Turning WiMax from a fixed into a mobile standard is a crafty trick, they argue, since a separate mobile broadband standard, known as 802.20, is already in development.
The only thing you have to specify is the mass of the Higgs boson, after that, all interactions of the Standard Model are fixed, and you can make predictions to arbitrary accuracy (though it is very hard practically).
This approach is more proactive than standard rebalancing to a fixed allocation.
The average interest rate for standard 30-year fixed-rate mortgages fell to 6.01% during the week ending April 25, from 6.04% the previous week.
By comparison, the spread between 10-year Treasurys and a standard 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is just 1.93 percentage points, near historical averages, according to mortgage-data provider HSH Associates.
"It (the SNS situation) might make us slightly more nervous in terms of valuations and what we would be willing to pay for Dutch bank sub debt, but it hasn't changed our outlook across the board, " said Andrew Fraser, fixed-income investment director at Standard Life Investments Ltd.
In 2000, Standard and Poor's Fixed Income Research made only one credit upgrade for every four credit downgrades.
The simplest option is to scale down the existing standard of a fuselage with two fixed wings and a tail.
For decades, US government bonds were the gold standard for long-term, risk free fixed income investors.
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Mr Volcker served as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs when the US abandoned the gold standard and ended the Bretton Woods regime of fixed interest rates in the early 1970s.
While Goldman is the gold standard in the trading business, with its fixed income, currencies and commodities trading division one of the most profitable in the industry, the macro environment has a been difficult one for trading in the last half of the year.
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If neutrinos were truly massless, the standard model would predict that their flavours would be fixed for ever.
Under the old gold standard system, a currency could be converted into fixed amounts of gold and vice versa.
All were former Abbey customers, who were put on standard variable rate (SVR) mortgages after coming off fixed-rate deals.
In the center would be advocates of a classical gold standard, in which a dollar is defined as a fixed amount of gold.
Unlike days of old, Washington doesn't need piles of gold, nor does the government need to promise to exchange gold at a fixed rate for dollars, as it did under the traditional gold standard.
The standard mileage rate for business is based on an annual study of the fixed and variable costs of operating an automobile.
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The same is true of the assumption that the mortgage repayment will rise (it could be a longer-term fixed rate for example), or by how much - we have used the Standard Variable Rate (SVR), but the borrower may be using a mortgage which charges a different interest margin.
In the case of a gold standard system, the policy target is to create a currency whose value is fixed to gold.
This promise can be verified every minute of the day by observing the current rate of exchange between the dollar and gold, and, under a classical gold standard, by exchanging currency at a national bank for gold coins of a fixed weight and purity.
Notice 2012-72 contains the standard mileage rates, the amount a taxpayer must use in calculating reductions to basis for depreciation taken under the business standard mileage rate, and the maximum standard automobile cost that a taxpayer may use in computing the allowance under a fixed and variable rate plan.
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Lenders' standard variable rate (SVR) deals are tending to be more attractive than new fixed-rate deals for owners, with interest rates having plunged in recent months.
Under the classical gold-coin standard (1717-1914) private banks and central banks alike issued currency convertible into a fixed weight of gold, with balance sheets consisting primarily of gold coins and short-term loans denominated in local (but gold-convertible) money.
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However, a gold standard system can make available any amount of currency, as is appropriate given economic needs and the fixed parity value.
Actually, the closest the world came to the restoration of the pre-1914 gold standard began with the Roosevelt move in 1934, resuming an international guarantee of the dollar at a fixed price in gold.
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