Sentences with phrase «near record highs as»

The case advances as foreclosures remain near record highs as a result of the 2008 financial crisis, which was set off by a collapse in subprime real estate financing.

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.

Indeed, as you can see below, median corporate leverage among the largest U.S. companies is nearing a record high as measured by debt - to EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization).

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The collapse of Mt. Gox was seen as a test for bitcoin, which roared to a record high near $ 20,000 last year but has pulled back significantly since.

Powell has been a reliable supporter of the consensus forged by Yellen on the policy - setting Federal Open Market Committee, and likely will be seen as a less risky choice with the economy growing solidly and U.S. stock markets near record highs.

Constellation Brands may be offering Brown - Forman the chance to sell as its stock trades near a record high and the company confronts a sales slowdown:

With $ GKOS trading near its record high, its price is well above its 40 - week moving average, as well as its 10 - week moving average (similar to 50 - day moving average).

OPEC oil output is rising in March, a Reuters survey found, as higher supply from Iran after the lifting of sanctions and near - record exports from southern Iraq offset maintenance and Continue Reading

U.S. stocks rose, with the Standard & Poor's 500 Index near a record, as investors weighed economic data for clues on the timing of higher interest rates amid optimism that a deal on Greek aid is within reach.

As the dollar sinks to near - record lows against the euro and the British pound, the stock market has returned to record highs, but investors are being advised to anticipate a worldwide downturn and the U.S. economy may have already entered a recession.

The euro late last week was trading as high as $ 1.3576, near its December 2004 record of $ 1.3539.

The very high levels of production in the world's top crude exporter for March were not a one - off as the Kingdom continues to produce near record levels.

As Heath wrote: «Wednesday's market turbulence comes amid near - record highs following an eight - year bull run fueled by strong earnings, especially in the technology sector.

With abortion clinics closing at record rates as abortions hit near - record lows and state restrictions hit near - record highs, a respected report released today reveals that U.S. abortions have dropped to their lowest rate since 1973 — the year the U.S. Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade.

Class III milk and milk protein prices suffered in February 2013 as cheese inventories remained at near record highs going into the month.

Takeover target Warrnambool Cheese & Butter expects first half - year earnings to double to around $ 60 million as Chinese demand for milk powders keeps prices near record highs.

Takeover target Warrnambool Cheese & Butter (WCB) expects first half earnings to double to around $ 60 million as Chinese demand for milk powders keeps prices near record highs.

No. 3 Corvette C6.R Continues Hot Streak in High Desert SALT LAKE CITY — Corvette Racing's final warm - up for the 24 Hours of Le Mans was run in near - record temperatures as a heat wave in Utah's high desert tested America's premier production sports car tHigh Desert SALT LAKE CITY — Corvette Racing's final warm - up for the 24 Hours of Le Mans was run in near - record temperatures as a heat wave in Utah's high desert tested America's premier production sports car thigh desert tested America's premier production sports car team.

Embellishing high - line vehicles from General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Lexus, and Toyota, as well as building custom creations like the World record holding Venom GT, HPE has evolved into a state - of - the - art facility that includes the world's first state accredited Tuner school, a 40,000 - square foot workshop and showroom, and the Lonestar Motorsports Park with an International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) sanctioned quarter - mile dragstrip on 143 - acres near Houston, Texas.

While the overall manga market declines, fanboys looking for a silver lining like to point to record - breaking high sales of the biggest titles, like One Piece, which sold six times as many copies in 2011 as the nearest competitor, Naruto.

The possibility of an increase in the prime rate offered by lenders comes as household debt levels sit near record highs.

The e-mini S&P stock index futures bulls are still in firm near - term technical command as prices earlier this week hit a contract and record high.

As of end - September 2017, margin debt on the NYSE was a record $ 559.6 billion, which is to be expected as U.S. equity indices were also near all - time highs, and stock market peaks and record levels of margin debt often coincidAs of end - September 2017, margin debt on the NYSE was a record $ 559.6 billion, which is to be expected as U.S. equity indices were also near all - time highs, and stock market peaks and record levels of margin debt often coincidas U.S. equity indices were also near all - time highs, and stock market peaks and record levels of margin debt often coincide.

As the U.S. economy enters the second quarter of 2018, the positive economic momentum continues, U.S. business confidence remains high, along with consumer confidence, jobless claims are near a generational low and the ISM Manufacturing Index is at record levels as welAs the U.S. economy enters the second quarter of 2018, the positive economic momentum continues, U.S. business confidence remains high, along with consumer confidence, jobless claims are near a generational low and the ISM Manufacturing Index is at record levels as welas well.

Credit card interest rates unchanged, stay near record highs — Credit card interest rates remained unchanged this week as banks took a break from adjusting new card offers.

That figure doesn't come near Christie's record - toppling $ 692 million total the previous night, but it does establish a record as the highest - grossing sale ever at the auction house.

