Given the Fed's recent move to raise interest rates and the expectation of more hikes to come, savings from offshoring look even more attractive to lending institutions in search of new ways to boost the bottom line.

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So on March 19 it could decide that banks need to be over-capitalised, for the health of the economy - in the hope and expectation that banks forced to raise tens of billions of pounds of additional capital would then feel powerfully motivated to lend, to earn a return on that new capital.

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So it could have been the very flood of people buying the music in memoriam that led to the price rise: rather than the expectation of the flood which led to the decision to raise the price.

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The 13-tonne mission was initially lifted into a 350km-high orbit above Earth, with the expectation that the probe's big engine would fire twice - first, to raise that orbit, and, second, to set course for Mars.

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