a key support as exchange - traded gold holdings of 2,269 metric tons (mt) neared a five - year high.1 The Fed is widely expected to boost borrowing costs, and investors have been carefully watching the central bank's statements to see whether it targets more rate increases in 2018 than previously projected.

With the S&P 500 within about 8 % of its highest level in history, with historically reliable valuation measures at obscene levels, implying near - zero 10 - 12 year S&P 500 nominal total returns; with an extended period of extreme overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions replaced by deterioration in market internals that signal a clear shift toward risk - aversion among investors; with credit spreads on low - grade debt blowing out to multi-year highs; and with leading economic measures deteriorating rapidly, we continue to classify market conditions within the most hostile return / risk profile we identify — a classification that has been observed in only about 9 % of history.

The US oil - rig count plateaued near the highest level in three years and showed signs of declining in late March (to 797), though it still stood 50 rigs above the year - end 2017 total.2 This contributed to expectations for a further increase in American crude production, which has topped 10 mb / d each week since early February, when WTI prices began to recede from their intra-quarterly high of US$ 66.14 a barrel.3 The amount of crude in US storage occasionally exceeded weekly estimates given the higher domestic output and fluctuating net import figures, reigniting fears that US production may thwart OPEC's efforts to clear global oversupply.

Japan's Nikkei has rallied about 6.5 percent year - to - date, according to Yahoo Finance, nearing its highest levels since early 2000.

Gold fell as the dollar held near the highest level in five years and investors reduced holdings in the largest exchange - traded product backed by the metal, curbing demand for a store of value.

In a note to clients, Drexel Hamilton analyst Tony Wible wrote, «We see NFLX having 115 million international subs in 10 years that would generate $ 19 billion of revenue if NFLX can sustain prices near US levels and routinely raise prices by a modest amount.»

However, crude oil inventories remain high, with current storage levels near 500 million bbl, which is approximately 9 million bbl ahead of last year.

Using daily levels of the S&P 500 Index, an index of 10 - year Treasuries, nearest - month gold and oil futures and the Federal Reserve Nominal Trade Weighted Effective Index for the dollar from January 1985 through October 2009 (nearly 25 years), they find that: Keep Reading

... we're very near the bottom, certainly low enough that these levels could look like a phenomenal buy a year or two from now.

The price of gold has surged in recent years, topping $ 1,800 per ounce in September 2011, but it was recently down 32 % from that level, near $ 1,221.

Meanwhile, implied volatility is near its lowest level in 25 years, as measured by the MOVE index, which tracks volatility in one - month options on Treasury futures.

Current interest rates are slowly rising back to historical norms after years of near - zero levels.

Surveys of consumer and business confidence are generally above long - run averages and unemployment is near its lowest level in almost 30 years.

In a report the bank assigned a 25 % probability to a near - term (less than six months) currency devaluation change, increasing to 40 % if oil stays at current levels throughout 2016, rising to 60 % if oil stays sub - $ 50 per barrel for the next two years.

Home construction per household a decade after the bust remains near the lowest level in 60 years of record - keeping, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

The Federal Reserve's monetary policy has helped spur the U.S. housing market in recent years, because it has indirectly held long - term mortgage rates near record - low levels.

With interest rates still hovering near the lowest levels they've ever been in 5,000 + years of recorded human history, it's very difficult to achieve a significant investment return without taking on substantial risk.

Rates for 30 - year fixed conventional loans have remained below 4.5 % for some time, and rates are not expected to rise above that level in the near future.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency reported that mortgage contract rates on purchases of newly built homes rose by 11 basis points over the month of February to 4.14 percent, near its last peak level of 4.18 percent established one year ago in February 2017.

Years later, the Fed had to decide if our economy was finally doing well enough to consider raising interest rates to more normal levels (that is, above a near - zero rate).

Engineering construction has risen by 50 per cent over the past year, to reach very high levels, and is set to expand further in the near term, driven by a considerable stock of resource and infrastructure work in the pipeline.

So there are lots of those long - term factors, demographics, aging population, global competition that mean that long - term interest rates may not rise at the same level, but one can't help but feel that we have seen six, seven years and in some cases, 10 years now post global financial crisis of near - zero interest rates and it's just, I suspect, there are a lot of market practitioners have gotten used to that idea and haven't really gotten their heads around the fact that we are still seeing Fed governors suggesting we have got one more rate increase this year and potentially two or three coming out next year.

T - Note prices are hovering near their lowest level in eight years.

While 90 - day annualized volatility of oil, around 50 %, is the highest since April last year, and is near its 2001 peak, it's not near the high levels of 2008 or 1991.

I have straddled both sides of this fence, having had a near - death experience myself at age 29 (when my daughter was 3 years old) and, years later, at age 46, when I served as a student chaplain in a Level - One trauma center during graduate school.