Sentence examples for interest to offset from inspiring English sources

Since the advent of the financial crisis, the central bank has granted almost unlimited credit to banks at 1 percent interest to offset a reluctance by banks to lend to one another.

To put that in perspective, at current savings account rates, you'd have to maintain a balance of $375,000 to earn enough interest to offset the overdraft fees in your checking account.

In allying with New York's newly active business lobby, Mr. Cuomo is borrowing a page from that playbook, and essentially organizing one set of special interests to offset the power of another.

Today, the European Central Bank resisted intense pressure to cut interest rates to offset the surging euro.

But why? Careful further analysis suggested that much of the explanation lay in the behavior of central bankers, who for whatever reason were more likely to cut interest rates to offset spending cuts than to offset tax increases.

Last year it could have cut interest rates to offset the impact of the rising euro; today it should stand ready to ease monetary policy to cushion the impact of structural reform and fiscal discipline.

For the trade to be tempting to speculators, there must be low levels of volatility and large differentials in short-term interest rates to offset the risk of adverse currency moves.

Britain's lenders could store cash in their own vaults to avoid the charge, or raise their own interest rates to offset it.Still, the talk hints at fresh stimulus.

There is also a question over whether the ECB would react fast enough to a dollar crash by cutting interest rates to offset the deflationary impact on the euro-area economies.

We publish borrowers' historical on-time repayment track records and allow members to set their own interest rates to offset expected credit risk.

However, without some guarantees to cover losses due to default, lenders will raise the barriers to getting a mortgage and/or increase interest rates to offset risk.