Any interest-rate increase will result in higher borrowing costs and potentially smaller payouts for investors.
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The yields on such instruments were fairly low, making investors very sensitive to any exchange-rate changes.
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The Fed's basic model suggests that about 14% of the impact of any interest-rate change on the economy is transmitted via housing markets.
Last week's seemingly relentless slide to wholesale anarchy appears--at any rate, for the time being--to have been stemmed.
Like any fixed exchange-rate system, a currency board offers the prospect of a stable exchange rate, which can promote both trade and investment.
Net long-term capital losses from any rate category are first applied against the highest tax rate long-term capital gains (meaning, for example, gains from collectibles taxed at 28%).
Of course, it could also indicate that this is really early software with the wrong (read: iPad) wording -- but at any rate, we could definitely see the benefit of, say, a two-finger gesture to swipe between apps.
I'd bet Microsoft has the highest-IQ-per-employee rate of any company with more than 50, 000--or even 20, 000--employees in the world.
Maybe, but it will help to be big, or at any rate well-capitalised.
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The state and federal tax code are so laced with tax credits and exemptions that any base-broadening, rate-cutting reform is bound to raise taxes on someone.
In light of this recent finding, I urge that, to the extent you have authority to do so, you re-examine any WellPoint rate increases in your state to determine whether any mistaken assumptions similar to those made in California were made in your state.
With an inflation-rate target, any undershooting of the goal is treated as over and done with, but with a price-level target any undershooting must be made up for later by a period of overshooting, so the inflation rate aimed for can vary from year to year.
Deutsche has already said it has set aside money to cover any litigation costs over rate-rigging.
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"The bigger your save file gets, the slower the game is running, and so it's getting to the point where people who have been playing the game for 20 or 50 hours actually can't play it any more because the frame-rate is so low, " said Keza MacDonald, UK games editor at IGN.
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Michael Osterholm, of the University of Minnesota, and Donald Henderson, of the University of Pittsburgh, however, argue in Science that H5N1's human-fatality rate means any benefits that might flow from the research are dwarfed by the risks.
At any rate, the long-awaited BlackBerry Curve 8520 (which may or may not go by Gemini on T-Mobile) has finally found a dedicated landing page on its maker's website, and while the list of specifications aren't a surprise, there is one thing that caught our eye.
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And tax receipts were 19.2% of GDP. (Tax receipts were higher at a 50% top rate than any time during the post-WWII era of 80% and 90% tax rates.) The top rate was cut to 38.5% in 1987 then 28% in 1988, and tax receipts were 18.4% and 18.2% of GDP.
The region has the third-highest crime rate of any metro area in our Best Places for Business and Careers survey.
That is tantamount to a death sentence for a corporation that lives on its integrity--it was, at any rate, for Arthur Andersen.
But it is attacking with a radical business model: inexpensive flat-rate wireless data for any device (it plans to add voice service soon).
Surely the plummeting in this huge chunk of federal outlays would zero out the deficit, given any further recovery, under the tax-rate status quo.
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The U.S. also has the highest teenage birth rate of any industrialized country -- and teenage mothers in the U.S. tend to have less education, prenatal care, and financial resources than their older counterparts.
There is a chance of a stand-off, or at any rate an uneasy compromise between Mr Fukui and the central bank's traditionalists on the one hand, and Mr Muto and Mr Iwata on the other.
Mr Obama was re-elected with the highest unemployment rate - at 7.9% - for any incumbent president since the US wartime leader Franklin Roosevelt.
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If governments can't rely on their own in-house counsel, they can do what any sensible business would do -- hire outsiders at a fixed hourly rate.
Joerg Kraemer, chief economist at Commerzbank -- Germany's second-largest bank -- would expect the ECB to cut the deposit rate to negative territory before putting in place any other non-standard measures such as a loan scheme for small businesses.
At any rate, it is not anti-American for Israel to cultivate closer ties to China.
Should you sell your second home after holding it for a year or more, you'll owe federal tax on any profit at the long-term capital gains rate, now a top 15%.
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