In practice, plans use a rate based on high-quality long-term corporate bond yields, currently just above 6%.
Lending Club also sets the borrowers' interest rate based on FICO scores and determines who gets funded.
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Governments should fix the exchange rate based on gold or economic performances.
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New York City's estimated poverty rate based on 2007-11 data was 19.4%.
But private pension plans (overseen by the Financial Accounting Standards Board) may not set a liability discount rate based on anticipated asset performance.
It boasts the industry's highest density as well as the highest performance level of 400 megabits-per-second (mbps) data transfer rate based on the toggle DDR 2.0 interface.
How can we have a benchmark interest rate based upon the prices at which banks lend to each other if banks periodically simply stop lending to each other?
In most cases, the companies are compensated by the colleges, either with a flat fee or a rate based on the number of students they put into a program that helps keep them from defaulting.
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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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Because the interest rate varies based on the prime rate, which you would know if you read the fine print.
By contrast, the Libor rate is based on assumptions banks make about their daily borrowing rate.
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The indicator shows the annual average growth rate, based on financial statements filed in the most recent three months.
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 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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If the rate were based on consumption, poverty would be halved.
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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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And he's trying to get the magazine biz to adopt new audience measurement metrics, arguing that the guaranteed rate base based on paid circulation is outdated.
The assumptions that lead to this being the optimal tax rate are based on the US experience: that people cannot simply leave the country to escape high income tax.
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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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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.
Finally, they evaluate how many students actually finish their degrees in four years, considering both the actual graduation rate (8.75%) and the gap between the average rate and a predicted rate, based on characteristics of the school (8.75%).
The California Department of Insurance found that the proposed rate increase was based on unreasonably high assumptions about the rate at which medical costs are increasing.
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.
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 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 jobless rate in Ireland , based on benefit claimants, jumped from 8.3% to 9.2% in January.
The standard mileage rate for business is based on an annual study of the fixed and variable costs of operating an automobile.
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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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In my opinion, the rate has been decided based on the intrinsic values of their natural resources and the amount of Dinar in circulation.
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