Insurers use credit scores to set premium rates, and employers use them when making hiring decisions.
Premium rates in casualty will fall by 10-15% this year, predicts Lockton, a broker.
So he knew that when oil demand next surged, Frontline would be better able to command premium rates.
All those premium rates you paid over the years, to reach those age and sex groupings, were wasted money.
Many hotel owners still are asking premium rates for rooms in the region and require a minimum four-day stay.
But expecting it to actually lower present premium rates is probably a stretch.
FORBES: The Truth About Health Care Reform's Impact On Insurance Premiums
The analysts are afraid of Geico and State Farm going for share of market and driving down premium rates.
In some cases, the less-healthy small groups listed in the document would even see their premium rates decrease under the law.
WSJ: Some Small Firms Try Early Insurance Renewal to Blunt Health Law
Those maps will be used to set premium rates for flood insurance and play a role in building codes and other regulations.
But asking them to pay premium rates for both is unreasonable and drives the cost of marketing on Facebook into the stratosphere.
FORBES: Facebook Pages Are a Bad Investment for Small Businesses
It also boosted the premium rates for keeping in force certain types of policies that are favored by hedge funds and other investors.
Right now, the average online publication only sells 50% of its inventory at market or premium rates (far less than my 75% print world percentage).
FORBES: In Brave New World of Ad Sales, It's About Deep Audience Learning
Carboy explained that in Europe, energy tariffs are "feed-in tariffs, " where customers who produce their own solar energy can sell back surplus power at premium rates.
Clinton went on to point out the private health insurance company scams wherein the health insurers instituted huge increases in premium rates before the 2010 election, claiming that Obamacare had necessitated the increases.
By infusing HuffPo's people and processes into all of AOL's content properties, including Patch, and with help from a promising new ad format called Devil, Armstrong believes he can attract new readers and charge advertisers premium rates to reach them.
Administration officials point to a report by the Democratic staff of the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week that determined that in Oregon and Washington the competition is lowering premium rates even before income-based tax credits are taken into account.
The union said workers agreed to temporarily suspend premium pay rates and enhanced holiday pay rates for 16 months from June 2010.
Additionally, BrandMyMail will offer analytics to their premium users, including click rates and open rates for the integrated content.
Some say that at this time with a risk of monetary adjustment via higher central bank rates the hope premium may be unduly high.
Given the 3.6 percent inflation rate over the past year, at 4.50 percent current mortgage rates represent a premium over inflation of under 1 percent, or less than one-fourth the historical average.
FORBES: How Low Are Current Mortgage Rates? 3 Convincing Answers
Welcome though the news is, while the government's new-found discipline remains dependent on emergency squeezes, the markets are likely to continue to demand a premium that will prevent interest rates from falling enough to turn promising recovery into sustained high growth.
ECONOMIST: Progress and pitfalls in Brazil��s public finances
Long-term nominal interest rates are influenced by many things, including investors' expectations of inflation and future short-term rates, and a risk premium for holding long-term assets.
This is less than the premium of about 30% on current market annuity rates.
ECONOMIST: Now the insurer has to win support for its long-awaited deal
Not surprisingly iPads had better conversion rates than iPhones with a 42% premium, iPhones were very strong against Android phones with a 53% premium and iPods had a 28% premium over iPhones.
He notes that the company trades at about a 40% premium on cash flow metrics to peers, despite similar growth rates.
In Beijing, a scientist waiting to register a property she bought for her parents said that even though interest rates have dropped, she had to pay a premium on her mortgage.
There would, on the other hand, be a useful fall in interest rates, because investors would no longer demand a premium for the risk that the exchange-rate peg would be broken.
Argentine government bonds are trading at a quarter of their face value, while lending to Argentine businesses faces a "risk premium" of more than 40% on top of normal interest rates.
应用推荐