The present value of the interest spread on outstanding money is therefore an asset of the central bank that needs to be counted.
And when interest rates rise they can increase the interest rate spread they earn.
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Out of interest the spread traded at 179 basis points as recently as six months ago.
The index benefitted also from the interest rate spread and rising housing permits.
High savings (sometimes mandatory), interest rate controls, and high economic growth let Chinese banks enjoy a steady interest rate spread and a larger loan volume.
Just as in the past, high yield bonds trade at an interest rate spread over Treasury bonds, which are more liquid and less subject to default risk.
The Cleveland Fed inflation estimates, based on financial market data including the interest rate spread between ordinary and inflation-protected Treasury bonds, show expected inflation of 1.4 percent per year over the next ten years.
But given the size of those reserves, and the banks overwhelming need for income, it might not take much in the way of interest rate spread expansion to get some monetary inflation of the double digit variety from these banks.
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Worries about export earnings, given Argentina's high debt-to-export ratio, increase the interest-rate spread the country pays over United States interest rates, which have themselves risen this year.
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According to Reuters, the two-year U.S. interest rate swap spread--a gauge of financial system stress--was quoted at a record high 166.5 basis points in Asia, suggesting that concern about defaults among banking counterparties were worsening.
One way to visualize the damage from ZIRP is to recognize that the spread between real and nominal interest rates is analogous to the spread between rates on default-free and risky debt.
The site cuts out banks by matching lenders with borrowers, offering a better spread between interest and savings rates.
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We also share a common interest in stopping the spread of nuclear weapons.
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Interest in ETFs has spread to all assets classes, including: U.S. stocks and bonds, international stocks and bonds, commodities, and currencies.
Kennedy now contended that both sides had a vital interest in stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and slowing the arms race--a contention which led to the test ban treaty of 1963.
Banks are racing against each other to see which can do the deal with the thinnest spread between interest rates the bank charges on loans and rates it pays on deposits and borrowing, McPeak said.
American Express earns a net interest income on the spread between the rate it earns from un-loaned amounts sitting in bank deposits and short-term investments in financial securities and the rates at which it extends credit to card members.
The interest expense on them is spread equally, which makes me think there is one mortgage covering all six of them.
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Lending Club charges borrowers upfront fees and pockets a spread between the interest lenders earn and the higher rates that borrowers pay.
Despite the recent rate decreases, private jumbo mortgages still provide a bigger-than-usual spread between the interest banks receive and what they are paying on deposits.
The company makes money from the spread between the interest rate paid by a hog buyer and the yield built into the sale of a package of loans on Wall Street.
First and foremost, ever-present low interest rates have squeezed bank profitability as measured by net interest margin, or the spread between what banks pay to borrow and what they're paid to lend.
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They have a spread on the interest rate they charge the other person over what they pay you and this pays for the buildings, the unpaid loans, the staff and everything else.
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Excessive greed and risk-taking, aided and abetted by extreme low interest rates, and regulatory powers spread across too many entities to be effective, resulted in a housing bubble.
The greater the spread between the high-interest debt and the rate of return on investment, the greater the financial advantage for paying off the debt first.
The Vatican has long shown interest in using the latest communications technologies to spread the faith with the inventor of radio, Guglielmo Marconi, setting up Vatican Radio in 1931.
Mortgage REITs borrow short-term or adjustable-rate money (the federal funds rate has plunged from 6.5% in January to 3.5% today) and use it to buy longer-term mortgages or mortgage-backed securities, playing the spread between the two sets of interest rates.
Scant open interest levels at each of the strikes mentioned indicate the spread is an opening position.
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