The shares of financial services giant Washington Mutual have been dragged down by interest rate worries.
In the meantime the fund is subject to volatile swings in value driven by interest rates.
Yet there is a problem, for inflation is not influenced only by interest rates.
These indicators were followed by interest rates and the direction of stock prices, which tied for third place.
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Buyers' appetites for pricier homes and bigger mortgages were fueled by interest rates that hit new lows this year.
Apparently any nervousness about Venture's financial disposition was mitigated by interest rates as high as 12% on the company's junk bonds.
But rather than reduce capacity since then, firms borrowed to add more, encouraged by interest rates that were close to zero.
What I find is that a lot of this is driven by interest groups that - lobbyists in particular - and not driven by science.
Fueled by interest in watching video and playing games, smartphone screens have been gradually getting larger -- from about 3.5 inches, measured diagonally, to almost 5 inches.
Spurred by interest from celebrity collectors like composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and a hugely popular 1997 exhibition of Victorian painting at the National Gallery in Washington, D.
Indeed, this is one area where news providers can use technology to their advantage, by providing more targeted audiences for advertisers, both by interest group and location.
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The firm has been seeing double-digit annual sales growth in North America, driven by interest from do-it-yourself chains and insulating commercial buildings, and expects this growth to continue.
Instead, the VAT holiday would be paid for by interest charged on the deferred tax, and the national-insurance cut would be funded by ditching various reliefs and allowances.
As evidenced by interest rate levels, however, China is in a very different place than the other large developed economies of the world and should not be lumped with them.
Sales and prices have recovered over the last two years, buoyed by interest from foreign buyers, many of whom use cash to purchase the units, according to Condo Vultures LLC.
The industry's attractiveness is underscored by interest from abroad.
Now Bucksbaum will hike his company's debt ratio from 56% to 70% and drive down its interest coverage (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization divided by interest) from two to 1.6 times.
The 0.95% expense ratio may be reduced by interest income earned on cash and financial instruments since the fund will get its desired exposure with leveraged swaps while maintaining a large cash position.
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Of course, the formal rule making process is oftentimes dominated by interest groups with the knowledge and resources to influence the process, but the process has as its virtue transparency, regularity and democratic legitimacy.
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Rather than responding to the needs of consumers, elected officials who pass disclaimer requirements, and unelected officials who administer them, are subject to lobbying by interest groups, and can hardly be expected to faithfully represent the diverse desires of distant consumers.
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Affected couples could recompute their taxes and file new returns, but in a final kicker, a partner owing more tax would have to pay interest on the underpayment (offset, at least in part, by interest paid on the refund presumably going to the other partner).
What I suggested was that lobbying by interest groups in order to either put people on a list or change an order of whatever a list might be to what they're looking for is ultimately not going to be advantageous for that particular interest group.
You have to go back about 16 months when Brazil kicked off the latest global easing cycle by cutting interest rates by 50 basis points.
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It was also helped by falling interest rates, and by the reductions in public-sector debt made possible by the huge privatisation revenues of 1996-98.
Yet banks, faced with margins eroded by deregulated interest rates, responded by lending even more, especially to small and medium-sized companies in the construction and property industries.
Nobody will try to fight the recession by raising interest rates, or by closing the door to imports, as we did in 1930 with the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act.
Some seniors have been burned by cards with a short-term low interest rate followed by a high interest rate, so be sure to read the fine print and know how long the rate will last.
Every time the Federal Reserve (and the central banks before it) created an excess of money, either by keeping interest rates too low or by injecting liquidity into banks, prices inflated.
"This method was not suitable as mortgage interest payments are directly influenced by official interest rates, which would make the new index less suitable for use as an inflation target measure, were the government to decide to do so at some point in the future, " the ONS said.
Further, what if any return below 6% is made up by "interest-free loans" given by the venture to the investor, that may be paid back solely from subsequent profits that exceed the 6% mark?
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