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Optimism among small business owners has also remained around the 70 percent point since the beginning of this year — important to note since this group tends to act on its instinct.

Not exact matches

At 0847 GMT, the FTSE index was up 0.57 percent to 7,563.38 points, a high since the beginning of February, when sterling was however about 5 percent higher than it is now against the dollar.

At 12:46 p.m. (1646 GMT), the 10 - year Treasury yield was up 1 basis point at 2.983 percent after rising to 3.003 percent, which was the highest since January 2014.

The Dow fell 665.75 points on Friday — or 2.5 percent — notching its biggest one - day sell - off since June 2016.

U.S. two - year Treasury yields reached 2.453 percent on Friday, the highest level since September 2008 as the two - year's spread versus two - year German Bunds grew to 302 basis points, the widest in more than three decades.

Still, Wall Street has continued to lower its estimates for growth this year and next, with GDP now expected to be 1.95 percent for 2016, 19 basis points lower than in March and below 2 percent for the first time since the question was first asked a year ago.

The likelihood of the U.S. entering recession is seen at just 21 percent, its lowest level since September and down nearly 8 points from January, when fears were rampant of a slowdown.

Since January, Apple's stock has fallen by 5 percent, and it's only up 23 percent over the last three years — two percentage points lower than the S&P 500.

As the New York Times pointed out on Tuesday, there have been seven events since the economic crisis of 2009 where the S&P 500 has fallen five percent in the course of a week.

This comes as no surprise, since 70 percent of these working Americans love what they do — to the point that 80 percent would continue working even if they won the lottery.

U.S. stock futures are sharply higher in early trading, after Thursday's 421 - point surge for the Dow surge, which added to big gains in the prior session and chalked up a 4.2 % two - day rally for the index — its biggest two - day percent gain since November 2011.

Data from China's National Bureau of Statistics showed the consumer price index rose 3.2 percent in February from a year ago, versus expectations of a 3.0 percent rise, while annual industrial production (IP) growth in January and February combined at 9.9 percent was the lowest since October 2012 - the starting point of China's nascent economic recovery.

The average contract interest rate for 30 - year fixed - rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($ 453,100 or less) increased to its highest level since April 2014, 4.50 percent, from 4.41 percent, with points increasing to 0.57 from 0.56 (including the origination fee) for 80 percent loan - to - value ratio loans.

Ten - year Italian bond yields have risen 17 basis points to 4.55 percent, since the news of an uncertain outcome spread on Monday but the Italian treasury is going ahead with a sale of 6.5 billion euros ($ 8.5 billion) of 5 and 10 - year bonds on Wednesday.

In July, the proportion of Americans aged 25 through 54 who had a job or were looking for one rose to 81.8 percent, up a half - percentage point from a year earlier and the highest since December 2010.

Olympus Corp ended up 6.6 percent to 1,985 yen, reaching the 2,000 - line at one point for the first time since October 2011, after UBS Securities started its coverage with a «buy» rating and a target price of 3,000 yen as the company on Monday submitted to the Tokyo Stock Exchange a written affirmation on the internal control system as stipulated in the securities listing regulations.

Fifty - eight percent reported capital outlays, down 8 points from February's impressive reading (highest since 2004).

That's a valid concern, but it's worth pointing out that since its recent low of $ 26 a barrel in February 2016, the oil price has surged nearly 150 percent — all while the number of active wells in North America has risen.

Seasonally adjusted, a net 25 percent plan price hikes (up 1 point), the highest reading since 2008.

The 30 - stock index also briefly entered correction territory for the first time since last month, falling 10 percent from its 52 - week high at one point late in the day.

Reports of higher worker compensation rose 2 points to a net 33 percent, the highest reading since 2000.

Coming off its biggest one - day decline since 2007, Shanghai's main share index seesawed throughout Tuesday — falling as much as 5 percent as trading opened and rising 1 percent at one point — to end down 1.7 percent.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index made its biggest gain since late April as it rose 26.68 points, or 1.1 percent, to finish at a record high of 2,488.11.

With Monday's sharp downturn, the Dow Jones has lost about 2,200 points since Jan. 26, a decline of nearly 10 percent.

The Dow Jones has since moved up by about 1.5 percent, while the S&P 500 has jumped to 2,163.26 points.

