Sentences with phrase «levels by historical standards»
All these spreads are currently at very low levels by historical standards (Graph B1).
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Business confidence is high, and balance sheets appear to be sound, with corporate gearing at a low level by historical standards.
That would be a relatively low level by historical standards; in the past two tightening cycles by the Fed, the federal funds rate peaked at around 6 per cent.
Overall, despite the monthly volatility, the trends in the shares of respondents planning to buy a new home and the shares of respondents planning to buy a lived - in home within six months are climbing up from the trough and consumer confidence remains at a relatively high level by historical standards.
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While the level of mortgage arrears is still low by historical standards, a rising debt - service ratio could signal that's about to change.
Corporate gearing ratios remain conservative by historical standards and debt servicing costs remain low, reflecting the relatively low level of interest rates.
And although investment interest has been revived over the past year and a half, levels of exposure likely remain limited by historical standards.
The number of for - sale homes has risen 4.5 % over the past year to 2.31 million in August, but the level is still low by historical standards.
The level of bond yields in markets globally continues to be low by historical standards.
Yet, EU expansion has resulted in what the political scientist Geoff Evans describes as levels of immigration which are by historical British standards «exceptionally high».
The current schedule of police classes keeps the city's department level — but its ranks are low by historical standards.
With bond yields being depressed for so many years (and still extremely low by any historical standard) investors have scoured the globe for yield, which has pushed the yields on many traditional income investments — namely, bonds and dividend stocks — to levels far too low to be taken seriously.
But opportunity can be measured systematically by the market's dispersion, and dispersion in 2015, though slightly above 2014's level, remained quite low by historical standards.