The European Central Bank cut key interest rates to an all-time low of 0.50% on Thursday.
The collapse of the Soviet Union deprived Russia of key ports and cut the size of its fleet.
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Then it's back to government legislation, with the third reading of the Public Service Pensions Bill - the startlingly low-key measure to cut the cost of public-sector pensions.
The ECB last cut its key interest rate, by 0.25%, on 10 May.
The European Central Bank has cut its key interest rate by one half of one percentage point, in 17 months.
Last month, India's central bank cut its key interest rate to 7.75% from 8%, the first such move in nine months.
Only recently have the inflation levels eased below 4%, prompting the Chinese central bank to cut its key lending rate in June.
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The dollar is being dragged down by continued speculation that the Federal Reserve will cut the key Fed Fund rate at its meeting on Wednesday.
In Europe, the Stoxx Europe 600 jumped 1% on continued hopes that the European Central Bank will cut its key interest rate later this week.
The U.K.'s central bank cut its key interest rate to 3.0%, from 4.5%, on Thursday, far exceeding many economists' expectations for a 75- or 100-basis-point cut.
Last month, India's central bank, the Reserve Bank of India, cut its key interest rate to 7.75% from 8%, the first such move in nine months.
Then in September, the Fed cut its key short-term interest rate for the first time since 2003 by one-half percentage point from 5.25 percent to 4.75 percent.
The RBI, worried about inflation and encouraging more imports, has cut its key lending rate by 0.75 percentage point this year, much less aggressively than industry leaders wanted.
On Tuesday, the US Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate from 1% to a range of between zero and 0.25% in an attempt to revive the economy.
The RBI is widely expected to cut its key lending rate by a quarter of a percentage point Tuesday to stimulate an economy growing at its weakest pace in a decade.
U.S. stocks are now turning higher this morning after the European Central Bank cut its key interest rate by a quarter percentage to 1% in an effort to boost the economy.
The RBI cut its key lending rate thrice this year, all by a quarter of a percentage point, and markets were hoping it to further reduce the rate at its next policy meeting.
The Federal Reserve cut a key interest rate by a quarter-percentage point Tuesday to 4.25 percent in an effort to buoy a U.S. economy battered by tighter credit and a continuing mortgage crisis.
India's central bank cut its key lending rate by a quarter of a percentage point to help revive economic expansion, but it warned that higher inflation and a wide current-account deficit may leave little room for further easing.
The Federal Reserve, confronted with a global stock sell-off fanned by increased fears of an American recession, cut a key interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point on Tuesday, the biggest one-day move by the central bank in recent memory.
The European Central Bank and its new leader somewhat surprised the market place Thursday with a cut in its key interest rate.
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Back in 2011, the House GOP released a 10-point jobs plan whose key point was a big cut in the top rate of tax to 25%.
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Thus, one key question is whether the cut in dividend taxes increased the total amount companies distributed to their shareholders or just changed the way they did it by, for instance, increasing dividends but reducing share repurchases.
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As both Republicans and Democrats in Congress appear willing to cut funding for key energy innovation programs, a bipartisan group of Senators have spoken out in support of maintaining funding for an innovative energy technology agency that invests in game-changing research.
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Though Apple took to the pages of The New York Times last week to respond to a chorus of criticism about Final Cut Pro X, it's clear the company is going to have to go a little further in assuaging videographers who were alarmed to learn that the built-from-the-ground-up software omits certain key features found in Final Cut Pro 7.
In its third-quarter credit policy review, the Reserve Bank of India left the bank rate at 6% and the key lending rate, which was cut as recently as Jan. 2, at 5.5%.
We're not putting forward an across-the-board freeze, but rather an overall cap on non-security discretionary funding in which key investments are expanded but we cut back on programs that are ineffective, duplicative, or just wasteful.
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