The upward-sloping term structure means that the forward rates are at higher levels.

尾部上扬的期限结构表明,远期利率处于高位

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Robert Williams said there were worries it would be higher than any other structure in the area around the school, which was largely residential.

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It offers governments and taxpayers more security and it reassures counterparties, depositors and debt-holders who are higher up the capital structure and who get a bigger buffer between them and losses.

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The nature and structure of higher education around the world has changed more in the past sixty years than at any time over the six hundred years since the foundation of the university as we know it.

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