Sentences with phrase «long by historical standards»

World growth will remain low on average but negative in the UK and Europe; price inflation will remain sufficiently subdued for a while longer so as to impose no constraint on monetary expansion; central banks will sustain a regime of negative real interest rates and rapid monetary expansion; the risk of a eurozone collapse is off the table for now; finally, stock markets should continue to perform better than expected, even though the four - year old cyclical bull market is long by historical standards.

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Long - term mortgage rates rose above 4 % recently, but they are still low by historical standards.

Andrew Walls begins the project by examining some of the implications of the other worlds that are bursting in upon what has long passed as the standard historical narrative.

A calling requiring specialized knowledge and often long and intensive preparation including instruction in skills and methods as well as in the scientific, historical, or scholarly principles underlying such skills and methods, maintaining by force of organization or concerted opinion high standards of achievement and conduct, and committing its members to continued study and to a kind of work which has for its prime purpose the rendering of a public service.

Those numbers - especially the longer - term inflation expectations - are not particularly high by historical standards.

Such low rates mean affordable monthly carrying costs for homes bought on credit, even though house prices, by long - term historical standards, are quite high.

Measured by nature's standards rather than by those of historical man, it is at present a delicately balanced, highly perishable world that has evolved over long geologic epochs of environmental change.

The market's seven - year recovery period has been a long one by historical standards, but is there an end date on it?