Sentences with phrase «market remains low»

The total default risk taken by this market remains low at 2.3 percent in Q4 2017.

Recent unemployment has fallen, however, confidence in the market remains low while company finances are squeezed with rising costs and falling demand.

Corporate, government and academic markets remain lower, in particular in the Nexis news and business service.

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Despite the recent softness in data — the Citi economic surprise index for the eurozone is now at its lowest since June 2012 — markets remain stubbornly bullish on the euro with overall bets still near record highs as longer - term expectations remain optimistic.

(New throughout, updates prices, market activity and comments; adds second byline and NEW YORK) NEW YORK / LONDON, May 2 (Reuters)- Gold prices hovered near four - month lows on Wednesday as the dollar advanced, and were expected to remain under pressure from a significantly stronger U.S. currency and weak investment demand.

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.

A few things stand out about this particular rate change: first, the magnitude of influence that just a quarter percentage - point change had on the stock market; second, the current rate with an upper range of.50 % compared to the various long - term averages of about 5 %; and third, the rate remains historically low, with only minute incremental changes, despite the relatively good news we continue to read about the economy.

Interest rates have remained at unprecedented lows since the financial crisis in 2008, providing more incentive for Canadians to jump into the housing market.

Shares in Toshiba, which remains on the Tokyo bourse's watch list due to concerns about internal controls, finished 12 percent lower, giving it a market value of around $ 14.2 billion.

Quadratic Capital Management's Nancy Davis — who correctly predicted the blow - up in the popular wager on low volatility by hedge funds before last week's plunge — thinks the market will remain turbulent.

Valuations remain incredibly low, and there's still plenty of growth — at home and in emerging markets — to come.

Quadratic's Nancy Davis, who predicted that the popular low volatility trade would implode, says the market will remain turbulent for some time.

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.

Yet even if the Britain loses access to the European Union's single market, many firms have lowered their estimates for job losses in London, meaning the city will likely remain Europe's financial center.

«But if you ask us, a weaker Canadian dollar and low rates remain critical ingredients when it comes to driving future growth — perhaps even more so considering the incoming president's vows to bolster American competitiveness and blunt access to the key US market.»

As it stands, the fundamentals underpinning housing markets in Vancouver and Toronto remain strong — local economies are growing, immigration is robust and interest rates are low.

Still, ETF buyers are willing to take a shot at the market, believing that in addition to the Fed staying dovish with rates the default level will remain low.

So, Toronto and Vancouver's high - flying markets could remain hot in 2016, especially if interest rates stay low and foreign wealth continues to pour in.

Rather than selling half of the investor's shares at a lower price, the Market Maker will fill the remaining 500 shares of the order at $ 5.

«With gasoline prices remaining low (providing a huge windfall to U.S. consumers), confidence sky - high and the buoyancy in labor market activity likely to bolster household income, we expect consumer spending activity to rebound strongly in the coming months,» Mulraine said.

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.

That's manageable as long as interest rates and unemployment remain low, says Doug Porter, deputy chief economist at BMO Capital Markets.

She said: «But it is my judgment that the lower level of the unemployment rate today probably does not fully capture the extent of slack remaining in the labor market — in other words, how far away we are from a full - employment economy.»

Inflation and interest remain low and the stock market, even with its recent volatility, is still at historical highs.

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.

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.

If one were optimistic about equities as a long - term investment four months ago, there are as many reasons to remain so, now that markets are at 10 - month lows.

«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.

But the stock has shown signs of recovery in the turbulent 18 months since then, and SNC's share price has remained well above the low levels experienced by the market in 2008 - 2009.

In both cases, the statements are intended to send a clear signal to financial - market participants that they should expect interest rates to remain low for quite a while — and this expectation is then supposed to drive a faster economic recovery.

«I think the odds of a bear market remain relatively low.

The stock market remains in pullback mode after a strong surge off the lows, but leading individual stocks continue to hold up and show clear relative strength.

With lower external debt than other regions, Asian economies have been less vulnerable to a strengthening U.S. dollar, which remains one of the main risks to our outlook for emerging markets.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Slightly more Americans sought unemployment benefits last week, but the overall levels still remain near historic lows in a positive sign for the job market.

The Q5 allows the company to sell a next - generation device to the emerging markets, where consumers have lower purchasing power, but the BlackBerry brand still remains strong.

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

However, if real rates remain low, gold will continue to attract attention as a potential store of value which may offer a ballast to equity market volatility.

Another unusual aspect of current global interest rates is that long - term rates, which are set by the demand for and supply of funds in capital markets, have remained quite low in the face of rising official interest rates.

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.

Pacific Crest Securities, a unit of KeyBanc Capital Markets, said it remains Underweight on NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) due to signs of desktop GPU market saturation, lower margins from incremental Nintendo Co., Ltd (ADR)(OTC: NTDOY) Switch revenue and a possible sales pause in its data...

Labor market reforms have expanded the workforce in Japan, helping explain why wage growth remains limited even with the country's unemployment rate at three - decade lows.

My energy team thinks the market has been valuing E&P companies as if oil prices will remain low perpetually, and also as if these companies will not achieve any production growth going forward.

Lately, we seem to have done better: markets now seem to understand that policy rates will likely remain exceptionally low for a considerable period of time even after tapering is completed.

But even if rates remain relatively low, the bond market proxy sectors look extremely vulnerable, as their valuations are highly sensitive to increases in interest rates.

In my opinion, most of the selling in the coffee futures markets have probably already occurred, but seasonal tendencies suggest the overall trend will remain sideways to lower through late summer.

Oil prices fell to a two - week low Tuesday on concerns that the global market remains too oversupplied to support prices near $ 40 a barrel.

However, even this strategy has skeptics.324 While established brick - and - mortar retailers like Target have tried to lure online consumers through discounts and low delivery costs, 325 Amazon remains the major online seller of baby products.326 Although Amazon established its dominance in this market through aggressive price cutting and selling steeply at a loss, its actions have not triggered predatory pricing claims.

In the short - term, we could look to buy on another retrace lower, to near the low of the aforementioned pin bar (2610 area), or we could wait for another price action confirmation buy signal whilst the market remains above the major support at 2530.

He did so again in 2001 after the World Trade Center was attacked, when he led the FOMC to immediately reduce the Fed funds rate from 3.5 percent to 3 percent — and in the months that followed reducing that rate to as low as 1 percent as the economy and stock markets remained sluggish.