Sentences with phrase «year low last»

After plummeting to a 50 - year low last year, the U.S. homeownership rate ticked up slightly to 63.6 percent in the first quarter of 2017, according to the Census Bureau.

U.S. home mortgage applications for purchases fell to a nearly 15 - year low last week as resurgent worries about the strength of the economy kept buyers at bay, an industry group said on Wednesday.

The Barnes and Noble stock hit a 20 year low last week when it hit $ 4.95 per share and then rallied to just over $ 5.00 the very next day.

The Consumer Sentiment Index reached a 28 - year low last November.

Car sales slumped to a 12 - year low last year, with worse expected.

The yuan fell to a six - year low last Monday, and many are wondering if Beijing is «putting the currency back on a slow depreciation path.»

Gold's woes are showing no signs of easing after a stronger dollar and weak demand from China sent the precious metal tumbling down to a five - and - a-half year low last week.

It also says immigration to Halifax hit an eight - year low last year and that the weak population growth in 2013 was due to declining immigration and a large spike in residents moving west to other provinces.

The drugmaker's stock hit a two - and - a-half year low last week as it faces mounting criticism from lawmakers on high prices for its treatments.

However, awards show ratings in general have fallen in recent years, with the Oscars hitting an eight - year low last February with just over 34 million viewers.

Even as mortgage rates remained near 3 - year lows last week, refinance applications fell back 7 percent for the second week in a row, according to the Mortgage Bankers» Association.

Not exact matches

Wall Street expects another huge jump in Amazon's revenue, but lower profits, compared with last year, when the company reports its first - quarter earnings on Thursday.

Signed by 195 nations and enacted last year, the accord works to avoid this disaster scenario by lowering planet - warming emissions.

A whopping 51 million passengers are expected to fly U.S. airlines between Friday, Dec. 15 and Thursday, Jan. 4, up 3.5 percent from last year, according to Airlines for America, an industry group that chalks up the forecast to low fares and a strong economy.

But it still recorded only 1.59 million new users, compared with estimates of 1.62 million — and sharply lower than the 1.9 million it signed up in the same quarter last year.

The decreases are largely the result of the oil glut and all - time lows for crude prices — last year, mining, oil producers, and metal companies lost a combined $ 70 billion on $ 1.3 trillion in revenue.

Although last year was favorable for developing countries, investors remember the painful «taper tantrum» that ensued several years ago, when the Fed signaled it would begin pulling back on its massive bond purchases that kept rates low while injecting liquidity in markets.

With Memorial Day weekend on the horizon, the overall domestic summer box office is ten percentage points lower than it was at this time last year.

In the above table, I have selected a few prior years with interim high and low readings, as well as the last 4 years, and further broken out 2015 by quarter.

U.S. health insurer Aetna, which has agreed to be bought by CVS Health, reported a better - than - expected first - quarter profit on Tuesday as an adjustment for low healthcare spending late last year offset a rise in flu - related costs.

A tax hike in Western Australia stands to lower the value of a massive gold deposit and further drive apart its owners: the world's biggest producers of the metal who have spent the last two years debating what the mine is worth.

Toshack declined to share Nomadica's sales, but says revenue was in the low six figures last year, and grew 1,400 percent in January 2018 compared with the same month in 2017.

As a record number of people took to the skies in the U.S. last year, the airline industry found customer satisfaction edged lower.

A lot of credit card debt, of course, has in the last few years been shifted over to lower - interest lines of credit, usually unsecured.

HR director Monika Fahlbusch boasts that Salesforce hired merely 4.5 percent of its more than 100,000 applicants last year — a lower acceptance rate than Harvard's.

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

As for «peak earnings,» Michael Wilson, chief U.S. equity strategist and CIO of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, said in a note to clients on Sunday that» [W] e think the market is digesting the fact that the tax cut last year has created a lower quality increase in US earnings growth that almost guarantees a peak rate of change by 3Q.»

According to the federal forecast, national pasture and rangeland conditions are at record lows, and 39 % of the U.S. winter wheat crop was rated poor or very poor, up from 25 % last year.

WellCare's net income rose more than $ 100 million in the third quarter of 2017 compared to the same time period last year thanks to stellar growth in its Medicare business and much lower - than - expected medical costs for its Medicaid plan holders relative to their premiums.

Bitcoin has struggled to claw back to $ 10,000 in the last several weeks and remains roughly 36 percent lower for the year.

This emergent club includes Canadians like Uber chairman Garrett Camp, Slack co-founder Stewart Butterfield, Vice Media co-founder Shane Smith, low - key Alibaba executive vice-chairman Joseph Tsai, Shopify's Tobias Lütke and David Baazov, whose Montreal firm, Amaya, executed a brash $ 4.9 - billion takeover of PokerStars last year, transforming him overnight into one of the global kingpins of online gambling.

Last year, Poloz was guided by the numbers in front of him, not theoretical concerns about the potential damage of lower interest rates.

Like other major European airlines, the Franco - Dutch carrier benefited from low oil prices and strong travel demand last year, while the collapse of Monarch and Air Berlin has removed some competition from the market.

One of my constant points on this blog for the last several years has been that households» refinancing of their mortgage debt at lower and lower rates has put more money in their pockets for spending and for paying down debt.

Sure, the world has changed over the last 90 years, but that time period does include periods when interest rates were every bit as low as they are today.

Because the performance - based stock grants also aren't worth anything until Valeant stock hits $ 60, the current value of Papa's paycheck last year is much lower, or about $ 14.7 million.

China «s official unemployment rate has been around 4 % for years, despite the rapid slowdown in the economy from double - digit growth to quarter - century lows last year of less than 7 %.

Amazon is reportedly paying less than that, which means the acquisition price is significantly lower than the company's $ 1 billion valuation when it raised funding last year.

A report last year from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives called temp agency work a «trap» that ensnares low - income workers in bad jobs forever.

Lower gas prices — down about 9 % compared to last year — are adding a few billion to U.S. consumers» 2014 holiday spending budget, Customer Growth Partners President Craig Johnson told Fortune.

But operating margins for the aerospace segment were lower last year and it is expected to experience a second year of falling revenue in 2017.

In the U.K., economic growth slowed to a one - year low of 0.3 percent from 0.7 percent in the last three months of 2016, the Office for National Statistics said on Friday.

Today a new Bain & Co. report says the same: Buyout firms» share of M&A deals is at its lowest since 2009, with just 4.2 % of deals coming from buyout shops last year.

Last year, median household income in the United States was $ 59,039 — lower than the $ 59,992 median in 2007 or the $ 60,399 median income in 2000 — based on calculations by the Economic Policy Institute using Census data.

Last year, he lowered it again, to 30 years.

Seasoned deal - maker Walsh was much quicker than rival full - service airlines Air France - KLM and Lufthansa to embrace budget flying, buying short - haul carrier Vueling in 2015 and setting up IAG's own long - haul low - cost carrier Level last year.

The German bank has struggled over the last few years due to weak earnings, a low - interest rate environment and penalties on past misconduct.

Sotheby's has been a strong performer in the stock market recently, gaining more than 138 % in value after hitting a low of $ 19.13 in mid-February last year.

While more people booked travel on Southwest in the third quarter, fares on average were lower than they were a year earlier, especially for last - minute bookings.

Other contenders also have their limits: Germany, the world's largest market for photovoltaic generation, lowered solar feed - in tariff rates last year, and Spain retroactively altered existing solar contracts in December.