The individual voting FOMC members are expected to offer their expectations for future interest-rate direction.
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Yes, there are guesses in there too: what are future interest rates for a start.
The life insurance yields will depend on future interest rates because the dividends will vary year to year.
If not for our worries about future profit growth rates and future interest rates, we would have seen a booming stock market three years ago.
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If you are willing to buy individual bonds, you can also build a ladder with bonds of differing maturities to offset future interest rate risk.
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Second, at some stage in the future interest rates will rise.
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They threaten future interest rate spikes, further discouraging long-term investment.
But much other borrowing, by both firms and households, is linked to bond yields, which hang more on market expectations about future interest rates and inflation than on changes in short-term rates.
Most importantly, just realize that, although the uncertainty about future interest rates is disconcerting, no one knows with certainty when the Federal Reserve will start to raise rates or by how much.
The popular idea that a company is no more than the net present value of its future cash flow depends on guessing first what that cash flow is going to be, and then what future interest rates are going to be.
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We hold paper bonds, in the hopes that we will get future paper interest payments, which we desire in the hopes that we can exchange all that paper for something real.
That either means the recovery won't actually materialise, because households won't want to borrow on that scale, or it means that the economy will remain vulnerable to an interest rate shock for the foreseeable future (if interest rates rise, the spending power of consumers would be devastated).
Adjustable rate mortgages exploded onto the scene offering us the opportunity to prosper from correctly guessing the future movement of interest rates but requiring us to comprehend the financial gyrations of these loans.
What an employee doesn't use stays in the HSA earning tax-free interest for future use.
Preferring secretive loans from banks, it is borrowing privately at high rates of interest against future oil revenues.
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But Bulls forward Sam Burgess is too busy thinking about the future to have any interest in raking over the past.
But it notes the need to "balance the financial pressures on funders with the obligation to protect the interest of future pensioners".
Sure, I can twist numbers and make wild guesses about the future of employment, interest rates, Fed policy or the banking system.
Higher tax rates involve counterproductive disincentives for production, borrowing implies future tax increases and interest costs, and inflation further discourages saving, investment, and production.
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For example, it might put up half the money for a 30-40% interest in future production depending on who has the upper hand in the negotiations.
Clay Shirky is one of my intellectual heroes (see my 2008 interview with him), so I read his latest post on the future of reporting with interest.
The value of such assets is dependent on their future cashflows (dividends, interest and rents).
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One retailer where you might expect a keen interest in the future of the penny is 99p Stores.
This shows that worries about the economy, interest rates and future inflation remain front and center for many individual investors.
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If one thinks of a valuation as future earnings discounted by some interest rate, then lower interest rates lead to higher property values.
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"Since the closure of the theme park, there has been a great deal of interest in the future of the site, " said Mr Rattray.
The Health and Social Care Board (HSCB) has urged everyone with an interest in the future of children's cardiac surgery to ensure they have their say.
And it has meant relying on a sort of 21st-century underground railroad of supporters, people who took an interest in my future and took risks for me.
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Senior politicians will be on the panel, while the audience will include people with a vested interest in the future of all aspects of life in southern Scotland.
Last, but not the least, as stated in the shared vision it is important to boost exchanges among next generation youth in the interest of the future of the Japan-U.S. alliance.
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