Other items have lower take rates, such as cosmetics at 4% and kitchen appliances at 2%.
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At the same time, we expect eBay to continue providing more discounts to powersellers, as they improve their service levels, thereby bringing down take rates, but driving higher listings and sales.
Just like a junkie who requires ever-increasing doses of heroine to achieve the same high, the Fed has needed to take rates ever lower to boost the economy after its previous stimulants had faded.
Its Tmall business-to-consumer service, where they can charge up to 15% take-rates for certain products in certain prime locations on the website is also a growing force.
But what is clear is that proposals that take tax rates off the table would threaten donations to universities, non-profit hospitals, social services providers, arts and cultural institutions and other nonprofit organizations.
The letter, written by Andrew Davis of Illinois Student Assistance Commission, criticized some work done by CCAP which claimed to show that, once you take graduation rates into account, a school like Chicago State (a school with relatively low levels of per student spending on education) is actually more expensive than Northwestern (a school with high levels of per student spending).
Bernstein, and Ben Reitzes of Barclays Capital, have called for Apple to take advantage of low-interest rates and take on debt to fund its cash back programs.
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Had they read on, they would have discovered the Bank's forecast that inflation will be rising quickly by early 2000: since the Bank believes that changes in interest rates take up to two years to show results, the clear implication was that rates should be raised now.
Both degrees have 80% take-up rates in the industry within 12 months of graduating.
The First Minister says that the real-terms take of business rates in Scotland has been reduced to below the English rate.
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In other nations, by contrast, the top tax rates take effect much faster, in some cases when taxpayers have just average incomes.
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There will, of course, be big dislocation when rates take off.
The country needs a low cost of carry for this amount of debt to stay manageable, so low interest rates take on a red-alert policy emphasis.
They could even potentially let users know when federal rebates or better rates take effect so they can make changes when they would bring the highest financial benefit.
This means still higher profit margins as these higher rates take hold, more than mitigating increased raw material costs and lending impetus to higher than consensus earnings extending into next year and beyond.
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We are going to see the type of rate increases that patients have gotten in the mail when their insurers take their insurance rates and increase them exponentially seven, eight, nine, 10 times that of health care inflation.
When the yield curve is inverted or relatively flat, it is a sign that investors are so afraid of future economic weakness that they are willing to take low interest rates on long-term holdings for fear that returns will become even less attractive later on.
Ms. SANTOBONI: Rates have come down a lot, so I wanted to just take advantage of the lower rates and get a fixed rate.
Adding on the full 12.4% would effectively take top marginal tax rates above 50%.
We've already seen a jump in refinancing of some mortgages, as homeowners take advantage of lower rates.
But instead of helping more and more hardworking families take advantage of those rates, Congress was away on break.
One of these days, so the theory goes, rising interest rates will take a bite of out torrid home sales.
Three, you don't have to predict commodity trends or interest rates to take an informed, sensible approach to sectors in your portfolio.
The crux of the plan is to make it easier for homeowners locked in at higher interest rates to take advantage of today's record lows.
But as the performances of the key sectors of the economy diverge, so too are opinions on the direction interest rates will take after this point.
Price-cutting competition in telecoms will come more from new providers such as call-back services, which allow callers in Japan to take advantage of cheaper rates elsewhere.
Typically such short-term bonds are fairly easy to sell, but investors asked a small increase in rates to take the debt, and demand was thinner than usual.
Already, hundreds of thousands of Americans who were stuck in high-interest loans have been able to take advantage of lower rates and save thousands of dollars every year.
The authors say banks, retailers, and restaurant chains set national pay levels but then allow regional variations to take into account recruitment rates and the local cost of living.
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