That might allow further interest-rate cuts, opening the prospect of more jobs for voters.
However, most analysts reckon that inflation will drop sharply in June, opening the way for a rate cut this summer.
An interest-rate gap is opening between currencies like the dollar and the yen on the one hand, where monetary policy is likely to remain ultra-loose, and higher-yielding ones like the euro on the other.
The Labour leadership clearly view the abolition of the 50p rate as a major political opening for them.
After a scoreless opening round, DeGale upped his work rate to go through and now faces Kazakhstan's Bakhiytar Artayev, who he beat in January.
But the new 15% rate for dividends provides a tempting opening to distribute some earnings.
Having seized the initiative, England's openers took on the new ball and scored at a rate that would have been satisfying in the opening overs of a one-day international.
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More profound than the foreign threat, according to Sheng Hong, a reformist economist at the Unirule Institute at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, would be the opening of Chinese banking to domestic competition, through interest-rate liberalisation.
Sure enough, the Fed's actions Sunday, including lowering the rate it charges banks to lend directly from it and opening its discount window to Wall Street brokerages, didn't save Bear Stearns from collapse.
Porterfield and Niall O'Brien barely gave the unpredictable Sri Lankan bowlers a sniff early on and, although they were scoring below the required rate, their principle aim would have been to negotiate the opening overs unscathed.
However, the employment report Friday that showed lower-than-expected growth of 69, 000 jobs last month and a rise in the unemployment rate to 8.2% provided Romney and Republicans an opening to ratchet up their incessant criticism of Obama's economic policies.
Opening the well for a few minutes revealed a true gusher: a flow rate of 37, 500 barrels per day.
At a time when there are four applicants for every job opening, increased motivation among job seekers is unlikely to significantly reduce the unemployment rate.
Rankin and Trent Johnston were bowling highly-disciplined opening spells to well-organised fields and, with the Sri Lankans failing to lift the run-rate above four-an-over, Ireland were rewarded with the wicket of Sangakkara.
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