Reserves of foreign currency provide a small return in interest.

I am not advocating a return to the early Middle Ages, when Church usury laws forbade interest on loans.

When other countries guarantee repayment, it is hoped, low interest rates will return.

That predictable dollar decline makes the relative return on holding dollar bonds even lower than the interest rate differential alone implies.

Interest income credited to the Global Environmental Facility, excluding interest income earned on funds transferred as UNIDO fees, is set aside as accounts payable pending instructions to its return to the trustee

A return to a Cold War strategy is clearly not in the West s interest.

I am not advocating a return to the early Middle Ages, when Church usury laws forbade interest on loans. Back then, financial market participants had to devise fantastic schemes and contortions to disguise interest payments.

You shall not lend on interest to your brother interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest

Governments do not tax the return on equity less than debt interest, and lenders do not sufficiently honor the benefits of high equity with lower interest rates, owing to a lack of information about the true repayment probability.

In the past, bank executives bonuses were often based on accounting measures that are of interest primarily to common shareholders, such as return on equity or earnings per common share.

Liquidity injections into a zero interest rate developed world send return starved investors scrambling for growth opportunities elsewhere.

For all these reasons not only America s friends have a vital interest in a US return to multilateralism.

We have noted with interest the encouraging results regarding freedom of movement and the return of displaced populations.

According to standard trade theory, a global labor glut ought to imply an increased rate of return on capital, which again pushes interest rates up, not down.

If nominal interest rates are lower than the real return on investment associated with GDP growth the result is financial repression and increased income and wealth inequality.

Now that interest rate spreads are increasing again, the pain is considerable, prompting calls for Eurobonds. When other countries guarantee repayment, it is hoped, low interest rates will return.

What matters to Japanese investors is the overall return in yen terms, not simply the difference in interest rates.

Finally, the bankers are paid according to return on equity, unadjusted for risk, so it is very much in their interest to continue running their business with very little equity.

Interesting examples have been cited of partnerships in which a private developer was offered land at a lower cost, low interest loans or loan guarantees in return for agreed activities of public interest.

(d) Interest on donor funds

But soaring deficits did not return the economy to full employment, so the Fed did what it had to do cut interest rates.

This enabled US banks to profit by offering low rates of return to foreign lenders while forcing foreign borrowers to accept high interest rates.

BERKELEY The S P stock index now yields a 7 real (inflation adjusted) return. By contrast, the annual real interest rate on the five year United States Treasury Inflation Protected Security (TIPS) is 1.02 .

The effective interest rate, effective annual interest rate, annual equivalent rate (AER) or simply effective rate is the interest rate on a loan or financial product restated from the nominal interest rate as an interest rate with annual compound interest payable in arrears.

For example, the classical prohibition on usury was softened from a ban on charging interest on all loans to a ban on charging interest on loans for which the lender had no alternative use, i.e., for charging interest on hoards or cash balances.

Confidence would gradually return, yields on outstanding bonds would decline, banks would no longer be penalized for owning Italian government bonds, and Italy would gradually regain access to the market at more reasonable interest rates.

So, while Russia s modernization and democratization are in Europe s interest, its return to an imperial foreign policy and barely veiled authoritarianism at home is not.

Interest income includes all interest from various bank accounts and investment income earned on invested funds.

Moreover, if deflation were to become entrenched in the eurozone and other parts of the world, a negative nominal return could be associated with a positive real return. That has been the story for the last 20 years in Japan, owing to persistent deflation and near zero interest rates on many assets.

But there is nothing to stop negative real interest rates, since routine investors may have no alternative risk free instrument that offers a positive real return.

The bankers retort that they must pay a higher return on any additional equity that they issue, so that more equity would increase their cost of capital, forcing them to raise interest rates on the loans they make, which would reduce economic activity.

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Interest rates on government debt are still low.

Interest rates on government bonds were racing upward.

Kuwait also claims interest on any amount awarded.

As a result, even after output levels return to their potential, interest rates will stay low by the standards of the 1980's and the 1990's.

New bonds, on which interest was back loaded, could be given the same accounting value as old ones on which interest was paid earlier.

With its anticipated bond purchases keeping a lid on interest rates, the net effect is that investors do not see an adequate real return from holding dollar assets, which is perhaps one reason the dollar has been depreciating.

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(c) the return obtainable on the promotion expenditure.

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Return on investment in the case of industrial products.

In 2008, US corporations gained a 33 return on their investments in China, while other multinationals got a 22 return.

As a result, the central bank s lower interest rates do not translate into increased spending on interest sensitive investment and consumption.

Thus, the market can establish the necessary interest differential only if interest rates on yuan assets fall below their dollar equivalents.