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.
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.
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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.
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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