Even measured against this bull market's impressive results, technology stocks have been excellent investments, outpacing the 19.4 percent annualized return of Standard and Poor's 500 - stock index by four percentage points per year, on average, since...

Hungary's 10 - year notes climbed, cutting yields 23 basis points to 9.85 percent, the lowest close since Dec. 28, according to generic prices compiled by Bloomberg.

The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 208 points, or 1.8 percent, to close above 12,000 for only the third time since early August.

Toronto - Dominion Bank has lifted its posted rate for five - year fixed mortgages by 45 basis points to 5.59 percent as government bond yields touched their highest levels since 2011 this week.

As has been pointed out by the Conference Board of Canada, traditional Canadian dependency on the US market peaked in 2001 and since that time the US share of Canada's merchandise exports has dropped from 87 percent to 74 percent of total exports.

As a result of this positive behavior, the number of people who are likely to afford at least their essential expenses in retirement jumped seven percentage points since 2013, from 38 to 45 percent.»

Since falling to 3.81 percent in September 2017, mortgage rates compiled by Freddie Mac have risen 66 basis points.

Canada's tax rate on corporate profits has fallen by more than 14 percentage points since the turn of the century, to just 15 percent this year.

Many people point to 1965, but I prefer to count from 1976 because it is the first year that topped 500,000 immigrants since the 1920s, coinciding with the decision to admit Vietnamese refugees, and 90 percent of all immigrants still in the United States in 2016 entered after 1975.

There has been speculation in some corners that the inverse products helped fuel this month's sudden stock slump, which saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average have its largest one - day point loss ever and put the S&P 500 in correction territory (a decline of more than 10 percent from its peak) for the first time since 2015.

Twenty - three percent of all owners reported job openings they could not fill in the current period (up 2 points), a positive signal for the unemployment rate and the highest reading since January, 2008.

By March 3 to 5, it was down to 61 percent, the lowest point since 2016.

Yields have been in a bear market for rather a long time now, though a grudging one, judging by its protracted trajectory, though I'll grant the nearly 100 basis point gains in 10 years since 2.05 percent as recently as September is rather stellar.

The study shows a steady decline since 1997 when it was at 13 percent and, predictably, it dropped to its lowest point of 6 percent in 2008 at the beginning of the financial crisis.

Two percent reported reduced worker compensation and 17 percent reported raising compensation, yielding seasonally adjusted net 19 percent reporting higher worker compensation (up 5 points), the best reading since 2007.

Tracking a rally in copper prices, the peso recently rose 0.55 percent to reach its highest point since

«Mortgage rates on 30 - year loans have increased 50 basis points since the week prior to the election, hitting their highest level since October 2014, and causing refinance application volume to dip 28 percent to a new low for the year,» said Mike Fratantoni, MBA's chief economist.

There's some chance that we'll find out if the lawyers are right, since Dan Loeb's Third Point Capital, which owns 9.62 percent of Sotheby's, is running a proxy fight to elect three directors and shake up management, and is the obvious target of Sotheby's 10 - percent - trigger poison pill, today filed a lawsuit to get rid of that pill.

Since the emergence of the new political landscape dominated by the Ethiopian Revolutionary People's Democratic Front (ERPDF) in 1991, Protestantism in Ethiopia has grown to the point where it now accounts for almost 21 percent of the population.

New research from Gallup shows that, with only 44 percent of Americans having «a great deal» or «quite a lot» of confidence in religious institutions, Americans» trust in church is at its lowest point since the national research organization started asking the question in 1973.

Since starting strong with a 25 - point, seven - rebound effort in Game 1, Martin has averaged 12.3 points on 35 percent shooting in the past three games.

Hunt is no longer being treated like a top - three back, with his salary reaching its lowest point on DraftKings since Week 2, and his projected 9 - 12 percent ownership significantly lower than his average of 26.4 percent this season.

Wade's 18.3 points per game were the worst since his rookie season, his 43 percent shooting a career - low.

We could go down to a conference level — six at - large bids for the ACC, on down to one combined at - large for the bottom 13 conferences — or we could say that since power conferences got 71.5 percent of the points, they get 71.5 percent of the at - large bids, or about 26.

In Game 2 on Sunday, the Golden State Warriors became the second team since the three - point line was added to shoot 50 percent from the field, 40 percent on three - pointers, and 90 percent at the free throw line during an NBA Finals game.