Some mortgages, car loans, student loans, etc. carry variable rates, but more have fixed rates.
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Investors looking to stay in tune with the current environment must constantly be on the lookout for changes to the outlook for the economy, earnings growth, inflation, interest rates, etc.
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C. (employment news, changes in interest rates, etc. are often provided to reporters who are locked up until release time when outside communication lines are opened.) The requirements for those connections are usually very specific.
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Kayak is a leading travel search company and, due to the discretionary nature of leisure travel, its growth is directly related to macroeconomic conditions such as employment levels, inflation rates, fuel prices, forex rates, etc.
As events turned out, Stiglitz was wrong on everything: growth rates, borrowing rates, stock prices, etc.
And yet both are dependent on an infrastructure of electricity and transportation that leads to oil spills, high asthma rates, contaminated water, etc.
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In such a reorganization, a state could propose to terminate some, all or none of its government employee union contracts and establish new compensation rates, work rules, etc.
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On the flip side of the coin, so too must law firms tap into actionable BI in order to assess factors such as trends in their historical billing rates, hours billed, etc.
Typically we have to research local sales and lodging taxes, occupancy license fees, property tax rates, workers comp insurance rates, unemployment insurance premiums, etc.
With the big banks (JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, etc) investing in tax lien certificates, rates that were in the low teens just 3-4 years ago are now bid down to 0-0.25% due to intense competition as your article states.
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Properly accounting for demographics is always tricky since in theory folks can alter retirement ages, fertility rates, work-school balance, etc.
The information compiled not only demonstrates trends in credit card rates over time, but also indicates the different values credit card companies put on different target markets (consumer, business, etc.), as evidenced by the differences between rates for those markets.
The truth is, market prices are determined by forward-looking expectations of revenues, expenses, earnings, interest rates, the regulatory environment, governmental policies, etc.
The argument goes that housing represents a very small portion of GDP and therefore its impact is not as important as tax rates, economic stimulus, interest rates, trade, defense spending, consumer behavior, unemployment, etc.
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