Traders acting at one bank, or even with the clubby co-operation of counterparts at rival banks, would have been able to move the final LIBOR rate by only one or two hundredths of a percentage point (or one to two basis points).
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The tariff ceiling for agriculture products is expected to drop to 10.8% from 13.2% and for manufactured goods it will go from 9.5% to 7.3% The final bound import rate will be in place on the date of entry into the WTO on most goods, with roughly 25% of future tariff cuts to be implemented three years later.
Back in 1997 the final-salary membership rate in the private sector stood at 34%, compared with just 9% recorded last year.
Japan's economy grew by 6.4% at an annual rate in the final quarter of last year.
Exports grew by 5.8%, significantly less than the 22.8% growth rate in the final three months of 2009.
Employees get pensions that replace their final working incomes at a rate reflecting the time they have spent in the company.
We will ask the Committee on Standards in Public Life to look at the circumstances applying in Northern Ireland before final application of the flat rate allowance for MPs representing Northern Ireland.
In notable economic news this week, the Commerce Department said the economy grew at a 2.8 percent annual rate in the final three months of last year, while economists had expected 3 percent growth.
If the surge comes from that pulling forward of income, and not from the 50 p rate itself, then that final balancing item is going to be much lower than normal.
Seven of the final 10 teams doubled the standard oil recovery rate of 1, 100 gallons per minute.
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People who worked for the state, in state-owned companies or in state-approved collectives, enjoyed cradle-to-grave benefits ranging from housing, education and health care to a generous pension scheme, with an official retirement age of 55 for men and 50 for women for manual workers (but five years more for white-collar workers) and a replacement rate of about 80% of final salary.
Jalal Talabani, one of the Kurds' two main leaders, is expected later this week to see Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the voice of Shia Iraq, in the hope of sealing a deal or, at any rate, agreeing to put off a final arrangement for Kirkuk until later.
The economy grew at a rate of 5.6% in the final quarter of 2009.
In the final quarter of 2008, GDP shrank at an annualised rate of 9%, the worst in nearly 50 years.
The consensus in the markets is that the U.S. economy grew by an annualized rate of 1.1 percent in the final three months of the year, way down on the previous quarter's 3.1 percent.
Removing the inventory buildup left real final sales up at only a 1.1 percent annual rate, well below the satisfyingly round headline number of three percent.
We need, in short, to see the final tax payments for the first year of the 50 p rate before we can tell what the revenue was.
The Federal government added debt at an 18.5% annual rate, up from 12.6% in the final quarter of 2009.
In the final three months of 2004, household consumption grew at a quarterly rate of only 0.2%.
Vice-President Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader, who led the final talks, agreed to set the crucial threshold for the new tax rate for upper-income individuals at four hundred thousand dollars (and four hundred and fifty thousand dollars for families).
This will be the final step of a three-step increase enacted in the spring 2007, when the unemployment rate was 4.5%.
The final revision to the second quarter GDP report downgraded real growth to 1.3%, a rate insufficient to produce an adequate number of jobs for a growing labor force.
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Its caution is understandable the figures released on April 26th are, after all, only the advance version: they will be revised twice more before a final figure is published on June 27th (the day after the Fed's June interest-rate meeting).
The economy grew at a 4.9% rate during the third quarter of 2007 before dropping sharply to 0.6% growth for the final three months of the year.
Already, many French banks and Dutch and Spanish ones put the final balance on people's bank statements in euros, working on a rough conversion: the exact exchange rate for each currency will be fixed on January 1st 1999.
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