Upon completion of this process, Seagate and Mr. Spruch would execute a definitive share purchase agreement and finalize the purchase of the controlling interest held by Mr. Spruch and his affiliate.
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Looking further out, the majority of open interest lies in the January '08 series where 45% of open interest is held.
When interest rates are held artificially low, these interest rates alter all yields.
Visa would follow Mastercard from being a privately held interest to a publicly traded company.
Congress granted us authority last fall to pay interest on balances held by banks at the Fed.
Expansionary monetary policy in developed nations like U.S. and Japan has held interest rates at or close to zero.
The German interest is mostly held by Daimler, a carmaker, which controls 22.5%.
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ECB's 2% inflation target, was one reason why the bank held interest rates unchanged at its meeting on June 21st.
With interest rates being held near zero, equities are the last bastion of positive real returns for scores of investors.
As the interest rates are held down by Central Bankers, then cap rates in real estate investments are also artificially low.
Japan and 43% interest in privately held Chinese Internet conglomerate Alibaba Group.
The ECB held interest rates steady in its announcement at 7:45 a.m.
However, since December Mr Stevens has held interest rates at 3%.
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For years the Fed has pushed and held interest rates low, rewarding borrowers and punishing savers fearful of getting their nest eggs thwacked in the market.
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Take the reauthorization of the 2005 law on highway and transit spending, which stirred up interest in publicly held heavy equipment, engineering and construction materials companies.
Messrs Bernanke and Gertler find that in the early and mid-1990s the Fed held interest rates below the level their model predicted if policy were aimed at future inflation.
Financial criminals like these thrive when interest rates are held low for years as they have been recently because savers like the elderly become desperate for any yield they can find.
If, say, the Bank were to tolerate 4% inflation for several years, while the policy of quantitative easing (QE) held interest on savings at below 2%, the impact on savings would be eventually the same as the impact of the Cypriot government's grab.
Not only has it held interest rates unusually low, but the excesses of an asset-driven economy are being fuelled by artificially low bond yields (helped by huge purchases from Asian central banks trying to suppress the rise in their currencies) and hence mortgage rates.
However, this pattern appears also to have resulted from the fact that some large lenders in the federal-funds market, notably government-sponsored enterprises such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, are ineligible to receive interest on balances held at the Fed, and thus they have an incentive to lend in that market at rates below what the Fed pays banks.
So perhaps bond yields are being held down not by QE, but by the expectation that interest rates will be held near zero for the foreseeable future.
Already some central banks have held off interest-rate increases that looked certain a few weeks ago.
Mr Greenspan has long held that interest rates are not a good tool for bursting asset-price bubbles.
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In late 2008 the Fed began paying interest on the reserves held by banks over and above the minimum required.
The commercials held our interest as much as any show, for they let us know what we should be eating, playing, and wearing.
In June, the company bought out the second-leading player in the disc-rental kiosk market, the NCR-owned Blockbuster Express kiosks (in which the store chain held an interest).
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Bird feathers held no interest, shells rarely caught her attention.
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