The size of the bill that the Conservative-controlled council faced would depend on rates of interest.
The government continues to set a ceiling on deposit rates and a floor on lending rates.
Members began the session with debates on rates and water charges, but there were also exchanges about collusion.
Hitherto they have competed fiercely on rates, accepting underwriting losses which they have then made up with investment gains.
The Labor Department determines prevailing wage based on rates prevailing in specific localities, so that it would vary from city to city.
On rates of deforestation, there was little to choose among the groups.
If consumer and business confidence remains low then Mario Draghi made it clear that the ECB was ready to act again on rates.
Many Fed insiders expect the end to their mortgage buying to have a mild effect on rates, a half-percentage-point increase or possibly much less.
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As recently as early August, the Fed had held steady on rates, predicting modest growth for the economy and saying inflation remained its chief concern.
"This meeting has taken us a step forward, but we will not rest until all Scottish businesses receive a fair deal on rates, " she added.
The Scottish government says that comes from an inflationary increase, a reduction in the rate of successful appeals on rates valuation, and on economic buoyancy.
The British are, quite simply, immature in their attitude to alcohol consumption and this in itself will have only a marginal effect on rates of offending.
Recently the Stormont Executive unveiled details of an extension to the Small Business Rates Relief Scheme which gives a 20% discount on rates to smaller premises.
The need of the U.S. government to borrow during recession and the mounting debt as a percentage of GDP has likely exerted minimal impact on rates.
The consensus in late June, when the Federal Reserve stood pat on rates, was that Alan Greenspan had almost finished tightening--with maybe one more quarter-point to come.
Mr Kirchner has hardly wooed external direct investors: his government is yet to lift the freeze imposed during the crisis on rates charged by most foreign-owned utility firms.
But based on rates of self-employment, housing affordability, income growth and migration, immigrant entrepreneurs tend to prefer sprawling, heavily suburbanized regions, many of them clustered in the South and Southwest.
Instead of the prior emphasis on rates of fatal accidents, experts have started to talk publicly about statistics that highlight a much tougher standard: individual fatalities per millions of flights.
Ultimately, however, the effect that the change in diagnostic criteria will have on rates of alcohol abuse disorders can only be appreciated once doctors and counselors start to put the new definition into practice.
As I blogged at the beginning of the process in September, that included sleazy mortgage brokers introduced by Lending Tree, who either pulled the bait-and-switch on rates or resisted disclosing what fees they would tack on.
Moreover, better economic tidings are putting upward pressure on rates, with the 10-year Treasury rate rising to 2.25% as of March 22, from 1.97% on Feb. 29 and 1.98% at year-end, according to Bloomberg.com and the Federal Reserve.
Now, a brief analysis of 10 European countries published Thursday in the Lancet --- the first to use government data on suicide rates from the past few years -- suggests that the ongoing economic downturn may be no different, and in fact may have had a larger impact on suicide rates than expected.
Because trillions of dollars of loans based on floating Libor rates ratcheting higher would cause borrowers to default, banks needed to keep a lid on rising rates.
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China will also push ahead with an easing of restrictions on interest rates on loans and deposits.
That would mean applying reasonably low tax rates on personal and corporate income and reasonably low rates on capital gains and dividends.
On Monday, rates on U.S. Treasury securities, which are tied to the rates for prices of corporate debt, hit their lowest yields this year, at 1.65% on the 10-year note.
As interest rates on Treasury securities heads higher, so do the rates on mortgages and credit cards, adding further downward pressure on American living standards and suppressing economic growth.
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