When interest rates were plunging in 2000--03, these geniuses decided to shorten the average maturity instead of locking in long-term low yields.
Since the launch of the euro, moreover, Italy's debt managers have managed to extend the average term of its borrowing to almost seven years, locking in then-prevailing interest rates and ensuring that less of the outstanding debt is subject to abrupt rate increases.
Buyers who purchase a 10-year TIPS today are locking in a yield of less than 1%, while the 5-year is selling at a premium to par so it actually has a negative yield of -0.52%.
Hedge funds thought they'd been smart by locking in a three-to-four-percentage-point spread by selling protection on those tranches and buying it on less risky ones.
With this feature, investors can hold stocks while receiving protection from market declines and locking in guaranteed pension-like income for life that can rise with the market.
Second, the project is technology-neutral, not locking in to any particular hardware or software.
The head teacher and five staff members remain suspended over alleged ill-treatment including locking a pupil in a room.
The BP deal guarantees Sempra gas at a discount to the price on the U.S.-Mexico border, locking in a nice spread.
But the wrong cyber-laws can mean government locking in inferior security technologies and procedures.
So when you're looking at your fixed-income portfolio and thinking about putting money to work in this scenario where interest rates are going to be going up, you don't want to be locking in today these very low long-term yields.
Judge Susan Nelson made a comment wondering aloud whether the NFL had operated legally in locking out a group of non-unionized employees.
The difficulty of properly locking down a leak-focused site has been demonstrated in cringeworthy detail in attempts at similar projects by Al Jazeera and the Wall Street Journal.
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Symyx moved quickly to secure patents, locking up the field of high-speed materials combination in the U.S. Dow and ExxonMobil dropped plans to develop their own tools when they bumped up against Symyx's patents.
Even if it never does, owning a home may still be a wealth building proposition for two reasons: you are locking in your housing costs with a fixed-rate mortgage while rents continue to rise, and your mortgage will be paid off at some point in the future.
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It was in 2004 that Colorado Democrats recognized that they could take a major step towards locking in the state for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry if they could succeed in scraping their own winner-take-all system and bring proportional representation to the electoral vote in Colorado.
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It's locking in customers with voice, TV and Internet--everything Verizon might want to offer them a few years down the line.
In the mid-1990s she remembers locking horns with fellow GM engineers over decisions such as which software to use to control robots and conveyors in its factories.
The Mets, at the peak of their popularity in the mid-1980s, made the mistake of locking into a long-term cable agreement that cut them off from the escalating rights fees of the 1990s.
Most of its profit now comes from constructing large solar power plants and selling them to debt-financed shell companies set up solely for the purpose of locking in a fixed yield based on electricity sales to utilities.
The league was not forced into hiring these ill-prepared understudies, but created this fiasco by locking out its seasoned officials in a negotiating tactic.
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So by locking in savings over 10 years, we are actually paying for the two-year extension.
The Centre has pioneered a number of ideas, including a self-locking bicycle and a chair with two slots at the front for hanging bags in bars and cafes.
Roscosmos last June began a Mars flight simulation program, locking three Russians, two Europeans and a Chinese astronaut in an 18, 800-square-foot, five-module complex to live there in isolation for 17 months, Bloomberg reported on April 5.
Some folks prefer to keep their children close at hand by locking them in cages at night "for their own safety, " while more liberal-minded peeps would rather let their progeny roam free and experience the world.
People wishing to use it will need to have sufficient upper-body strength to operate the locking catch and - if using a folding wheelchair - be able to unfold it and transfer in and out of their vehicle.
You're changing the infrastructure in rapidly growing countries, and you're locking into a future that is less carbon-intensive and coincides with our interests.
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