Sentences with phrase «record lows in»

New - home sales fell to record lows in the Northeast and were also particularly sluggish in the West.

While rates have leveled off after reaching a two - year high in August, a jump from near - record lows in May has contributed to cooling demand.

Greg McBride, chief financial analyst at Bankrate, said rates could sink to record lows in the coming weeks.

30 Year Fixed Rate Loan at a Cost of One Point: 3.5 % * (APR = 3.73 %) Rates remain very low, as bond yields are hitting record lows in Europe as a result of continued weak economic reports.

According to Freddie Mac's latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, interest rates for a 30 - year fixed rate mortgage are currently at 3.92 %, which is still near record lows in comparison to recent history!

It's no secret that the U.S. marriage rate has hit record lows in recent years, which makes singles an even more important player in markets like housing, traditionally dominated by married couples.

California markets continued to dominate the list of top ten areas with the shortest time on the market, although the median age of inventory was also at record lows in Denver and Seattle.

The city's office vacancy reached record lows in recent years and now hovers at 4 percent for Class A space in downtown, according to brokerage CBRE.

«We see the median sales price of homes across the country rising every month, year - over-year, but the days on market and the supply of homes for sale hit record lows in December,» says Adam Contos, co-CEO of RE / MAX.

The news comes at a time when the real estate market appears poised for a comeback: Home prices and mortgage rates are nearing record lows in most areas of the country.

Mortgage rates also are up from near - record lows in 2016, prompting predictions that refinancings will fall to 25 percent of mortgage activity in 2018 — the lowest share since 1990, according to Fannie Mae.

Apollo's Fresh Market has also been hit, with its bonds plunging to record lows in recent weeks.

Second, interest rates, which broke record lows in 1998, are expected to stay down in 1999.

Despite the unemployment rates declining, reaching record lows in October 2015 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the job market has become more rigorous for the seeker.

That settling down into a more stable and truely predictable state will only ocme about by the overwhelming obviousness of the first hand experiences and events as they unfold and are once more creating louder headlines in the media than the so called scandals are now... i.e. new record lows in sea ice, record highs in global temps, and other extremes predicted by AGW models.

All the selective reporting of cold record weather events caught up to him when Meehl et al. showed that record highs more than twice exceeded record lows in the U.S. over the past decade.

Wang, J., J. Zhang, E. Watanabe, M. Ikeda, K. Mizobata, J.E. Walsh, X. Bai, and B. Wu,» Is the dipole anomaly a major driver to record lows in arctic summer sea ice extent?»

Differences between surface winds and SLP, and vortex splitting and sea ice extent composites exhibit conditions that are unfavorable to export through Fram Strait in May, 2009; southwesterly versus southeasterly winds in the Beaufort Sea region may also limit free ice drift conditions and inhibit the acceleration evident in years exhibiting record lows in sea ice extent.

Still record lows in both hemispheres.

Lukovich and Barber; 4.6 million square kilometers; Heuristic The absence of a distinctive transition in spring of 2009, between cyclonic and anti-cyclonic circulation in the stratosphere (characteristic of years with record lows in sea ice extent), suggests that dynamical contributions will contribute to but not accelerate the decline in sea ice extent in September 2009.

Global environmental change explains the warming trend over the last decade, but it doesn't explain why the last two winters have set record lows in certain parts of America and Canada.

One thing to note however; temperature can be trending higher without making record highs in the short term and temperature can be trending lower without making record lows in the short term.

It is a detailed exposition of the reasons that the number of record high temperatures is now outstripping record lows in the United States, by a ratio of about 2 to 1.

Should this discussion be updated to account for the recent record lows in Antarctica's sea ice extent?

Melting is going on at both ends of the planet, with Antarctic and Arctic sea ice extents reaching record lows in the past year.

Here's a prediction from 2007 where a climate scientist predicts that Arctic sea ice may disappear by 2013, saying that since his modelling didn't include the last couple of record lows in its training data,» you can argue that may be our projection of 2013 is already too conservative.»