[21] In 2008, measured ambient concentrations near drilling sites in Sublette County, Wyoming were frequently above the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) of 75ppb and have been recorded as high as 125 ppb.

The Arctic Ocean faces possible near - permanent contamination as scientists collected record high of microplastics.

New Zealand carbon allowances saw their second consecutive day of losses on Wednesday as buyers took a breather after pushing prices up to near - record highs.

To suggest that because near surface temperatures have flattened at or near the highest on record requires «abandoning» a sinking ship is to be grossly underinformed about the full scope and scale of the multiple changes going on and the confidence that anthropogenic climate continues unabated as it will so long as humans continue to increase greenhouse gas concentrations.

By picking one specific area of only one of the spheres (surface temperatures), while it might be one piece of interesting information and it certainly it is quite true that surface temperatures have been flat at or near record high levels, focusing on this fact alone and the fact that climate models failed to have forecast it, does very little overall good if the goal is to educate the public about the bigger picture, i.e. anthropogenic climate change as an energy imbalance affecting the whole Earth energy system, including all the spheres discussed above.

''... worked with two sediment cores they extracted from the seabed of the eastern Norwegian Sea, developing a 1000 - year proxy temperature record «based on measurements of δ18O in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma, a planktonic foraminifer that calcifies at relatively shallow depths within the Atlantic waters of the eastern Norwegian Sea during late summer,» which they compared with the temporal histories of various proxies of concomitant solar activity... This work revealed, as the seven scientists describe it, that «the lowest isotope values (highest temperatures) of the last millennium are seen ~ 1100 - 1300 A.D., during the Medieval Climate Anomaly, and again after ~ 1950 A.D.» In between these two warm intervals, of course, were the colder temperatures of the Little Ice Age, when oscillatory thermal minima occurred at the times of the Dalton, Maunder, Sporer and Wolf solar minima, such that the δ18O proxy record of near - surface water temperature was found to be «robustly and near - synchronously correlated with various proxies of solar variability spanning the last millennium,» with decade - to century - scale temperature variability of 1 to 2 °C magnitude.»

«The authors write that «the Mediterranean region is one of the world's most vulnerable areas with respect to global warming,»... they thus consider it to be extremely important to determine what impact further temperature increases might have on the storminess of the region... produced a high - resolution record of paleostorm events along the French Mediterranean coast over the past 7000 years... from the sediment bed of Pierre Blanche Lagoon [near Montpellier, France]... nine French scientists, as they describe it, «recorded seven periods of increased storm activity at 6300 - 6100, 5650 - 5400, 4400 - 4050, 3650 - 3200, 2800 - 2600, 1950 - 1400, and 400 - 50 cal yr BP,» the latter of which intervals they associate with the Little Ice Age.

Ocean temperatures: As meteorologist Angela Fritz observes, sea surface temperatures off the Mid-Atlantic coast were near a record high in September, and 2.3 degrees Fahrenheit above the long term average.

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Since we are looking for high quality single station records I nominate Lincoln NE as a candidate with complete data from 1887 - 2014 near the geographical center of the US.

DSEE HX ™ upscales your existing music to near high - resolution sound quality and makes you feel as if you are really there at the recording studio or concert.

Having shown signs of exhaustion near record highs earlier today, the sell - off is picking up pace and BTC is now down over 12 percent for the session, as per the BPI.

Prices of the cryptocurrency have already neared Sunday's record high of $ 11,831 this morning, reaching $ 11,793 at around 08:00 UTC, as per CoinDesk's Bitcoin Price Index (BPI).

Since hitting record highs near $ 20,000, bitcoin's value virtually halved over the next four weeks as South Korea explored new regulations to curb excess speculation in the market.

ETC broke - out of its short - term correction yesterday, staying ahead of the rest of the market in this cycle, and it rallied up to the next major resistance zone near $ 43, with only the all - time high remaining ahead as an obstacle before a new record high.

The facilities recorded extremely high death rates, as did a lock hospital that operated from 1928 to 1945 on Fantome or Eumilli Island in the Palm Island group near Townsville in Queensland.

Cautions Yun, «Looking ahead, it's unclear if this current sales pace can further accelerate as record high stock prices, near - record low mortgage rates and solid job gains face off against a dearth of homes available for sale and lofty home prices that keep advancing.»

Local broker Grubb & Ellis / Phoenix Realty Group has listed the 16,000 - square - foot site for $ 995,000, a record - breaking price for the area, which is seeing higher rents and land prices as property near the beaches becomes more scarce... Courtelis Co. is in the second phase of its revitalization plans for 32 - year - old, 338,314 - square - foot community center Lakewood Shopping Center in Margate, Fla..

Meanwhile, Washington D.C. shifted from a near - record high assisted living occupancy rate one year ago to a near - record low in the first quarter, as growth in its inventory outstripped demand.