Sentences with phrase «years peak levels»

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Store owners in some cases report up to doubling traffic levels across the weekend with peaks in traffic hitting on the Saturday before the weekend winds down, last year alone the NFIB reported independent merchants saw record Saturday sales with consumer spending close to $ 5.7 billion.

We often say wisdom comes with age and now we've learned something more: using that wisdom at the workplace well into our senior years will keep our brains working at a peak level as well.

As seen on the Google Trends traffic, the pet industry has peaks in December but maintains a steady level of base demand throughout the year.

NEW YORK, Feb 5 - The dollar rose against a basket of currencies on Monday as the U.S. bond market selloff levelled off after the 10 - year yield hit a four - year peak on worries that the Federal Reserve might raise interest rates faster to counter signs of wage pressure.

Although from 1972 to 1976 Americans produced nearly one million fewer babies per year than they had a decade earlier, maternity - ward traffic later rebounded to pre-Vietnam, pre-Watergate, pre-disco levels, peaking in 1990.

At the national level, home prices peaked in late 2005 to early 2006 with commercial real estate prices peaking about one year later (Chart 8).

Anticipating the 2000 stock market bust and 2007 credit bust, Rodriguez maintained cash levels averaging more than 25 % in his FPA Capital Fund and peaking at 45 % in 2007, compared to 1 % to 3 % levels in the 14 years in investment management leading up to 1998.

Nickel soared to a three year peak on Wednesday as what analysts said were misplaced concerns that the metal would become ensnared in US sanctions on Russian companies caused it to break through key technical levels.

Adjusted for inflation, a portfolio of bonds peaked in 1940 and didn't return to those levels until 1989, 49 years later!

In fact, Canadian median house prices peaked this year at levels higher than median prices at the top of the market in the U.S.

Currently, business investment is equivalent to around 16 per cent of GDP — not far below its peak level in the past four decades — and is expected to rise a little further over the next couple of years (Graph 2).

While it's early to draw conclusions, this level of fundraising projected across the year as a whole would put 2018 on course to be the second - best year ever (behind only last year's new historic peak).

While the total level of debt was $ 479 billion higher than a year earlier, it remains 8.2 percent below the peak of $ 12.68 trillion reached in the third quarter of 2008.

«While average selling prices have not climbed back to last year's record peak, April's price level represents a substantial gain over the past decade,» said TREB president Tim Syrianos.

Nationally, the index (which showed 15 years of house price increases up to its peak early in 2006) is now back to the levels of summer 2003.

Get a free San Diego mortgage rate quote Over the last few years, San Diego home prices rose steadily and approached the peak levels seen during the last housing boom.

Over the last few years, San Diego home prices rose steadily and approached the peak levels seen during the last housing boom.

In Australia, the peak in the 10 - year yield was 7.25 per cent, and the current level is 6.1 per cent.

The U.S. market may rise 2.4 % to 16.03 million from 15.65 million this year and to peak in 2017 at nearly 17 million before leveling off.

Employment intentions reported in the NAB business survey and the ACCI - Westpac survey of manufacturers have fallen below their peaks recorded in mid 1999, with the NAB business survey recording its lowest level of employment intentions in two years.

Accordingly, a substantial pool of undrawn commitments built up over the last few months of 1999 and the beginning of this year, peaking at a level equivalent to just under 8 per cent of housing credit.

Prices for gasoline on the New York Mercantile Exchange have fallen roughly 11 % in September as supplies reached their highest level in three years and the peak summer driving season ended.

Even though the S&P 500 is less than 3 points above its March peak, and the index remains lower than its level of 5 years ago, and has underperformed T - bills for the past 7 years, I realize that the chatter about «4 year highs» can make it seem frustrating that the Strategic Growth Fund is well hedged here.

The Rule of 20 P / E peaked at 23.4 in November 1961, troughed at 17.0 in June 1962 and uncharacteristically remained around the 20.0 fair value level for 30 months (between April 1963 and October 1965), until inflation picked up after 7 years oscillating between 0.4 % and 2.0 %.

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.

The Toronto Real Estate Board had predicted a sluggish start to 2018, particularly when compared to peak levels during the opening months of last year, when frenzied activity fuelled double - digit price increases and bidding wars were commonplace.

