This year, perhaps due to an improving economic environment, interest in the competition was significantly higher than in recent years.
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Television adverts will be used to drum up interest in the competition.
Though they are free to set interest rates, competition is limited.
As sure as Christmas is on 25 December, the local organisers have many problems to address before the opening match, but drumming up interest in the competition is the least of their worries.
The climax to their qualifying campaign was the emotionally charged 2-2 draw with Croatia in Zagreb - a result that saw them qualify as group leaders and ended their fierce rivals' interest in the competition.
Net interest income was 16% lower than the same period last year reflecting a combination of lower interest rates and increased competition.
The executive committee also discussed the venue of the 2008 event where five countries have shown an interest in staging the competition.
Despite years of low interest rates and increasing competition among banks (which keeps rates low), budding entrepreneurs and policy wonks still lament a lack of access to capital.
And as competition increases, interest-rate spreads will fall, putting pressure on profit margins.
More profound than the foreign threat, according to Sheng Hong, a reformist economist at the Unirule Institute at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, would be the opening of Chinese banking to domestic competition, through interest-rate liberalisation.
As competition increases, interest rates decrease.
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The public took a keen interest in all aspects of the competition, including the construction of the venues.
The move was aimed at helping India's airlines whose bottomlines have been hit by high fuel prices and interest rates, along with stiff competition.
The challenge is for the company to build a app developer support program that can drive interest in embedding Polycom technologies over the competition.
Credit has a cost, and under perfect competition, this is the interest rate--the price at which lenders agree to supply the same amount of money that borrowers agree to borrow.
Of course, whether the long-running singing competition can maintain that audience interest--and the commercial fees that accompany it--in the wake of superjudge Simon Cowell's departure next year remains to be seem.
This is important- competition creates drama and brings interest.
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Unless China restructures its inefficient state industry, removes the remaining obligations on state banks to lend on government orders, and liberalises interest rates to provide a measure of competition, then the bad-loan problem could re-emerge.
But since European governing body UEFA altered the format in 1992, and renamed the competition 'the Champions League' to also incorporate second, third and, in some cases, fourth placed terms from their respective domestic leagues, the world-wide interest, profile and TV revenue the competition generates has reached new and unparallelled heights.
These, unlike investment rules and competition policy, are of intense interest to a public worried about dolphins, rain forests, and maltreated workers.
Since then, AIG has struggled to lift its operating margin due to slow economic recovery, low interest rates, high catastrophe losses and intense competition.
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Only one (implausible) event might bring about rapid, and real, competition: a sudden surge of interest by the average American in his electricity bill.
But progress in the competition will only be of passing interest.
Mr Byers' penchant for interfering is being watched anxiously by the chancellor, who has been pressing for competition decisions, like decisions on interest rates, to be taken out of the hands of politicians.
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The new circuit was devised by the world governing body the IAAF in an attempt to rejuvenate interest in athletics, which is facing increased competition from other sports, and in an economic climate of dwindling income.
This form of competition does nothing to serve the general interest in holding down costs, inefficiency and waste in the delivery of medical care.
Today, it is facing competition from mass culture and a lack of interest amongst the young.
On the other hand, Skullcandy despite facing a headwind of significant competition could get significant retail investment interest in its IPO from loyal customers.
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Because in the current chaotic state of conference realignment in college sports, the only rational thing to do is stay one step ahead of the competition and look out for your own best interest financially.
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Increasing availability of finance is creating more competition among lenders, and as a result interest rates have fallen in the past year by about one percentage point in Europe's most popular markets, the U.K. and Germany, Mr. Daubeney said.
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