Posted 6.59am: The BBC has seen documents which show that ministers in the last Labour government held discussions with banks about policies which would allow the Libor rate - the inter-bank lending rate - to fall.
On floating-rate debt, the yields can adjust and allow investors to get paid more in a rising-rate environment.
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At the time Folkman was interested in finding a plastic that would allow proteins to be released at a slow and precise rate, mimicking the action of a tumor.
Some economists argue that as China gets richer it needs to allow its real exchange rate to rise, in order to reap the full gains of its economic success.
The USB Forum announced that a new specification for USB 3.0 to be announced in June would allow up to 10 Gbps native data rate (twice the current 5 Gbps data rate).
In other words, China is planning deliberately to allow its ten percent growth rate to slow a bit in order to give the Chinese people more of the fruits of their own labor.
In theory, this would allow the computer to perform many different computations simultaneously at a much quicker rate than conventional computers.
In the first instance, this would allow Timor to import 45, 000 cars wholly made in South Korea free of duty (the tariff rate for other cars entirely made abroad is 125%).
Rather than giving away money through grants, PRIs allow foundations to make investments as loans or equity stakes in the hopes of regaining their investments plus a reasonable rate of return.
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The move toward full convertibility would almost certainly mean that Beijing would allow the renminbi to float, as it would be unlikely for it to maintain a fixed rate in a world of fluctuating currencies.
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