The long-term chart of the exchange rate shows that it is barely a blip, as the long-term downtrend (line a) goes back to 1976, when the rate was 305 yen per dollar.
The other, fee-based side of its business involves managing long-term investor assets in exchange-traded funds, mutual funds and money market accounts.
He believes the nation would be best served by a short, sharp, electric-shock-therapy approach, enduring the short-term pain of austerity in exchange for the long-term gains derived from being part of a better European economy.
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The long-term chart of the euro-dollar exchange rate shows a series of lower highs since 2007 (line c).
Wireless companies have long sold cellphones at discounted prices in exchange for long-term service agreements.
Wireless companies have long sold cellphones at discounted prices in exchange for long-term contracts.
For example, the Goldman Sachs monetary-conditions index (based on a weighted average of short-and long-term interest rates and the trade-weighted exchange rate) suggests that America's monetary policy is currently at its tightest since 1989, largely reflecting the strong dollar.
China imagined that it could build Brazilian railroads with Chinese labour in exchange for long-term contracts to buy commodities at fixed prices two delusions in one.
The Organic Exchange says that long-term commitments from big retailers now mean organic output is growing at a rapid clip.
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Also watch for contract negotiations in which union reps sign up members for smaller pay raises and benefits in exchange for a long-term contract.
He pointed out that the exchange rate remained near its long-term average, and made a statement of the obvious: that the level of the euro could affect both euro-zone inflation and growth.
These private finance initiative deals, typically involving an arrangement in which a private company provides capital in exchange for taking over a long-term contract to run services, have had a mixed reception.
Ms Randerson also restated her long-term desire to see the establishment of a Welsh stock exchange.
Creating such an exchange would also help accomplish another long-term conservative policy goal: transforming health insurance from a responsibility for employers to a responsibility for individuals.
You may recall the December deal, following on the heels of the Republican wave election victory of 2010, wherein President Obama agreed to continue the tax cuts for all Americans in exchange for Congress agreeing to extend long-term unemployment benefits for the many Americans who were out of work.
At the same time emerging economies' behaviour, particularly the accumulation of massive foreign-exchange reserves, has distorted capital markets by artificially pushing down long-term interest rates.
America is good at looking after its servicemen's health and, in exchange, many of those airmen have agreed to be part of a long-term medical study that looks at all sorts of health-related questions.
Wise investors select different index funds and exchange-traded funds ( ETFs) based on their needs and hold them long-term.
If the exchange rate and share prices remain unchanged, this requires both short- and long-term interest rates to rise by just under 1.5 percentage points.
What is needed is a new kind of stock exchange, designed to trade in the stocks of companies that are organized to sustain long-term thinking.
When exchange-traded funds were introduced in 1993, they were one of the greatest innovations for long-term investing in decades.
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