It sold 20, 000 vehicles last year, good for a mere half-point of market share in China.
The prices of euroyen futures indicate a further half-point rise in interest rates next year.
ECONOMIST: The case for keeping interest rates at zero evaporates
Prime lending rates have fallen one percentage point since June, including a half-point cut Nov. 2.
He thinks this is too tall an order, and expects rates to rise by another half-point in 1998.
MPC's half-point cut in interest rates last month, is now calling for a repeat performance on December 10th.
The limited move was followed this month by half-point reductions in the ratio for both large and small banks.
In effect, Mr Paulson engineered the equivalent of a half-point cut in interest rates targeted at the mortgage market.
Wall Street, which had been hoping for a sixth half-point cut, was disappointed.
The European Central Bank cut rates by a half-point to 3.25%, to give a boost to the ailing euro-area economies.
Over the past 20 years, by our count, there have been 19 incidents of half-point or greater jumps in Treasury rates.
The cut Wednesday comes less than one month after another half-point cut, that time coordinated with central banks around the globe.
FORBES: The prime rate will come down, but loans won't go up.
Last month, the BoE joined forces with the U.S. Federal Reserve and European Central Bank to make an emergency half-point cut in interest rates.
Unless Greenspan begins hiking interest rates in half-point increments--his last seven hikes have been quarter points (a "measured pace" in Greenspanese)--average house prices won't collapse.
Unless Greenspan begins hiking interest rates in half-point increments-his last seven hikes have been quarter points (a "measured pace" in Greenspanese)-average house prices won't collapse.
His half-point cut in short-term interest rates was designed to avoid a recession, but it may have bought him only a postponement of the inevitable.
Having delivered a half-point cut rather than a quarter, Mr Bernanke is not yet free of the suspicion that he will follow Mr Greenspan's path.
If the turnout of African American voters this fall is just a half-point less than in the last election, Mr. Obama would lose roughly 700, 000 votes.
Trading in federal funds futures indicated an 84.0% chance that the central bank would cut its overnight rate target to 1.25% on Oct. 29, following its half-point reduction on Wednesday.
Tour Eiffel has a 5.7% earnings yield, a full percentage point greater than the French ten-year, whereas U.S. REITs average just a half-point over the ten-year T note.
Most economists expect the Fed to cut interest rates again next week, but they are split on whether it will by another half-point or by just a quarter.
Since the start of 2001, the Fed has cut its interest rates 12 times, to 1.25%, whereas the ECB's half-point cut, to 2%, on June 5th was only its seventh in the same period.
Speaking after the European Central Bank's (ECB) half-point cut in interest rates on November 6th, Jean-Claude Trichet, the bank's chief, allowed that inflation could fall well below the ECB's target ceiling of 2% next year.
Harding suspects the tough talk from the Fed is preparing the market for a half-point hike at its next meeting in November, or that the Fed might even jump in and do an interim rate hike before then.
All nine members of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee voted for this month's half-point emergency cut in rates to 4.5% because of a "sharp deterioration" in the UK's economic prospects, according to minutes of the meeting.
The Fed's half-point cut in mid-September showed that the central bank is worried about the effect of the housing market on growth but also that it hopes speedy action will limit the extent to which that infects the broader economy.
This week's half-point cut went down badly with share investors, because they wanted a three-quarter-point cut and interpreted Mr Greenspan's more modest offering as a signal that he will do only what the economy requires, not what the stockmarket craves.
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