In the meantime, deposits are unlikely to fall below that five per cent requirement.
Competition will hurt, says Mr So, but margins are unlikely to fall below 7%.
The Bank still expects inflation to fall below the current 6.5% mark by the end of the year.
That's because Amgen also announced it expects sales growth of Epogen and another drug, Neupogen, to fall below expectations.
Another nine firms' profits would vanish were the Nikkei to fall below 18, 000.
Another way to avoid the surtax is to fall below the income threshold.
The World Bank expects some 53m people to fall below the level of extreme poverty this year (see article).
Spain, to cite one major economy in severe financial crisis, has allowed its defense spending to fall below 1% of GDP.
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Since late 2011, CPI has embarked on a volatile path, bouncing off the flat line only to fall below it twice.
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It is on course to fall below 50% within a decade, with a disproportionate chunk of those sales concentrated in the mid-west.
If that causes you to fall below your goal, pull the campaign.
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As a result, shares of family firms tend to fall below investors' radar and frequently trade at lower valuations than their peers.
Bullish sentiment is unusually low, but it would have to fall below 18% to be considered extraordinarily low (two standard deviations below average).
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Ally Financial was the only bank to fall below the minimum capital hurdle of a 5% capital buffer required to pass the test.
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But the rate has been sliding steadily downwards: it is expected to fall below 10% this year, and perhaps to 8.4% by 2001.
As of today, Bank of America (BAC) and JP Morgan (JPM) would have to divest of some assets to fall below this requirement.
However, Trefis members are more skeptical, forecasting the margins to fall below 25%, representing a downside of 4% to our price estimate for NWS stock.
Allergens need to fall below a certain threshold to alleviate symptoms, and because dander is spread so readily, even quarantining a pet may not do the trick, according to Dr. Diette.
We'll probably continue to feel poorer until the summer, because it is likely to take that long for inflation finally to fall below the rate at which cash incomes are going up.
Since then, Citadel has dramatically shrunk its position in E-Trade, nearly halving it in April 2011 to fall below the 10% threshold that allowed Griffin to take an activist stance and push for a sale or merger.
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After the May 8th meeting, the ECB president, Wim Duisenberg, said the bank did not expect inflation to fall below the 2% upper limit until later this year, because of recent increases in oil and food prices.
Dame Barbara Hakin, the interim chief operating officer for NHS England, said the organisations providing the 111 services, which include ambulance services, private companies and NHS Direct, would face having their contracts revoked if they continued to fall below the expected standards.
But even if the boom is already turning to bust, joining the euro would also be extremely risky since British interest rates might then need to fall below euro-area rates in order to nurse an economy suffering from a debt overhang and weak consumer demand.
The point is that Italy's bond yield - the implicit interest rate it pays - is unlikely to fall decisively below the catastrophically unaffordable 7% unless and until the eurozone demonstrates that there is a bailout facility (of some sort) that has sufficient resources to lend to Italy if investors refuse to do so.
Growth in the euro area is expected to fall to just below 3% this year, down from an estimated 3.4% in 2000.
Under the law, physician payment levels are scheduled to fall 74 percent below those of private insurers and well below the rates paid even by Medicaid.
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We project that this number will fall further to below 1.2% in 2011, before mounting a recovery.
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Although this was still well above the 2% target, the Bank of England governor, Mervyn King, said in a letter to the chancellor that inflation was set to fall "materially" below the target rate in the second half of 2009.
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