Current low interest rates do not cover the risk that banks would take.

Current legislative trends and the higher interest of the child , 20 August 1996.

And, incidentally, the current agitation about interest rates is a bit over the top.

Current ultra low interest rates may be scaring people about the adequacy of future income.

It also holds regular meetings at United Nations Headquarters to discuss issues of current interest.

Investors are buying long term bonds at the current low interest rates because the interest rate on short term investments is now close to zero.

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That translates into an additional 16billion per year in interest payments on Greece s current debt of 273 billion.

There are interest groups who benefit from the current system and the opportunities for corruption that it provides.

There is therefore no conflict of interest on the part of the Unit under the current distribution of functions

Therefore, current negotiations on market access should give particular attention to products of special interest to landlocked developing countries.

Investors are buying long term bonds at the current low interest rates because the interest rate on short term investments is now close to zero. In other words, buyers are getting an additional 2 current yield in exchange for assuming the risk of holding long term bonds.

A stronger renminbi would also reduce demand pressure more broadly and more effectively than the current policy of raising interest rates.

But the larger countries would be able to fund themselves at reasonable interest rates, and the current eurozone system could continue.

On the contrary, positive expected inflation would reduce the real (inflation adjusted) interest rate not a bad thing under current conditions.

The growing interest in the current round has led the Global Office to organize sessions about the Programme at statistical conferences.

On the contrary, they are puzzled about why we view the current low level of US long term interest rates as worrisome.

The very low interest rate on long term United States Treasury bonds is a clear example of the current mispricing of financial assets.

Under the current system, the fixed differentials between interest rates on deposits and those on loans translate into monopolistic profits for commercial banks.

Even US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan ordinarily the Oracle of Delphi on interest rate matters, has declared the current situation a conundrum.

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Meanwhile, the current French proposal of a voluntary rollover by banks is flopping, as it would impose prohibitively high interest rates on the Greeks.

In discussions of their current and future plans, the Meeting participants identified several areas of common interest for increased inter agency coordination and cooperation.

East Asian countries were told to raise their interest rates, in some cases to 25 , 40 , or higher, causing a rash of defaults. In the current crisis, the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank cut interest rates.

Drastic action is needed to prevent European bond markets from drying up. Trichet has said repeatedly that current ECB interventions do not target interest rates.

The current differences in the interest rates of euro zone government bonds show that the financial markets regard a break up as a real possibility.

But what of the future? While the current situation could continue for a number of years, there is a risk that rising interest rates and reductions in net business saving will bring Japan s current account surplus to an end.

Chinese policymakers should begin with a careful examination of the effects of current financial repression (the practice of keeping interest rates below the market equilibrium level).

Moreover, by pushing interest rates toward zero, the current policy of quantitative easing (increasing money supply by buying government securities) has strong, often regressive, income effects.

Commends the SESRTCIC for the quality and relevance of the training workshops and seminars it organizes on various subjects of current interest to the Member countries.

Matthias Rath believes that the pharmaceutical industry has a vested interest in the continuation and expansion of diseases, rather than their cure, in that without the current widespread existence of diseases the industry would cease to exist in its current form.

An amount of 1,333 million is held in first class banks, comprising 1,256 million in interest bearing term deposit accounts and 77 million in current bank accounts.

Current low interest rates do not cover the risk that banks would take. To be sure, they could raise the rate for new and small borrowers but, in the current political climate, they would stand accused of stifling economic recovery if they did.

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In the euro s rise against the dollar, euro bulls supposedly have been reacting to America s current account deficit, the strong euro zone economy, and rising euro interest rates.

That has been precisely the problem with the aggressive provision of liquidity, quantitative easing, and the reduction of central bank interest rates used to address the current crisis.

The current small difference between the real interest rate on such bonds (2.1 for 30 year bonds) and the nominal interest rate on conventional 30 year Treasury bonds (now 4.6 ) implies that the market expects only about 2.5 inflation over the next three decades.

Nevertheless, we are also convinced that the Conference on Disarmament should have the ability to adapt to deal with other current issues of priority interest to the international community.

For anyone who believes in free markets, the most serious risk of the current situation is that the interest of a few financiers will undermine the capitalist system s fundamental workings.

Although many WTO Members may derive sustainable development benefits from freer trade in EGs, there is a need to identify products of current or potential export interest to developing countries.

This implies an interval of two months between interest rate moves instead of the three month interval that has become standard ECB practice in the current interest rate cycle. The next rate hike in the normalization process is expected in October, two months after the expected August move.

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.

But the banks are profitable ongoing enterprises in the current low interest rate environment, because they typically engage in short term borrowing and longer term lending at higher rates, with leverage.

The natural interest rate was low because, as the Fed s current chairman Ben Bernanke explained at the time, the world had a global savings glut (or, rather, a global investment deficiency).

This is why the current spiral of ever lower interest rates in Germany (and northern Europe) and higher risk premia for most of the rest of the eurozone is so destructive.