Smart Money reports that the average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage dropped below 4% for the first time, to 3.94%.
Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average rate for the 30-year fixed loan rose to 3.57 percent from 3.54 percent last week.
On Wednesday, a joint study by Babson and Baruch Colleges reported that the average rate of early-stage entrepreneurial activity in the U.S. rose to nearly 13% last year, up from 7% in 2008 and the highest level in more than a decade.
Larry points out that the average interest rate on government bonds is artificially low because of the recession.
For the week ending April 9, the MBA reported that the average contract rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was 5.17%.
We estimate that the average royalty rate that Qualcomm charges mobile handset vendors has declined rapidly over the past few years from 4% in 2008 to 3.2% in 2010.
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Anyone with a copy of Microsoft Excel can quickly work out that the average real rate of economic growth overwhelms every other issue, even if all you care about is federal government finances.
The report, from November of 2011, found that the average effective tax rate for all 280 companies in the study over the three year period was 18.5% not the 35% top tax rate often complained about.
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One of them continues from the 2007 strategy - that of matching the average growth rate of small European Union nations by 2017.
It is the refinancing rate that usually dictates average money market interest rates with the deposit facility rate acting as a lower floor.
Koretz says 2% are doing just that, while the average rate for merely clicking through on the Web is 0.5%.
That is because the average rate of depreciation of the capital stock has risen as investment has shifted from traditional machinery to shorter-lived assets such as computers and software.
Robert Polin told the BBC that between 2000 and 2010, the average rate of growth in countries with debt above 90% of GDP had actually been higher than it had been in countries with lower debt to GDP ratios.
It has been suggested that the lack of mortgages in Italy has contributed to that country's low birth rate and the high average age at which Italians marry for the first time.
That is equivalent to the average real rate of growth for the U.S. economy since 1925.
When I see a hotel for sale, I hope to see that the broker provided an average daily rate (ADR) in addition to the hotel's occupancy percentage.
You know how it goes: because of various loopholes and carve-outs that have built up over the years, some industries pay an average rate that is four or five times higher than others.
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And the three-year survival rate for the average company shows that long-term success is hard.
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"There is only one way that people could have an unemployment rate that's six times the national average -- it's attitude, " he said.
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In 2006, Reed Abelson in the New York Times reported that the PCI rate in Elyria, Ohio was four times the national average.
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The Bank of England's figures show that as of last November, the average credit card interest rate was 15.89%, while the average interest rate for a standard variable rate mortgage was just 3.98%.
You can choose to hire 2 quality employees at a slightly higher rate and 10 barely average employees at a lower rate and hope that the skills of the two quality persons rub off on the others.
The problems are that many states already have a sales tax (9.6% average rate in 2010), which means that the combined rate would either be 39.6% or that states would have to generate income by some other means.
It's also double the national average rate charged by Brookdale, the publicly traded company that owns the Hallmark and more than 645 retirement communities across the country.
My reading of the domestic economy is that it will limp along at a below average growth rate of 2 percent for the foreseeable future (two years).
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Finally, despite the fact that the most industry commentators were opposed to the proposal, the new amendments require a mutual fund that invests more than 10 percent in equities to disclose the average commission rate paid by the fund.
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Note that closing loopholes may well raise the average corporate rate, on which Democrats and liberals have focused, but it is the marginal tax rate that drives the economy, as discussed above.
The 2010 national census established that the illiteracy rate for indigenous people was about 27.2% while the national average was 5.4%.
As the months passed, we saw that the unemployment rate for our most recent veterans remained far too high above the national average.
This would leave the race, according to Pauze, up to the three as-yet undecided states that have about the same rate of auto sales growth as the national average, namely Florida (29 electoral votes), Missouri (10) and Virginia (13).
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