More than half think the Fed will hike rates in the latter half of the year.
Savings rates in the rest of the world are much higher than the U.S.' 3.5% of income.
One reason may be their equally strong expectations for an increase in interest rates in the coming months.
Overall, the U.S. rates in the top quartile in just 14 of the 29 institution items.
Many Japanese investors blissfully ignored rising interest rates in the last two years of the 1980s.
Increased demand for U.S. bonds could further drive down interest rates in this country.
But rates in many big economies are heading for, or have already reached, 1-2%.
Electricity rates in New York were higher, too, which yielded more savings over the long run.
Indeed, this was one of the main justifications for raising interest rates in Britain this year.
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Interest rates in the US are already at 3% and expected to fall further.
At 143% (based on tax rates in effect this year) Germany's Misery Index isn't Europe's highest.
The country has one of the highest unemployment rates in the eurozone - at about 26%.
Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador have some of the highest murder rates in the world.
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This year, hotel occupancy rates in Belfast peaked at almost 90% in the same month.
Japan has one of the highest rates in the world, both corporate and individual.
The ECB last decided not to cut interest rates in the eurozone from 4.75%.
Another possibility that could help the real from over valuation is rising interest rates in Europe.
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As a result, the rental rates in the commercial real estate space are pretty much fixed.
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But the industry is finding it difficult to sustain growth rates in the developing markets.
As everyone knows, China has one of the highest savings rates in the world.
It is certainly not the way I learned it when I studied exchange rates in school.
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Poland has had one of the highest unemployment rates in the European Union: 15.7%.
Last year, for example, average direct mail response rates in the U.S, dropped below 1%.
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The difference is that we see shipment rates in real time from 135 countries.
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Cuts in official interest rates in the industrial countries have also helped stabilize global financial conditions.
In January 2007, interest rates in the United States and China were at similar levels.
Airfares and hotel rates in Istanbul are down about 4% to 5%, according to Kayak.
Castlebrae has some of the worst exam results, truancy and exclusion rates in the country.
But rates in the developed world are just about as low as they can go.
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