Sentence examples for below the current rate from inspiring English sources

The Fed has indicated that the labour market may trigger a decision to raise rates; if unemployment falls much below the current rate of 5.5%, wage pressures might start to appear.

The Fed projected that unemployment would drop no lower than 8.2 percent this year, just slightly below the current rate of 8.5 percent, and no lower than 7.4 percent by the end of next year.

For example, unemployment relief financed by loans is more readily accepted than the financing of improvements at a charge below the current rate of interest; whilst the form of digging holes in the ground known as gold-mining, which not only adds nothing whatever to the real wealth of the world but involves the disutility of labour, is the most acceptable of all solutions.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OECDD) estimates that the current NAIRU (non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment) in the UK is just under 7% that does not sound materially below the current rate (7.8%), but current forecasts for unemployment suggest that hitting a 7% threshold is a long way off.

Last, we consider the effects of decreasing the volume of water lost during distribution below the current rate of 35%.

Makovich notes that IBM's "earnings could, in fact, be hurt in future years if the expected return on plan assets decreases below the current rate expectation".

The prices below reflect the current rate for a dozen eggs bought directly from the farm.

Since they are salable, their price fluctuates from time to time, going above maturity value when the current market interest rate falls below the interest rate that they bear and falling below the maturity value when the current rate rises or when fear about the ability of the government to pay interest develops.

The chairman also addressed critics who were worried that the Fed's move could touch off uncontrollable inflation, even though the current rate is well below the Fed's unofficial goal of about 2 percent.

America's national minimum wage can only be increased by an act of Congress, and the current rate remains well below its inflation-adjusted peak of nearly $11 an hour in 1968.

The report predicted that the jobless rate would fall below 6percentt and inflation would stay around the current rate, 2.9percentt.