Sentences with phrase «rates over the past week»

Healthy consumer spending and higher commodity prices spooked the bond markets and led to higher mortgage rates over the past week.

Several big - picture factors negatively affected mortgage rates over the past week.

Higher Treasury yields, driven by rising commodity prices, more Treasury issuances and the steady stream of solid economic news, are behind the uptick in rates over the past week.

Not exact matches

Just this week it was announced that the Better Business Bureau gave her cosmetics company, Lip Kit, an «F» rating after receiving 133 complaints from consumers over the past 12 months.

History suggests that some 90 percent of rate hikes over the past 25 years already were highly anticipated by the market, with at least a 70 percent chance discounted in, according to research Goldman Sachs released this week.

Last week, I wrote that the upcoming Kabuki theatre in Congress, over a possible government shutdown and the debt ceiling, might convince the Federal Reserve to postpone the QE tapering past its next rate - setting meeting in mid-September.

Economy: Long term interest rates in both the US and Australia have declined sharply over the past week as the economic outlook in both Australia and US point to a slowdown in economic activity.

But one of the interesting findings over the past week is that when market action is characterized by neither favorable trend uniformity nor a strong breadth reversal, falling interest rates exert no favorable impact on stocks.

The global stock market rout of the past week was sparked by concerns over a possible interest rate rise by the U.S. Federal Reserve and not by the devaluation of China's yuan currency, a senior Chinese central bank official told Reuters on Thursday.

In the past several weeks, the Canadian dollar has hovered between 69 and 75 cents U.S., in its lowest exchange rate in over a decade.

The unemployment rate is a measure of unemployed individuals in the age group of 16 - 64 years who have been actively seeking work over the past four weeks and are readily available to start working within the next two weeks.

Mortgage rates have now dropped 15 basis points over the past two weeks, leaving them only 10 basis points above the all - time low.»

But as I noted last week (see Two Point Three Sigmas Above the Norm), nominal growth and interest rate variations have historically canceled out over the past century, with little effect on the accuracy of our valuation estimates — matched reductions in the growth rate and the discount rate really don't affect fair value.

Over the past couple of weeks, there has been a lot of speculation over the future of the Arsenal full - back Hector Bellerin, who has been linked with a return to his hometown club Barcelona with some sources in the media even claiming that a # 44 million deal was in place to take the highly - rated Spaniard back to the Nou COver the past couple of weeks, there has been a lot of speculation over the future of the Arsenal full - back Hector Bellerin, who has been linked with a return to his hometown club Barcelona with some sources in the media even claiming that a # 44 million deal was in place to take the highly - rated Spaniard back to the Nou Cover the future of the Arsenal full - back Hector Bellerin, who has been linked with a return to his hometown club Barcelona with some sources in the media even claiming that a # 44 million deal was in place to take the highly - rated Spaniard back to the Nou Camp.

From what the polls have been telling us over the past three weeks, it appears that the more publicity you get, the higher your poll rating!

The survey also indicates that Cuomo's approval rating now stands at 54 percent, down 13 points over the past couple of weeks.

The 2002 National Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer Survey, whose results were announced last week, found that the rates of the most common forms of skin cancer, non-melanomas, have doubled in Australia over the past two decades.

According to the article by Jennifer Schuessler, «Over the past two weeks, Mr. Grunberg has spent several hours a day writing his novella, while a battery of sensors and cameras tracked his brain waves, heart rate, galvanic skin response (an electrical measure of emotional arousal) and facial expressions.

The 30 - year fixed FHA, VA, and USDA programs all remained unchanged over the past week, and the FHA has stayed at the same rate of 3.250 % (4.825 % APR) for nine weeks straight.

Mortgage Rates for the majority of loan programs saw increases over the past week.

Mortgage rates have risen over the past few weeks, contributing to a decline in mortgage applications.

The rise in bond yields over the past few of weeks typically stimulates an increase in mortgage rates.

Stocks Drop, Rates Rise, Home Sales Strengthen Overview: The stock market dropped sharply over the past week.

MCLEAN, Va., May 03, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) today released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey ® (PMMS ®), showing that after steadily rising in most of April, average mortgage rates dipped slightly over the past week.

While the market has pushed eREIT valuations down over the last quarter, and particularly the past two weeks, due to fears of rising rates, history tells us that eREITs generally do well during periods of slowly rising rates and some eREITs will even beat the big market indexes under these conditions.

Much has been made over the past weeks, months and even years now, about so - called «mortgage wars» — a term that implies lenders are cutting rates ever more dramatically in an effort to win business.

We'd been taking a bit of a break from this process over the past 3 weeks, and it hadn't been immediately clear that we'd be going higher so quickly, but a stable Retail Sales report let investors know that the economy has been weathering the recent storms of higher rates and trade tensions.

