Sentence examples for floor rate from inspiring English sources

The stock has a 7% floor rate, and through 2010 the dividends get the reduced 15% federal tax rate.

It has a floor rate of 3.75% and no ceiling and is tied to three-month LIBOR plus 75 basis points.

While most of these securities are trading well below their floor rates, which means they offer no protection until rates rise to that floor rate, they still offer value in that they sell at significant discounts to par value.

In a surprise move Tuesday afternoon, the Federal Resrve cut its target on federal funds, the overnight interbank loans that form the floor rate for U.S. lending, to a maximum 0.25%, down 75 basis points from the previous 1.0% level.

In addition to the ceiling rates, the minimum amount assessed to any member nation (or "floor" rate) is set at 0.001% of the UN budget.

Some reckon that, after such a long period stuck to the floor, rates must rise as growth returns and unemployment falls; others warn more pessimistically that economies can stagnate and get stuck in low-rate ruts.

Rooms are still available at the Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center, where guests can also view the sky from the event space on the 42nd floor (rates start at $221 per night).

When my hospital switched to bar code scanning for medication administration, not only were the nurses on my floor rated as "red," "yellow" or "green" based on the percentage of meds we scanned, but those ratings were prominently and openly displayed on printouts left at the nurses' station.

Bargains can also be found among adjustable-rate securities tied to LIBOR with floor rates of 4%.

In so doing, it has placed its monetary fate in the hands of the Federal Reserve, which has floored rates and promised not to raise them any time soon.

Both experiments took place in a structurally isolated, soundproofed room with a noise-floor rating of PNC20.