Sentences with phrase «rose to levels last»

On a three - month moving average basis, three of the four census regions also rose to levels last seen five to seven years ago.

Once rock - solid corporate balance sheets have weakened of late as debt as a percentage of assets and debt as a multiple of available cash flow have both risen to levels last seen before the peak of the US housing cycle in 2007.

Then again, maybe we will have a big energy find in Greenland (an island that may once again be green, now that temperatures are rising to levels last seen in the middle ages).

Not exact matches

According to the Institute of International Finance (IIF), global debt levels rose by a further $ 21 trillion last year (US dollars), leaving total outstanding debt at $ US237 trillion, the highest level on record.

The Daily Times of Salisbury, Maryland, reports that after Trump saw a CNN report about Tangier Island last summer, the president called Mayor James «Ooker» Eskridge to tell him he shouldn't worry about a rise in sea levels.

Inventory of new homes on the market rose to six months, a level last reached in October 2011.

But a high - level meeting scheduled for Wednesday at this year's UN gathering is a testament to fast - rising concern over the rate at which bacteria are learning to evade science's last remaining tools against them.

Fueled by low prices, and an improving job market, consumption of gasoline in the U.S. rose by 2.6 per cent last year to 9.2 million barrels a day, the highest level since 2007, the government said.

The benchmark 10 - year U.S. note yield rose to a four - year high last week, while the short - term two - year yield reached its highest level since 2008 on Tuesday.

The findings chime with data from the Office of National Statistics released last month that showed that UK household spending remained level at an average of # 528.90 a week in the financial year ending 2016, unable to rise above pre-crisis levels.

A separate report from the Mortgage Bankers Association showed mortgage applications last week rose to their highest level in nine weeks as interest rates on 30 - year fixed - rate mortgages hovered at their lowest level in more than a year.

May 2 (Reuters)- U.S. crude oil stocks rose sharply last week, bringing overall supply to its highest level since December, and gasoline inventories also rose, the Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday.

In the last year, however, this correlation has risen to its highest level in more than a decade and is almost positive.

Even as stock market rose last year, pension funding levels at America's biggest companies in 2014 fell to levels not seen since just after the financial crisis.

S. dollar (GBP / USD) was sharply down the last couple of days, but we see it now in final stages of a big five - wave movement, so pullback with a bigger three - wave corrective rise back to 1.4000 level may occur soon.

Strong earnings growth, not multiple expansion, has been the key driver of the Japanese stock market, which last week rose to its highest level since 2007.

Fund - raising by Greater China — focused funds rose to record levels over the past decade but dropped 64 % last year, as LPs became concerned that capital was piling up, leaving them overallocated in the market.

U.S. crude oil stocks rose sharply last week, bringing overall supply to its highest level since December, and gasoline inventories also rose, the Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday.

Following bitcoin's breathtaking ascent to fresh highs, gold rose to a seven - month high last week on safe - haven demand, stopping just short of the psychologically important $ 1,300 level.

According to Morgan Stanley's Chris Metli, a strengthening dollar — the greenback put in its best monthly rise since President Donald Trump's election in April — and a rising 10 - year Treasury note yield TMUBMUSD10Y, -0.63 % — the 10 - year yield touched its highest level in more than four years above 3 % late last month — are also factors weighing on stocks.

Home prices rose in most California cities over the last couple of years, but now they seem to be leveling off.

Subsequently, the stock completed a successful retest of the breakout levels of $ 27.5 and rose to multi-year highs last week.

Equity valuation worsened a little last week as U.S. inflation rose from 1.6 % in January to 2.0 % in February, a level that looks like a strong anchor for inflation (see below).

Oil prices pushed lower for most of last week on the news that U.S. commercial crude inventories rose to the highest level for this time of the year in at least 80 years, though prices reversed sharply on Friday.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency reported that mortgage contract rates on purchases of newly built homes rose by 11 basis points over the month of February to 4.14 percent, near its last peak level of 4.18 percent established one year ago in February 2017.

Lumber futures rose to nearly $ 415 per thousand board feet last Monday, a level unseen since March 2005, soon after homeownership peaked here in the U.S.

Last week, courtesy of the SGT Report, we discovered that MX Gold Corp's CEO and CFO plan to withhold between 20 % to 30 % of their gold production from the market until gold prices rise to more reasonable levels.

The Macau Government Tourist Office reported that the level of tourists that traveled to the gambling region during the Lunar New Year period rose 13 percent to 770,000 compared to last year.

