Sentences with phrase «one by historical standards»

That kind of behaviour is obviously bad for one's personal finances, but Canadians are doing it anyway, and the main reason is that debt, by historical standards, is dirt cheap.

«The U.S was a tiger, a giant by historical standards,» he says, amassing 42 % more medals than forecast.

Here it's clear that inflation has been modest by historical standards, and that the Fed has been a good steward of the dollar.

Youth unemployment is actually pretty low by historical standards; the only time it was lower was during the boom years just before the recession.

Though its risen recently, the real yield on the ten year Treasury hovers below 1 % (the 2.48 % rate, minus projected inflation of at least 1.5 points), an extremely favorable number by historical standards.

Affordability: Rates are up, and so are prices, but both had fallen to such lows in the recession that, overall, houses are still cheap by historical standards.

«The S&P 500 has risen 200 % since the bull market began in March 2009 — not unprecedented by historical standards.

By historical standards, this implies sustained double - digit losses on bond holdings, subpar growth in developed markets, and balance sheet risks for banking systems with a large home bias.

This year's adjustment is relatively small by historical standards.

Second, corporate profits are still high by historical standards, so businesses still have a lot of room to absorb wage increases before they would have to raise prices.

An unemployment rate of 6.2 per cent is very low by historical standards, as it has dropped below six per cent only a handful of times.

For instance, stocks are getting increasingly rich by historical standards relative to the underlying companies» profits.

Despite all of it, some argue that buying a home today is still affordable at least by historical standards.

Rental volatility is exceptionally low by historical standards, and aggregate rental growth is expected to maintain a steady pace through 2017.

World growth will remain low on average but negative in the UK and Europe; price inflation will remain sufficiently subdued for a while longer so as to impose no constraint on monetary expansion; central banks will sustain a regime of negative real interest rates and rapid monetary expansion; the risk of a eurozone collapse is off the table for now; finally, stock markets should continue to perform better than expected, even though the four - year old cyclical bull market is long by historical standards.

While rates remain extraordinarily low by historical standards, in the last few months we have witnessed a modest change in the environment.

While the level of mortgage arrears is still low by historical standards, a rising debt - service ratio could signal that's about to change.

Although low by historical standards, early delinquency flows deteriorated somewhat — with student loans, auto loans and mortgages seeing moderate increases.

Based on consensus estimates, bank earnings could grow as much as 28 % in 2018 and valuations currently appear quite reasonable by historical standards.

Valuations in this segment of the market remain high by historical standards.

On top of that, with stock prices already so high (even after this sell - off, they're still high by historical standards), returns going forward might not be as great as what we've experienced the past few years.

And in stock markets, here is a paper from the Treasury's Office of Financial Research arguing «that U.S. stock prices today appear high by historical standards» and discussing relevant financial - stability issues.

Based on the above research findings, with the S&P 500 Index's current ten - year normalized PE of 20.3 and ten - year normalized dividend yield of 2.1 %, investors should be aware of the fact that the market is by historical standards expensive.

Wages are rising at about the same pace as inflation, which is weak by historical standards, and suggests that households have limited spending power.

Although they've been heading up recently, student loan interest rates remain low by historical standards, so a fixed - rate loan might be a safe bet.

Accounting for today's low rates, valuations on stocks are about average by historical standards.

Business confidence is high, and balance sheets appear to be sound, with corporate gearing at a low level by historical standards.

While that's still fairly low by historical standards, it's the highest average we've seen since April 2014.

All these spreads are currently at very low levels by historical standards (Graph B1).

Corporate gearing ratios remain conservative by historical standards and debt servicing costs remain low, reflecting the relatively low level of interest rates.

Spreads between corporate bond yields and swap rates and the premia on credit default swaps have fallen slightly over the period, and are very low by historical standards (Graph 44).

Financial markets are wildly overvalued, overbought and over bullish by historical standards.

That would be a relatively low level by historical standards; in the past two tightening cycles by the Fed, the federal funds rate peaked at around 6 per cent.

But the prescription offered by the Taylor rule changes significantly if one instead assumes, as I do, that appreciable slack still remains in the labor market, and that the economy's equilibrium real federal funds rate — that is, the real rate consistent with the economy achieving maximum employment and price stability over the medium term — is currently quite low by historical standards.

The downturn in dwelling investment that appears to be in train is likely to be mild by historical standards.

And although investment interest has been revived over the past year and a half, levels of exposure likely remain limited by historical standards.

The reality is that, by historical standards, rates are extremely low and are likely to remain so for the foreseeable future.

The number of for - sale homes has risen 4.5 % over the past year to 2.31 million in August, but the level is still low by historical standards.

A mortgage rate jump to 4.5 % would increase the percentage of income to 23 % — still low by historical standards.

However, the «high» rates seen in early 2018 are not expensive by historical standards.

But stocks are not a pure investment in growth; they also bring exposure to volatility, which has been exceptionally low by historical standards.

Fortunately, rates are still low by historical standards.

Adding to the concerns about valuations is that by historical standards, the current bull market is no spring chicken.

Although household indebtedness remains a major risk to financial instability in Canada, low interest rates have kept debt servicing costs low by historical standards.

It's at 27 recently and so it's very high by historical standards and that is a concern now.»

The level of bond yields in markets globally continues to be low by historical standards.

Unemployment has dipped slightly during the past six months and is currently 3.2 per cent, down from a peak of 3 1/2 per cent in the middle of 1996, but still high by historical standards.

Despite this, corporate gearing ratios remain low by historical standards.

The time period covered is relatively short by historical standards so it is difficult to draw significant conclusions.

The share of foreign currency issuance denominated in US dollars remained low by historical standards at just over 50 per cent; financial institutions issued substantial amounts in euros, pounds sterling and Canadian dollars.