Certain business sectors have historical high failure rates and are routinely avoided by investors.
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Similarly, with price-to-sales per share around 3.5x, it is near the historical high end of the range at 2.2x to 3.6x.
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Because of the stalemate in Washington right now, the Japanese yen hit historic four-month high and one of historical high against the dollar.
The unemployment levels are still close to historical high levels but on a downward slope, declining from 9.8% in November 2010 to 9.4% in December 2010.
And also -- currency hit historical high, which all means the U.S. dollar is hitting historical lows and people around the world are selling U.S. dollar.
Also, with current economic crises around the globe, it is expected that demand will not be strong in 2012 given the historical high prices of rare earths.
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Ironically, at the very moment that oil prices were at an historical high, the only alternative fuel available to keep gasoline prices from going even higher was facing an unstinting and ferocious attack.
In short, by historical standards high yield bonds are currently offering only a modest yield pickup versus better-rated bonds, rather than relative to emerging markets bonds in particular.
Flip through the pages of any financial publication and you will likely see several ads by mutual fund companies touting their superior relative historical performance and high ranking amongst their peer group and benchmark.
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Robert Stammers, Director of Investor Education at the CFA said that while Baidu represented the potential for opportunities in the global market, investors should not expect to earn a great rate of return by simply choosing investments with high historical returns like Baidu or choosing the stock as a means to participate in the Chinese economy.
Relative to sales, inventories of unsold new homes are not high by historical standards.
What Mr Schwartz is certain of is that the major stock indices are still high by historical perspectives.
As the chart also shows, by the end of the 1980s, with some exceptions, valuations had risen very high by historical standards.
Prechter cites a lack of demonstrable pessimism, valuations that remain high by historical standards and an incomplete wave pattern down from market highs.
Although imbalances reversed sharply in 2009, they remain high by historical standards and are forecast by the IMF to continue at around 2% of world GDP over the next five years at least.
Underlying productivity trends appear generally favorable, despite the recent slowing in some measures, and the markup of prices over unit labor costs is high by historical standards, so such an outcome is certainly possible.
Virtually all of them suggest that the two-decade bull run pushed America's stockmarkets to extraordinarily high levels by historical standards.
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But it added that UK public sector net debt was projected to be high by recent historical standards - still more than 70% of GDP in 2017-18.
The level of pessimism is high from a historical perspective.
Are there analogous historical examples of the low versus high technology adoption in the world?
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The average energy MLP yield is 2.9 points higher than 10-year Treasurys, and are now at the high end of the historical spread.
From our perspective, the stock is currently trading near what we have termed the rationally expected high price based on historical valuations of WHR.
Weiss began publishing IQ Trends in the late 1960s, preaching the virtues of buying blue-chip stocks with yields at the high end of their historical ranges.
Weiss' investment strategy is to select blue-chip stocks with a long history of paying dividends and trading at the high end of their historical range of yields.
For instance, HOG has historically traded for a price-to-cash earnings multiple between 11.1x and 23.7x, but at current levels it is near the high end of the historical range.
The historical stakes for the game were high.
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In historical terms, that is a very high level for an economy just emerging from recession.
There are potted biographies of several important historical figures: ex-governors and high-profile business leaders, for the most part.
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