His strategy is unusual among cancer researchers, who have tended to focus on identifying cancer-causing genes rather than writing differential equations to describe the rate of tumor spread.
But given the size of those reserves, and the banks overwhelming need for income, it might not take much in the way of interest rate spread expansion to get some monetary inflation of the double digit variety from these banks.
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But such investments have been earning the benchmark rate minus some spread of late.
The result has been an ever widening spread between the rate of inflation in the Euro money supply versus the U.S. money supply in favor of the U.S. money supply.
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The outlook for the further spread of flat-rate taxation is as mixed as its track record.
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The remaining spread of the mortgage rate over the Treasury yield represents the risk of prepayment and underwriting costs.
Yet the spread of exchange-rate instability around the world shows that more timely and accurate information may do little to prevent trouble.
According to Reuters, the two-year U.S. interest rate swap spread--a gauge of financial system stress--was quoted at a record high 166.5 basis points in Asia, suggesting that concern about defaults among banking counterparties were worsening.
Take, for example, one indicator of the market's appetite for risk, the spread between swaps of fixed- and floating-rate interest payments (see chart).
FridsonVision, a research firm, publishes a default-rate predictor based on the percentage of bonds trading with a spread of at least 1, 000 basis points.
For most of us, the practical dollar effects of AMT are far more than the capital gain rate spread, or between 35% and 39.6% top rates on ordinary income.
Here is a chart which shows the credit spread of high yield bonds vs. the default rate of high yield bonds since 1997.
The greater the spread between the high-interest debt and the rate of return on investment, the greater the financial advantage for paying off the debt first.
"Bovine TB continues to spread at an unacceptable rate, leading to the slaughter of thousands of cattle and ongoing misery for our dairy farmers, " said Farming Minister David Heath.
Michael Brozzetti of Philadelphia got a letter saying that the spread over the prime rate would jump to 4% from 1.5%, yielding a 7.25% rate come May, according to the notice he got from the bank on March 7.
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It "tends to spread to many, many parts of the body at an alarming rate, " says Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center melanoma expert Jedd D.
The Cleveland Fed inflation estimates, based on financial market data including the interest rate spread between ordinary and inflation-protected Treasury bonds, show expected inflation of 1.4 percent per year over the next ten years.
Japan is more like a battered vessel, which has rotten timbers and many leaks, and the right question to ask is whether the rate at which the government repairs the ship and bails it out can outpace the spread of rot and entry of water.
U.N. scientific experts say a warmer world is likely to spread disease in tropical regions, cause sea levels to rise and increase the rate of severe storms.
With genuine deregulation, privatization, tax simplification and deep tax cuts, Israel's entrepreneurship in the high-tech arena could spread to the rest of the economy, quickly lowering the 8% unemployment rate.
For most of us, the practical dollar and cents effects of AMT are far more than a mere 15% and 20% capital gain rate spread, or between a 35% and 39.6% top rate on ordinary income.
The company makes money from the spread between the interest rate paid by a hog buyer and the yield built into the sale of a package of loans on Wall Street.
We focus on the percentage of issues in the index currently quoted at distressed levels. (We define distressed as a spread over Treasuries of 10 percentage points or more.) Distressed companies historically have defaulted at a rate of nearly 25% per year, while the rate for non-distressed companies is only 1%.
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