Yet the Fed remains concerned about sluggish growth and the weak labor market and is committed to maintaining rates close to zero.
The government also reduced tax rates for small enterprises while maintaining tax rates for larger corporations, including state-owned enterprises.
That deal raised tax rates on top income earners while maintaining lower rates for everyone else.
When the plaintiffs produced a study showing unusually high rates of cancer in the Oriente, Chevron countered with a study of its own, maintaining that cancer rates in the area are actually lower than elsewhere in Ecuador.
The places most at risk of catching a cold from Brazil's sneeze are those maintaining fixed exchange rates notably Argentina (see article) but also Hong Kong.
The efforts by the Chinese government to cool its rising real estate prices and control high inflation by maintaining high interest rates have caused this decline.
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In the immediate future, Ehrenberg said maintaining low interest rates will help students leave school with lower debt, which will give them more freedom to consider occupations for reasons other than salaries.
This decline has been primarily due to lower sales in China where efforts of the Chinese government to control inflation by maintaining high interest rates has impacted growth in the high-end construction market.
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But that's partly due to the Federal Reserve's policy of maintaining historically low interest rates through its bond-buying program, he thinks.
"The BOJ will pursue powerful monetary easing by maintaining virtually zero interest rates and purchases of financial assets as long as it deems appropriate, " the statement said.
Both created many millions of jobs by unleashing free market forces: firming up the dollar, cutting or maintaining low marginal tax rates, deregulating business, freeing trade, reforming welfare.
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And we will propose reducing corporate rates, while maintaining incentives for capital formation.
As a result, compared with maintaining all of the 2012 tax rates, H.
At the same time, the RBI left the bank rate unchanged at 6%, maintaining the repo and reverse repo rates at the current levels of 4.75% and 3.25% respectively.
Europe is the largest investor in Australia, according to the government, which explains why the RBA cites Europe's sovereign-debt crisis as its reason for cutting interest rates this month, while maintaining growth in China remains solid.
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By increasing our original forecast (shown below) to 4.5% in 2010, while maintaining our outer year market share growth rates, you can see how the higher share in 2010 would lead to 13% share by the end of the Trefis forecast period.
The Government could easily have slashed tax rates on firms and individuals while maintaining existing spending.
And because of high rates of attrition (casualties and retirement, but mainly protracted absence without leave), just maintaining those numbers requires constant effort.
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