The Fed cut its target on federal funds, the overnight interbank loans that form the floor rate for U.S. lending, to just 0.25%, down 75 basis points from the previous 1.0% level.
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The company's role is crucial: Its workers erect the steel for each floor of the towers at a rate of about one floor a week before other crews can follow.
Therefore, we believe that markets will shift the expected floor for the Selic rate down to 8.5% and price a scenario in which the Central Bank continues to ease at a more gradual pace.
Simultaneously, the ceiling on bank deposit rates was raised to 1.1x from 1.0x the benchmark rate, and the floor for lending rates was lowered to 0.8x from 0.9x.
It is the refinancing rate that usually dictates average money market interest rates with the deposit facility rate acting as a lower floor.
Thus the interest rate that the Fed pays should tend to put a floor under short-term market rates, including our policy target, the federal-funds rate.
So although the old central rate may be far-fetched, the old floor is not.
And this is about trying to put a floor in place so assets stop losing their value at the rate that they have been.
The 400PT is a heavy monster that won't slide around the floor and it has cutting-edge electronics that measure heart rate, calorie burn and power output by the watt.
The euro rose in value, around the time the rate decision was announced, only to fall through the floor later on during the ECB President's press conference, falling 0.7% against the dollar in not very much time at all.
Tim Lord cited alleged communications from the "31st floor" of Barclays HQ - which housed senior executives - about the benchmark market interest rate.
We reject the notion that the Federal Reserve should be targeting the unemployment rate, and thus making the rate they choose (currently, 6.5%) into an effective floor under joblessness.
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In terms of floor area, property construction starts increased 16% to 1.9 billion square meters in 2011, a growth rate down sharply from 42% in 2010, data released Tuesday by the National Bureau of Statistics showed.
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