Sentences with phrase «near record low levels»

Inventory is at or near record low levels within the central Puget Sound area, resulting in keen competition among home buyers and escalating prices.

23 March 2018... KTUU Anchorage, Alaska (Quoted): Arctic sea ice hits annual maximum at near record low levels

Investors required more yield to invest for two years versus cash instruments, because they concluded that short rates would not go near record low levels.

The Siena poll also finds the governor's job approval rating is still at near record low levels.

Note that expected inflation is back near record low levels despite oil prices having risen about 70 percent from their February levels.

The caveat would be that we have never seen a spike above 35 before from near record low levels of volatility.

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Fuel prices remain relatively low, the jobs report continues to show that we are near full employment, and small business lending has rebounded from the depths of the credit crunch to record levels by some measures.

Its shares are up more than 60 percent in the last year and are now trading at near - record levels in the low $ 70s.

Home construction per household a decade after the bust remains near the lowest level in 60 years of record - keeping, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

The Federal Reserve's monetary policy has helped spur the U.S. housing market in recent years, because it has indirectly held long - term mortgage rates near record - low levels.

With interest rates still hovering near the lowest levels they've ever been in 5,000 + years of recorded human history, it's very difficult to achieve a significant investment return without taking on substantial risk.

First - time buyers made up just 27 percent of home sales in May, near record lows and below the typical level of about 40 percent.

The news that the British Crime Survey has found crime levels at the lowest level since records began more than 30 years ago has been greeted with near - universal acclaim in today's papers.

Despite near record snowfalls and runoff this year that raised its level from historic lows in January, Lake Mead is still 113 feet below «full pool» - and is filled to less than 50 percent of its capacity.

Although long - term (60 + months) precipitation deficits persisted in some locations, some reservoirs returned to above - average levels after being record and near - record low for the past several years.

The Federal Reserve's monetary policy has helped spur the U.S. housing market in recent years, because it has indirectly held long - term mortgage rates near record - low levels.

The majority of global equity markets have posted negative returns, bond yields are near record lows, the loonie has fallen to levels not seen in over 11 years, and, to top it all off, there are some steep tax hikes on the immediate horizon.

With VA Streamline Refinance mortgage rates near all - time lows, it's no wonder that VA loan volume is at record levels.

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 well.

Rising production, record end - of - winter storage inventories, and mild weather contributed to spot natural gas prices nearing their lowest levels in a decade until prices rebounded at most trading points to the high $ 2 / MMBtu range by the end of June.

Global mean temperatures in 2011 did not reach the record - setting levels of 2010, but were still the highest observed in a La Niña year, and Arctic sea - ice extent fell to near - record - low levels.

Total sea ice extent for the previous three months was near or below the level of 2007, the year with the lowest minimum summer ice extent during the satellite record.

After mid-October, ice growth returned to near - average rates, but extent remained at record low levels through late October.

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Snowpack levels stood at or near record lows during the winters of 2013, 2014 and 2015.

The Statement also highlighted that long - term indicators of climate change such as increasing carbon dioxide concentrations, sea level rise and ocean acidification continue «unabated», with Arctic sea ice coverage remaining below average and the previously stable Antarctic sea ice extent at or near a record low.

Global temperatures have failed to rise for 15 plus years, sea level rise is failing to accelerate, tornadoes are at record lows, hurricanes are near record low activity... 2013 may be the year in which man - made global warming fears enter the dustbin of history.»

The result is a global sea ice extent near low - record levels.

Given that Phoenix, which sits in the middle of a desert, has been suffering from a series of droughts over the last 11 years (never mind that the water levels in its rivers recently dipped to near - record lows), it seems as though it could find better uses for its scarce water supplies

It is currently at near record - low levels, meaning investors expect nothing much to happen in the stock market.

Existing home sales will stay near record levels this year as low interest rates continue to drive the real estate market, says Canada Mortgage...

The Federal Reserve's monetary policy has helped spur the U.S. housing market in recent years, because it has indirectly held long - term mortgage rates near record - low levels.

Just 1.69 million homes were on the market nationwide in January, near the lowest level since records began in 1999.

While rates have leveled off after reaching a two - year high in August, a jump from near - record lows in May has contributed to cooling demand.