Lula's compromises have sharpened the division between those who think the current order can be fixed and those who insist it must be overthrown.

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Alt indicators at current prices, including changes in inventories and consumption of fixed capital, are valued at average prices of the accounting period.

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These growing payouts have a special appeal in the current environment, where the safest fixed income securities yield little and inflation seems probable in the future.

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Next year Mexico's economy will be much more strongly placed than it was in 1994, with less debt falling due, a smaller current-account deficit, and a floating currency instead of a fixed one.

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The current US system has little slack because processes are extremely complex with huge fixed costs and unlimited liability.

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So, when we add the 0% fixed rate and the 4.6% inflation adjustment, we get the current 4.6% composite yield.

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While similar to other ETFs, bond ETFs are unique in the world of fixed-income because, as they are traded on stock exchanges, the current and historical prices of bond ETFs are available to all investors.

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Yet, all of these are symptoms of the current deficiencies of economic policy, says Tony Volpon, a Brazilian and the head of Emerging Markets Americas fixed income strategy at Nomura Securities overlooking the Hudson River here in New York.

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Even if you hold everything fixed, there will be workers elsewhere in the world who at given the current supply and demand for labor in the U.S., and the resulting market wages, will find it optimal to move here and be hired.

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Late Monday, Purcell made co-presidents out of Zoe Cruz , head of fixed income, and Stephen Crawford , the chief administrative and risk officer, pushing aside current President Stephan Newhouse .

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So while the average American may find it more difficult to buy a home, despite the current rate environment, deep pocketed buyers like Blackstone Group and other institutional investors have gobbled up home by the dozens, fixed them up and rented them out.

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