In recent years, the government has relaxed regulations on part-time work, fixed-term contracts and temporary-work agencies.
In addition, the government has imposed new social-security contributions on low-wage jobs, and tightened restrictions on the self-employed, part-time work and fixed-term contracts.
Market participants will demand higher returns to compensate for rising prices that eat away the value of fixed-income investments over time.
At a minimum, the Ottawa treaty will require the phasing out of such mines within a fixed period of time -- whether alternatives capable of performing the mission have been discovered, or not.
While most HECM reverse-mortgage options carry adjustable rates and offer a line of credit or annuity-like payouts over time, the sole fixed-rate HECM choice is available only with a lump-sum payout.
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Companies could be barred from using rolling contracts - where the contract is renewed each day so that at any given time directors have a fixed notice period to serve - to get around limits on the length of time they may serve.
The firm noted the rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage during the period matched its all-time low, making it the fifth straight week the rate has averaged below 4%.
There could be a provision that the mix of equities and fixed-income securities in each account would change over time: As one got older, the portion of funds invested in fixed-income instruments, such as bonds, would increase, thereby reducing stock market exposure.
It certainly makes one question the folks who are advising her, even considering the fact that these days many Generation-Y members have their retirement money parked in super-safe money-market funds and supposedly safe fixed-income instruments, despite a 30-year or greater investment time horizon.
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We're not sure how Sprint can justify releasing it with this bug now so well-known, well-documented, and critical to the operation of the phone -- seriously, it cannot find you most of the time -- but we suppose it'll just get fixed at the same time as the remainder of the Galaxy S models in September.
That 50s area ideal of a part-time job and a fixed up car is simply gone with the wind.
Mr Einhorn's proposals for releasing funds to shareholders involve "preferred" stock - which pays a fixed dividend over time.
Leased cars, you see, are purchased by the finance company and then leased to individuals for a fixed period of time, usually 24-48 months.
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He was in charge of fixed-income trading at Salomon at the time of a bond-trading scandal in 1991, in which traders under Meriwether made false bids in an effort to manipulate the market in two-year notes.
During the same time frame high-yield bonds slumped 26% and bank loans fell 24%, while 5-year Treasuries gained 16%, according to our research (municipal bonds, another high-quality fixed income asset class, returned 9% over the same time span, as measured by the BarCap 5-year Municipal Bond Index).
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Second, the input-output model assumes fixed relationships over the time of the forecast horizon.
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This was the 10th time in 11 months that fixed-income allocations have exceeded 20%.
The most significant part of the program is its open-ended nature rather than a fixed amount or time period for its asset purchases.
From the outcry, you'd think New York residents were being asked to pay a "spell-check tax" every time they fixed a string of letters in Microsoft Word.
Despite the decrease, this is the fifth time in six months that allocations to fixed-income have been above 20%.
Nonetheless, fixed-income allocations remained above 20% for the ninth time in 10 months.
Smart Money reports that the average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage dropped below 4% for the first time, to 3.94%.
And still on hurling, did the Ulster final last Sunday week really have to be fixed for the same time as the first football semi-final between Armagh and Fermanagh?
While the unit we played with is a pre-production model and will likely be fixed by the time it hits retail, the display was slightly washed out and light was bleeding in from both sides of the panel.
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His second-largest holding, Carso Global Telecom, which controls ubiquitous fixed-line operator Telmex, has jumped 15% in that time.
His second-largest holding, Carso Global Telecom (other-otc: CGTVY - news - people ), which controls ubiquitous fixed-line operator Telmex, has jumped 15% in that time.
The timing of general elections is not fixed in the UK. We have taken the five-year time limit imposed on governments as the point at which to judge whether or not a pledge has been met.
This may have been especially costly in fixed-income underwriting, given the strength of bond markets at the time.
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