Sentences with phrase «since reached a level»

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Likewise, mortgage arrears in Ontario just reached their lowest level since 1990, the year Toronto's last housing bubble popped.

Notice that since the ensuing crash, stock prices, while broadly correlating with corporate profits, never again reached parity with their 1957 level.

«The total volume of small - business financing increased by 18 % over the same period last year, and reached the highest level since Feb. 2008, its latest data show».

Total volume reached $ 674 billion across 3,772 deals — the lowest quarterly level since the start of 2016.

This has not gone unnoticed by NATO officials, who have warned several times in recent years that Russian sub activity was becoming more sophisticated and reaching levels not seen since the Cold War.

The jobs - to - applicants ratio rose to 1.40 from 1.38 in the previous month to reach the highest level since August 1991, separate data showed on Tuesday.

The British pound has reached its strongest level against the dollar — $ 1.4363 — since the Brexit referendum result.

U.S. two - year Treasury yields reached 2.453 percent on Friday, the highest level since September 2008 as the two - year's spread versus two - year German Bunds grew to 302 basis points, the widest in more than three decades.

Doug Ramsey of the Leuthold Group noted last week that on Jan. 5 his preferred gauge, the 14 - week Relative Strength Index, reached its highest level since 1959 — and then the market pushed higher still into last Friday and Tuesday's morning peak, before stocks reversed by the close.

Last Wednesday, gold reached its highest level since August 2016 as jitters grew over Syria and Russia — with a potential trade war with China still in the picture.

Tensions have escalated since North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on September 3, but the rhetoric has reached a new level in recent days with leaders on both sides exchanging threats and insults.

According to Canada's Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (CVCA), investment activity in Canada's venture capital (VC) industry has accelerated since 2011, reaching its highest level since 2006.

Confidence among West Coast startup investors has reached a level not seen since 2007.

The second - quarter results mark the third consecutive quarterly increase in optimism about the U.S. economy, reaching one of the highest levels since the Great Recession, the survey says.

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.

Sterling saw some strong buying on international currency markets Tuesday, reaching its highest level since the country voted to leave the European Union in June 2016.

The construction industry is certainly recovering: housing starts were up 6.8 percent in May, builder confidence reached its highest level since 2006, and mortgage applications continue to rise.

Small - company owners and entrepreneurs have faith in their rescuers: The optimism index of the National Federation of Independent Business jumped 38 points in December, reaching its highest level since 2004.

He says it's possible the 10 - year yield will reach 3.9 percent, a level not seen since April 2010.

According to the latest monthly report from the American Petroleum Institute (API), U.S. demand in February reached its highest level since 2007.

The April report was great, with the level of construction reaching 1.14 million units, its highest level since November 2007.

Investors hedging against a sharp fall in equity markets in the coming 12 weeks has also reached its highest level since the onset of the global financial crisis, the bank said.

The U.S. 10 - year Treasury yield reached nearly 2.65 %, the highest level since 2014, as investors shunned bonds amid expectations that the economy and inflation will pick up.

Since its founding in 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has made some impressive achievements: it has doubled its membership from five countries to 10, now comprising a combined population of 625 million people; and, it has reached a level of cohesion and integration that is impressive in light of the economic, religious, cultural, and political diversity among its members.

The iShares iBoxx High Yield Corporate Bond (NYSEArca: HYG) reached $ 94.23 a share — its highest level since 2008 — while the SPDR Barclays High Yield Bond (NYSEArca: JNK) hit a two - year high of $ 41.05, says ETF Trends.

Precious and Industrial Metals Inflation concerns, geopolitical tensions and interest - rate levels, especially real yields, contributed to a 1.7 % rise in the spot price of gold (to US$ 1,325 per troy ounce), as did swings in the US dollar.1 Gold prices traded within the US$ 1,305 — 1,360 range throughout the period, reached 18 - month highs in March and capped their third straight quarterly gain, a feat not seen since 2011.1 Haven demand was a key support as exchange - traded gold holdings of 2,269 metric tons (mt) neared a five - year high.1 The Fed is widely expected to boost borrowing costs, and investors have been carefully watching the central bank's statements to see whether it targets more rate increases in 2018 than previously projected.

The Bloomberg British Pound Index, which tracks sterling against seven major peers, rose 0.4 percent and reached its strongest level since May on a closing basis.

For mortgages, floating rates in the past year reached their lowest level since 1964.

During the period, rice, wheat and milk futures touched the highest levels since 2008, and retail beef reached a record.

Meanwhile, the Selling Pressure Index, which had hovered around 275 since mid-2015 declined almost continually as 2017 progressed to reach its current 160 level, prompting the above upbeat comments from Lowry's Research analysts.

Endowment funds and pension funds are reducing allocations en masse in favor of indexing and private equity, as outflows reach levels unseen since the financial crisis.

During this period, the dollar reached a low of 102 against the yen, and 1.365 against the euro — the lowest level since the latter's introduction in 1999.

The European Union's official statistics agency Monday that the proportion of the workforce without jobs rose to 12.1 % in May from 12.0 % in April to reach its highest level since records began in 1995.

Oil touched levels that it had not reached since late in the year 2014.

Occupancy rates in Europe in 2017 reached levels not seen since the early 2000s, according to lodging consultancy MKG Consulting.

The post-crash growth rate reached a double digit peak in 2013 but has decelerated to more sustainable levels since then.

-LRB-...) Originations of subprime loans have increased to their highest levels since the financial crisis, with quarterly volume reaching $ 40.3 billion in the second quarter of last year, up from a recent low of $ 14.9 billion in late 2009 and the most since the second quarter of 2007, according to Equifax.

From around that time, fixed lending rates for both businesses and housing declined steadily; in June 2003, 3 - year fixed business rates reached their lowest level since comparable data were first collected in September 1994.

Nevertheless, the savings rate during last quarter averaged 5.5 %, reaching its highest level since Q4 2012.

That came to fruition last week as upside volume reached its highest levels since early - November 2015 when the price briefly spiked above $ 500 (see chart above).

Gold prices on Wednesday reached their highest level since January amid a declining dollar and growing geopolitical concerns

The NAB survey of the non-farm sector reported that business conditions in the December quarter improved, to be at their most favourable level since the peak reached in 1994 (Graph 37).

In the process, market prices reached their highest level since early March, a sign that investor sentiment had turned bullish.

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Copper and Aluminum also rose sharply with the latter reaching its highest level since 2011.

A measure of implied volatility known as the CBOE VIX surged this week, reaching its highest level since Oct. 26.

Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), refinancing application volume increased by 21 % during the week ending on July 1, reaching its highest level since January 2015.

According to Google Trends, although silver sentiment has reached levels approaching those not seen since before the metal began its current bull market in, arguably, 2005, for the search term «silver,» Google users are still engaging the search term «buy silver» on a long - term growth trend, with Google even forecasting that the trend will continue its recent uptick.

According to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), refinancing application volume increased by 21 % during the week ending on July 1, reaching its highest level since January 2015.

Gold has now reached its lowest level since August and Oil fell 2 % yesterday.