Initial reaction to an unchanged decision tends to support the EUR boosting its rate advantage against lower yielding currencies.
The company also declared a 13% dividend increase, boosting the quarterly rate to 34 cents, from 30 cents.
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In response, President Putin has mostly talked about attracting more ethnic Russians back from the other ex-Soviet states, and of boosting the birth rate.
They find that boosting the top tax rate to 50 percent will slow economic performance.
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Lower-priced tablet model adoption in emerging markets is boosting the overall growth rate.
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Boosting the domestic savings rate would also help the cause of equality.
Will the effect be mostly positive, boosting our productivity and the rate of human innovation?
Indian inflation slowed last month, boosting hopes of an interest rate cut when the central bank meets later this month.
Repeal would be the equivalent of a rate cut, boosting equity prices.
These hold out the best hope, together with responsible macroeconomic management, of boosting Britain's growth rate and helping rich and poor alike.
The Italian finance minister, Giulio Tremonti, is meeting bankers and businessmen to discuss ways of boosting the country's growth rate.
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In Britain the annual growth rate is higher (6.4% in December), but David Owen, an economist at Jefferies International, estimates that quantitative easing (QE), whereby central banks create money to buy assets, has been boosting the figure by an annualised rate of 10%.
The draft plan would make the tax system more efficient while boosting revenue by lowering the top income tax rate to as low as 23%, from 35% now (and 39.6% if George Bush's tax cuts expire) while shrinking many tax credits and exemptions, such as for mortgage interest.
And you can do a lot of creative math and come up with an outcome that supports a particular editorial point of view, but the fact is the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has confirmed that the Recovery Act delivered as promised, lowering the unemployment rate by as much as 2 percent, boosting the GDP significantly, and creating and saving as many as 3.6 million jobs.
Two factors boosting earnings growth that are not sustainable indefinitely are a declining tax rate (over the past two years) and a lower provision for doubtful accounts despite higher writeoffs.
By boosting the IRS budget 10% -- over four times the rate of inflation.
The global groundwater abstraction rate has at least tripled over the past 50 years, significantly boosting food production and rural development.
Rate cuts could potentially widen the current account deficit by encouraging consumption and boosting demand for imported goods.
After April, Mr. Takeuchi says the impact of a weaker currency will start to be felt, boosting Japanese earnings by around 15% based on the yen's current exchange rate against the dollar and the euro.
Rate cuts could potentially widen the current-account deficit by encouraging consumption and boosting demand for imported goods.
The company also raised its annual dividend rate by 20 cents a share, or 44%, to 65 cents, boosting the yield to 2.4%.
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Inflation is expected to hover around the 5% mark with another rate hike coming in June, as the government continues to rebalance the economy by boosting consumption.
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Since October, the Reserve Bank of India had already slashed its key lending rate by 350 basis points, as part of a series of calibrated moves aimed at boosting liquidity and the sluggish economy.
By raising funds from successful alumni in 40 schools around the country, SoFi is lowering the rate that students pay on their loans, creating high yielding investments for the alumni, and boosting the odds that those alumni will help the students find jobs.
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