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.
And when interest rates rise they can increase the interest rate spread they earn.
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The index benefitted also from the interest rate spread and rising housing permits.
In addition, banks and other lenders maintain a spread between the rate they pay on deposits and the rate they charge on loans.
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High savings (sometimes mandatory), interest rate controls, and high economic growth let Chinese banks enjoy a steady interest rate spread and a larger loan volume.
However, the average cap rate spread over the 10 year treasury yield has been 360 bps during that period, which compares to 430 bps today.
Just as in the past, high yield bonds trade at an interest rate spread over Treasury bonds, which are more liquid and less subject to default risk.
Worries about export earnings, given Argentina's high debt-to-export ratio, increase the interest-rate spread the country pays over United States interest rates, which have themselves risen this year.
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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.
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 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.
American Express earns a net interest income on the spread between the rate it earns from un-loaned amounts sitting in bank deposits and short-term investments in financial securities and the rates at which it extends credit to card members.
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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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.
The attractive margins on commercial lending (a gaping three-point spread between the prime rate and the Federal Reserve discount rate) don't alter this gloomy picture.
The new increase of 2.5 percentage points on Mr. Martin's line will effectively double the spread over the prime rate to 5%, yielding an 8.25% interest rate.
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"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.
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.
They have a spread on the interest rate they charge the other person over what they pay you and this pays for the buildings, the unpaid loans, the staff and everything else.
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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.
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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But such investments have been earning the benchmark rate minus some spread of late.
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There's rate risk in this spread (short-term rates could shoot up) but no credit risk.
The Federal Reserve is preparing to narrow this spread, first by raising the rate it charges on loans through its discount window.
What is most worrying the Bank, in the current climate, is the rise in the spread between the very low bank rate it has set to spur growth and the much higher interest rates that banks are charging to lend to companies and households.
In the case of an investor going long the total return of the NCREIF index, he or she would accept the total return on the NPI (paid quarterly) on a predetermined notional amount and agree to pay the LIBOR rate, plus a spread on the same notional amount.
How can you give the banks a three-point spread when Japan's official discount rate is 0.5%?
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