Sentences with phrase «off decade lows»

While the difference between two - and 10 - year Treasury notes has climbed over the past week to 51 basis points, the gap isn't far off decade lows.

Not exact matches

The aftermath of the vote was swift and brutal: Prime Minister David Cameron resigned, global financial markets sold off sharply with a massive flight to quality, and the British pound dropped sharply to touch a three - decade low of $ 1.3229.

Early this week I was with an Australian government representative in Beijing whom I have known for many years and he told me that iron ore prices were currently around $ 83 (I think they dropped another $ 2 last week), and that while some people in Canberra were reluctant to say it too loudly, he and others were increasingly in agreement with my lower forecast of less than $ 50 well before the end of the decade, in part because supply has come off much more slowly than predicted, but mainly because they now recognize that China's rebalancing was indeed going to be a far bigger deal for Chinese demand than sell - side research had predicted.

The recent decline in the dollar is coming off those lofty levels; the U.S. Dollar Index is still trading more than 10 % above where it was when the post-QE3 run began in 2014, and more than 25 % above the low of the past decade (set in 2008).

They will also give NASA an opportunity to shake off the missteps that for more than three decades have left us stuck in low Earth orbit with a troubled space shuttle and a largely irrelevant International Space Station — programs that together will have cost roughly $ 250 billion by the time they are paid for.

Research over the last decade, however, has revealed that low levels of carbon monoxide ward off internal injuries caused by such stress, and the team argues that's why elephant seals produce large amounts of the gas.

Decades of data have established it as one of the best ways to lower the risk of heart disease and stave off other ailments of aging, including dementia.

Firebrand blogger ItsTheWoo lost well over 100 pounds on a low carb diet... and kept it off for over a decade.

And with each new role, he seemed to gather momentum in his career.As luck would have it, however, Walcott's most prominent role of the 1950s ended up being the one he received the lowest fee for doing, and that he also thought the least of, and also one that, for decades, he was loathe to discuss, on or off the record: as Jeff Trent, the hero of Plan 9 From Outer Space.

The script written by Leslie Dixon, one of the prime generators of the decade's many high - concept, low - humor chuckle fests («Mrs. Doubtfire,» «Outrageous Fortune,» «Look Who's Talking Now»), pitted Hawn's pampered rich - bitch princess, who ends up with amnesia after falling off her yacht, against Russell's struggling widower carpenter and father of four.

Since his return to low - budget filmmaking after a fallow decade, the writer - director (and actor) has made vérité - style profiles of an unrepentant convicted perv (RSO: Registered Sex Offender, 08) and a sad - sack troubadour who'll chew your ear off over his last break - up (Harmony and Me, 09).

Coming off a decade where the American genre film devolved into lowest - common - denominator investments and blockbusters ballooned skyward on the backs of sequels and franchises, Refn's modest exercise in crime pastiche and car - chase nostalgia parlayed both the exhaustion of Hollywood's narrative resources and — perhaps more importantly — the gathering mainstream curiosity in independent music's preoccupation with the sound and feel of the 1980s (the film's soundtrack has become one of the most popular word - of - mouth successes of the decade).

But for the first time in more than a decade, the State Board of Education may only provide the test to low - income students for free next year, requiring more well - off families to shoulder the cost of the five - subject, $ 52.50 exam.

But in the United States over the past decade, it became fashionable among supporters of the «no excuses» approach to school improvement to accuse anyone raising the poverty issue of letting schools off the hook — or what Mr. Bush famously called «the soft bigotry of low expectations.»

Although the first electronic sensors to set off airbags in the case of an accident were introduced as far back as 1968, it wasn't until the early 1990s that lower - end cars started to include driver airbags, and side - impact airbags appeared towards the end of the decade.

I started off by investing in stocks with higher yields so as to get the snowball rolling a bit, but have opened up my portfolio to a few stocks with fairly low entry yields, but higher growth rates, which could propel my dividend income many decades from now.

I have credit cards with low utilization ratios and a mortgage, but I hadn't paid off an installment loan for a couple of decades.

Within a few decades, Europe was rounding up of entire classes of «mongrel» people of «low breeding» and shipping them off to be disposed of in the concentration camps.

Leckey's interests might have shifted throughout the last decade — from an obsession with pop culture, subculture and the figure of the dandy in earlier films such as Parade (2003), and in his band collaboration DonAteller, with fellow artists Ed Laliq, Enrico David and Bonnie Camplin; to the high / low culture face - off of his BigBoxStatueAction performances (2003 — 11), in which Leckey's giant speaker stack confronts icons of modernist British sculpture, such as Jacob Epstein's Jacob and the Angel (1940 — 1); to his later multimedia performance lectures, the Internet - driven epiphany of dematerialisation In the Long Tail (2009) and its antithesis Cinema - in - the - Round (2006 — 8), with its more reflective inquiry into the physicality of images via, among others, Philip Guston, Felix the Cat, Gilbert & George, Homer Simpson and Titanic (1997).

«For more than two decades,» Roberta Smith wrote in her review for The New York Times, «the work of this British artist has dazzled and discomfited, seduced and unsettled, gliding effortlessly between high and low, among cultures, ricocheting off different racial stereotypes and religious beliefs.»

We know that many of the fish and some of the crabs seem to be able to swim or scuttle away from the low - oxygen waters, and in some cases they reappear once the levels of oxygen return to normal, but we do not know the long - term consequences of an annual die - off of the habitat - forming, bottom - dwelling species, many of which live to be decades old.

«Mortgage rates are low, economic growth has accelerated in recent quarters, and housing is coming off its best year in a decade.

With mortgage interest rates at their lowest levels in decades, many homeowners will be able to reduce their interest rate and monthly payments, pay off their loans faster by shortening loan terms and be back in the market to buy — whether it's to move up or invest.