Sentence examples for rate currently at from inspiring English sources

Economists expect the nation's high unemployment rate — currently at 9.7 percent — to help keep prices down.

Most economists expect the central bank to raise its benchmark lending rate, currently at 16.75 percent, by at least a quarter of a percentage point next Wednesday.

The Fed chairman said he intends to cut back on buying bonds when the unemployment rate, currently at 7.6%, drops to 7%.

Even before the distress call from Bear Stearns, markets assumed the Fed would drop its benchmark lending rate, currently at 3percentt, by at least half a point.

Indeed, Goldman Sachs predicts that the unemployment rate, currently at 6.5percentt, will reach 8.5percentt by the end of next year.

A November ballot initiative would suspend the law until the state's unemployment rate — currently at 12.4 percent — drops to 5.5 percent or less for an extended period.

The most straightforward first step would be a rise in fuel-tax rates, currently at 18.4 cents a gallon.

There are also concerns about how those using Help to Buy will cope with repayments once interest rates, currently at a record low, rise.

In many cross-national polls, his approval rating — currently at seventy-five per cent — is the highest of any Latin-American head of state.

RATES IN JAPAN -- The Bank of Japan will meet to decide whether to raise interest rates, currently at 0.25percentTuesdaydandand Wednesday).

Few expect that the Fed's March 18 meeting will bring a lowering of short-term interest rates, currently at their lowest in more than four decades.