Now what we do in more normal circumstances is to slide the money supply and debt instrument supply back and forth, usually more in the total forth direction.

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For speculators looking to place bets on the direction of interest rates (such as hedge funds), interest rate swaps are an ideal instrument.

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"This framework in itself does not provide all the answers, it is an instrument that points the Government of the DRC, its immediate neighbors and the international community in a direction that will take this country out of the current morass, " Zuma said at the signing ceremony.

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Soon, the radius of the instrument becomes too narrow for him, so that his purely pianistic style of writing is broadened towards the direction of orchestral colors.

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