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«Importantly, the series also shows a sharp decline in the flows of illegal immigration at the U.S. - Mexico border during the last recession, and those flows have remained at historically low levels since then.»

The four - week moving average of initial claims, considered a better measure of labor market trends as it irons out week - to - week volatility, fell 1,250, to 231,250 last week, the lowest level since March 31, 1973.

The four - week moving average of continuing claims fell 750, to 1.90 million, the lowest level since Jan. 12, 1974, suggesting a continued decline in labor market slack.

TRAVEL group Globetrotter doesn't necessarily share the sentiments of a recent survey showing business confidence at its lowest level since the GFC, and has launched a new business unit targeting empl

The retailer's shares tanked 19 % to $ 28.37 — their lowest level since 2010 — after it reported that same - store sales, or revenue of stores open at least 14 months, rose a mere 0.1 % in the second quarter, well below its own forecasts for a rise of 2 % to 3 %, and short of Wall Street projections for a 1.4 % gain.

Likewise, mortgage arrears in Ontario just reached their lowest level since 1990, the year Toronto's last housing bubble popped.

Discussing the VIX's lowest level since August 5, 2015 and what it means for the options market with «Fast Money» trader Dan Nathan.

This recommendation comes on a morning when stocks are selling off and the 10 - year is pushing to a fresh year - to - date low of 1.528 %, its lowest level since 2012.

Commodity prices just slumped to their lowest level since the end of the 20th century, according to a widely used Bloomberg index.

Even though the U.S. unemployment rate is at its lowest level since early 2008, America's central bank opted to leave its policy rate unchanged last week.

Meanwhile, the U.S. dollar has dropped to its lowest level since the election in November this Tuesday.

In 2009, venture capital investing in Canadian tech companies and fundraising by Canadian VC firms dropped to the lowest levels since the mid-1990s (though there has been a slight uptick this year).

Greece's 10 - year borrowing cost fell to their lowest level since 2009 on Monday after a rating upgrade from Moody's.

The Bank of Canada's latest quarterly survey of businesses shows that companies expect little sales growth over the next 12 months and that their investment intentions are stuck near the lowest levels since the Great Recession.

The S&P 500's forward price - to - earnings, or P / E, ratio is a shade under 17 times right now, putting it at its lowest level since 2016 and just 11 % above its long - term average, according to BAML.

In fact, their index fell to its lowest level since August 2014.

The IRS audited only 0.84 % of taxpayers in 2015, the lowest level since 2004, and the agency is on track to audit even fewer people this year.

The number of police officers in England and Wales has also plummeted to its lowest level since 1985 and now stands at just 123,000.

Stocks plunged Tuesday, making it one of the worst days on Wall Street so far this year and sending the major indexes to their lowest levels since early September.

Additionally, prices for its major commodity exports - crude oil and palm oil - have dropped sharply and its currency, the ringgit, is trading close to its lowest levels since the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s.

The strong first quarter aside, the company's overall revenue has fallen in back - to - back years when measured in U.S. dollars, with 2014 net income ($ 593 million) sinking to its lowest level since the recession - racked 2009.

The likelihood of the U.S. entering recession is seen at just 21 percent, its lowest level since September and down nearly 8 points from January, when fears were rampant of a slowdown.

TRAVEL group Globetrotter doesn't necessarily share the sentiments of a recent survey showing business confidence at its lowest level since the GFC, and has launched a new business unit targeting employee incentives in the workplace.

Meanwhile, income from sales and trading fell to the lowest level since the financial crisis despite repeated promises by Cryan.

Meanwhile, U.S. net imports of crude oil fell last week by 1.6 million bpd to 4.98 million bpd, the lowest level since the EIA started recording the data in 2001, reflecting further erosion in a market OPEC has been relying on for decades.

It marked the second consecutive monthly decline and the lowest level since April 2017.

That brighter view also comes days after the firm's economists released their own buoyant projections for the year ahead, with expectations for greater growth both in the U.S. and globally and a domestic unemployment rate at its lowest level since 1969.

As a result, the labor force participation rate, which measures the percentage of Americans who are working or looking for work, fell to 62.8 % — the lowest level since 1978.

The ISM non-manufacturing PMI released earlier this week was at the lowest level since 2009, and almost on recession watch.

Overall imports were unchanged in September as petroleum imports hit their lowest level since November 2009.

Meanwhile 5 - year breakevens, which were the breakeven measure the market more closely followed through the fall, were down to 1.53 %, their lowest level since October 29.

Unemployment is at 4.3 %, the lowest level since 2001.

A key measure of labor market slack - the number of job seekers for every open position - hit its lowest level since 2007 in December.

And now the yield curve is threatening to invert again, with the spread between 10 - and two - year Treasury note yields now at its lowest level since that fateful year.

It is at the lowest level since June 2016.

Headlines crossing Reuters early Tuesday noted that 10 - year breakevens are now at 1.86 %, their lowest level since October 15.

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

In 2014, the number of Mexican immigrants detained at the southwest border of the U.S. dropped to about 227,000 — the lowest levels since the early 1970s.

The store's numbers haven't been pretty either: Same - store sales growth last quarter was at its lowest level since 2009, a fact blamed in part on the New York City investigation and on the longer - term concern that it is facing stiff competition in the healthy - eating ethos up and down the grocery food chain — from Kroger (KR) and Walmart (WMT) to Trader Joe's and Sprouts (SFM).

Prices for major commodity exports crude oil and palm oil have dropped sharply and its currency, the ringgit, is trading close to its lowest levels since the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s.

The reading on the economy follows a report Thursday by Statistics Canada that foreign direct investment in Canada amounted to $ 33.8 billion, the lowest level since 2010 and well off the record of $ 126.1 billion set in 2007.

Plurimi's Armstrong was particularly skeptical about Tesla due to production issues surrounding the firm's vehicles and its bond pricesplummeting to their lowest levels since first being issued.

Growth in Hong Kong's manufacturing sector came in at its lowest level since August.

The ringgit has lost a quarter of its value against the U.S. dollar this year and fallen to its lowest levels since the Asian financial crisis 17 years ago.

That percentage peaked in the U.S. in 1998, and recently it hit its lowest levels since the 1980s, when women started to enter the work force in large numbers.

The refinance share of mortgage activity decreased to 46.4 percent of total applications, its lowest level since July, from 47.8 percent the previous week.

The Cboe Volatility Index (VIX), widely considered to be the best gauge of fear in the market, hit its lowest level since Feb. 1 and traded more than 11.5 percent lower at 14.62.

Bonds flipped between negative and positive territory as concerns about economic growth pushed the 10 - year note yield to lowest level since April.

At that rate, the weekly volume is on track for its lowest level since the week of last Christmas.

Last Friday we learned that the U.S. unemployment rate dropped to 7.4 % in July, the lowest level since 2008.