Sentences with phrase «rates near record lows»

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 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 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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Quinnipiac poll on July 12 was the first of two voter surveys this month to find that Cuomo's popularity and job approval rating is slipping among New Yorkers to near record lows.

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

Carroll says the survey is already «tepid» for Cuomo, who, with a 46 percent approval rating, is near a record low.

Carroll said the survey is already «tepid» for Cuomo, who, with a 46 percent approval rating, is near a record low.

NEW YORK CITY — Mayor Bill de Blasio's approval ratings are hovering near record lows, but there's not a candidate out there who's likely to beat him in the Democratic primary or the general election in 2017, according to a new poll.

Among all existing Tablets of any size, the iPad mini 4 takes first place and breaks performance records in many of the most important test categories including: lowest screen Reflectance (2.0 percent), highest contrast rating in high ambient light (225), a near perfect log - straight intensity scale and gamma of 2.22, and the highest absolute color accuracy (average / maximum color errors of 1.9 and 4.2 JNCD — tied for first place with the Microsoft Surface Pro 4).

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.

Today's mortgage rates are near record lows, but when viewed in the context of inflation, they may not be as extreme as they appear.

«Mortgage rates ended this year near record lows.

But despite this positive economic news, mortgage rates have remained near record lows.

FHA loan rates are hovering near record lows, and home prices in many regions are not heating up as fast as expected for the busy summer buying season.

Interest rates also remain near record lows, and fixed - income investors have rediscovered an appetite for risk.

With mortgage rates sitting near record lows, the 40 - year - old Torontonian figures the return on his invested dollar should exceed the guaranteed savings from making additional payments on his home.

«Today's near record low homeownership rate, combined with low inventory of rental property, have combined to push rental rates higher during the housing recovery,» he says.