He forecasts U.S. 10-year Treasury yields to hit the 3.4% level by year-end.

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Ms Hart also told AMs she hoped the result of the application for the top-level domain names will be revealed by the end of the year, but warned it could drag into 2013.

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So we have said for a long time now if the Iraqi government asks us to maintain some level of troops beyond that end-of-the-year deadline, we would consider it.

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Despite the considerable and, perhaps, justifiable hysteria surrounding the prospect of the expiring Bush-Era tax cuts, this year-end, at its most basic level, is fairly consistent with past years when we faced prospective increases or decreases in tax rates.

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Above this level we enter my end of the year target zone of 1450-1470.

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An analysis earlier this year by The Wall Street Journal found that other banks were reducing their level of debt at quarter-end.

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"I stay with our estimates that for the year-end, the key interest rate will stay at 6.0% and it will stay at that level into 2009, " said Kopaczynski.

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