Finally and perhaps most importantly the People s Bank of China has raised its benchmark policy rate five times since October 2010.

Since China s current benchmark interest rate is higher than the comparable rate in the United States, individuals and institutions have an incentive to keep renminbi as assets and dollars as debt.

And the Bank of England has cut its benchmark rate nine times, by 525 points, to an all time low of 0.5 .

The government (the visible hand) sets the benchmark price for risk free financial assets through monetary policy and control over fiscal deficits, while the market (the invisible hand) sets the risk premia of risky assets above the benchmark rate.

(The Fed raised its benchmark federal funds rate from 1 in 2004 to 5.25 in 2006 and held it there until August 2007).

With its benchmark lending rate at the zero bound, the Fed has embraced a fundamentally different approach in attempting to guide the US economy.

And, in the United States, where inflation exceeds 2 , the Federal Reserve s benchmark federal funds rate remains at an historic low of 0 0.25 .

But the interest rate that Greece must pay buyers of its government bonds has shot up to a record high level of nearly 9 5.9 percentage points above the benchmark rate paid by Germany.

Benchmark for each disk

Multi polarity promises capital mobility and exchange rate flexibility between the poles, as well as the development of a liquid market for benchmark bonds in each region.

Consider the December meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), where discussions of raising the benchmark federal funds rate were couched in adjectives, rather than explicit actions.

On June 27, the People s Bank of China lowered the reserve requirement ratio and the benchmark interest rate. But the Shanghai Composite Index kept falling, reaching 4,200 on July 1.

BERLIN In recent days, Germany s representative on the European Central Bank s governing council has expressed strong disagreement with the ECB s decision on November 7 to cut its benchmark interest rate.

iii. Benchmark for Women in senior positions'

The census allows Australia to benchmark itself internationally.

In the United States, the Federal Reserve has lowered its benchmark interest rate ten times since August 2007, from 5.25 to a zone between zero and 0.25 , and has reduced the discount rate 12 times (by a total of 550 basis points since June 2006), to 0.75 .

The central bank has already cut its benchmark interest rate by 150 basis points, to 11 , and the downward trend is expected to take real rates to record lows in the post crisis period.

(a) Establishing appropriate benchmark indices, proportions and performance targets

It remains of very serious concern, however, that HIV AIDS has now exceeded the benchmark of a generalized epidemic, with a doubling of the prevalence rate among the adult population over the past two years.

The benchmark for this study is admittedly far from ideal.

(i) To benchmark OIOS against similar audit and oversight bodies

Part of the Mixed' project is developing an international benchmark.

The measures include tighter limits on home purchases by non locals in cities with excessive price gains, a reinforced 20 capital gains tax, mandatory 70 down payments, and a 30 benchmark interest rate premium for second mortgages.

In such systems, the government directly controls the benchmark interest rates.

Right before the Fed acted, the Reserve Bank of India raised its benchmark short term interest rate by 25 basis points, to 6.25 , to fight inflation, and China s central bank now indicates that it might raise interest rates further.

But policymakers continued to benchmark recovery prospects to pre crisis growth performance.

I have been tracking these so called benchmark revisions for about 40 years.

Source K. Zandvliet, Women in senior positions, developing a benchmark, The Hague, 2003.

Those 13 steps continue to be the performance benchmark for the disarmament process.

Subtract 2.5 for inflation, and you get a benchmark expected real return of 1.26 .

Third, benchmark interest rates are already near zero, and have been for a while.

We remain open to considering all proposals and will evaluate them against that benchmark.

Indeed, according to Morgan Stanley, monetary authorities in 16 of the 33 countries that it follows including seven of ten advanced country central banks and nine of 23 central banks in emerging markets have either cut their benchmark interest rate or lowered reserve requirements.

(f) The strategy to continuously benchmark the performance of OIOS against other such service providers.

WP Activity 8 Evaluate the state of the art of common benchmark and indicator systems

The group targeted June 2005 as a benchmark date in their preparations for COP 7.

The next step is the Women in senior positions' benchmark, which is currently being developed.

Staffing has proceeded slowly, but there is scope for this benchmark soon to be met.

When Chinese seek a benchmark model for social protection, they go on study trips to Scandinavia.

If the Washington Fiscal Consensus proves correct, when benchmark rates eventually edge upwards, they will move slowly.

The summit has endorsed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as the benchmark of progress towards that objective.

As from 2004, independent companies will also be able to assess their own results against this benchmark.

The last remaining technical benchmark was the requirement for 65 per cent staffing of State defence institutions.

Peace and security in Darfur should be an essential benchmark for normalized relations between the US and Sudan.

Just as Spain (not Germany) remains the benchmark in European football, so Europe speaks broken English at best.