The market, already ahead 10 percent year-to-date, could reach a mid-teens rate of return in 2013.
Despite all the naysayers, the market shows a mid-teens rate of return.
Currently, the market is starved for leveraged profit margin stories and for properties that can compound earnings close to a mid-teens rate.
Global information technology spending is expected to slow over the next few years, but will still grow at a low- to mid-single-digit rate.
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Although personal savings fell during the slowdown of the mid-1970s, the rate eventually spiked to an all-time high of almost 15% after the economy exited the recession.
All of which argues for a corporate tax reform that would at the very least cut the combined U.S. state-federal rate to the mid-20s to be comparable with many of our trading partners.
In 2003, taxpayers faced a slew of changes, including new capital gains rates effective mid-year and a new lower rate on so-called qualified dividends.
The AFR Mid-term, Annual Rate is also slightly lower in June than it was for May.
The AFR Mid-term, Annual Rate will also be slightly lower in July.
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Fidelity National is certainly sensitive to activity in the residential mortgage market, and as rates on mortgages have come back down from April through mid-May, interest rate sensitive stocks such as the home builders, mortgage lenders and REITs have all rallied.
Between mid-2005 and mid-2009, China's real trade-weighted exchange rate appreciated by about 5.5% a year.
In other words, these measures have had almost no mid-term impact on the dollar-real exchange rate because investments of all kinds continue flowing into this country.
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The Fed also extended its forward guidance for ultra-low rates, or outlook for interest rate levels, until mid-2015.
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Pre-mid-1970s the US poverty rate largely measured poverty as it was actually lived.
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In addition, the Fed extended its outlook for where it will hold interest rate to mid-2015, saying it will keep its ultra-loose monetary policy.
The lowest late-payment rate on TransUnion records going back to the mid-1990s was 0.56 percent, set in the third quarter of 1994.
Competition among EU member nations has forced the top corporate-tax rate down by ten percentage points since the mid-1990s, according to Elga Bartsch of Morgan Stanley.
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The Fed has raised its core rate 17 times since mid-2004, from a 45-year low of 1%.
The U.K. 10-year bond yielded all of 1.68% in mid-August 2012, well below the rate of consumer price increases.
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It looked to be beyond the hosts but Harbhajan and Praveen swung the bat with freedom and despite the rate climbing into the mid-teens they managed to keep the game alive.
That was the meaning of the announcement of the US Federal Reserve that it anticipates holding its official interest rate, the so-called federal funds rate, at exceptionally low levels "at least" through mid-2013.
But the change means that GM will return to a 35 percent tax rate, up from the mid-teens last year.
Mid-nineteenth-century Americans endured a high rate of infant mortality but expected that most individuals who reached young adulthood would survive at least into middle age.
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.
Just last month, the FOMC listed mid-2013 as the possible date for the first rate increase.
Finally the zero to 0.25% federal funds rate was extended until at least mid-2015.
In mid-October, in real terms, the exchange rate was where it was in 1991, when Brazil had huge trade surpluses, according to Arminio Fraga, the Central Bank's president.
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The Bernanke Fed has kept the interest rate on federal funds near zero since December 2008, and that rate is likely to persist until mid-2013, as announced at the latest meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee.
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Argentina's unemployment rate has been heading upward since the mid-1980s (it's now 15%) because the tax bite is so large.
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