Thinking about rising interest rates.(Viewpoint)

Ivey Business Journal Online;  May 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Interest rates are extraordinarily low. Executives should pay heed. Interest rates are a crucial consideration in many important...period of rising, and possibly quite unstable, interest rates. The positioning options are not all that many...

Neither a borrower nor a lender be. (interest rates)

The Economist (US);  August 13, 1988 ;     700+ words ......replaced exchange-rate ones in the setting of interest rates. How effective are interest rates at checking growth in-domestic demand...chancellor of the exchequer. He raised interest rates for the seventh time in three months. A...

Fascination with interest rates.(Opinion & Editorial)

Manila Bulletin;  March 30, 2004 ;     571 words ......which our fascination with interest rates is expressed. In populist circles...still hear the desire for low interest rates avowed. That desire stems from...public debt is to cut down interest rates. Some politicians occasionally...

Schools brief: how low can they go? (economic aspects of low interest...

The Economist (US);  December 2, 1995 ;     700+ words ...LOW interest rates. This happy goal seems to trail...pundits. A rise in central-bank interest rates is always reported as bad news...remind voters of the benefit of lower interest rates that fiscal responsibility will...

Low interest rates cause jump in mortgage refinancing

The Mississippi Business Journal;  November 16, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Lower interest rates have dramatically increased mortgage...expansions. "The continued lowering of interest rates has served to shore up the housing...Probably, without the lowering of interest rates, we would have seen a continued...

Economists, analysts see interest inching up, hitting stores. (interest...

Daily News Record;  April 18, 1988 ;     700+ words ......economists and financial analysts expect interest rates to be heading upward later this year...for retailers. I have a feeling that interest rates will probably drift upward slowly...retailers, Schaadt said, is that higher interest rates make it more expensive to carry inventory...

Federal Reserve frustrated in effort to raise interest rates.

Portland Press Herald (Portland, ME);  May 10, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Bank's nearly yearlong effort to raise interest rates, designed to stave off inflation without...a hard time taking hold. Long-term interest rates, including mortgage rates, by all rights...long-term rates to follow the short-term interest rates that the Fed directly controls. But...

Bahrain interest rates on loans stable, despite rising US rates, BMA study...

Al Bawaba;  September 7, 2005 ;     424 words ...Bahrain average interest rates on loans are stable, despite rising US interest rates, a study by the Bahrain Monetary Agency (BMA) has shown. Interest rates on deposits, on the other hand, are rising, in line with rate increases in the US. The...

Long memory in the interest rates in some Asian countries.

International Advances in Economic Research;  November 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......the stochastic behavior of short run interest rates in some Asian development countries...orders of integration of the short run interest rates in Singapore and Thailand are strictly...The analysis of the persistence of interest rates constitutes a major question in the...

Mean reversion in interest rates: new evidence from a panel of OECD...

Journal of Money, Credit & Banking;  November 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......in the time series properties of interest rates, with particular attention being paid to the issue of whether interest rates can be characterized as unit root or mean-reverting processes. If interest rates contain unit roots, then a one-time...

International crowding out: the U.S. debt and foreign interest rates.

Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics;  January 1, 1990 ;     700+ words ......Crowding Out: The U.S. Debt and Foreign Interest Rates Abstract This study investigates the...real U.S. debt stock on the short-term interest rates of Canada, France, and Germany. The...increases in government debt financing on interest rates known as portfolio crowding out has...

HALF OF CHINA'S LOAN INTEREST RATES FLUCTUATE

AsiaInfo Services;  May 20, 2003 ;     316 words ...00-00-0000 Half of China's Loan Interest Rates Fluctuate CHINA, May 20, 2003 (SinoCast via...in terms of the market (that is fluctuating interest rates) but not fixed interest rates. From banks' point of view, the total loans...

Rate hikes fail to gain traction ; Long-term interest rates aren't doing...

Portland Press Herald (Maine);  May 10, 2005 ;     700+ words ......hikes fail to gain traction ; Long-term interest rates aren't doing what the Fed wants them...THERE ARE more losers than winners when interest rates rise: WINNERS: Savers, who earn higher...Bank's nearly yearlong effort to raise interest rates, designed to stave off inflation ...

Are you prepared for higher interest rates?(Viewpoint)

Fairfield County Business Journal;  June 14, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Although interest rates remain near their lowest levels...when the Federal Reserve raises interest rates, prices on investments such as...immune to the effects of fluctuating interest rates, there are several investment strategies...

The price of profligacy; Economics focus.(Do bigger budget deficits cause...

The Economist (US);  January 25, 2003 ;     700+ words ......budget deficits cause higher interest rates? MITCH DANIELS, the top...national saving and pushing up interest rates. Just as the shift to budget...the 1990s helped to reduce interest rates and boost corporate investment...