In the last decade, daily record high temperatures outnumbered record lows in the United States two to one, and that ratio is increasing.

The model used for the study, the NCAR - based Community Climate System Model, correctly captured the trend toward warmer average temperatures and the greater warming in the West, but overstated the ratio of record highs to record lows in recent years.

According to the University of Washington Polar Science Center, Arctic sea - ice levels have dropped to record lows in July 2011, with sea ice volume now 47 percent lower than it was in 1979, when satellite records began.

Abundances have reached record lows in California, USA, and these populations are at imminent risk of extirpation.

Despite the absence of warming in actual measured temperature records over the last 16 years, and near - record lows in hurricane and tornado activity, they still cry «wolf» repeatedly and try to connect every unusual or «extreme» weather event to human emissions of plant - fertilizing carbon dioxide.

The ongoing decline in the number of late payments has surprised analysts who expected credit card delinquencies — late payments by 30 days or more — to increase this year after falling to record lows in 2013.

Consumers seeking debt relief have generally been more conscientious about paying down their outstanding balances since the end of the recession, leading to all - time record lows in instances of both delinquency and default.

VA interest rates have been at record lows in the last few years, so now is a great time to utilize the VA financing benefits for home buying in all 50 states.

By flooding the mortgage market with money, it pushed the cost of home loans to record lows in an attempt to boost real estate sales and property values battered by the recession.

Mortgage rates, which increased from near - record lows in May on speculation of a scaled - back stimulus, probably will fall for another few weeks, said Keith Gumbinger, vice president of HSH.com, a mortgage - data firm in Riverdale, N.J..

According to Freddie Mac's latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, interest rates for a 30 - year fixed rate mortgage are currently at 3.92 %, which is still near record lows in comparison to recent history!

However, with rates having fallen or remained at record lows in 13 of the previous 14 weeks, analysts are likely asking themselves: «Is this a bottoming - out?

Skills Minister Nick Boles said: «With recent figures showing record lows in the number of young people not in education, employment or training, it is clear that our economic plan is working.

Deforestation has declined to record lows in recent years, and just over 50 % of Brazil's rainforest now falls under some form of protected status.

John Reynolds, a conservation biologist at Simon Fraser University near Vancouver, reports that the pink salmon have come back with a vengeance this year, on the heels of record lows in 2007 and 2008: «The grizzlies, of course, can eat the pinks, so it's not all doom and gloom right now.»

NYPD Sgt. Paul Tuozzollo's death Friday in the line of duty came the same week that the department announced new record lows in crime.

Proving yet again that smart policing makes a huge difference, the NYPD in 2016 delivered record lows in crime — continuing a decades - long local trend even as other major US...

Proving yet again that smart policing makes a huge difference, the NYPD in 2016 delivered record lows in crime — continuing a decades - long local trend even as other major US cities lost ground.

Mortgage rates are close to record lows in 2017 thanks to turmoil in China, Brexit, sliding oil prices, and a highly volatile stock market.

Some analysts are even forecasting mortgage rates — which tend to track 10 - year Treasury yields — to sink to record lows in the coming weeks.

Yields in the $ 14 trillion market for U.S. government debt touched record lows in 2016, driven by years of aggressive central bank intervention in the wake of the 2008 - 2009 financial crisis to keep interest rates low to stimulate the economy.

LONDON, April 10 - Russia's rouble tumbled on Tuesday and some Russian bonds plumbed record lows in the wake of U.S. sanctions, but the broader emerging markets complex rallied, encouraged by China's promise to reduce import tariffs.

Based on the huge jump in credit card debt to an all - time high and the decline in the savings rate to a record low in Q4 2017, it's most likely that the average consumer «pre-spent» the anticipated gain from Trump's tax cut.

2016.01.04 RBC PMI: Manufacturing performance drops to a new survey - record low in December RBC PMI: Manufacturing performance drops to a new survey - record low in December...