Sentences with phrase «record low»

Investors seeking income amid record low bond yields have flocked to stocks with consistent cash return in recent years.

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.

October saw the sharpest fall in manufacturing production in at least five years, and the overall performance of the sector has dropped to yet another record low» said Cheryl Paradowski, president and chief executive officer, SCMA.

Still reeling from the effects of Britain's decision to leave the European Union, global investors showed increased demand for the safe haven of U.S. Treasuries, resulting in the 10 - year U.S. Treasury yield hitting a record low on July 6th.

Record low inventory is being driven by baby boomers staying put and the lack of home building thanks to hardcore NIMBYism.

The BBB's analysis found that only 1.7 per cent of small firms sought new loans over the last 10 quarters — a record low since its index began in 2011.

On November 3 the Cboe Volatility Index ® (VIX ®) closed at 9.14, an all - time record low for both a daily and weekly closing value for the index.

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.

The evidence presented in this video suggests that Creditism is in crisis globally because Credit is no longer increasing fast enough to drive global growth, even with record low interest rates.

The real declined 10 % against the U.S. dollar during the quarter, while the rupee hit a record low.

Of course, mutual fund cash levels also remain at record low levels.

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.

Nonetheless, vehicle sales keep failing to rise through their previous cyclical peaks, in spite of rising employment, record low financing costs and low oil prices (charts from CalculatedRisk)

After the economic crisis in 2008, the Fed reduced rates to record low levels.

Global bond yields have climbed to 1.58 percent from a record low 1.07 percent in July, according to the Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Index.

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.

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.

Alibaba's shares skidded to a record low in New York on Wednesday after China's biggest e-commerce company posted its slowest revenue growth in over three years.

Note that 26 % is also a record low.

Meanwhile, the share of flipped homes that were purchased by the flipper with financing increased to an eight - year high of 31.5 % in 2016 while the median age of homes flipped increased to 37 years — a new high going back to 2000 — and the median square footage of homes flipped fell to 1422 — a new record low going back to 2000.

To the extent that the first chart above (SPX futures) reflects a combination of Central Bank money printing and investors going «all - in» on stocks (record low cash levels), IF the Central Banks simply stop printing money and do not shrink their balance sheets, who will be left to buy stocks when the selling begins?

In a seven page report released Friday, Beata Caranci says the need for financial literacy has never been higher because of record low interest rates and household debt growing faster than income, something the millennial population seems unprepared to deal with.

According to Morgan Stanley, unspent money is disappearing from individual brokerage accounts as the rally lures buyers, driving cash levels to a record low.

Record low interest rates have ended.

Indian Central Bank under the new Governor cut the key benchmark lending rate by 25 bpts to a record low of 6.25 %.

Explaining the rate hike, BoE Governor Mark Carney cited a record low level of unemployment, inflation above the BoE's target of 2 % and the UK economy's reduced growth capacity, which policymakers believe has lowered the threshold at which it can expand without creating pricing pressures.

The British currency rose to $ 1.6960 from $ 1.6830 the day before after Mark Carney said an interest rate rise from its current record low of 0.5 percent, «could happen sooner than markets currently expect.»

Tomorrow's bubble in the Canadian housing market is constructed on the premise that today's record low mortgage rates will remain in place.

That's officially six - years of record low base rates for the UK, since they were first cut back in March 2009.

The European Central Bank decided yesterday to keep its interest rates at a record low.

The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) unexpectedly hiked rates by 650 basis points to 17 percent overnight after the beleaguered ruble plunged to a fresh record low.

Shares in mining and trading company Glencore fell almost 30 % and closed at a record low on Monday over concerns it is not doing enough to cut its debt to withstand a prolonged fall in global metals prices.

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.

GRIFFETH: The number of American «s filing new claims for unemployment has now been at a record low, for a record amount of time that is.

Currently, the bank's main benchmark interest rate is at a record low of zero.

The Greenback is recovering the bulk of last week's losses, with the Euro weaker despite German IP and Exports better than expected, and Euro Unemployment coming in at 7 year lows — Sterling falls to October Lows on Article 50 headers — Turkey's Lira fresh record low on Moody's, Peso eyeballing lows into Auto Show Headers.

This hasn't been viewed as an issue thanks to record low interest rates.

Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, has kept the bank's main interest rate at a record low of 0.25 per cent as the economy weakens ahead of Britain's departure from the European Union.

It's globally tradable by non accredited investors and has no valuation anchors, plus the world is much more interconnected and experiencing record low - interest rates ``.

Meanwhile, the bank's short term interest benchmark is at a record low of zero.

Even then, they do not expect the bank to raise its interest rate benchmark from the current record low of zero until sometime in 2019.

With the VIX having dropped to record low levels (Figure 1), shorting the VIX has produced a handsome return so far this year (up 70 % based on the ProShares Short VIX Short - Term Futures ETF (SVXY)-RRB-.

ECB President Mario Draghi today cut its benchmark refinancing rate to a record low 0.5 %.

Annual inflation rate falls to a record low in January, a development that will increase pressure on the ECB to act more decisively to head off the threat of falling prices.

Currently the bank's benchmark short - term rate is at a record low zero.

What are the potential conditions required to keep volatility at historically low, if not record low, levels?

That's close to a record low, and nearly a full percentage point lower than where we were at the start of last year.

With increasing political uncertainty all over the western world, changing global power structures, continued sluggish growth, and record low interest rates, precious metals are today more relevant than ever.

The Reserve Bank of Australia cut the cash rate in May from 2 per cent to a record low 1.75 per cent out of concern that inflation was trending too low, following first - quarter inflation data that showed prices had fallen 0.2 per cent in the first three months of the year.

Other topics in Chapter 3 include leverage and how it works, the power of record low interest rates in paying down your principal at an accelerated rate,...