Sentences with phrase «rates near record»

Not only are mortgage rates near record lows but changes to FHA loans are increasing affordability for first - time buyers.

Others cited the relative affordability of remodels, with builders willing to negotiate on price during slower times and interest rates near record lows.

The Federal Reserve's monetary policy has helped spur the U.S. housing market in recent years, because it has indirectly held long - term mortgage rates near record - low levels.

The stimulus program, known as QE3, helped keep mortgage - lending rates near record lows for months.

Home Equity Rates remain affordable with fixed rates near record lows.

The Federal Reserve's monetary policy has helped spur the U.S. housing market in recent years, because it has indirectly held long - term mortgage rates near record - low levels.

The Fed is currently buying $ 85 billion in Treasury and mortgage bonds a month in a move that has kept long - term rates near record lows and supported economic recovery.

The Federal Reserve's monetary policy has helped spur the U.S. housing market in recent years, because it has indirectly held long - term mortgage rates near record - low levels.

The minutes from the Federal Reserve's January meeting showed that policy makers argued for keeping interest rates near record lows for longer due to both the stronger dollar and the crisis in Greece.

Alert finance directors at junk - rated firms have taken advantage of interest rates near record lows to refinance at least $ 250 billion worth of debt over the past half year.

It remains to be seen if oil prices will remain low for a long period of time, but the Federal Reserve's actions, which have kept lending rates near record lows since 2009, have allowed airlines like Alaska access to capital at a reasonably cheap cost.

One of the reasons activity is picking up is that financing deals is cheap, with interest rates near record lows.

Credit card APRs surge on First Premier card change — Credit card interest rates neared record levels, after First Premier began charging the higher of two APRs to all of its new Centennial Classic cardholders.

Not exact matches

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.

Honey bee death rates went up in places where higher levels of naled were recorded near hives, according to a National Center for Biotechnology Information study.

But unlike credit cards and most other consumer debt, mortgage interest is tax deductible and today's rates are near record lows.

With valuations sitting near record levels, they're especially vulnerable and likely to lose appeal relative to bonds as interest rates rise.

Rating service Moody's tracks covenant quality, essentially a measure of standards that bond issuers must meet, and reported Thursday that the latest reading remains near record highs, which indicates weak restrictions.

Interest rates on ultra-safe investments like Treasury bonds have been hovering near record lows since the Great Recession.

Sellers will have less incentive to put their homes on the market, because most have near - record - low rates and would be buying into significantly higher rates.

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

In the U.S., it's had a positive impact on mortgage refinance rates, which have fallen to near - record lows.

On the other hand, it is important to note that the spread between earnings price ratios and real interest rates are at near record levels, and that is a crude measure of the equity risk premium.

Household credit continues to be readily available at near - record low rates.

Now mortgage rates, which sat near record lows for the bulk of 2017, are suddenly rising.

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.

There are certainly areas of desperation, including unemployment among minority youth and individuals with disabilities, but at the current unemployment rate of 4.6 %, my impression is that the «jobs crisis» in this country is actually better described as an income crisis, because wages and salaries as a share of total income remain near record lows.

Erskine Bowles, co-chair of the Simpson - Bowles Deficit Reduction Commission has calculated that service on the interest for that debt alone, if rates stay near record lows, will be $ 1 trillion by 2020!

A bigger factor has been the strong growth of the equity markets, especially with interest rates still hovering near record lows.

Sales fell sharply on a month - on - month basis, and revenues compared with a year ago were down at a near - record rate.

U.S. stocks rose, with the Standard & Poor's 500 Index near a record, as investors weighed economic data for clues on the timing of higher interest rates amid optimism that a deal on Greek aid is within reach.

With interest rates still hovering near the lowest levels they've ever been in 5,000 + years of recorded human history, it's very difficult to achieve a significant investment return without taking on substantial risk.

So far, interest rates on other kinds of consumer debt are not on the rise, since they are often tied to the Bank of Canada's benchmark rate, still sitting near a record low.

When the stock market is near a record high, interest rates are headed much higher and the market fear index, the VIX, suddenly shoots up, this is a clear sign of an overvalued market for conventional intangible assets.

Bank of Montreal chief economist Douglas Porter said that bank appears very patient, with little appetite to move in January despite the near - record low jobless rate.

The Bank of Canada has underpinned the housing market by holding its key policy rate at a near - record low of 1 percent since 2010.

Under Powell's predecessors, Janet Yellen and Ben Bernanke, the Fed's board endured criticism from House Republicans over its decision to pursue a bond purchase program designed to lower long - term borrowing rates and to leave its key rate at a record low near zero for seven years.

The Fed's latest rate hike marks its sixth since it began tightening credit in December 2015, after having kept its benchmark rate at a record low near zero for seven years to help nurture the economy's recovery from the recession.

But most economists say that's unlikely, especially given we are already near full - employment with record - low interest rates.

Last month, the Fed modestly raised its benchmark short - term rate for the first time since December 2015, when it had raised it after keeping the rate at a record low near zero for seven years.

From my perspective, the record M&A activity that we've seen this year has created the most attractive opportunity we've seen in the last 10 years, with merger spread investments near all - time high rates of returns.

Pent - up demand following a shutdown for Hurricane Sandy combined with near - record - low interest rates to release a torrent of new corporate bond issues in early November.

The Fed kept its key interest rate at a record low near zero for seven years until December 2015.

With abortion clinics closing at record rates as abortions hit near - record lows and state restrictions hit near - record highs, a respected report released today reveals that U.S. abortions have dropped to their lowest rate since 1973 — the year the U.S. Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade.

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It is a terrible defensive record and there is no organisation or strength back there and they are getting punished Wolves home record stands at W3 D2 L10 for the season and they are conceding at a rate of 2.33 goals per game and are nowhere near matching that going forward.

Gee, I don't know, Ashley L, but I've had midwives lie at transport right to my face, lie on the records they brought with them (always much later — we had a near 70 % «forgotten» record rate, and the records were always super neat and new - looking when that happened), lie to their patients about their risks, so why wouldn't they lie in the MANA data?

Last week, a poll by Quinnipiac University also found the governor's approval rating at a near - record low.

The Siena poll also finds the governor's job approval rating is still at near record low levels.

The second voter survey in two weeks shows Governor Andrew Cuomo's job approval rating plummeting to near record lows.