Thus, they run the risk that a spike in interest rates would feed back relatively quickly into higher borrowing costs.

In fact, there was a temporary upward spike in real long term interest rates during the financial crisis in countries with indexed bonds.

That could cause their interest rates to spike upward and their national debts to rise rapidly, thus making them effectively insolvent.

A disorderly rush to the exit could lead to a dollar collapse, a spike in long term interest rates, and a severe double dip recession.

Why hasn t the huge spike in oil prices cut the world to its knees, as it has on so many other occasions? Again, the answer is low interest rates.

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Large scale, debt funded capital investments have raised the country s credit GDP ratio to nearly 200 , increasing the financial system s vulnerability a development reflected in the recent spike in interbank interest rates.

Failed direct talks have often led to a spike in violence.

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The BOJ s widely respected governor, Masaaki Shirakawa, whose term expires in April, summarized the situation in his usual restrained way, saying that long term interest rates may spike and have a negative effect on the economy.

She appeared at Spike TV's 2008 Video Game Awards in December 2008.

A spike in long term rates would lower the price of JGBs, destroying household wealth and, in turn, reducing consumer spending. The higher interest rates would also apply to corporate bonds and bank loans, weakening business investment.

Real estate rental yields and stock market payouts are low, and real estate and stock prices may well fall as much as or more than bond prices if interest rates spike.

And, despite the spike in unemployment, productivity growth in the eurozone is decidedly negative.

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A spike in defaults could destabilize the entire financial system and trigger an economic downturn.

Indeed, the spike in oil prices actually gives independent producers an incentive to boost production.

Indeed, opinion polls conducted in Gaza show a spike in support for Hamas after every Israeli escalation.

If there is a sharp spike in interest rates caused either by capital flight in anticipation of a dollar decline or by tight monetary policy in reaction to a dollar decline comes to pass we will see how good the Federal Reserve really is.

The outcome, preceded by a spike in extremist violence, is likely to reverberate far and wide.

If no deal to raise the debt ceiling is reached by August 3, interest rates on United States Treasury bonds could spike, or they could remain stable, as investors decide they have other problems to worry about.

For example, the recent spike in oil prices would have been driven by an irrational frenzy in futures markets.

Now, Steve, you know where the spike is, but nobody else, does? Correct?

GENEVA The recent sharp spike in food prices and growing concerns about food security have sparked anxiety worldwide.

The rapid spike in prices would harm all economies that import oil, regardless of where it comes from.

Not surprisingly, the spike in food prices was a contributing factor in the civil unrest that sparked the Arab Spring.

In Darfur, a spike in attacks by armed militia forces left civilians dead or injured, thousands displaced and homes destroyed.

Let's hope that the effects of the present spike will be more short lived.

Direct talks also have some well known liabilities. Failed direct talks have often led to a spike in violence.

Even a temporary spike in oil prices can have long term effects because of the social reactions they provoke.

If that happens, oil prices could rapidly spike and, as in the summer of 2008, trigger a global recession.

First, gold prices tend to spike when there are serious economic, financial, and geopolitical risks in the global economy.

A spike in long term rates would lower the price of JGBs, destroying household wealth and, in turn, reducing consumer spending.

Do you think the spike is under your left hand, or under your right hand?

There was a spike, of course, a few years before, but that wasn't actually Queensland.

But could they have predicted this unprecedented spike less than halfway through the Earth's life?

While that could be contractionary, the gain in fiscal policy credibility might prevent a damaging spike in long term government bond yields.

But the explanation that we developed so long ago still fits well enough to encourage the belief that we will not see a crash in the bond market unless central banks tighten monetary policy very sharply (by hiking short term interest rates) or there is a major spike in inflation.

Perhaps the dollar will collapse and there will be a burst of inflation in the US as the Federal Reserve Board decides that temporarily abandoning its price level peg is a lesser evil than the unemployment fallout that will result from a dollar collapse and interest rate spike.

Proteins in the third layer (VP7 and the VP4 spike) disrupt the membrane of the endosome, creating a difference in the calcium concentration.

When international finance economists sketch this scenario, domestically oriented macroeconomists respond that it sounds like a case of incompetent monetary policy. Why should the Federal Reserve allow long term interest rates to spike just because other central banks have ceased their dollar purchase programs?

It is thanks to the spike in the CDS market that the Greek government tightened its budget and improved its fiscal position.

Developed countries, faced with the sudden cutoff of a key energy source and a major spike in world oil prices, felt powerless.

What's interesting is the spike on the back of the Dracorex was growing very fast as well.

Investors subsequent efforts to price in the risk of a eurozone breakup not the volume of sovereign debt caused bond yields to spike.