Sentences with phrase «of years of low interest rates»

Investors have become impatient and highly demanding as a result of years of low interest rates.

Not exact matches

Buoyed by uncommonly low interest rates, the industry has boasted of double - digit returns; the past few years, at least anecdotally, have been especially rich.

Interest rates on 15 - year mortgage terms are typically lower than those on longer - term loans because the shorter duration of the loan makes it less of a risk to the lender.

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.

But in recent years, as the Bank of Canada held interest rates to historically low levels and consumer debt skyrocketed, the federal government tightened mortgage restrictions on regulated financial institutions, including HCG.

The decline is noteworthy because you'd think the stars were aligned for a boom in the construction of dream homes: the economy has been churning out jobs steadily for a year, real - estate prices are high, and interest rates are low.

Though that's around twice the average over the past 50 years, it's what would be affordable given the CBO's projections of low interest rates for years to come.

The odds of another interest - rate cut this year are lower today than they were at the start of the week.

Last year, Poloz was guided by the numbers in front of him, not theoretical concerns about the potential damage of lower interest rates.

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.

Over-valuation doesn't look so severe by this measure because a big component of mortgage payments — interest rates — is very low and incomes have continued to rise over the years.

The confluence of easy credit, low interest rates and smart, new models are driving auto sales sharply higher this year but analysts who follow the industry don't see that changing any time soon.

The combination of lower property prices, low interest rates and small increases in household incomes has made housing affordability in Perth the best it has been for 10 years, and the best of any mai

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.

«Pockets of risk have begun to emerge» following several years of exceptionally low interest rates that have changed how lenders and borrowers view debt, Morneau told a news conference in Toronto.

Second, rates aren't just low; we have been enjoying unprecedented clarity from the Bank of Canada, and now from the Federal Reserve as well, that there is only a negligible chance that administered interest rates will rise at least before the year is out, and possibly into 2014.

The British pound hit a new seven - year low against the dollar after Bank of England Governor Mark Carney on Tuesday ruled out an interest rate rise any time soon.

The U.K. had been expected to follow close behind the Federal Reserve in raising interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade, but with lower commodity prices and weak wage growth still keeping a lid on inflation, economists now think that the U.K. may not raise rates till 2017 — even though new data out Wednesday showed the employment rate hit a 45 - year high of 74 % in the three months to November.

Sure, interest rates are low, but even at 2.5 %, the owner of a $ 1 - million house will end up forking out $ 344,000 in interest over 25 years.

«Our «rational exuberance» rests on a combination of above - trend US and global economic growth, low albeit slowly rising interest rates, and profit growth aided by corporate tax reform likely to be adopted by early next year,» Kostin said in a report for clients.

LONDON, Oct 3 - Key Euribor and Libor bank - to - bank rates hit fresh record lows on Wednesday, as the huge volume of cash pumped into the banking system by the European Central Bank and the prospect of further cuts in its interest rates extended a year - long slide.

Late last year, economists at CIBC said rising household debt was to be expected; Canadians «responded rationally to an era of very low interest rates.»

«For 30 years, interest rates have been coming down, lower highs and lower lows but we're at a point now in terms of a long - term trend line where 2.6 percent represents the point where an interest rate reversal should take place.

LONDON, Oct 3 (Reuters)- Key Euribor and Libor bank - to - bank rates hit fresh record lows on Wednesday, as the huge volume of cash pumped into the banking system by the European Central Bank and the prospect of further cuts in its interest rates extended a year - long slide.

LONDON, Oct 3 - Key Euribor bank - to - bank lending rates hit fresh record lows on Wednesday, as the huge volume of cash pumped into the banking system by the European Central Bank and the prospect of further cuts in its interest rates extended a year - long slide.

Stocks have plunged in the last week as traders worried about rising interest rates and inflation, bringing an end to more than a year of historically low volatility.

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.

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.

German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble has already blamed Draghi's low - interest rate policy for the rise of the populist right - wing Alternative für Deutschland, which performed well in regional polls last year at the expense of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats.

The case for lower interest rates is weaker, but most forecasters still expect the Bank of Canada will wait at least a year to raise borrowing costs.

That insight, as obvious as it may seem, conflicts with the Fed's policy of raising interest rates preemptively, even as inflation continues to undershoot its target, essentially on concerns that a 17 - year - low 4.1 % jobless rate may already be beyond what officials consider «full employment.»

Repeating a theme at the Delivering Alpha conference, Singer faulted the Federal Reserve and others for creating unusual dangers that are unique in the «5,000 years - ish» history of finance due to low and negative interest rates.

However, he says there's good reason to think Canada can manage the risks from debt, which he says is a natural consequence of several factors, including the combination of a strong demand for housing and the prolonged period of low interest rates maintained in recent years to stimulate the economy.

British inflation fell to its lowest level in more than 12 years in November, coming in at half the Bank of England's two percent target and leaving it under no pressure to raise interest rates anytime soon.

Under that policy, the Federal Reserve has kept interest rates low and engaged for period of years in a campaign of aggressive bond purchases that have increased monetary supply and bolstered the stock market.

Yields in the $ 14 trillion market for U.S. government debt touched record lows in 2016, driven by years of aggressive central bank intervention in the wake of the 2008 - 2009 financial crisis to keep interest rates low to stimulate the economy.

A Federal Reserve working paper from last year found that at least three - quarters of the decline in new charters is attributable to the weak economy and low interest rates.

Plus a majority of the capital is provided by the secondary market on 30 year fixed low interest rate debt.

Given the starting level of global interest rates for the next US president (5,000 - year lows!)

With interest rates so low, there is less «insurance» should crises arise, Bill Gross writes in his last investment outlook of the year.

Consider as an example, an older married couple who has built up a lot of home equity over the years and wants to refinance to a lower interest rate.

Homebuyers dominated the mortgage market last week, but refinancers sat on the sidelines despite the lowest interest rates of the year.

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).

«Current interest rates (for money market accounts) are extremely low compared to 10 years ago,» noted Josh Nelson, CFP and CEO of Keystone Financial Services.

Valuations have gotten stretched thanks to years of low interest rates...

And to the extent that, because of constraints on how low interest rates can go, recessions are more frequent and protracted in the years ahead, the case for expansionary fiscal policy is reinforced.

This is just another way of saying that severe headwinds are still acting on our economies, years after the crisis, and low interest rates are keeping them at bay.

BERLIN — Throughout the month, countries caught in the eye of the European financial storm, including Italy, Spain and France, have repeatedly defied expectations, selling big batches of bonds to the public at interest rates significantly lower than investors demanded at the height of the euro crisis late last year.

The Reserve Bank of Australia on Tuesday decided to keep its interest rates unchanged at 1.5 percent — a record low — and said it expects the Aussie economy to grow around 3 percent a year over the next few years.