All are waiting for early traffic returns to measure interest.
In 2003 it was adopted by the then Labour government as the best official estimate of inflation for the Bank of England to use when setting interest rates, replacing another measure, RPIX, which excluded mortgage interest payments.
As a measure of interest, people pay attention to each other, and you can read that from the timing between people who are in conversation.
Duration is a measure of interest rate sensitivity.
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Bond interest costs are a key measure of Europe's effort to keep its debt problems in check.
Giggs would not just unite most of Welsh football's factions but award Wales instant worldwide interest and respect in equal measure.
However, some in the currency and bond markets are considering what this new measure means for interest rates and monetary policy for the rest of the second half of 2011.
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So while the typical effective duration -- a measure of sensitivity to interest rates -- for global bond mutual funds run by peers is five or six years, his is less than two years.
Accounting ignores these critical details while finance incorporates them by using cash flow metrics rather than earnings metrics and a cost of capital measure that reflects current interest rates plus a component for a company's overall riskiness.
Working with the FDA, we have made commitments to improve these areas and, at the appropriate time, we decided to initiate a market action as a precautionary measure in the best interest of consumers who trust and rely on our products.
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Therefore a weak yen will be a natural consequence of the BOJ's plan to print money as a way to pay increased public debt - a measure to significantly reduce real interest rates.
The central bank has also expanded a key stimulus measure aimed at keeping long term interest rates low.
The Fed uses a different measure when calculating the floor for interest rates.
Mr Singh did, however, push through another unpopular measure: a reduction in the interest rates the government pays on small-savings schemes.
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In essence, duration is a much better measure of sensitivity to changes in interest rates than simple maturity, because it takes into account when investors get their money.
Bernanke referred to the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing program to buy Treasury securities as a successful measure in stimulating long-term interest rates and raising the prices of equities, while also emphasizing that the practice does not really constitute government spending, as the Fed is not purchasing goods and services.
That really is a measure of how sensitive they are to interest rates.
You might remember that RPI inflation rate went negative in 2009, when interest rates were falling sharply, whereas the CPI measure never went below 1%.
For a long time, even as the Federal Reserve pushed short term interest rates to very low levels, the broad measure of money, M2, grew only around 5 percent per year.
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Any measure must be justified by a legitimate government interest that is compelling or at least important.
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But the evidence suggests that large spending by special-interest groups by no means guarantees the passage of a measure.
For his measure of profit, Resendes takes earnings before interest and depreciation, but after taxes, and also adds back research and development costs.
In the case of Cephalon, McMillan got his "buy" signal from the put-call ratio, a measure of investor sentiment expressed as put open interest divided by call open interest.
Critics of the Durbin measure also say lenders would respond by charging higher interest rates on student loans to account for the increased risk of losses.
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Charles Lee, an economist at Cornell University, has developed a new measure of price to value that takes account of interest rates, dividends and earnings forecasts.
The Bank's favourite measure of inflation, which excludes both mortgage-interest costs and indirect-tax changes, was unchanged in July, at an annual rate of 2.2% (see chart).
Another figure that troubled investors is LinkedIn's forecast for its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or EBITDA. This measure provides an inkling of how much money the company is likely to make.
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