"It's especially attractive given low bank interest rates and the volatile stock market, " Mr. Kraft adds.
Government and central bank interest rate and stimulus policies are still being formulated, adjusted and implemented.
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This involved day-to-day rigging of Barclays' submission to the mechanism that sets this key inter-bank interest rate.
Deutsche Bank has suspended more traders as part of an inquiry into whether staff attempted to manipulate inter-bank interest rates.
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Tax is a touchy issue for Luxembourg, which lures huge amounts of German savings by not charging withholding tax on bank interest.
In addition to lower corporate and personal income taxes, Singapore also has no capital-gains tax, no tax on bank interest and no dividends tax.
"It shines a light onto previously hidden relationships, uncovering anomalies between such elements as bank interest, property income and lifestyle indicators before homing in on unexplained inconsistencies, " an HMRC spokesman said.
The report shows inflation falling to 2 per cent by mid 2015, on the basis that the main bank interest rate remains at its current rock bottom of 0.5 per cent into 2016.
Gilly should also be aware that if she leaves her money offshore French social taxes also apply at 11% on any investment income such as bank interest, as there is no 'nil' band for social taxes for French residents.
But if these junior managers knew about Mr Diamond's conversation with Mr Tucker, then there is an implication that Mr Diamond talked to some Barclays executives about how damaging it was for the bank that it was perceived to be paying higher bank-to-bank interest rates than rivals.
The last time the US central bank cut interest rates, back in January, it was not long before the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee followed suit.
When a central bank changes interest rates, it creates an imbalance in capital flows.
Meanwhile, Iceland's central bank raised interest rates Tuesday by 6 percentage points to 18 percent.
To give it a spark, the Japanese central bank keeps interest rates extremely low.
The central bank cut interest rates twice in 2013 to help boost economic expansion.
Although the central bank cut interest rates, it signaled it would be taking a break.
ECB's 2% inflation target, was one reason why the bank held interest rates unchanged at its meeting on June 21st.
India's central bank cut interest rates last month and a slowdown in inflation may see it ease its policies further.
On March 2nd the Central Bank raised interest rates by half a percentage point for the second time this year.
What always happens in such an environment is that the central bank hikes interest rates, but always too little, too late.
The bank left interest rates unchanged at 2.25% on February 2nd, but many economists expect it to raise them in March.
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China's central bank cut interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point earlier this month, its first cut since December 2008.
On Thursday gold rallied sharply following the news that the European Central Bank left interest rates unchanged, boosting the euro and thus gold.
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Australia's central bank cut interest rates four times in 2012 in an attempt to boost investment and growth in non-mining sectors such as construction.
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This base is clearly being influenced by central bank buying interest.
On January 15th the European Central Bank cut interest rates by half a percentage point, to 2%, having hinted at a pause only a month ago.
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Which senior Whitehall figure told the Bank of England to tell Barclays that they should get their LIBOR - or inter bank lending interest rate - down?
When China's central bank cut interest rates seven times between 1996 and 1999, China Life found itself paying out more to policy holders than it could earn through bank deposits.
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