The more fundamental problem was that without its familiar interest-rate-based benchmark, it had no good way to figure out how much money it should print.
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Messrs Feldstein and Samwick also assume that retired folk will convert their personal retirement accounts into a variable-rate annuity, based on a combination of stocks and bonds, rather than a fixed-rate annuity.
FridsonVision, a research firm, publishes a default-rate predictor based on the percentage of bonds trading with a spread of at least 1, 000 basis points.
The BD-F7500's video processor includes a proprietary Samsung algorithm that improves the visual quality of block-based low bit-rate coded images and reduces blocking artifacts.
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Coach also gets high marks from my Lynch-inspired strategy, in part because of its solid 17.1% long-term EPS growth rate (based on an average of the three-, four-, and five-year growth rates).
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That proportion has been climbing sharply in recent years, however, because short-term interest rates (and thus variable-rate mortgages, which follow them) have been so much lower than long-term rates (on which fixed-rate mortgages are based).
The Lynch strategy likes its impressive 27.8% long-term earnings per share growth rate (based on an average of the three- and five-year EPS growth rates).
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It also plans to unshackle health-care costs from labor costs by freezing the amount employers pay into the system and shifting from income-based contributions toward a flat-rate health insurance premium.
To date no U.S.-based banks have settled charges of rate-rigging, though a number are members of the group that sets Libor, including Bank of America, Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase.
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Stabilizing the dollar-euro exchange rate can only be achieved within a rule-based monetary regime, not by relying on "independent" central banks and finance ministers to coordinate monetary policy to do it.
In practice, plans use a rate based on high-quality long-term corporate bond yields, currently just above 6%.
New York City's estimated poverty rate based on 2007-11 data was 19.4%.
It is a founding member of ERIS, which has developed a futures contract that mimics a variable Libor-based interest rate swap.
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Private plans' use of a bond-based discount rate reflects that higher equity returns are not a free lunch--the firm will be required to cough up extra cash if the assets underperform.
The traders in Frankfurt were suspended over Euribor - a benchmark rate based on the rate at which banks based in in the eurozone can borrow, in contrast to Libor which is based on the borrowing cost of London-based banks.
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We propose that, for MPs representing constituencies outside London, the Personal Additional Accommodation Expenditure (commonly known as the 'second home' allowance) should be abolished and be replaced by a flat-rate daily allowance, based on actual attendance at Westminster on parliamentary and government business or the business of the Opposition frontbenches.
With a price-to-earnings ratio of 23.10 and a growth rate (based on the average of the three-, four- and five-year historical EPS growth rates) of 24.14%, Hasbro has a price-to-earnings-growth ratio 0.96.
His strategy was based on the fixing of three-month swaps pegged to Euribor -- the euro-based interbank lending rate set in Brussels by averaging 44 banks' submissions, regulators have said.
Both analysts, however, agree on one thing: They both rate shares in South San Francisco-based Genentech "outperform, " even though the stock traded at a whopping 53 times Chao's 2005 earnings-per-share forecast.
Also, the long-term EPS growth rate of 36.68%, based on the average of the three- and five-year historical EPS growth rates, exceeds the 15% minimum that the strategy requires.
What if U.S. ARM re-sets (based on LIBOR) bump up the interest-rate charges that already-strapped homeowners have to pay?
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The reality is that Dallas-based Southwest Airlines has maintained an 11% capacity growth rate--measured by available seat miles--over the past five years without any visible effect on profitability.
The reality is that Dallas, Texas-based Southwest Airlines has maintained an 11% capacity growth rate--measured by available seat miles--over the past five years without any visible effect on profitability.
Overall fertility has fallen to roughly 1.5, well below replacement rate and all but guaranteeing a demographic-based economic crisis a decade or two sooner.
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The interest rate on the loan will be based on the London Interbank Offered Rate (lately, the 12-month LIBOR rate has been 2.3%), plus 2.3% to 2.8%.
The tax rate after adjusting for tax effects from stock-based compensation and restructuring looks to be 10.5%.
The reported death toll gives the Middle East-based disease a case fatality rate of about 60%, similar to that of the feared H5N1 avian flu.
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Undaunted by the high failure rate, the fourth one, the London-based Inmarsat, plans to sell a substantial portion of its shares to the public next year.
If recent history is an indicator, the best U.S. airlines for Thanksgiving travel are Dallas-based Southwest Airlines (with an 83.9% on-time rate), Minnesota's Mesaba Aviation (85%), and of course Hawaiian Airlines.
One of her first actions was to introduce the poll tax or community charge, a flat-rate tax for local services which was based on individuals rather than the value of the property in which they lived.
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