Sentences with phrase «year near record lows»

«Mortgage rates ended this year near record lows.

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«We're near record production in oil and gas but we're at a 20 - year low in our carbon emissions.

Yet the Prime Minister's Office appears to think an economy that has been growing at an annual rate of around three per cent for nearly a year is too weak to absorb interest rates that still are near record lows.

Its shares are up more than 60 percent in the last year and are now trading at near - record levels in the low $ 70s.

The elder Buffett has shunned bonds in recent years, saying that near record - low yields aren't enough to compensate for the risk of inflation.

The supply of existing homes for sale is near a record low, but the supply of newly built homes for sale just jumped dramatically, returning to its 30 - year average.

Since the last housing crash, the nation's homeownership rate dropped to a record low and has hovered near there for the past year.

Before then, it had kept its policy rate at a record low near zero for seven years in an effort to help the country recover from the deepest recession since the 1930s.

Alert finance directors at junk - rated firms have taken advantage of interest rates near record lows to refinance at least $ 250 billion worth of debt over the past half year.

Home construction per household a decade after the bust remains near the lowest level in 60 years of record - keeping, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

The Federal Reserve's monetary policy has helped spur the U.S. housing market in recent years, because it has indirectly held long - term mortgage rates near record - low levels.

With interest rates still hovering near the lowest levels they've ever been in 5,000 + years of recorded human history, it's very difficult to achieve a significant investment return without taking on substantial risk.

Under Powell's predecessors, Janet Yellen and Ben Bernanke, the Fed's board endured criticism from House Republicans over its decision to pursue a bond purchase program designed to lower long - term borrowing rates and to leave its key rate at a record low near zero for seven years.

The Fed's latest rate hike marks its sixth since it began tightening credit in December 2015, after having kept its benchmark rate at a record low near zero for seven years to help nurture the economy's recovery from the recession.

Last month, the Fed modestly raised its benchmark short - term rate for the first time since December 2015, when it had raised it after keeping the rate at a record low near zero for seven years.

The Fed kept its key interest rate at a record low near zero for seven years until December 2015.

With abortion clinics closing at record rates as abortions hit near - record lows and state restrictions hit near - record highs, a respected report released today reveals that U.S. abortions have dropped to their lowest rate since 1973 — the year the U.S. Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade.

The mayor said shootings are down 2.5 percent compared to a year ago, and murders are at «near record lows.»

The news that the British Crime Survey has found crime levels at the lowest level since records began more than 30 years ago has been greeted with near - universal acclaim in today's papers.

«We had a near - record warm April - May period, prolonging the effects of July [2009] drought and a low snow year.»

Despite near record snowfalls and runoff this year that raised its level from historic lows in January, Lake Mead is still 113 feet below «full pool» - and is filled to less than 50 percent of its capacity.

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.»

Although long - term (60 + months) precipitation deficits persisted in some locations, some reservoirs returned to above - average levels after being record and near - record low for the past several years.

The Federal Reserve's monetary policy has helped spur the U.S. housing market in recent years, because it has indirectly held long - term mortgage rates near record - low levels.

With mortgage rates sitting near record lows, the 40 - year - old Torontonian figures the return on his invested dollar should exceed the guaranteed savings from making additional payments on his home.

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!

Correlation between S&P 500 members also hovers near a record low, siting 47 per cent below the six - year average.

Investors required more yield to invest for two years versus cash instruments, because they concluded that short rates would not go near record low levels.

With interest rates rising after holding for an extended period near record lows, it's been a good year to own insurance stocks.

The delinquency rate is also still near a record low and is down from 1.50 percent from the same time last year.

The majority of global equity markets have posted negative returns, bond yields are near record lows, the loonie has fallen to levels not seen in over 11 years, and, to top it all off, there are some steep tax hikes on the immediate horizon.

It's not uncommon to see loans stretch out to eight or nine years, with interest rates still sitting at near - record lows.

This is the common, intuitive, yet specious claim that because yields on 10 - year Treasury notes are near record lows at 1.64 %, stocks are so flattered into appearing cheap by comparison that surely they must rise.

Lower Mississippi had near record spring then that was topped by 500 year flooding in mid-west.

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.

Global mean temperatures in 2011 did not reach the record - setting levels of 2010, but were still the highest observed in a La Niña year, and Arctic sea - ice extent fell to near - record - low levels.

In just two years, Nevada's snowpack has gone from near record low in 2015 to a record high in 2017, reaching 17 ′ at Mt. Rose and outstripping measurement tools (Spillman 2017).

In addition to near - record temperatures, 2017 also saw record - low sea ice during parts of the year, both in the Arctic and Antarctic.

Total sea ice extent for the previous three months was near or below the level of 2007, the year with the lowest minimum summer ice extent during the satellite record.

''... worked with two sediment cores they extracted from the seabed of the eastern Norwegian Sea, developing a 1000 - year proxy temperature record «based on measurements of δ18O in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma, a planktonic foraminifer that calcifies at relatively shallow depths within the Atlantic waters of the eastern Norwegian Sea during late summer,» which they compared with the temporal histories of various proxies of concomitant solar activity... This work revealed, as the seven scientists describe it, that «the lowest isotope values (highest temperatures) of the last millennium are seen ~ 1100 - 1300 A.D., during the Medieval Climate Anomaly, and again after ~ 1950 A.D.» In between these two warm intervals, of course, were the colder temperatures of the Little Ice Age, when oscillatory thermal minima occurred at the times of the Dalton, Maunder, Sporer and Wolf solar minima, such that the δ18O proxy record of near - surface water temperature was found to be «robustly and near - synchronously correlated with various proxies of solar variability spanning the last millennium,» with decade - to century - scale temperature variability of 1 to 2 °C magnitude.»

In 2009 the DA was strong in June and July, suggesting a near record sea ice loss for that year, but by August the DA pressure pattern was replaced by the more normal low pressure center.

I have predicted near record low Arctic Ice this year for a couple of reasons — but it does seem likely to recover over the next few decades.

This initiated a period of near - record, and then extreme record low extents that persisted until late in the year.

I repeat: Their explanation does not even make any sense if the Arctic has been warming the last 40 years, that this somehow leads to near record low temps now in 2017/18 in the northern hemisphere.

Ice cover has been at or near record lows since 2001, says the report, which predicts the Arctic Ocean will be nearly ice free during the summer within 30 - 40 years.

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Slater, 4.45, Statistical / Heuristic My 50 - day forecast (http://cires.colorado.edu/~aslater/SEAICE/) issued on June 6th suggests that 2014 will be near the 3rd lowest rank year on record, which is how I came to derive my estimated extent for this long - lead time.

In late August, sea ice extent was way below average for that time of year, and it was predicted we were headed for at least a near - record low this year.

By Paula Luu, Communications Manager January 24, 2014 While our weather - beaten friends in the Midwest and Northeast braced for near - record low temperatures and polar vortex snowstorms, Californians rang in the New Year with a rainless January.

Global temperatures have failed to rise for 15 plus years, sea level rise is failing to accelerate, tornadoes are at record lows, hurricanes are near record low activity... 2013 may be the year in which man - made global warming fears enter the dustbin of history.»