Over the past few weeks, we've had some very active discussion over decisions by credit card issuers to reduce credit limits, increase interest rates, increase minimum payments, close unused accounts, and add new fOver the past few weeks, we've had some very active discussion over decisions by credit card issuers to reduce credit limits, increase interest rates, increase minimum payments, close unused accounts, and add new fover decisions by credit card issuers to reduce credit limits, increase interest rates, increase minimum payments, close unused accounts, and add new fees.

Minneapolis, MN: Freddie Mac today released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey ® (PMMS ®), showing fixed mortgage rates mixed following the monthly employment report but continuing to hover near their record lows over the past six weeks.

The decline in mortgages rates over the past few weeks echoes the recent signs of weakening confidence in the strength of the economy, particularly the housing and consumer sectors.

Mortgage rates have dropped over the past week.

Local mortgage rates remained relatively unchanged over the past week.

Local mortgage rates for most loan programs saw little to no change over the past week.

MCLEAN, Va., May 10, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) today released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey ® (PMMS ®), showing that mortgage rates were unchanged over the past week.

Even though low rates have been offered for the past month by non-bank lenders the media announcement only hit the streets over the past week.

However, he said that, in anticipation of a rise in rates south of the border in mid-December, over the past few weeks banks have only offered a 0.3 per cent discount off prime to their new variable rate customers.

Refinance leads are down an average of 4.8 % over the past four weeks, despite expectations by many analysts that the recent rise in home loan rates would motivate fence - sitting homeowners to act before rates go any higher.

I've learned in the past week that booking through M life can earn you a good 10 - 20 % discount over the lowest rate on the hotel's own website.

Card issuers» busy summer Despite leaving interest rates alone this week, some issuers have been experimenting with other card terms over the past month.

To date, almost 200 companies have joined the initiative, and in the past year, growth has been at a rate of over 2 new companies per week.

The 5AR's «Summary for Policymakers,» released last week, acknowledged that «the rate of warming over the past 15 years... is smaller than the rate calculated since 1951,» before concluding that «warming of the climate system is unequivocal.»

For those parents - to - be who want to ensure that their children's lives are saddled with crushing debt and filled with 90 - hour work weeks reviewing irrelevant emails in a windowless room on the 22nd floor of a New York office building, Conrad Saam, head of marketing for the controversial «lawyer rating» site Avvo, has done a «groundbreaking new study on lawyer's [sic] names over the past 200 years.»

Via a post on the Land Use Prof Blog, I discovered that San Francisco (funded by your federal tax dollars) has, over the past couple of weeks, begun toying with a system of variable rate, electronically monitored parking meters, the stated goal of which is «collecting and distributing real - time information about where parking is available so drivers can quickly find open spaces,» and instituting «demand - responsive pricing.»

Here is what you need to know about Income Replacement Benefits (IRB's): • IRB's are calculated at 70 % of your average gross income based on your employment history o Your income is calculated as the higher of either (i) the 52 weeks before the accident OR (ii) the 4 weeks before the accident multiplied by 13 o Self - employed income is calculated as the higher of either (i) the 52 weeks before the accident OR (ii) the last fiscal year o If you are receiving other income replacement assistance, such as short term or long term disability benefits, those amounts are deductable from the amount of your IRB eligibility • IRB's are capped at $ 400 per week • The first 7 days of your disability are not covered by IRB's • IRB's are payable for a 104 week (2 year) period, but you may be eligible to continue receiving this benefit past the 2 years indefinitely, if after the 2 year mark you are unable to do any occupation for which you are reasonably suited by way of your education, training and experience • The age 65 marks changes in IRB's o If you are already over the age of 65, IRB's are payable up to 208 weeks and gradually reduced over that period o If you reach the age 65 while already receiving benefits, the IRB is converted to a lifetime pension at a reduced rate based on an established formula

The price of the digital currency has soared beyond $ 10,000 over the past week on Harare - based trading platform Golix, almost double the rates on major international exchanges.

The removal of South Korean rates was controversial, primarily because the well - regulated South Korean cryptocurrency exchange market has been accountable for more than 50 percent of global Ripple trades over the past few weeks.

A new study by the Guttmacher Institute released last week, U.S. Teen Pregnancies, Births and Abortions, 2008: National Trends by Age, Race and Ethnicity, found that pregnancy rates have declined dramatically among all teens over the past two decades, and that these declines have been primarily driven by improved use of contraception, particularly increases in the use of highly effective methods and dual use of contraception and condoms.

The 21 items are rated on a four - point Likert scale assessing intensity / frequency of distress (from 0 = did not apply to me at all to 3 = applied to me very much, or most of the time) over the past week.

Pain distress: the distress caused by patients» pain over the past week was assessed on a zero to 10 numerical rating scale, with higher scores indicating greater pain distress.19

Fannie and Freddie have introduced rate hikes over the past few weeks and tightened underwriting as a means to slow lending activity.