It is offering hydro-powered electricity at a very cheap rate: two U.S. cents per kilowatt-hour compared to four cents in the United States and seven cents in Germany.
The minimal interest rate, cheap dollar monetary policy of the Fed pumped up the housing bubble.
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One of the most compelling metrics for American Eagle bulls is the company's relatively cheap price for its rate of growth.
Wi-Fi is able to deliver cheap internet access at a rate of many megabits-per-second, and it can do so at a range of up to 100 metres.
Over the last 30 years, the U.S. economy has grown at an astounding rate, driven by cheap and easy credit.
However, shopping in Spain is very cheap, and with the exchange rate generally rising in my favour, the cost of living for me is slowly falling.
And it suggests that America look at its own role, namely its love of cheap consumer goods and a national savings rate that hovers at or below zero.
The Bank of England wants its ECTR - which provides relatively cheap loans, at a minimum interest rate of 0.75%, in return for pretty much any old assets or collateral the banks can provide - to be seen as mainstream funding, not stigmatised emergency funding.
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Analysts talk about how cheap it is, based on its growth rate.
Say you buy a condo cheap enough to pocket a 7% cap rate--that is, you're getting a 7% net rental return by acting as your own landlord.
Especially now that web 2.0 has made real-time, worldwide gaming easy and cheap, group play is mushrooming at an astonishing rate.
And when compared to bonds yielding significantly less than the rate of inflation, stocks would appear outright cheap.
So far a low U.S. interest rate environment has led to the availability of cheap money for a housing recovery and consumer durability.
Interest rate fluctuation has worked to make money artificially cheap in certain periods since the Fed inherited total control of monetary policy in 1971 after the dollar was delinked from gold.
Support includes cut-rate grazing fees and timber concessions, as well as artificially cheap water.
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The current low interest rate environment is ideally suited for Unilever to take advantage of cheap credit available.
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The rate for 30-year fixed mortgages is now a very cheap 5.5%.
India's literacy rate is rising, thanks in part to a surge in cheap private schools for the poor, but it is still far behind China's.
The strong euro gave economically weak countries artificially cheap credit to gorge on, and then saddled them with an exchange rate incompatible with their competitiveness.
But for cheap generics, which have already had their prices whittled down by cut-rate competition, sometimes there is only so much more Express Scripts can cut.
Instead, GM has become what one might call America's subprime auto maker, increasingly dependent on cheap credit, fueled by the Federal Reserve's near-zero interest rate policy, to support its made-in-China production strategy.
The stock market today is extraordinarily cheap when measured against either the one-year or the ten-year interest rate.
But almost all poorer countries look cheap by this gauge, and over the past decade China's real exchange rate has risen.
They're still attractively priced. (Except for Pfizer, which sells near 40 times next year's numbers and is too rich.) Other enticing prospects lie with commercial finance companies that aren't oversensitive to interest rate changes--such as Heller and CIT, both of them very cheap.
Times are tough in the U.S., but a preference for cheap Chinese products by U.S. consumers and corporations is rising at an even faster rate than it did in the recession of the early 1990s.
With a Reserve Bank of India policy rate of 6%, and lending rates around 8.5%, credit is extremely cheap.
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