Spreads between the Fed's lending rates and the rate banks charge each other remained elevated.
And banks have a pretty good idea what interest rate to charge a specific borrower to make a profit.
In 1996 researchers at the University of Texas announced a new battery design offering high performance and a fast rate of charge.
The target for federal funds rate, which is the rate banks charge each other to borrow funds overnight, is already near zero.
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In addition, banks and other lenders maintain a spread between the rate they pay on deposits and the rate they charge on loans.
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To ease the burden on Greece, ministers seem ready to lend it money to buy back existing bonds, and to lower the interest rate they charge on loans.
The London interbank offered rate, the rate banks charge each other for short-term loans, soared in recent weeks despite central bank injections of hundreds of billions into the system.
They have a spread on the interest rate they charge the other person over what they pay you and this pays for the buildings, the unpaid loans, the staff and everything else.
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The question a banker asks will not be what is the interest rate they will charge and what is the collateral.
In the next year the Federal Reserve System is widely expected to increase the rate banks can charge each other for loans.
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Here, too, states have the power to set the rate providers can charge for transporting electricity from the distribution center to the business or home.
So when the Fed injects more money into the system, it essentially lowers interest rates, and it lowers the interest rate that banks charge each other.
But fee-only financial planning includes other methods of charging clients such as a flat retainer, an hourly rate or a charge specific to the task at hand.
The implicit interest rate that investors charge for lending to Spain for ten years - what's known as the yield on the benchmark ten-year bonds - has in the past 24 hours exceeded what they demand of Italy, and is now more or less the same.
That might not be such a bad thing if Petrobras could charge market rate for gasoline.
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The central bank's monetary policy targets the federal-funds rate, which banks charge each other on overnight loans.
But public fast-charging better not cost a lot: 75 percent said they would pay a 33 percent premium (over the slower, at-home rate) to fast charge.
Inflation also destroys investment in an economy because savers have no idea what interest rate is necessary to charge in order to profitably lend out their money over an extended period of time.
It now expects an 8.1% credit card charge-off rate, up from 6.7% last quarter.
For example, down-and-out Providian had a charge-off rate of 12.7% in the fourth quarter of 2001.
The charge-off rate is the percentage of credit card debts that the company believes it will never recover.
The charge-off rate (uncollectible balances) is also slowly declining, but still remains high.
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You could even take on debt or sell part of your company to investors to turbo-charge your growth rate.
However, the annualized net charge-off rate for US credit cards rose marginally from 7.26% in October to 7.56% in November.
American Express is able to charge a higher rate from merchants on faith of its promises to bring them higher spending customers.
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The charge-off rate of a citizen line of credit program would be considerably lower than the 100% loss rate of the existing welfare system.
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The current generation of battery technology can charge at this rate.
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Hence, the cardholder must make six on-time monthly payments that start at the time of the penalty, or the issuer can charge the penalty rate indefinitely.
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In the same period, the charge-off rate on credit card loans for the top 100 banks ranked by assets in the country dropped from 9.59% to 4.08%.
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