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Monetary Policy Committee member Tim Besley says markets should not have been so surprised by the 1.5% rate cut.
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A $25-billion mortgage backstop from the federal goverment prompted TD Canada Trust to cut its prime lending rate by 15 basis points to 4.35 per cent.
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Governments around the world have slashed interest rates and ramped up their lending to unprecendented levels, but banks are still charging each other extremely high borrowing rates _ a bad sign for the credit markets that remain close to paralysis.
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But even those that don't quite fit are better than none Many child seats do little to improve the fit of a vehicle's lap and shoulder belts.
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The Conference on Cluster bombs ended in Kampala last week with representatives of 42 African governments adopting a resolution denouncing the use and manufacture of cluster bombs across the world.
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Shapovalov made the forecast in an interview published in the Zerkalo Nedely weekly.
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Business activity is continuing to fall in Scotland, but the rate of decline is slowing as London remains the only part of the UK that is seeing private sector expansion.
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ECONOMIC figures due out this week are set to give the Bank of England scope for further cuts in interest rates.
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According to dealers of commercial banks, at the beginning of the trading session the quotations fluctuated within 5.12-5.28 UAH/USD, then narrowed to 5.17-5.25 UAH/USD and remained unchanged by the end of the trades.
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During the previous trading day, the National Bank of Ukraine increased the hryvnia's official exchange rate that corresponds to the average rate at which transactions are concluded on the interbank currency market by 0.70 kopeck to 4.9201 UAH/USD for October
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ArmInfo. The Central Bank of Armenia continues toughening monetary-credit policy because of slowdown in economic dramization rate due to growing inflation in Jan-June 2008. In July-Sept 2008 almost all monetary-credit indices dropped as against 2007. AMD supply grew by just
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THE Health Service Executive hired twice as many managers and administrators than frontline doctors and dentists in the seven years up to last year, new figures reveal.
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The UK economy is likely to shrink in the second half of this year, and the financial hurricane that is sweeping across the world has increased the chances of a severe downturn, Bank of England rate-setter Andrew Sentance warned yesterday.
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UK producer prices fell in September for the second month in a row, official statistics showed yesterday, opening the door to more base rate cuts by the Bank of England.
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CBA has followed Westpac and NAB by slashing interest rates on home loans by up to 1.55 per cent.
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Hotels in Sacramento, San Francisco, San Luis Obispo, and Woodland Hills are luring guests with discounted room rates and perks like wine tastings, free parking, and gift cards.
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House prices have fallen by a record 13.3 per cent in the last year, an influential index reported on Thursday. The yearly figure represents...
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The Bank of England has cut interest rates by half a per cent to 4.5 per cent in a shock move that appears to...
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The Honea Path Town Council voted Monday night to reduce the property tax rate for city operations to 111 mills from 120 mills in response to Anderson County’s property reassessment this year.
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The consumer prices index rose more than expected to 5.2% with the rise in utility bills having a greater impact than economists had predicted and was buttressed by some surprise price increases
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If all hospitals performed as well as 5-star facilities, as ranked by an independent healthcare ratings company, 237,420 U.S. Medicare patient deaths could have been prevented between 2005 and 2007.
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In people who have suffered a heart attack, depression and a high heart rate at night, while often coexistent, are independent predictors of death.
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PALO ALTO, California/MEMPHIS, Tennessee (Reuters) - A pair of top Federal Reserve officials on Tuesday highlighted risks to the U.S. economy from the global credit crisis and liquidity squeeze, but did not hint at more interest rate cuts as a solution.
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Wednesday, the Icelandic central bank cut its policy interest rate to 12% from 15.5% at an unscheduled meeting. In a statement, the Board of Governors of the Sedlabanki said, "The impact of the collapse of the banking system will be extremely burdensome and the accompanying economic contraction very sharp".
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Infant deaths in the U.S. declined 2 percent in 2006, researchers reported Wednesday, but the rate still remains well above that of most industrialized countries.
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The central bank slashed interest rates by 3.5 percentage points as it warned that the collapse of its banking system will lead to a “very sharp” contraction in Iceland’s economy.
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Borrowers on the building society's standard variable rate will only benefit from a 0.3 per cent reduction, despite the 0.5 per cent cut announced by banks last week
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The latest labour market figures, which predate the recent financial turmoil, suggest that total unemployment could reach 2m by the end of this year after the number of jobless rose at the fastest rate in 17 years during the three months to the end of August
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ANZ today lowered interest rates on fixed mortgages by an extra 0.14 to 0.7 per centage points for loans up of up to four years. The reduction takes effect from Monday, October 20.
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According to dealers of commercial banks, at the beginning of the trading session the quotations fluctuated within 5.05-5.15 UAH/USD, then rose to 5.10-5.20 UAH/USD and narrowed to 5.15-5.20 UAH/USD by the end of the trades.
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The government is guilty of contradicting itself on the issues of retirement and pensions, charity Age Concern has said.
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The other shoe dropped Wednesday in an anticipated increase to home-heating costs in Saskatchewan, as the provincial government formally approved a second fee hike for the Crown corporation SaskEnergy.
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The interest rates on so-called jumbo mortgages, those gigantic home loans New Yorkers often take because of the city's astronomical housing prices, could drop soon. From the Journal: Over time, the government's rescue effort could make it easier for borrowers in high-cost markets such as California, New York and Boston to get a mortgage by reducing rates for jumbo loans, those too big for government backing, says Richard K. Green, director of the Lusk Center for Real Estate Development at the University of Southern California. Rates on fixed-rate jumbo loans currently average 7.91%, according to HSH Associates, more than a full percentage point above rates on conforming loans eligible for government backing, which jumped nearly a third of a percentage point Tuesday to 6.6%.
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As the Iceland's economy struggles not to loose footing amid a widespread banking system collapse, the nation's central bank lowered interest rates. Wednesday, the Reykjavik-based Sedlabanki cut its policy interest rate to 12% from 15.5% at an unscheduled meeting.
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Wednesday, the Executive Board of the Norges Bank or the Norwegian central bank decided to reduce its key policy rate by 0.5 percentage point to 5.25% with effect from October 16.
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Young Tampa Bay Rays fan is suspended from class for wearing a Mohawk to school.
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Borrowers on the building society's standard variable rate will only benefit from a 0.3 per cent reduction, despite the 0.5 per cent cut announced by banks last week
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BRITISH-owned Bank of Scotland (Ireland) has trumped other banks by launching a new deposit account offering 6.35pc for money deposited for six months.
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India's savings rate which has shown a sharp jump in the last few years is expected to decline to 34 per cent in FY'09, the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy said in its monthly review.
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As the recent events have shown, Indian economy cannot be immune to the global developments, whether it is the oil price shocks, food price shocks or the financial market shocks, it said. Reposing faith in the fundamentals of Indian economy
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