Sentences with phrase «nearing its year low»

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«We're near record production in oil and gas but we're at a 20 - year low in our carbon emissions.

CHICAGO / SAN FRANCISCO, April 20 - As the gap between short - and long - term borrowing costs hovers near its lowest in more than 10 years, speculation has risen over whether the so - called yield curve is signaling that a recession could be around the corner.

Yet the Prime Minister's Office appears to think an economy that has been growing at an annual rate of around three per cent for nearly a year is too weak to absorb interest rates that still are near record lows.

During a public webcast on January 14 when the 10 - year yield was at around 3.0 % and when Wall Street said it would climb to 3.4 %, Gundlach predicted that it could fall as low as 2.5 % in the near - term.

That suggests ongoing job growth in an economy many regard as near full employment, with the jobless rate at a 17 - year low of 4.1 percent.

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.

But despite the Trump administration's call for urgency, data from the Customs and Border Protection agency actually show that arrests for illegal border crossing has been falling for years and now hovers near the bottom of a 40 - year low.

Locked for years near historical lows, all three have started climbing, which Hartnett says has been «challenging bullish consensus.»

Several hundred marched near Disney World in October and in December Orlando workers rejected a company proposal to boost the lowest wage by $ 1 over two years to $ 11 an hour because it would still leave new hires at $ 10, according to Jeremy Haicken, president of Unite Here Local 737, which represents food and housekeeping workers.

CHICAGO / SAN FRANCISCO, April 20 (Reuters)- As the gap between short - and long - term borrowing costs hovers near its lowest in more than 10 years, speculation has risen over whether the so - called yield curve is signaling that a recession could be around the corner.

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

The Fed has been working to normalize monetary policy over the past two years, beginning with its initial move off historically low, near - zero rates in December 2015.

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.

Or for those with lower incomes, saving $ 500 a month compared to zero, over 30 years, will still leave you with a retirement nest egg near $ 1 million.

Normally, both consoles would be looking at their golden years right around now — finally low enough in price for anyone to buy, large libraries of great games from years of availability, and even better stuff coming in the near future.

Maduro's approval ratings have tumbled amid the crisis to 28 percent, near the lowest in 16 years of socialist rule, and while there's no sign the sometimes violent street protests that overwhelmed the country a year ago will return anytime soon, polls indicate that the opposition will coast to victory in legislative elections expected to take place by year end.

This year the state returns to more familiar territory, with some of the nation's largest class sizes, near the lowest per - pupil spending and a finish in the bottom tier for the category.

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.

A spokeswoman for Morneau disagreed, saying that since the Liberals came to office, the economy has created more than 600,000 jobs and the unemployment rate has been near its lowest level in about 40 years.

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.»

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

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

Overworking members of the team as they near the home stretch of the year can cause morale to plummet, which will lower productivity in a much more damaging way.

The U.S. 10 - year Treasury note yield was lower in Tuesday trading, near 2.31 percent.

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.

But in the last months of 2016, official Cuban hostility toward the American diplomats in Havana was hovering somewhere near a 50 - year low.

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

The elder Buffett has shunned bonds in recent years, saying that near record - low yields aren't enough to compensate for the risk of inflation.

Demand for U.S. Treasurys in recent days helped push both the 10 - year and 30 - year bond yields to near their all - time lows Thursday, July 12.

The supply of existing homes for sale is near a record low, but the supply of newly built homes for sale just jumped dramatically, returning to its 30 - year average.

Since Freston's ouster, as well as a plethora of lawsuits, bad press, lost talent and internal battles, Viacom stock has wallowed near five - year lows.

Viacom's shares plunged as much as 18 percent to a near four - year low on Thursday.

Since the last housing crash, the nation's homeownership rate dropped to a record low and has hovered near there for the past year.

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

However, over the years, we have learned to establish partial position size at or near the lows of a handle, and add to the position on the breakout above the high of the handle.

The euro, which had already been near its lowest level in 11 years on expectations of action by the central bank, weakened further against the dollar, falling about 1 percent to around $ 1.14, a move that could help European exporters.

Shareholders want Levy, more than seven years at the helm, to come up with a strategy to revive a stock that is trading near its lowest level in nine years.

As a result of this transaction, shareholders are expected to benefit from a number of outcomes, including enhanced competitive positioning; low - to mid-single digit accretion in the second full year after the close of the transaction, including the ability to deliver $ 750 million in near - term synergies; and a platform from which to accelerate growth.

Before then, it had kept its policy rate at a record low near zero for seven years in an effort to help the country recover from the deepest recession since the 1930s.

The highest growth quarters have been at or near 5 %, and they occurred in the same years — 2011 and 2014 — as the lowest quarters!

With the S&P 500 within about 8 % of its highest level in history, with historically reliable valuation measures at obscene levels, implying near - zero 10 - 12 year S&P 500 nominal total returns; with an extended period of extreme overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions replaced by deterioration in market internals that signal a clear shift toward risk - aversion among investors; with credit spreads on low - grade debt blowing out to multi-year highs; and with leading economic measures deteriorating rapidly, we continue to classify market conditions within the most hostile return / risk profile we identify — a classification that has been observed in only about 9 % of history.

According to Bloomberg data, EM debt is offering yields of above 4 %, and despite a strong year - to - date performance (more than 13 %), we see potential for significant income with lowered spread risk, given the diminished expectations of a near - term Fed move.

At present, with sterling near its lowest in over 30 years, currency markets are still pricing in a fairly significant downward path for the UK economy.

The Australian Dollar pushed below critical support of 75 cents, to near a one - year low of $ 0.7472 against a rising US Dollar.

Near the end of June, the VIX was around 11 %, which is historically low and about half where it was just days before last year's presidential election.

You've got the S&P 500 at basically a five - year high, or very near it, and then the Shanghai is at a multi-year low.

While it's certainly possible that a market selloff could find tech stocks as a lower percentage component of the near - term overall pie, where do you think we'll be 10 years from now?

Lionsgate and Starz have much to gain from a get - together — both stocks are off significantly year - to - date and are trading near their respective 52 - week lows.

The U.S. economy is growing, inflation is near the Federal Reserve's optimal range and the unemployment rate is the lowest it has been in 16 years.

... we're very near the bottom, certainly low enough that these levels could look like a phenomenal buy a year or two from now.