I'll tell you what could turn me bullish: home prices bottoming out and the turnover rate on existing homes picking up.
In the second quarter, the average interest rate on existing cards reached 14.7%, up from 13.1% a year earlier, according to research firm Synovate, a unit of Aegis Group PLC.
An existing 16.5% tax on wholesale transactions is to become a value-added tax at a slightly lower rate, though existing exemptions will survive (a mistake, say some economists).
With existing therapy, the survival rate of these relapsing patients is less than 10%.
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It is confined to iron ore and coal, and charges a lower rate than an existing tax on oil and gas.
If you have a history and are on time, why would a lender not give an existing customer a current market rate?
The average mortgage rate paid by existing borrowers fell from 5.8% in April 2008 to 3.67% in April 2010, the Halifax said.
The charge-off rate of a citizen line of credit program would be considerably lower than the 100% loss rate of the existing welfare system.
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Instead, the accrual rate applies to existing salary and is then uprated by CPI inflation for civil servants or a bit better than that for teachers and NHS staff.
In August of last year, existing homes sold at an annualized rate of 5.1 million homes.
An existing programme to support fixed-rate credit for exporters' customers is to be extended.
In addition, to narrow the competitiveness gap, all members should be able to refinance existing debt at the same interest rate.
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The law already provides that insurers cannot cut off already existing policyholders, or impose discriminatory rate increases, because they become sick while covered.
Lenders are now coming up with new excuses like debt to income (DTI), and with full knowledge that these new factors disqualify current existing customers from a current market rate.
But while existing borrowers will stay on that rate, new borrowers will be offered an SVR of bank rate plus 3.74% - in effect 4.24% - which is the same as at the Abbey, also owned by Santander.
This is consistent with a recent survey of top officials at U.S. companies which found that more than 60% of those corporate taxpayers would elect to keep their existing tax breaks unless the corporate rate was reduced to 25%.
People can avoid future rate increases and pay off existing balances over time.
Because existing treatments have such a low cure rate and sometimes unbearable side effects, biotech and pharmaceutical companies have been racing to develop a new generation of better drugs.
The 35% federal corporate tax rate is now the highest in the industrial world, leading companies to locate their most profitable operations outside the U.S. Big multi-national corporations such as GE have secured enough special deductions and tax credits to zero out their U.S. tax liabilities on their existing operations even as the high marginal rate encourages them to expand overseas.
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So, the rapid absorption rate and hence declining inventory of existing homes is telling us that there are relatively few vacancies, inspite of a potentially large shadow inventory.
To ease the burden on Greece, ministers seem ready to lend it money to buy back existing bonds, and to lower the interest rate they charge on loans.
Existing borrowers have their SVR, of bank rate plus 0.5%, guaranteed for life but the new SVR will not have a cap or be linked explicitly to bank rate.
The National Association of Realtors is reporting a 3.4 percent increase in existing home sales in April to an annual rate of 4.62 million units, which is better than economists expected.
Meanwhile, the National Association of Realtors is reporting a 1.5 percent drop in existing home sales in May, to an annual rate of 4.55 million units.
But I want to show you that my psychology will not be affected -- (laughter) -- by turning to the tax rate which you expect that are in existing law.
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In economic news, the National Association of Realtors is reporting a 4.3 percent increase in existing home sales in January, to an annual rate of 4.57 million units, and that is a one and a half year high.
From where things stand now, it looks like Cyprus will be looking to expand on its relationship with Russia with an extension of an existing loan, an appeal for a lower interest rate and most importantly, introducing the role of untapped gas reserves to the conversation.
In other words, if the FOMC announces that it wants the Federal Funds rate to be 4 percent rather than the existing 5 percent, the amount of open market purchases needed to achieve this target is likely a range rather than a point estimate.
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In April, existing home sales were at a 5.77 million annualized rate, in May 5.66 million, and in June at 4.6 million.
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