The simultaneous contracts could be arranged to replicate any agreed interest rate while providing legal protection against default on one side and loan sharking on the other.
What's more, earnings at Eastern are expected to grow at 8% a year, compared with 1% in TXU's Texas electricity unit, where the company agreed to rate caps through 2002 as part of a deregulation bill.
At Prosper and Lending Club, lenders must be willing to take the gamble that they'll get paid back at the agreed upon interest rate. (These companies offer no guarantees).
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The latest bonds pay interest of 15% the same rate agreed by Domingo Cavallo, a former finance minister, in a notorious bond swap in 2001 on the eve of the collapse.
The 40% tax rate that Congress agreed to is a compromise between the 45% rate that President Obama was seeking and the 35% rate that was in effect for 2011 and 2012.
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On taxes, all candidates agreed that the top rate of federal income taxes should be lower, but disagreed on the number.
Now, after their announcement stirred public outcry, Anthem agreed to delay their rate hike until May 1st while the situation is reviewed by the state of California.
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To achieve this, he agreed to raise the rate of the (relatively efficient) Social Security payroll tax, thereby helping to protect that flawed system from suffering operating deficits for more than 25 years.
When we enthusiastically agreed (after our heart rate dropped), he led us aside -- away from prying eyes -- and produced a pair devices, delicately wrapped in a silk handkerchief, from his suit's inside pocket.
All councils agreed to freeze the council tax rate for the fourth year running in order to avoid the penalty of a bigger cut in central funding.
In their latest FOMC meeting, the committee agreed to set numerical thresholds for rate hikes, which are necessary but not sufficient conditions: the unemployment rate must fall to 6.5% or below, and the one-to-two year inflation projection should be at or below 2.5%.
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By mid-1983, he had reduced the capital-gains tax rate from 28 percent to 20 percent (though he later agreed on its return to 28 percent to equalize it with the income-tax rate).
Microsoft agreed, but imposed a high royalty rate on the information, saying it was charging for the innovation involved.
Rubio said he agreed with Obama on lowering the corporate tax rate, but didn't mention the president's support for closing tax loopholes that inordinately benefit the rich.
He quoted the ECB's first president, Wim Duisenberg, speaking in 1999, when he said that finance ministers had agreed to exercise their right to orient exchange rate policy only in exceptional circumstances.
Under pressure, the Irish have recently agreed to scrap a special low corporate-tax rate of 10% on manufacturing by 2003, as well as their normal rate of 32%.
But it acquired its key global pledge during the Johannesburg summit of 2002, when governments agreed to achieve a "significant reduction" in the rate of biological diversity loss by 2010.
At the mercy of the banks, DeWelt agreed to a two-point increase in the interest rate, to 7.75% on its revolving line of credit borrowings and 6.93% on its term loan.
Last week, the Financial Services Authority announced that all of the big four High Street banks had agreed to start a complete review of all such interest rate products sold to unsophisticated business clients.
Vice-President Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader, who led the final talks, agreed to set the crucial threshold for the new tax rate for upper-income individuals at four hundred thousand dollars (and four hundred and fifty thousand dollars for families).
However, he acknowledged that the UK's yearly contributions would rise - albeit at a slower rate than before - and blamed this on rebate negotiations agreed by the last Labour government in 2005.
By contrast, when President Clinton agreed with congressional Republicans in 1997 to cut the capital gains tax rate from 28% to 20%, critics wrung their hands, predicting revenues would drop and deficits would increase.
The local authority said it had agreed with the force for police and council vehicles to access a cheaper rate of fuel at each other's sites.
Libor, CFAs are agreed, should reflect actual interbank borrowing rates, not some hypothetical estimated rate at which banks think they could probably borrow if they wanted to.
He got an encouraging response rate -- about 1% -- from people who agreed to buy the first book at a discount.
He revealed that 5% to 7% of players who agreed to random testing in 2003 wound up testing positive, though he figures the actual usage rate to be much higher, since drugs like Human Growth Hormone can't be detected in tests.
His wife agreed that many people were misinformed about Down's syndrome and she thinks this has contributed to the high abortion rate.
The chancellor agreed with Mr King's assessment of inflationary risks and outlook, which some analysts said suggested that an interest rate cut may still be some way off.
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