The weighted average interest rate offered slipped to 7.99 percent from a higher yielding 8.27 percent at the beginning of 2012.
If the professors were willing to accept the wage rate offered to teach, then they must not have had a better option.
By doubling the maximum data transfer rate to 21.6Gbps, the HBR2 link rate offered by VESA's DisplayPort Version 1.2 standard significantly enhances display and audio performance.
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The five executive parties all back a cut in the local level of corporation tax to match (or better) the rate offered to businesses in the Irish Republic.
But it's tough for low-income families to qualify for these loans in the first place (they often require a co-signer), and the interest rate offered will depend in part on the average default rate of students at the school a child attends.
The minister asked members to instead support the DUP amendment to examine the rate relief as, while amateur sports clubs in Northern Ireland enjoy a blanket application of the 80% rate relief, the 100% rate offered in other parts of the UK came with "considerable conditions".
Barclays' misconduct relates to the daily setting of the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) and the Euro Interbank Offered Rate (Euribor).
Significant interest rate discounts offered by online financing sources are advertisements, like everything else, if it sounds too good to be true, it is.
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The variable rate is keyed to the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor).
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%.
Comparing variable-rate loans can be tricky because some private student lenders tie rates to the prime rate while others use the one-month or three-month London interbank offered rate, or Libor.
The three-month London Interbank Offered Rate, or LIBOR, dropped to 4.50 percent from Wednesday's 4.55 percent.
The London interbank offered rate for Friday was due at midday London time.
The three-month, dollar-denominated London interbank offered rate hit 0.303%, touching a level not seen since April.
LIBOR, or London InterBank Offered Rate, theoretically represents what banks charge one another to borrow.
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The latest scandal is the manipulation of the Libor (London Interbank Offered Rate).
Libor, if you need a refresher, stands for the London Interbank Offered Rate.
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Meanwhile, the London interbank offered rate, which is the rate at which banks lend to each other, continues to rise.
Such a deal would make UBS the second financial institution this year to admit to manipulating the London interbank offered rate, Libor.
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The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) hit a 10-month high of 0.53781%.
Another is the London interbank offered rate, which measures the rate of lending between banks -- a higher rate indicates more caution.
Fortunately, there is at least one indicator that bodes well: the London interbank offered rate (Libor), which banks charge each other to lend.
Libor, or the London Interbank offered rate, also spiked on Wednesday night, rising 51 basis points, to 5.86% from 5.35%, its highest level since early 2001.
Still, on Friday, the London interbank offered rate, which measures the rate of lending between banks, eased slightly for three-month lending in euros and sterling.
Still there was some good news as the overnight London interbank offered rate (LIBOR)--a critical measure of credit availability-- fell to 2.47%, from 5.09%, on Thursday.
But now that investigations into possible manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate have accelerated, the extent of possible damages may be too scary for lawmakers to implement.
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The three-month London Interbank Offered Rate was 3.42% on Wednesday, a vast improvement from the 4.82% earlier this month but still high considering the corresponding Treasury bond yield.
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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.
And Apple sold floating-rate bonds that mature in three and five years at rates of 0.05 and 0.25 percentage point over the three-month London interbank offered rate, an industry benchmark.
The overnight London interbank offered rate jumped to 3.94% from 2.37%, while three-month Libor inched up to 4.32% from 4.29%, illustrating the unwillingness of banks to lend among themselves.
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