For example, since 1950, the S&P 500 has enjoyed total returns averaging 33.18 % annually during periods when the S&P 500 price / peak earnings ratio was below 15 and both 3 - month T - bill yields and 10 - year Treasury yields were below their levels of 6 months earlier.

«The proportion of Chinese buyers in primary projects is expected to grow from the current around 5 % to around 10 %, compared with the peak level of around 35 % last year, while the proportion of corporate buyers is set to grow from the current around 10 % to around 15 %, compared with the peak level of 20 - 30 % last year.

On a 10 - 12 year horizon, we expect the total return of the S&P 500 to fall short of 1 % annually, and given that more than that amount is likely to represent dividends, it follows that we expect the level of the S&P 500 Index to be lower 10 - 12 years from now than it is today (recall a similar outcome after the 2000 peak).

In November, measures for employment and new manufacturing orders within a leading business survey reached their highest levels in 17 years, while the composite index itself hit a six - year peak.

At the current rate that companies are leasing new offices — known as «positive absorption» — it would take more than two years to reach that peak level again.

In early March, it reached the upper end of this range, much the same level as the peak a year earlier, against a background of, inter alia, strong domestic profit results, speculation of foreign takeovers, and rising commodity prices (especially base metals).

While 90 - day annualized volatility of oil, around 50 %, is the highest since April last year, and is near its 2001 peak, it's not near the high levels of 2008 or 1991.

The index of persistent pollution reaches a peak of 11 times the 1970 level of pollution in the year 2035.

While there has been some restoration toward the peak of 1977 in recent years, and some movement of audience with the emergence of new programs, the overall picture indicates a marked levelling off of the rapid growth of the early 1970s.

Sanchez spent his peak years at the Emirates Stadium and relied on a lot on his physicality to get him through games and to keep himself performing at such a high level.

Giroud has gone from lower level french football to the premier league in about 5 years, I can see him improving for another 2 seasons and that may put him at Van Persie's peak level (and that without all those injuries and rapid decline).

Can looks a player ready to make the step up to the next level, but his departure as he enters the peak years of his career looks like being a huge blow for Jurgen Klopp.

Even though Clowney took a big step forward last year, he still had plenty of room to improve if the further away he got away from that microfracture surgery, the closer he got to his peak level of performance.

The Conservative vote has been in general decline for 80 years since its peak in 1931 when it achieved its highest ever level of 60.7 %, whilst its post-World War Two peak was 49.6 % in 1955.

Continued Spending Discipline in Agency Operations: While certain financial maneuvers artificially lower the rate of total spending growth from 4.1 percent to 1.9 percent, the Executive Budget does continue spending discipline in agency operations.10 For example, full - time employees remain level at 182,565 after peaking at 199,916 in fiscal year 2009, and outside of a few targeted programs, agency costs are held to current levels.

* Foreign Reserves have peaked at $ 40b, the highest level in about four years, and up from $ 24 billion just a year ago, even though when we came in, the price of oil had crashed woefully.

Water levels on Lake Ontario are well below the record peak they hit last May, but they are relatively high for this time of year.

Like the biota * of Ediacara in Australia, whose emergence coincided with a sudden increase in oxygen levels in the atmosphere 800 million years ago, the appearance and diversity of the biota in Gabon corresponds to the first peak in oxygen observed between — 2.3 and — 2 billion years ago.

Since most rapid bone growth occurs during the adolescent years, it is vital that teenagers have sufficient levels of vitamin D in order to achieve peak bone mass by late adolescence.

Competing athletes are at the peak of their careers and have trained and practiced for years to be able to participate in the games at a high level,» said lead author Ali Guermazi, M.D., Ph.D., professor and vice chair in the Department of Radiology at Boston University School of Medicine, in Boston, Mass., and musculoskeletal radiologist at Boston Medical Center.

When it came to the 17 - year broods, the levels of these birds rose slowly after emergences, peaking in year 12 and then declining afterward, reaching a nadir again in emergence years.

In both cases, virus neutralization tests indicated that the vaccine induced high levels of antibodies that block Zika infection — levels that peaked after several weeks and thereafter remained high enough to be protective, potentially for years.

Fifty years of auto - emission rules have had an impact, but peak levels of harmful ozone remain high

In November 2017, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announced that the year was likely to rank second hottest, noting that average global temperatures from January to September peaked above preindustrial levels by 1.98 degrees F (1.1 degrees C), Live Science previously reported.