Sentences with phrase «lower remaining years»

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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.

The status quo for hundreds of thousands of people, meanwhile, is untenable: More than 333,000 Americans will be diagnosed this year in any of four cancer types in which the five - year survival rate remains lower than 20 %, and in all, nearly 600,000 U.S. deaths are expected from cancer in 2016.

Bitcoin has struggled to claw back to $ 10,000 in the last several weeks and remains roughly 36 percent lower for the year.

Private equity returns remained strong but were lower than the prior year quarter, while income from our fixed income investment portfolio increased due to a higher average level of fixed maturity investments and higher short - term interest rates.

With four major players remaining in the wireless market, consumers should continue to benefit from competition that has lowered prices, eliminated two - year contracts, and done away with all sorts of annoying fees and extra charges.

This will offset the impact of market conditions which remain challenging in the near term, contributing to lower (year - on - year) underlying revenue.

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged Wednesday but noted that inflation is nearing its 2 percent target rate after years of remaining undesirably low.

Seasonal adjustments tend to be more difficult around holidays, and claims remain near a 45 - year low, indicating a persistent shortage of qualified workers is keeping employers reluctant to fire staff.

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.»

Alexander agrees that we'll remain in a low - interest - rate environment for at least two or three years, though he can see the Bank of Canada increasing rates by, at most, 1 % between now and 2015.

If nothing changes, the memo to Morneau estimates potential growth will «remain low» over the next 15 years at 1.7 per cent.

LONDON, March 19 - Gold touched its lowest in more than two weeks on Monday as markets remained nervous ahead of a U.S. central bank meeting that could raise interest rates and signal three more increases this year.

While at the beginning of 2011 trading in euro - dollar futures was still foreseeing a return to typical interest rates over the next few years, that view has given way to expectations that rates will remain low for a decade to come.

However, so far, it remains near this year's lows despite the widening of the spread.

The economy may be healthy enough for them to raise interest rates, but the new 0.5 percent to 0.75 percent target for the benchmark fed funds rate, up a quarter point from where it had been, remains far below the historical norm — and, by all indications, the Fed still expects rates to stay low for at least a few more years.

«While we expect to see even further reduced demand in the oilsands for much of the remainder of the fiscal year, we believe we are taking the appropriate steps to help us remain profitable at lower volumes,» president and CEO Martin Ferron said in a release.

Even after this year's sell - offs, it remains above its two - year trendline dating back to early 2016 lows.

«While everyone is focused on valuation and bubbles (to some degree rightfully so), the fact remains that the last few years have been supported by a low level of net equity issuance that has, all else equal, supported prices,» says Dan Greenhaus, chief global strategist at BTIG.

Many investors felt this pain after the 2008 market crash, though those who remained invested at the 2008/2009 lows have more than made their money back in the years since — the S&P 500 Index is up 171 percent since the beginning of 2009.

The Fed noted that rental vacancy rates in northern New Jersey and upstate New York remained near multiyear lows, while rents rose by about 4 % year - on - year.

Dixons Carphone remained at the bottom of the European benchmark, down more than 23 percent, after lowering its full - year profit on tougher market conditions.

Yet «low» inflation remains in the spotlight for Fed policymakers, with government price data remaining tame over the past five years.

In December, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time in 9 years — but they're still low, and will remain low for some time.

«During the first eight months of 2016, Apple saw its smartphone market share remain at a record low compared to the last few years,» Counterpoint research director Jeff Fieldhack wrote.

Economic factors like consumer confidence, financial obligations, and delinquencies are all improving and the consumer may be more insulated than investors think from a back - up in yields, given 75 % of their financial obligations are in the form of a mortgage, close to 90 % of all mortgages are 30 - year fixed, and the average mortgage is termed out at the lowest rate ever... Taking these factors into account, we generally think it pays to remain sanguine.»

Nevertheless, rates remain lower than they were before the 2012 cuts, and this year's elimination of an exemption for pass - through income improves the neutrality of the state's income tax code.

Funding would remain over the next few years, albeit slightly lower, but the plan would also set an expectation for alternative energy industries to wean themselves from government aid in the next decade.

Official short - term interest rates - the instrument of choice for central banks - were cut aggressively but soon hit the zero lower bound, where most of them have remained for the past five years (Chart 1).

Given that U.S. short - term interest rates are stuck at zero, and are likely to remain unusually low for some time even if the Federal Reserve starts to raise rates later this year, return for cash this year is almost certain to be negative.

That said, the trend is still clear, as the Canadian Dollar and the Australian Dollar are both trading very close to their multi-month lows, while the Yen remains the best performing major of the year so far.

I like the idea of having gold for inflation risk and long - term treasuries for deflation but I can envision a future where interest rates and inflation remain low for years which would be bad for returns on both.

Also, the share of non-performing housing loans over the past year remains little changed at relatively low levels.

It appears that volatility wasn't the only number that was suppressed in the stock market last year: Stock correlations also remained low.

Claims remained near a more than 48 - year low of 209,000 touched during the week ended April 21.

On the other side of the debate, Narayana Kocherlakota, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, argued in a speech on Thursday night that the Fed should not raise rates this year because price inflation remains too low.

Although rates have popped from recent lows, it's possible that higher yields remain range - bound in the months (years?)

Over the past year, the bond yield curve has been positive but flattening (short - term yields remained lower than long - term yields, but the differential has narrowed).

Despite interest rates remaining very low by historical measures, any dental organization looking to utilize external funding for projects this fiscal year should be aware of potential changes and possible budget implications.

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.

The $ 330 - billion spending plan says while several economic indicators such as employment numbers and tax revenues are up, and this year's deficit will likely be lower than expected — there are risks ahead: oil prices are expected to remain low; Canadian exports may remain flat; and «possible U.S. policy actions affecting trade could restrain exports to the U.S. even further,» the budget says.

Inflation has remained stubbornly low and the dollar has been on an unstoppable seven - year rise.

Although interest rates have been on the rise in the past few months, they remain historically low, especially when viewed in the context of the past 30 years or so.

For one thing, 10 - year yields elsewhere in the world remain significantly lower, which is to say that global investor demand for U.S. notes should hold steady.

This is mostly due to much lower oil prices after the oil shock (expected to remain around $ 53 per barrel in the next two years), as oil proceeds still account for more than 50 % of government revenues.

I agree with earlyretired, I am not sure that interest rates will remain low past the next couple of years without some adjustment to government spending.

«Given a property inventory overhang of two to five years in lower - tier cities and China NBS reporting the number of unsold new homes nationwide increased 14 % to 437 million square metres as at 31 October, inventories are likely to remain a problem for China's property sector,» says Dhar.

For example, let's say you have 10 years remaining to pay off your mortgage and you refinance to a 15 - year loan with a lower interest rate.

Eurozone retail sales remained much lower than they were one year previously in May.

Even if valuations remain above historical norms a decade from today, it will be extremely difficult for stocks to post total returns beyond the low single digits in the coming 10 - year period.

The Trump administration pushes back on such grim forecasts, saying it thinks inflation will remain low - around the Fed's 2 percent - for years to come, even with all the extra stimulus from the tax cuts and higher government spending.