How will R??ter's business survive the planned reductions in buying rate?
Economist suggests going short on oil and buying interest rate sensitive stocks.
Fearing all markets could soon fall, El-Erian injected what he referred to as "Armageddon insurance" into HMC's portfolio for the first time by buying interest rate floors, or a wager that rates would fall, and betting, via credit default swaps, that companies could soon struggle to pay their debts.
Barclays said the Fed would begin to slow its purchases when the jobless rate falls below 7.5% and stop buying when the rate stabilizes around 7%.
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Every day that the US government takes your tax money and uses to avoid issuing more 10 year Treasury Bonds is a day that the US government is buying an Interest Rate Swap on your behalf.
The company also is increasing its semiconductor buying at a faster rate than other top OEMs, solidifying its hegemony over the chip market.
What that means is that the government would pledge to back every rupiah with a dollar at the fixed rate, buying up any rupiah that holders want to sell.
Or does this sound more like people who know full well that, in America, you can run a television advertisement calling the President every name in the book while making his children squirm and the only price you will pay is the going rate for buying the air time to run your disgusting commercial?
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Bank of America ( BAC - news - people ) aims its bank- card pitch at employers who buy them in bulk as staff gifts. (BofA declined to comment on whether employers receive a discount rate for buying scads of cards at a time.) There's no dormancy fee with BofA's product, but after nine months the cards become worthless, whatever the remaining balance is.
But if you look beneath the hood you find that consumers were buying necessities at an increased rate.
Even if the Fed doesn't ramp up its mortgage buying, an interest-rate shock could derail Mr. Gross's strategy.
Even those who try to protect themselves against inflation by buying TIPS and other adjustable rate securities find their refuge is limited by the fact that government decides how much inflation to report.
Its job is greatly complicated by its desire to maintain a pegged currency: buying dollars at the fixed rate of 8.3 yuan creates a lot of extra liquidity that it then struggles to mop up.
Beaky would be buying at a 4% cap rate--a modest cool-off in the apartment market could fray Beakey's finances.
The move pushed up the countries' borrowing costs as lenders demanded a higher rate of return for buying government bonds.
He should put the ECB's money where his mouth is, selling euros and buying dollars to keep the exchange rate stable.
Finally, we looked at alternative scenarios of the costs of renting versus buying , by changing the mortgage rate, the income tax bracket for tax deductions, and the time horizon.
These involve selling short-term December 1999 interest-rate futures contracts and buying September 1999 and March 2000 ones, on the assumption that short-term rates will spike over the millennium because of extra demand for cash.
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To facilitate this, they have been buying long term treasuries at an alarming rate.
Continued interest-rate hikes and slowing home buying should have, at most, a marginal effect on 2006 because the economy's underlying strength likely won't flag.
The company said that since the debut of its U.K. Kindle store, Amazon now sells more Kindle books than hardcover books in the U.K. Since April 1, Amazon customers are buying Kindle books over hardcovers at a rate of better than 2-to-1.
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He suggests buying each ETF when it shows a positive rate of change (ROC) in price over the prior 42 trading days.
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"Department of Homeland Security and the federal government itself is buying up ammunition and components at such a rate, it's causing artificial shortage of supplies for the regular consumer, " said Jesse Alday, a state corrections officer who was buying a couple of boxes of primers at Hunter's Haven.
"The high liquidity and favorable interest-rate environment remain supportive of home-buying demand, " said Colliers International property analyst Chia Siew Chuin.
Sure, leverage was a disaster at the peak of the bubble, as investors were buying overpriced housing, often with risky flexible-rate loans.
It has done this if international investors have either shied away from buying government debt, or demanded too high a rate for it.
Even with 10x the chargers, people just buying EVs at the even the current relatively slow rate will still use them all up at popular end-destination locations.
Those seeking tax-sheltered returns can do better, at least until 2011, by buying preferred stocks eligible for the 15% dividend tax rate.
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