Considering that quantitative easing is effectively the same as an interest rate cut below a zero bound, the yield curve is very steep even with 10-year yields just below 2%.
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From the poorest quarter of the population, only 12% of students attend university - the same as last year - and well below the national average.
Even after allowing for bad loans to local-government investment companies, it runs at 80% of GDP, the bank estimates, about the same as Britain's last year and well below Greece's.
The government had asked for 37-46 months, so judge Howell (the same sentencing judge as Rajaratnam) went for a sentence below the guidelines in her case.
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As you can see in our hands-on shots below, it's essentially the same plastic-and-metal design as earlier Inspiron Ultrabooks, though that touchscreen is of course new.
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When he tapped his volunteers on their chests at the same time as he tapped the air at chest-height below the cameras, they reported feeling that the core of their identity inhabited the camera's position.
The mockery of consumers lining up for the next iPhone -- a phone that the ad below mocks as being more of the same -- struck a nerve because it was built around a certain amount of truth.
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Japan's welfare payments are roughly at the same level as in the U.S., but well below those of Europe, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
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Frey show that Republican Mitt Romney would have barely won the presidency if whites and other race groups had turned out at the same rates as they did in 2004, when black turnout was below its current historic levels.
But neither is remotely in the same league as the other brands she listed, none of which ranks below No. 21 (Time).
This is the same story as above: the 50-day moving average is crossing below the 200-day moving average and the price remains below both.
Below the tablet dock is the same layout as the Arcade Cabinet: a classic arcade-style ball joystick (the red top is really the one piece you have to assemble, unlike the Ikea-esque Cabinet) and four pairs of buttons.
Second, it creates the controversial, Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) to keep Medicare growth below that of nominal GDP plus one percent (the same as in the Ryan-Wyden plan).
Below that barrel is the same grooved extension, shaped the same as all the older models to enable compatibility with old mounts.
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At the same time, consumer inflation as measured by the gauge the Fed most closely monitors remains well below its 2 percent target.
Until relatively recently, Arrington says, the CIO was on the same corporate level as the chief technology officer (CTO), and both positions clearly ranked below the chief financial officer, to whom the CIO often reported.
By last year the figure had fallen to 54%, and the number of people who identified themselves as below middle-class had risen from 20% to 37% over the same period.
The stockmarket says much the same: well up from the depths it plumbed as Hong Kong crashed, it is still well below the heights to which it had climbed earlier this year.
If, say, the Bank were to tolerate 4% inflation for several years, while the policy of quantitative easing (QE) held interest on savings at below 2%, the impact on savings would be eventually the same as the impact of the Cypriot government's grab.
As the below image illustrates, FIFA 12 and FIFA 13 on Wii are pretty much the same exact game.
Same goes for institutional players, particularly pension funds, underinvested as yet in equities, 10 to 15 percent below historical norms.
Coincidentally, the previous-gen PlayStation 3 (CECH-3012A and CECH-3012B, as sold in Hong Kong) was quietly granted a China Compulsory Certificate or "CCC" around the same time, only to be withdrawn by Sony soon after the discovery in November, as the database screenshot below shows.
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Located one floor below the Oriental Suite, the Mandarin shares the same striking views and a similar layout as its upstairs neighbor.
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The factory purchasing managers' index was unexpectedly the same in April as in March, 48.6, better than the decline that had been expected but still below the 50 level that separates growth from recession.
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