And while the European Central Bank did not deliver a rate cut at its meeting Wednesday, expectations are rising for a rate cut at the next ECB meeting in July.
In some cases, such as KBC's, executives said they racked up tens of millions of euros of losses by selling in a hurry at cut-rate prices.
The problem, say Winn and Power, wasn't the strategy of selling online at cut-rate prices--it was the failure to implement Winn's revolutionary retailing vision and to utilize his talents.
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Lastly, the leaders of three generic companies, Actavis, Biocon, and Cipla were rewarded for doing what was long dismissed as impossible: building profitable companies by selling medicines at cut-rate prices.
"Since 1998, every inter-meeting rate cut has been matched by a similarly sized rate cut at the ensuing meeting, " the note says.
Horrified that their beloved wilderness was being clear-cut at a rate of 60 acres a day, Horace and George worked with other members of the community to get the land set aside.
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Of course, every time he's speaks publicly, he might hint at a further rate cut.
Airlines that land at the bigger airport dislike the idea of coughing up for new capacity for their cut-rate rivals at Stansted.
In its third-quarter credit policy review, the Reserve Bank of India left the bank rate at 6% and the key lending rate, which was cut as recently as Jan. 2, at 5.5%.
But he could reduce the point at which the top rate starts in order to stop any top-rate taxpayers getting a tax cut at the expense of pushing some people from the basic to the top rate.
That has some investors expecting a rate cut at the next meeting on May 1.
Government bond prices edged higher, reflecting increasing market bets on a rate cut at the central bank's next policy review on Tuesday.
Bare metal stents cut that rate at least in half, and both Cypher and Taxus lower it again to a mere 5% or so.
The market is expecting a further rate cut at the Fed's November meeting and is looking for total cuts of a percentage point from today's levels by next March.
Yet, there probably will not be any rate cut at all this year or next, said Marcin Kopaczynski, a bond and currency analyst specializing in Poland at Raiffeisen Bank.
The good news is that they're being cut at a much slower rate than before, so it's still entirely reasonable to believe that black ink is in sight -- particularly if they've got a killer 2010 lineup in store.
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What it actually did was come off the gold standard, thus devaluing the currency by some 25% (deserately needed for Churchill had rejoined it at much too high a rate years earlier) and cut government spending at the same time.
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The Fed declined to cut interest rate cuts at its Aug. 7 policy meeting.
The market in cut flowers is growing at a rate of 10% a year.
At best, you can cut your rate while saving yourself some paperwork.
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The Fed is widely expected to cut the rate by at least 25 basis points when it releases its policy statement on September 18.
The financial markets were boosted by a surprise decision by the US central bank to cut the interest rate at which it lends money to commercial banks.
In comments following the bank's widely anticipated decision to leave its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 0.75 percent, Draghi confirmed that an interest rate cut was discussed.
Deutsche Bank expects the next rate cut to be at least 50 basis points.
Firms also continued to cut employment at the second-fastest rate since January 2010.
Before this week's liquidity actions, financial markets expected another three-quarter-point cut at the Fed's next rate-setting meeting on March 18th.
Tuesday's emergency rate cut indicates that at least for now, the Fed is more focused on helping stocks than fighting inflation.
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