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Mortgage REITs borrow short-term or adjustable-rate money (the federal funds rate has plunged from 6.5% in January to 3.5% today) and use it to buy longer-term mortgages or mortgage-backed securities, playing the spread between the two sets of interest rates.
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In New York, with its concentration of tall office towers, commercial mortgage-backed securities play a bigger role than they do elsewhere.
The DST (Directorate of Territorial Security), a third important member of the French intelligence system, is responsible for internal security, playing a role similar to that of the American FBI.
So he touted the country's unimpeachable reputation for security, playing up his executive team's military backgrounds.
It is the modern manifestation of the age-old conflict between privacy versus security, playing out in our pockets and palms.
In Sub-Sahara Africa, a secular trend in age at menarche has also been observed in several countries, with socioeconomic status, altitude, ethnicity and food security playing an important role.
Tells how the "doctrine of national security" played a key role in the development of the torture policy.
The latest disclosures from the Snowden archive also highlight the key role in national security played by the small Cornish holiday resort town of Bude.
It's not hard to see how the sudden uproar over body scanners — however critical for airline security — plays into this larger mistrust.
Not since Hubert Green won at Southern Hills in Tulsa, Okla., in 1977 while playing with a police escort has security played such a visible role at the United States Open.
Yet Prime Minister David Cameron and George Osborne, the chancellor of the Exchequer and the man in charge of the country's finances, followed the paper's lead and started questioning the role social security played in the crime.
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