Mobilcom says it will shortly extend its flat-rate to calls inside continental Europe.
Punishing small-business owners with punitive tax legislation such as this will only increase the unemployment rate and extend the recession.
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Even Mr Romney's much more modest call to cut the corporate tax rate and extend income-tax cuts dating from George Bush junior's presidency generates more dismay than enthusiasm among voters.
The Chairman of the Federal Reserve defended his decision to embark in an open-ended, third round of quantitative easing (QE3), extend Operation Twist, and extend their forward-rate guidance to 2015.
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"With the number of college graduates who can't find work or who can only find work well beneath their skill level, I fully support the effort to extend the low interest rate on student loans, " Romney said before a campaign event in Astor, Pennsylvania on Monday.
We support efforts by some in Congress to extend the current 15% dividend tax rate to 2011 and beyond.
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He reminded listeners that their pressure last year persuaded legislators to extend the current 3.4% rate on subsidized loans through June instead of letting it double in 2012.
Later Friday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, announced he planned for the chamber to vote next week on a Democratic measure to extend the current 3.4% rate for subsidized loans for two years, which would put off the matter until after the 2014 congressional elections.
As of this week, Congress seems likely to extend the current 15% capital-gains rate through 2012.
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The three-month Libor is at 3.77%, according to UBS, and the difference between that and the overnight rate suggests "interbank lending is broken, " said William O'Donnell, the head of U.S. interest rate strategy at UBS. Rather than extend credit for longer than overnight, banks appear to be hoarding cash.
There is also the expectation that the FOMC will extend its zero to 0.25% federal funds rate target thought 2015.
On the economy, Bush needs to push hard to extend those 2003 tax cuts, which lowered the tax rate on dividends and capital gains to 15%.
In addition to lowering the corporate tax rate from 35% to 25%, Romney would extend all of the Bush-era tax cuts and eliminate the estate tax.
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The recent action was to extend their maturity (to February 1, 2013) and lower the rate from the U.S. dollar OIS (overnight index swap) rate plus one percent to plus one-half percent.
Unlike the Californian plan, they will extend to the one-third of subprime borrowers who took out fixed-rate mortgages.
Though the government did cut the corporate-tax headline rate from 30% to 28% in 2008, it is now discussing controversial proposals to extend its tax reach over foreign subsidiaries controlled by British-domiciled companies.
Pfizer has been hoping to extend the Lipitor franchise with a follow up drug, torcetrapib, to raise good cholesterol and further cut the rate of heart attacks.
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