Stocks could rise or fall, depending on the relative growth rate of profits compared to the increase in interest rates.
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Unless the Fed has changed its mind about one percentage point being the desired spread in normal times, the discount rate will be raised again relative to the Federal Funds rate.
Every clock, everywhere in the universe, ticks at a different rate relative to every other clock.
Local hedge funds report their performance relative to that rate.
Since savings equals investment, any increase in the U.S. savings rate relative to investments will be offset by lower capital inflows and a dollar for dollar improvement in the trade account.
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Often, an unequal flow of currency reduces the supply of money in the nation and can lead to an increase in the exchange rate relative to the dollar, leading to inflation and, in a worst case, labor market pressures leading to unemployment.
The estimated one billion people who live in developed countries have a relative per capita consumption rate of 32.
It could be that the economy is running at a hotter rate, relative to its capacity, than the chancellor thinks.
Google, trading at just 11x FY earnings (excluding cash) is also attractive, given its growth rate and relative to the overall market, like Apple.
"But Libor still remains high relative to the Bank rate and any improvement in credit market conditions will take time to feed through into the mortgage market, " he added.
Using annual productivity data for the whole economy (which are available over a longer period), the broad relationship between the exchange rate and relative productivity growth in America and Europe seems to have persisted for most of the past 30 years.
The differences in GDP growth will affect the exchange rate and relative levels of wealth in China and the U.S. The housing bubble in China continues to be controlled, and property prices in most of the larger cities will increase in the next 12 to 24 months.
Relative to the broader interest rate trend, credit card rates have not come down nearly as much.
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Rather than being a safe place to keep money, the exchange rate of Bitcoins relative to other global currencies has fluctuated wildly.
Any exchange rate is a relative valuation of two currencies.
Many Democrats and Republicans agree that the rate is too high relative to rates imposed in other countries.
The right-hand chart, from the World Bank's latest China Quarterly Update, shows GDP growth relative to its estimated potential growth rate if the economy operated at full capacity.
Is there any attempt to rate power generation projects by relative risk to humans, species, or the environment?
Of course, that is even greater if you adjust for the faster rate of inflation in China relative to the United States.
Because the euro-11 account for about half of Britain's exports, they fear that this will put them at a disadvantage relative to the euro zone, where exchange-rate risk will have disappeared.
South Korea is the big exception: households have as much debt relative to their income as Americans and their saving rate has fallen over the past decade from 18% of disposable income to only 4%.
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The rise in China's relative costs has been even greater given its higher inflation rate.
The research team's temperature analysis showed that summer temperatures in the Arctic, in step with the reduced energy from the Sun (related to an approximately 21, 000-year cyclical wobble in Earth's tilt relative to the Sun), cooled at an average rate of about 0.2 degrees Celsius per thousand years.
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One way to measure the relative level of customer dis-satisfaction is to compare the rate at which the two firms freeze accounts.
Question: Corporate tax rates in America are said to be high relative to the world at 35%, though the real rate is very competitive at around 13%.
That may sound small, but it's a massive figure relative to the .05% to .07% fraud rate at brick-and-mortar retailers, estimates Avivah Litan, senior analyst for Gartner, a Connecticut-based technology consulting firm.
Corporate taxation is so heavy in the U.S. relative to other countries that even while enjoying its near-zero rate in Ireland, Apple ends up with roughly the same overall effective tax rate, 14%, as South Korea's Samsung, its main global competitor.
It also includes the price-earnings ratio as a basic valuation measure, the earnings growth rate to examine recent growth, and the 52-week relative price strength to highlight stock market performance relative to other companies.
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