Sentences with phrase «rates reached their highest»

American entrepreneurship rates reach their highest levels in more than a decade according to researchers at Babson College and Baruch College.

The bank rate reached a high of 21 % in 1981.

Interest rates reached a high of 14 % during 1990.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's approval rating reached its highest point in a year, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday.

MCLEAN, VA --(Marketwired - Feb 15, 2018)- Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) today released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey ® (PMMS ®), showing the 30 - year fixed mortgage rate reaching its highest level since April 2014.

The unemployment rate reached a high point of 11.2 percent in July 2010 before falling to 8.6 percent by May 2012.

During the president's last term, the U.S. homeownership rate reached its highest levels in 15 years.Since 1993, 4.5 million Americans have become homeowners.

There has been strong demand in the rental market, with top end rental rates reaching highs of around R80k — R100k per month in high end, luxury areas such as the Atlantic Seaboard, Constantia and Sandton.

In 2006, Canada's home ownership rate reached its highest level since 1971, according to a new detailed analysis of data on housing, home ownership and shelter costs from the 2006 Census.

According to Freddie Mac, average mortgage rates reached a high of 16.63 percent in 1981, eventually dipping to pre-recession rates of 6.41 percent in 2006.

MCLEAN, VA --(Marketwired - Feb 15, 2018)- Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) today released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey ® (PMMS ®), showing the 30 - year fixed mortgage rate reaching its highest level since April 2014.

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But because operators bill at such a high rate for data roaming — at about 15 cents per kilobyte of information in France, for example, which is roughly the amount of information in this paragraph — consumers typically reach that limit within a few hours of downloading standard e-mails.

«The industrial capacity utilisation rate in the first three quarters reached 76.6 %, 3.5 percentage points higher than the same period last year.»

When Best Price Nutrition discovered that the questions they answered on Yahoo! Answers had a higher click - through rate and resulted in more new customers than their company blog, they retooled their online strategy to focus more on reaching out to customers through Yahoo! Answers.

In a separate report, Citi Habitats reported that the borough's vacancy reached 1.9 percent, the highest rate the brokerage has reported for July since it started tracking the stat in 2002.

Even for publishers who reach their core audience through other forms of content (like text articles) on their own sites still see the highest rate of engagement with videos when it comes to their Facebook page.

Most reward - based platforms charge the same success fee (5 percent) on funds raised, although some charge a higher rate (usually 8 or 9 percent) if you don't reach your goal, so be sure to check the fine print!

The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

By giving your money more time to compound and keeping your rate of return as high as possible, you greatly increase your chances of reaching a seven - figure net worth,» writes Brian Feroldi on The Motley Fool.

«Employment rose again in the three months to February, to reach its highest ever rate since records began.

For all of 2017, retail sales increased 6.7 per cent to reach $ 588 billion, the highest annual growth rate since 1997.

Knowing that if a compromise isn't reached between Speaker Boehner and President Obama, the result is a likely recession, should small - business groups back Boehner's insistence that the Bush tax cuts be preserved for everyone or should they acquiesce to the President's call for higher tax rates on people earning more than $ 200,000 a year?

The company's Canadian penetration rate is among the highest in the world and could be reaching its saturation point, Credit Suisse analyst David Hartley said in a note to clients.

When creating and distributing content to increase your marketing reach and brand awareness, you should look to find increases in page views, impressions, and unique users on your web properties and higher open rates in your email campaigns.

Click - through rates reached a new high of.88 % during the second quarter, while at the same time costs per click slipped to $ 0.46 from $ 0.53 in the first quarter of the year.

The problem with a title like «Study links vitamins to higher death rates in women,» which ran on CTV's news website, is that the study's authors did not reach that conclusion; the headline writer did.

These benefits would (i) largely go to developers and contractors for infrastructure projects like new pipelines that would happen even without new incentives and so be highly regressive; (ii) raise costs by failing to reach the tax - free pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and international investors who are the most plausible sources of incremental infrastructure finance; (iii) not encourage at all the highest return maintenance projects like fixing potholes that do not yield a pecuniary return for investors; and (iv) by offering credits at an unprecedented 82 percent rate, invite all kinds of tax shelter abuse.

On that occasion, mortgage lenders were making very high returns on new mortgage loans, with the spread between the mortgage rate and the cash rate reaching around 4 3/4 percentage points.

