The Wells Fargo Investment Institute recently suggested that earnings growth may have peaked in the first quarter, while Morgan Stanley calculated that expectations for stock returns were at their lowest
level since before the financial crisis.
Key components, such as housing and medical inflation, continue to rise and are now at their highest
levels since before the financial crisis.
Sales surged in 2013 to the highest
level since before the financial crisis, as investors sought out the higher yielding products.
Not exact matches
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.
While credit spreads and leading indicators appear to be fairly well behaved, many have noted the sinister looking shape of the yield curve, near its flattest
level since before the global
financial crisis (see the chart below).
Speaking at the Bloomberg Invest New York summit last week, the 73 - year - old Gross said markets are now at their highest risk
levels since before the 2008
financial crisis.
Both figures are at the highest
levels since the
financial crisis of 2008, though the number of offerings remains below the
level set
before the
financial crisis.
Retail sales picked up in the December quarter in most countries, and capacity utilisation rates are at
levels not seen
since before the Asian
financial crisis.
U.K. registrations of new cars rose 11 % in 2013 to their highest
level since before the 2008
financial crisis, reflecting the country's relatively strong economic recovery in contrast with the rest of Europe, where car demand has revived only recently from a prolonged slump.
In some cities, they're reaching
levels not seen
since the
before the
financial crisis.
You know, like the fact that the last Labour government had reduced the national debt as a percentage of GDP to its lowest
level since WWII
before the international
financial crisis hit in 2008.
But the boom in equity markets has driven down their «spread» over government bonds to the lowest
level since before the 2008 — 09
financial crisis.
Global subsidies for fossil fuels have returned to
levels not seen
since before the
financial crisis in 2008, estimated at $ 523 billion to $ 1.9 trillion, according to a new report.