Its fall vs. gold began alongside rate cuts, accelerated during 425 basis points of rate increases, and it has continued during the latest round of cuts.
At 79.4%, the rate fanned fears regarding U.S. economic weakness since the rate is 1.6 percentage points below the average rate from 1972 to 2007.
These central banks have agreed to lower the pricing on the existing temporary U.S. dollar liquidity swap arrangements by 50 basis points so that the new rate will be the U.S. dollar overnight index swap (OIS) rate plus 50 basis points.
When I insisted on a quote with zero points, the rate that came back was decidedly less attractive.
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So, actually, when you take into account the cost of living, the Asian-American poverty rate is about two and a half percentage points higher than the official rate.
On October 2, 2001 the Greenspan Fed cut the funds rate 50 basis points to 2.5% and continued cutting the rate to 1.0% on June 25, 2003 on fears of Deflation.
Colorado, Montana, Nebraska and Virginia had an increased unemployment rate of 0.2 percentage points in April, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, while Massachusetts' unemployment rate fell by 0.2 percentage points.
California's unemployment rate is 10.1 percent, a full 2 percentage points higher than the national rate.
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Tax experts say Softbank's effective tax rate could thus be roughly 50%, some 15 percentage points above the federal tax rate that would be charged on the gains in America.
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The top rate of capital-gains tax is currently 28%, over ten percentage points lower than the top rate of income tax (39.5%).
Where they have risen by five percentage points, the jobless rate has gone up by three.
Second, a limit on itemized deductions will add a further 1.2 percentage points to the top rate.
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The dollar bonds were sold at three percentage points over the midswap rate, a benchmark, equivalent to a 4.03% yield.
The Fed slashed its overnight lending rate 50 points, to 1%, as expected on Wednesday, its lowest level since June 2003.
Temporary federal stimulus is waning and state and local-government job cuts have added roughly 0.4 percentage points to the unemployment rate.
Suttong, a battery maker, was recently forced to raise money at 450 basis points over the prevailing rate in the bond market.
Over the past few decades, these costs have risen at a consistent 2.5 percentage points above the growth rate of the economy.
The study points out that the rate of pay increase fell, even though the companies performed better in 2012 than they did in 2011.
Mosaic takes 100 basis points of the interest rate (along with an origination fee and annual platform fees) and passes the rest to investors.
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He also points out that the rate of both corporate failures and start-ups has remained relatively low - far lower, for example, than in the late 1980s or early 1990s.
By December 2010, the same economists found extended benefits had added 0.8 percentage points to the unemployment rate, and that estimate would likely be higher if updated again.
The average risk premium on the country's bonds has fallen from a peak of 18 percentage points above the interest rate on United States' Treasury bonds to below six.
But, far from supporting the recovery, our export sector actually pulled it down in 2012, with net exports subtracting about 0.8 percentage points from the annual rate of growth.
The unemployment rate of 10.7 percent remains the third highest in the United States, and is more than two percentage points above the national rate of 8.3 percent.
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Going over the fiscal cliff could knock enough points off the growth rate to drive America into a recession, predicts the Congressional Budget Office, a non-partisan body that analyses the economic effects of federal laws.
Mr Fridson concedes that the difference between corporate-bond spreads and actual default rates is unusual and hard to explain: on the previous occasions when spreads have exceeded 800 points, the default rate was already 9.43% in 1990 and 5.44% in 2000.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, unemployment for college graduates aged 24 and younger with four-year degrees was at 8.2% in December, more than twice the rate for older graduates and several points higher than the 5.7% rate before the recession.
In 2010, the White House and the Congressional Budget Office seized upon the lowest estimate they could find: A brief from Rob Valetta and Katherine Kuang at the San Francisco Fed which suggested that extended unemployment benefits had added only 0.4 percentage points to the unemployment rate by December 2009.
At a time when the Spanish superclubs Barcelona and Real Madrid are amassing points at an unprecedented rate, Italy's Juventus is steaming toward an undefeated season and the electrifying Borussia Dortmund has clinched the German Bundesliga, England's limp contenders are providing English fans with plenty of fuel for their well-oiled anxiety machine.
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