How can you give the banks a three-point spread when Japan's official discount rate is 0.5%?
The Patriots are favored by more than 13 points by far the weekend's most lopsided point spread.
No matter what the point spread is now, it's very likely it's going to close.
By electing Cruz over Dewhurst, and by a whopping 14-point spread, Texans are sending their own message to Washington.
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Niebour and McFadden found that overall, those individuals picked accurately against the Las Vegas point spread roughly 65% of the time.
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I'd prefer that God be focused on helping people truly in need of assistance with bigger challenges than covering the point spread.
Last I saw, the point spread was - it had started at about 13.5 points in favor of the Patriots, might be down to 12.5.
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.
Hedge funds thought they'd been smart by locking in a three-to-four-percentage-point spread by selling protection on those tranches and buying it on less risky ones.
That's a 90-basis-point spread that the homeowner can scoop up.
On the market front, yields on Italian benchmark 10-year sovereign bonds hit an all-time high of 6.68%, at one point registering a 490 basis point spread over German bunds.
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Authorities are examining whether Donaghy made calls to affect the point spread in games on which he or associates had wagered thousands of dollars over the past two seasons, according to a law enforcement official.
Saks bonds with a 97TK8 coupon due October 2011, for example, are now yielding 7.6%, or 287 basis points (2.9 percentage points) over seven-year Treasurys, compared with a 700-basis-point spread to Treasurys four years ago.
Las Vegas set the point spread at 10 in New Mexico's favor and even basketball stats legend Ken Pomeroy published this week the results of a formula that gave Harvard a mere 16.7% chance of beating New Mexico.
The 21.3-point spread between bullish and bearish sentiment suggests that optimism remains below levels that would be considered excessive, however. (The bull-bear spread has topped 40 points nearly 70 times since 1987.) This suggests that though many individual investors are hopeful, concerns about the economy, interest rates and the federal deficit have not faded into the background.
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In fact, Sony has made it a point to spread their teams around even internally, so that the people behind God of War: Ascension and Journey or Sound Shapes can cross-pollinate ideas.
For my editorial, I claimed the first two columns between the flag and mast, bumped my type up a point, and spread my piece over the whole width.
At one point, a rumor spread that the food had expired and people began throwing it away.
The point would be to spread knowledge and let all investors and potential investors see exactly what the auditor found.
Unless the Fed has changed its mind about one percentage point being the desired spread in normal times, the discount rate will be raised again relative to the Federal Funds rate.
One other thing to note is I did not mention selling a Calendar spread at any point in this post.
Any salt marsh south of that point will be allowed to spread.
The whole point of insurance is to spread risk.
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As any Wall Street investment banker will tell you, if you let abuses spread to the point where they are pretty much standard practice, regulators will inevitably go for the jugular when they find you out.
After that point, as word slowly spread, doctors began to quietly experiment with artificial insemination with donor sperm, working only with infertile heterosexual couples, turning to friends of the couple or -- once again -- their medical students.
"At this point the risk for international disease spread is considered low, " the consulate said.
And just as important, buying power will shift or spread out to the point where consumers in North America no longer are so central.
However, patients with a weak immune system may not be able to do this - at which point the tuberculosis bacteria starts to spread in the lung.
At one point, the ten-year swap spread reached 71.5bps, though it has fallen sharply since then.
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