WASHINGTON — Initial claims U.S. state unemployment benefits rose by only 2,000 to 211,000 in the April 28 week, well below the 225,000 level expected by analysts in an MNI survey and suggesting that last week's dip to 45 - year low was not a fluke, data released by the Labor Department Thursday showed.

Gore begins with hero scientists like Roger Revelle, who first began to imagine the magnitude of this tragedy, and continues through the latest scientific findings, like last fall's revelation that the ice over Greenland seems to be melting much faster than anyone had predicted — news that carries potentially cataclysmic implications for the rate of sea - level rise.

Copestick Murray told db at the London Wine Fair that is it planning to launch entry - level generic red and white blends to its «I heart wine» range due to the likely price rise in varietal European wines following the late Spring frosts, as well as the three premium regional - led skus under the flagship brand that were unveiled at last month's show.

It's claimed that Monaco believe the French ace could be worth around # 75m after another season in France if he continues on his current path of progression, and while that may be a bit inflated at this stage, his valuation is certainly going to rise further if he maintains the level he displayed last season.

Personally I feel Kyle could do with competition for his position as he'll feed off that, look at how much Danny Rose improved last season courtesy of Ben Davies» arrival, it motivated him to further his own game and improve his level.

We all know what it's like to watch that milk level rise and try to rally those last few splashes of the good stuff before calling it a session.

Arlington Heights: — The village's Advisory Committee on O'Hare Noise took its show on the road last week to areas of the village most affected by rising air - traffic noise levels.

The village's Advisory Committee on O'Hare Noise took its show on the road last week to areas of the village most affected by rising air - traffic noise levels.

Aside from that, going forward, things are going to improve because we are going into the season where the lake level will begin to rise and in the last two days, we have seen a 0.2 increase in the lake level, so it means we can bring some more hydro into the system.

Bachmann, who did not mention the contraception issue at all, but focused on quality - of - life economic issues, such as the price of gasoline that has risen in the last several months, but appears to be leveling off.

The lawsuit, against BP Plc, Chevron Corp, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil Corp and Royal Dutch Shell Plc, follows similar lawsuits filed last year by San Francisco and other California cities seeking billions of dollars in damages from rising sea levels due to climate impacts.

Tax - funded public - pension costs for every level of state government rose from absolutely minimal levels in 2000 to a grand total of more than $ 16 billion last year, half of it in New York City alone.

Ministers will be hoping their # 1 billion youth contract programme can make a difference to the jobs market, which saw overall unemployment rise to its highest level since January 1996 in the three months to November last year.

Police activity in New York City remained at a lower level last week than during the same period in past years, but continued its rise since enforcement came to a near standstill, the result of a citywide slowdown tied to the killings of two officers in December.

He frowned at the incessant involvement of youths across the world in all forms of social vices and immoral acts, saying the time has come for government at all levels to rise to the occasion and find a lasting solution to the menace.

After a mixed result with last week's A levels, which showed a rise in entries for maths, physics and chemistry (up around 20 per cent overall since 2010), but a serious fall in languages, with German down to just over 4000 entries, there is much better news in yesterday's GCSE results.

Across the nation, concern over contamination has risen in places like Seattle, where the city recently sued the agribusiness giant Monsanto over chemical pollution in the Duwamish River, and in Minnesota, where a state report issued last week found that up to 60 percent of groundwater samples from wells in the central part of the state had unsafe levels of nitrates.

Using the Great Barrier Reef as their study case, they estimated the evolution of the region over the last 14,000 years and showed that (1) high sediment loads from catchments erosion prevented coral growth during the early phase of sea level rise and favoured deep offshore sediment deposition; (2) how the fine balance between climate, sea level, and margin physiography enabled coral reefs to thrive under limited shelf sedimentation rates at 6,000 years before present; and, (3) how over the last 3,000 years, the decrease of accommodation space led to the lateral extension of coral reefs consistent with available observational data.

And even short - lived greenhouses gases — methane lasts about a decade — will still cause sea levels to rise for centuries.

Anthropogenic climate change and resulting sea level rise are now happening much more rapidly than at the transition from the last ice age to the modern global climate.

The debate was on display last month when members of the compact met in Key Largo to release a climate action plan that aimed, in part, to offer preliminary recommendations on how cities in the area can prepare for sea - level rise and more powerful storms.

«Our research found that unemployment rates for STEM employees rose significantly in the last few years and still haven't dropped to the extremely low levels of a decade ago,» said Michael Hicks, author of the study and director of CBER, in a university release.