By coincidence, the central bank on Monday approved a new rule designed to protect consumers from deceptive lending practices, including advertising practices that say interest rates are fixed when in fact they're not.
Nomura based its case on a stronger real short term on the fact that Japanese fixed income investors are still in love with the currency, pouring billions into Brazilian bonds and bank CDs in August.
They referred to the fact that this link was fixed only in the preamble of the document.
Mr. RUSSUM: Let's say the borrower said to the loan officer, the account executive, I don't like the fact that this is only fixed for two years.
The fact that we now have fixed-term parliaments with general election dates specified years in advance does make it simpler to limit how much can be spent by the parties.
The fact that early bonds had no fixed maturity date ensured that any change in interest rate was fully reflected in the capital value of the bond.
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Nor the fact that credit-card rates are fixed in secret, and have risen dramatically despite advances in technology and economies of scale.
In fact, it signed up to a fixed-price contract to deliver the same trucks incumbent BAE Systems was building for 30 percent less per vehicle.
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In fact, trailing data suggests that active Fixed Income Managers have provided a better value proposition (measured by alpha generated relative to fee paid) than Large Cap Equity managers.
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With the latter two tests satisfied, all that separates X Co. from a 2012 bonus deduction is the first test: the fact of the bonus liability must be fixed during 2012.
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The first is a spring-controller circuit that exploits the fact that, although the spring provides energy at a fixed rate, a radio needs less power when it runs at low volume.
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The fact is, mortgages in general, and the uniquely American 30-year fixed rate, prepayable, self-amortizing mortgages in particular are, like many long-term assets with built-in options, extremely difficult to price properly.
It was as if, to take the terrible dialectic one step further, the dream of total peace that had produced the fact of total war threw the bleeding and bewildered masses back on the only fixed point left: an absolutist religiosity, made more fanatic by persecution.
In fact, because of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, we have 30-year fixed-rate mortgages - something the rest of the world doesn't.
What we saw was not a 50 percent reduction, but in fact a 39 percent increase, because investment in wind energy through the Recovery Act fixed the credit market as it related to investment in those long-term energy jobs.
The fact is - except perhaps in the very short-term - there are not a fixed number of jobs in our economy.
In fact, visitors to a typical jewelry shop in India or China likely will not find a fixed price on the items they want to buy, as they would in say New York City.
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The fact that interest rates are close to all-time lows and investors have piled into low yielding fixed income instruments the last several years, suggests to me that deflation is not a likely outcome.
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And in fact, I think the risk is that equities will have lower volatility over the next decade than even fixed income .
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For one thing, it is hard to know how much companies have in fact lengthened the maturity of their debts because the interest-rate swap market allows them to swap those fixed bond payments into cheaper floating debt, a popular strategy in the investment-grade market.
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