Although the credit rating agencies don't rate these pools, they give triple-As to the corporate bonds of the sponsors.
Right now Murdoch's Internet operations don't even rate a separate line item on News Corp.
With the IOR rate far above the 90-day T-bill rate, banks had no incentive to do anything with the huge volume of newly created reserves other than to sit on them, and sit on them they did.
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They chose to start with T-Shirts because the overall purchase rate for T-shirts is so high. (We, Americans, especially buy a ton of them).
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Easy money will continue to keep real rates (or the T-bill rate less inflation) negative.
And as we learned in '87, we don't today need rate increases to achieve our dollar-price goals.
Whereas it can indeed, risk free, lend out money at the T-Bill rate.
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Thus, the compensation for having to wait for the money should be that T-Bill rate: the available risk free return.
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The plight of students, as is too often the case in discussions of education, didn't seem to rate the same concern.
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"I hadn't realised the rate was going to increase just yet as it has been low for such a long time, " said Mrs McDonald.
The most violent contraction in RGDP occurred during 4Q2008, when the average spread between the 90-day T-bill rate and the IOR rate was the greatest, at -0.83 percentage points.
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And when Governor Romney stands here, after a year of campaigning when during a Republican primary, he stood on stage and said, I'm going to give tax cuts -- he didn't say tax rate cuts, he said tax cuts -- to everybody including the top 1 percent, you should believe him, because that's been his history.
So, when the interest rate on 90-day T-bills is below the IOR rate, for practical purposes we have an inverted yield curve.
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Bond markets still don't have faith in Wall Street--a problem that rate cuts can't correct.
"Right now we really don't have an explanation for why we saw response rate but we didn't see any overall survival benefit, " says Genentech spokeswoman Colleen Sweeney .
You won't, at any rate, find many money managers willing to complain publicly about the arrangement.
For them, capital isn't available at any rate of interest that makes sense for expansion purposes.
If you don't have an exchange rate you have to move the whole house.
If lawmakers don't act, the rate will double to 6.8% for such loans made starting July 1.
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The latest theory to gain sway: We don't want our unemployment rate kept down by an exodus of population, so we must stop that tide, too.
So a lot of investors don't know at what rate their gains will be taxed next year, which complicates decisions about whether to sell or hold.
But he didn't realize his adjustable rate could eventually double.
Maersk does expect some improvement in rates in the fourth quarter, but management has little incentive to sound positive just yet--raising the company's outlook won't necessarily help with rate negotiations.
The most remarkable thing about Di Natale's run isn't his extraordinary strike rate, his other-wordly composure in front of goal, or even the fact that he's found success at one of Italy's less fashionable clubs.
Because dividends will be taxed as ordinary income at the 39.6 percent top income tax rate, t he top MTR on dividends (including the health care tax and Pease) will nearly triple from 15 percent to 44.6 percent.
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They're still attractively priced. (Except for Pfizer, which sells near 40 times next year's numbers and is too rich.) Other enticing prospects lie with commercial finance companies that aren't oversensitive to interest rate changes--such as Heller and CIT, both of them very cheap.
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