Sentence examples for Basic interest rate from inspiring English sources

The Bank of Korea has left the basic interest rate at 3.75percentt.

One is that it sets a basic interest rate that governs how much banks pay to borrow from the Fed.

The South Korean central bank lowered its basic interest rate to 4percentt from 4.25percentt amid signs of a slowing economy.

In Brazil, where the basic interest rate is 17.25% and inflation is ten percentage points lower, banks are masters of this game.

Although they can prove lucrative for short-term players able to get in and out of positions quickly, they fly in the face of basic interest rate theory.

In an effort to keep consumer prices in check despite a weakening currency, the monetary policy committee of Brazil's Central Bank raised the basic interest rate to 19percentt from 18.25 percent.

We have tightened monetary policy, especially with regard to basic interest rates.

"The downward trend in short-term rates this week was expected because the Federal Reserve moved to ease basic interest rates last Friday," said Robert K. Heady, the president of The Bank Rate Monitor.

The tone of the fixed-income market was set early when prices of Treasury bonds weakened in Tokyo, reflecting fears there that West Germany would raise basic interest rates yesterday.

Topics: basic interest rates; evaluating investments: present value and internal rate of return; fixed-income markets: bonds, yield, duration, portfolio immunization; term structure of interest rates; measuring risk: volatility and value at risk; designing optimal portfolios; risk-return tradeoff: capital asset pricing model and extensions.

With this "poll tax" under review, inflation at 9.4percentt and basic interest rates running at 15percentt, Mrs. Thatcher's aides say she is unlikely to call an election in mid-1991, asomeme newspapers have speculated, but they do not rule it out, either.