Over the past two years, the bank has primarily been concerned with injected life into the fragile economy, leading to a series of rate cuts.
Under the present governor, Duvvuri Subbarao, a softly spoken figure, it has made a tough series of rate rises in the past two years to try to curb a stubborn spell of inflation (a battle that may not be over).
Back then, the dramatically low federal funds rate was enough to spur a wave of borrowing by companies and individuals, so much so that a series of 17 rate increases followed from June 2004 to June 2006 as the Fed tried to temper inflation in a boom period.
The earnings rate for Series I Savings Bonds is a combination of a fixed rate, which applies for the life of the bond, and the semiannual inflation rate.
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The Australian dollar climbed after Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Glenn Stevens said at a parliamentary committee that interest rates were at an "appropriate level, " suggesting a pause in the central bank's series of aggressive rate cuts.
The volunteers were then asked to describe how they would rate a series of acts on an ethical scale ranging from zero (perfectly okay) to nine (very wrong).
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The long-term chart of the euro-dollar exchange rate shows a series of lower highs since 2007 (line c).
They then had them answer a series of factual questions and rate how confident they were about their answers.
As Ireland cut its corporate income tax rate in a series of steps from 50.0% in 1987 to 12.5% in 2003, it increased its average annual real GDP growth rate from 2.3% to 7.9%.
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Please note, the official interest rate on new EE series savings bonds changes twice a year.
Borderlands 2, the irreverent RPG-Shooter is approaching six million copies shipped, as well as a very strong attach rate for its exemplary series of DLC.
Stock investors took their cue and began buying on the hope that the Fed will hit the brakes on its series of 17 consecutive interest-rate increases.
It was the third straight meeting that the Central Bank stood pat on its key interest rate, following a series of increases that lifted it from 1% since June 2004.
He said that the MPC had been right in its series of "pre-emptive" rate rises this autumn.
Co-ordinating a European response amid a series of currency crises or exchange-rate rows would have been far trickier.
The Nikkei Currency Index series plots changes in the effective exchange rate against a base value of 100 for the value in 2005.
He announced a series of currency controls and fixed the exchange rate against the dollar (see article).
On top of that, five more wild-card teams (the New York Mets, San Francisco Giants, Houston Astros, Detroit Tigers and Colorado Rockies) have advanced to the Series and lost, maintaining the 29 percent rate of success (10 out of 34).
The current yield is 5.92%, a significantly higher rate than that paid on the popular EE series and juicier than interest currently earned on publicly traded Treasury debt.
Russia, of course, still has a seemingly endless series of problems, but the reduction in its abortion rate is yet another reminder that, even in an environment of political stagnation, many social trends are moving in the right direction.
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Scientists in the company's research lab have built an experimental system that captures data, such as a baby's heart rate, temperature and movement, from a series of sensors under the baby's mattress and feeds the information to the parents' PC.
Wall Street is bracing for one of the biggest new drug categories in a decade: the launch of a series of antiviral medicines that could dramatically improve the cure rate for hepatitis C, a viral disease that slowly attacks the liver and is often fatal.
Series I bonds consist of two components: a fixed interest rate return and an adjustable inflation-linked return, making them somewhat similar to TIPS. The fixed rate never changes, but the inflation return rate is adjusted every six months and can also be negative (which of course brings your total return down).
Since October, the Reserve Bank of India had already slashed its key lending rate by 350 basis points, as part of a series of calibrated moves aimed at boosting liquidity and the sluggish economy.
Sarah Smith of the University of Bristol and Kimberley Scharf of Warwick University recently carried out a series of experiments for the Treasury to gauge how sensitive higher-rate taxpayers are to changes in tax incentives.
The Bank of Canada meets on Tuesday to discuss the latest series of economic releases and has to reconcile a current 1% benchmark rate of interest along with a deteriorating take on inflation.
Series I Savings Bonds are currently yielding 1.76% and the interest rate is adjusted every six months for inflation.
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