Sentence examples for committed to rates from inspiring English sources

Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch, which have both been hard hit by the credit squeeze, led the financing and committed to rates that probably would have cost the banks millions because they would have had to sell the debt at a discount to other investors.

At the shorter end of the yield curve, government bond yields are determined by investors' expectations of the likely level of official interest rates, and the Federal Reserve has all but committed to keeping rates at their current ultra-low levels until 2013.The use of quantitative easing (QE) to buy government bonds may have been a factor in pushing down longer-term yields.

The Fed has committed to low rates until 2014 and is trying to force down long-term rates via Operation Twist.

Such offers, of course, are no help to homeowners who are already committed to higher rates, like Michael Diamond, a homeowner in Woodbridge, Conn.

"You can't on one hand say that you're strongly deeply committed to penalty rates and then on the other hand say, 'We're not going to do anything to legislate for those conditions'.

The Union Tribune said 64 San Diego hotels in the vicinity of the convention center had committed to discounted rates through 2015, and convention organizers were persuaded to remain in the city without the use of adamantium claws or optic blasts.

They have been driven by falling government-bond yields (see chart 3) more than by rising corporate rates.Indeed, with the Fed committed to keeping rates close to zero, Treasury-bond yields are astonishingly low by historic standards.

The Federal Reserve has committed to keeping rates low until a sustainable recovery is under way.

By representing reactions as triples (ρ,  π,  k) we have already committed to a rate function that depends on a single rate parameter k.

Investors are clearly realizing that Mr. Greenspan appears committed to raising interest rates as high as he must to curb economic growth.

Labour has committed to cutting business rates in 2015 and then freezing them in 2016 for over 1.5 million business properties.