Higher interest rates will have far - reaching implications for every corner of the world economy, from your mortgage rate to emerging market trade.

It is especially crucial to make sure that you understand the terms of an ARM from the get - go, as that will specify how often the rate can change and how high it can reach.

In fiscal» 12, our revenues reached $ 24.1 billion; that's up 16 %, our highest growth rate in 15 years.

The roll rate — the percentage of credit card users who «roll» from early stage delinquencies to 60 - 89 day delinquencies — reached the highest since 2008 for one credit card program, while delinquencies for another were above the 10 - year average, according to Royal Bank of Canada credit analyst Vivek Selot.

Western allies press Trump to maintain nuclear deal with Iran: Reuters US intelligence monitors Iranian cargo shipments into Syria: CNN A trade war is a major risk for China's debt - ridden economy: CNBC Federal judge orders gov» t must accept new DACA immigration applications: WaPo Unification of Koreas still unlikely as leaders prepare to meet: Reuters US Consumer Confidence Index rebounded in April after March decline: CB New home sales in US increased to 4 - month high in March: MarketWatch Richmond Fed Mfg Index turns negative for first time since 2016: Bond Buyer S&P Case - Shiller Home Price Index surged in Feb, up 6.3 % y - o - y: CNBC Federal Housing Finance Agency: US house prices continued to rise in Feb: HW Corp bonds with lowest investment - grade rating look vulnerable: Bloomberg 10 - year Treasury yield reaches 3.0 % for first time since 2014: CNN Money

Precious and Industrial Metals Inflation concerns, geopolitical tensions and interest - rate levels, especially real yields, contributed to a 1.7 % rise in the spot price of gold (to US$ 1,325 per troy ounce), as did swings in the US dollar.1 Gold prices traded within the US$ 1,305 — 1,360 range throughout the period, reached 18 - month highs in March and capped their third straight quarterly gain, a feat not seen since 2011.1 Haven demand was a key support as exchange - traded gold holdings of 2,269 metric tons (mt) neared a five - year high.1 The Fed is widely expected to boost borrowing costs, and investors have been carefully watching the central bank's statements to see whether it targets more rate increases in 2018 than previously projected.

These benefits would (i) largely go to developers and contractors for infrastructure projects like new pipelines that would happen even without new incentives and so be highly regressive; (ii) raise costs by failing to reach the tax - free pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and international investors that are the most plausible sources of incremental infrastructure finance; (iii) not encourage at all the highest return maintenance projects like fixing potholes that do not yield a pecuniary return for investors; and (iv) by offering credits at an unprecedented 82 per cent rate, invite all kinds of tax - shelter abuse.

With interest rates reaching two - year highs, I will be allocating more cash flow to bonds for the remainder of the year, thereby boosting passive income.

But what if your bonds didn't reach maturity while rates are higher?

Sending out webcam videos to explain why they're reaching out, or screen capture videos to explain or prove a concept, salespeople can use video as an easy way to get 8x higher open rates and 5x higher click - through rates.

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While more modest in comparison to these movements, the recent new lows reached by gold reflect a renewed expectation for higher real interest rates as the Fed starts to raise rates.

He also said the average rate will likely be higher at the end of 2015 than at the beginning, perhaps reaching 5.0 % by year's end.

Up until 2013, GDP grew by an average rate of 10.7 %, reaching an all - time high of 23.2 % in 2007.

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.

«Fixed mortgage rates increased for the seventh consecutive week, with the 30 - year fixed mortgage rate reaching 4.40 percent in this week's survey; the highest since April of 2014.

Furthermore, with US equity markets reaching new highs and the interest - rate environment looking negative for bonds, we believe investors will seek out product offerings from alternative managers that can offer access to alpha2 across alternative asset classes.

You might have to reach out to your lender to find out what the maximum variable rate is — usually it's around the maximum fixed rate or slightly higher.

The loan's terms will lay out how many times the interest rate can rise and also the highest possible amount it can reach.

Your longer term CD's should be for a long term investment but higher interest rates, if you reach the 5 year point, and want to reinvest, do it, or you can remove the money and create another investment.

LONDON (AP)-- The pound jumped on Friday to reach its highest level against the dollar in nearly five years after the Bank of England's governor predicted an interest rate hike might come sooner than expected.

Annualized over the past 3 months, core CPI reached 2.9 percent, its highest rate since 2011.