That yield spread is dwarfed by the potential gain (or loss) from exchange-rate shifts.
The adverse scenario for card losses envisaged in American banks' stress tests, a cumulative two-year loss rate of 22.5%, looks increasingly like the base case to others.
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European monetary union meant the loss of responsibility for monetary and exchange-rate policies.
Your two-pound-per-week rate of weight loss is safe and healthy, so I'm not concerned that you have lost weight too quickly, leading to a plateau.
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In general, after high-loss years, reinsurers are able to push for rate increases, but because overall losses were moderate in 2012, rates are expected to remain largely stable when the annual contracts come up for renewal this year, reinsurers themselves have cautioned.
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Now, you must work backward to solve the loss of that rule-of-thumb: To earn at those same rate today, you will need more stocks and possibly a venture into lower-grade credit.
I'm speaking, of course, about concerns regarding the rate of battery capacity loss in the Nissan LEAF's Lithium-ion battery.
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The good news is that big banks probably now have enough capital to absorb the aggregate loss rate suffered by the system from 2007 to 2009 (although their build-up of liquidity reserves has been patchier).
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The latest findings show that the rate of ice loss in Greenland has increased almost fivefold since the mid-1990s, while Antarctica overall has been losing relatively small amounts of ice at a more or less constant rate.
But his passing in the 45th over brought about the loss of five wickets for 30 runs, and by the end India's over-rate was so slow the innings break lasted only 18 minutes.
Japan's Nikkei Stock Average slipped 0.1% for a sixth straight loss after the Bank of Japan left unchanged its key interest rate and the size of its asset-purchase program.
It expects an overall average loan-recovery rate of 57% before it winds itself down in 2005, turning a small loss overall.
The charge-off rate of a citizen line of credit program would be considerably lower than the 100% loss rate of the existing welfare system.
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Add to that a high crime rate, minimal cultural life, relatively high business costs for the area and a loss of critical wage-earning residents ages 25 to 44--and you end up being ranked 144 out of 150 among our Best Places.
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