Sentences with phrase «record low of»

Rates are now up almost a quarter - point from the mid-November record low of 3.31 percent.

The 15 - year fixed - rate mortgage reached a new record low of 3.29 percent this week, as 30 - year mortgage rates remained at the record low it reached last week, Freddie Mac reports in its weekly mortgage market survey.

The central bank has kept the federal funds rate at a record low of zero to 0.25 percent since December 2008.

-- From a record low of 5.99 per cent in 2005, mortgage rates rose to an average posted rate of 6.66 per cent for a five - year term mortgage in 2006.

Freddie Mac reports the 30 - year mortgage rate is close to the November 2012 record low of 3.31 percent.

The number of completed homes for sale ready for immediate move - in remains at a record low of 38,000 as builders remain cautious about building ahead of the market and as credit access remains tight.

The 10 - year Treasury bond fell to a record low of 1.3 % in the immediate aftermath of Brexit last June, and as of January 17, 2017, it stood at 2.4 %.

The 10 - year Treasury bond fell to a record low of 1.3 % in the immediate aftermath of Brexit last June, and as of November 28, it stood at 2.3 %.

In line with this, vacancy rates for rentals across Canada are exceptionally low, particularly in certain parts of British Columbia where vacancy rates have dipped to a record low of 0.3 per cent.

And because of very low mortgage rates (the average 30 - year fixed rate was at a record low of 4.3 percent at the end of September), the monthly mortgage payment for a median - priced purchased with FHA - backed financing is $ 1,150, down from $ 1,658 in 2006, at the height of the boom.

With unemployment at a record low of 4.1 %, retailers are finding it harder to fill positions.

In fact, between 2004 and the second quarter of 2016, homeownership among adults under the age of 35 plummeted from a record high of 43.6 percent to a record low of 34.1 percent.

The percentage has been rising since it hit a record low of 12.3 in 2010.

The paper cites Citi Private Bank's Law Watch Managing Partner Confidence Index, whose fourth quarter findings show that managing partners» confidence in the economy at large has plunged to a record low of 38 on a scale of 0 to 200.

The gender pay gap is now at a record low of 18.1 per cent and the online tool will show the gender pay gap by profession, so that the public can see how their job measures up against the national average.

According to a report by Professor Aaron N. Taylor of Saint Louis University School of Law, law school student enrollment fell by 25 percent between 2010 (with a record high of 52,488 first - year students) and 2013 (with a record low of 39,675 first - year students).

This was 23 % less than the previous record low of 5.6 m sq kilometres in 2005, and 39 % below the 1979 - 2000 average.

If we take Japan instead, households averaged 11.82 % from 1970 until 2017, reaching an all time high of 49.70 % in December of 2015 and a record low of -9.90 % in May of 2012.»

Thurdsay's Financial Times (registration required) reports that EU carbon prices crashed this week to a record low of $ 2.81 ($ 3.79) per ton, recovering slightly to $ 4.41 per ton.

Having reached a record low of 1.63 in 2001 the total fertility rate (TFR) in the UK has subsequently increased, averaging 1.96 children per woman in 2008, the highest level since 1973 [UK Office of National Statistics 27 August 2009].

Likewise, Xcel Energy's December 2017 auction saw wind power in Colorado hit a new U.S. record low of just US$ 18.10 / MWh, down 50 %.

Also in January, the Arctic averaged a stunning 13.5 degrees Fahrenheit above average temperatures, which led to a new record low of Arctic sea ice extent for the month.

This was 27,000 square miles smaller than the previous record low of 1.61 million square miles set in 2007.

Mark Serreze, Director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) publicly attacked «anti-science misinformers» and used this data to claim sea ice is at a record low of 4.1 million sq. km.

In late January, a ton of carbon reached a record low of less than $ 4 (2.81 euros).

More recently, solar prices have fallen even more dramatically to a new record low of 2.42 per kilowatt - hour (http://for.tn/2rsktA0).

Scientists with the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, reported on Monday that Arctic sea ice extent this September reached a record low of 1.65 million square miles (4.28 million square kilometers).

In the two - week lead - up to Sunday's release of the full details of the government's carbon tax package, Labor's primary vote fell three percentage points to a record low of 27 per cent.

Currently, the record low of 2012 (~ 1.3 million sq mi) dropped by more than 18 percent since the previous minimum, seen in 2007.

Atlantic City, N.J., managed to reach a record low of 2 degrees.

That implies just slightly more than the then record low of 2007.

The sea ice at the end of this summer's period of melting is predicted to match or beat the all - time record low of 2007 and one research group at the University of Bremen in Germany has already announced that the ice this year has already set a record.

After the Federal Reserve pledged to acquire as much as $ 1.25 trillion in mortgage - backed securities to free up money for mortgage loans, mortgage interest rates fell to a record low of 4.78 percent twice in April.

Inflation Rate in the United States averaged 3.27 percent from 1914 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 23.70 percent in June of 1920 and a record low of -15.80 percent in June of 1921.

Bank Lending Rate in Canada averaged 7.34 percent from 1960 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 22.75 percent in August of 1981 and a record low of 2.25 percent in April of 2009.

After dropping the the benchmark interest rate to a record low of 0.5 per cent to fight the Great Recession, former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney nudged the rate back up to one per cent in 2010.

This rate has stood at a near record low of 1.00 % since September of 2010 in an effort to boost economic growth.

The ratio of those who only service only the interest on their debt fell to a record low of 6.1 %, and the household debt service ratio, a measure of obligated payment as a percentage of disposable income, fell to 14 % from 14.1 %

Even corporate junk bonds aren't so high - yield these days, with those securities yielding 6.36 percent on Friday, after hitting a record low of 5.98 percent last week.

This rate, determined in part by the Federal Government, has stood at a record low of 3.25 % since December of 2008.

(Note: The 10 - year yield hit its record low of 1.36 % in July of 2016.)

The record of 2.97 reports of mishandled baggage per 1,000 passengers improved on the previous January - June record low of 3.60 set last year.

The lira stood at 4.7775 against the U.S. dollar at 0530 GMT, weakening from a close of 4.6746 on Tuesday and having hit a record low of 4.8450 overnight, bringing its declines so far this year to more than 21 percent.

This lack of opportunities for diverse engagement and advancement negatively affects teacher satisfaction, which is currently at a near - record low of 44 %.

But his administration had to admit that the dropout rate at Renewal schools rose to 18.6 percent last year, even as the citywide rate declined to a record low of 8.5 percent.

The number of Americans getting married is steadily declining and today it is at a record low of 51 %, down from the 72 % of adults who were married in 1960.

5 million this year from a record low of 34 million last year but conservationists said on Tuesday the increase was too slight to reduce the threat of extinction facing the insect.

That beat last year's record low of 5.612 million square miles, set on Feb. 25, 2015, by 5,000 square miles or just a bit smaller than the area of Connecticut.

Today, support for the environment dropped to a record low of 42 percent, while support for economic growth reached a record high of 51 percent, according to Gallup.

The figure for the column between 12 and 20 kilometres altitude was a record low of 18 Dobson units, representing a loss of 83 per cent of the ozone in that layer.