Often Hayley will be meeting people who work on short term contracts or have almost impossible deadlines to meet.
Risk aversion also adds to interest rate costs on short term bank loans, and with Russia considered a risk investment, loan costs inevitably rise.
Instead of focusing exclusively on short term gains and efficiency innovations, the very goal of the firm has to shift to delighting customers through continuous value-adding innovation.
Internal rate of return for instance focuses attention on short term costs and benefits and discounts medium-term costs and benefits (like staying in business) so that they appear almost irrelevant.
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Yields on short term debt have seen an even more dramatic decline, as the yields on the five-year T-Note have dropped from 1.84% in early July to a low of 1.12%.
The error affected under 1% of the US debt being paid at the time, but interest rates on short term bonds rose nearly 1% in a short period because of that error.
It may be technically correct based on long-term returns, but not on short-term emotion.
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It wasn't built on short-term gains and short-sighted policies.
Perhaps Matt Yglesias is right when he, in a very different context, suggests that we need not necessarily think about the long term and that simply focusing on short-term needs is a highly underrated practice.
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To prevent volatile currency swings, he argues, governments should impose a tax on short-term capital flows especially short-term bank loans.
In a normally growing economy, long-term rates are higher than those on short-term securities to compensate investors for the risk that inflation will eat into the value of their holdings.
Yields on short-term Italian debt are now higher than on long-term Italian debt.
Increase the tax on short-term capital gains and eliminate stock options to limit short-termism.
The Spurs aren't gambling on the short term or clamoring for attention or crowding the couch on Letterman.
South Korea, for instance, lifted restrictions on short-term inflows in the early 1990s but kept limits on long-term investment.
But the Police Federation, the policemen's trade union, is strongly opposed to fast-track entry which would give high-fliers on short-term contracts accelerated promotion into senior ranks without having to serve on the beat as a constable.
It drives short-term interest rates lower allowing banks to borrow low on the short-term end of the yield curve, and lend high on the long end.
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Petter Osmundsen, a petroleum economist who teaches at Stavanger University in Norway, suggests another: excessive focus on short-term measures of financial performance, which discouraged firms from making long-term bets on growth and encouraged them to dish out their profits to shareholders instead in the form of increased dividends and share buybacks.
If a lender is willing to accept a lower return on a long-term loan than he could get on a short-term one, it usually means he is worried that economic growth will stall.
Interest rates on short-term loans do indeed tend to move in line with the federal-funds rate.
The interest rate on very short term Treasury securities is basically zero (under 0.1 percent).
Aside from having a higher debt-to-equity ratio than Hyundai, it was particularly dependent on short-term debts.
Instead, most hope that controls on short-term capital flows might make them less volatile.
The hard work for managers is to build on short-term successes after people have achieved them.
Kleinschmidt, a self-proclaimed contrarian investor, thinks Wall Street focuses too much on the short term.
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Instead, such lenders should focus on short-term, documented trade transactions and classic project finance.
It was given to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park near Wakefield on short-term loan in 1997.
They are also increasingly putting consultants on short-term rolling contracts rather than open-ended ones.
Focusing on short-term shareholder value ended up destroying vast quantities of long-term shareholder value.
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