Income levels still haven't returned to the levels
seen before the financial crisis.
Small businesses have always been key to the country's economic success, but they still aren't being created at the levels
seen before the financial crisis.
As the Bank of Canada has slowly tightened monetary policy, bond yields have naturally risen, yet still remain well below the levels
seen before the financial crisis.
And the jobless rate will average 5.2 to 5.3 percent, which is at the level last
seen before the financial crisis.
Not exact matches
The annual bonus for the average Wall Street worker is back to heights not
seen since
before the
financial crisis, though the industry has shrunk in size since then.
Personal consumption rose 4.2 % in the second quarter of the year, the best reading since the fourth quarter of 2014 and near the best level we've
seen since
before the
financial crisis.
Industrial morale increased to 111 points - the highest figure
seen since
before the
financial crisis.
While credit spreads and leading indicators appear to be fairly well behaved, many have noted the sinister looking shape of the yield curve, near its flattest level since
before the global
financial crisis (
see the chart below).
You can
see evidence of these scars in many clients» allocation of their
financial assets;
before we even begin to discuss asset allocation from an investment standpoint, we focus on making sure clients have sufficient liquidity to make it through another
crisis.
To recap, a massive housing bubble that built up through the naughties (2000s) finally burst in 2008, feeding a
financial crisis, as extremely loose (some would say fraudulent) lending practices pushed housing prices up to spectacular, never -
seen -
before levels, and created a plague -LSB-...]
Retail sales picked up in the December quarter in most countries, and capacity utilisation rates are at levels not
seen since
before the Asian
financial crisis.
Central Banks were able to normalize
financial markets after the
crisis in 2008 by creating debt on a scale never
before seen in human history.
In some cities, they're reaching levels not
seen since the
before the
financial crisis.
It appears to me that
financial results of his companies are very lumpy; the past four years have been nothing to write home about but
before the
financial crisis they look pretty good to me (
see at seeking alpha 8/30/11).
But only a miniscule percentage of them
saw any problem at all
before the
financial crisis.
Global subsidies for fossil fuels have returned to levels not
seen since
before the
financial crisis in 2008, estimated at $ 523 billion to $ 1.9 trillion, according to a new report.
It's easy to
see how a similar piece could have been written
before the
financial crisis, which was caused by reckless promotion and bad practices in the housing sector.
«The news this morning that the SFO has brought charges not only against Barclays regarding its raising of funds from Qatar during the credit crunch, but also its former chief executive and 3 other senior officials, is a bold move by the SFO, the likes of which we have never
seen before from events spinning out of the 2008
financial crisis.