Article: Beaten-down FTSE 100 is expected to rebound INVESTING

Article: THE BANK OF ISRAEL REDUCES THE INTEREST RATE FOR MARCH 2009 BY 25 BASIS POINTS TO 0.75 PERCENT
Info-Prod Research (Middle East);  February 25, 2009 ;     700+ words ......narrowing the interest rate corridor in...window from 0.5 percent to 0.25 percent...fell by 1.2 percent. Inflation and interest rate forecasts...increase of 0.8 percent. Forecastersexpect...that that the interest rate will reach...

Article: Average mortgage interest rate down to 5.02 percent: Overdraft interest rate charges rose 0.33% to 10.89% in August.
Globes (Tel Aviv, Israel);  October 30, 2006 ;     188 words ......index-linked mortgage interest rate fell 0.04 percent to 5.02 percent in...current mortgage interest rate is still 0.88 percent higher than a year...reported that overdraft interest rate charges rose 0.33 percent to 10.89 percent...

Article: Bank of Israel lowers interest rate to 5 percent: The shekel interest rate is now less than the dollar interest rate of 5.25%. (Updated).
Globes (Tel Aviv, Israel);  November 27, 2006 ;     236 words ......Bank of Israel has cut the interest rate for December 2006 by 0.25 percent to 5 percent. The central bank cut the interest rate by a similar amount a month...now less than the dollar interest rate of 5.25 percent set by the Federal Reserve...

Article: Central Bank of Kuwait raises interest rate to 4 percent
Xinhua News Agency;  August 3, 2004 ;     214 words ......Bank of Kuwait raises interest rate to 4 percent KUWAIT CITY, Aug. 3...increased on Tuesday the interest rate from 3.5 percent to 4 percent, bank governor...interest rate. CBK raised interest rate by 0.25 percent last month, the first...

Article: INTERBANK INTEREST RATE WAS 6.01 PERCENT
Info-Prod Research (Middle East);  March 31, 2009 ;     33 words ...On March 24, the interbank interest rate in domestic currency was 6.01 percent. So far in March, the average daily interbank interest rate was 6.09 percent, lower than the average rate of February (6.44 percent).

Article: I-BONDS INTEREST RATE RISES TO 6.73 PERCENT.(MONEYWISE)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  November 7, 2005 ;     99 words ......April. The composite interest rate had been 4.8 percent for the previous six...adjustable portion of the interest rate up to 5.73 percent from 3.6 percent. However...fixed portion of the interest rate from 1.2 percent to 1 percent. The adjustable...

Article: Brazil increases annual interest rate to 13 percent
Xinhua News Agency;  July 23, 2008 ;     139 words ...Brazil increases annual interest rate to 13 percent RIO DE JANEIRO, July...the country's annual interest rate from 12.25 percent to 13 percent. The central...increased the annual interest rate by 0.5 percent in both April and June...

Article: Bank of Israel raises interest rate to 4 percent: The interest rate gap with the dollar has narrowed to 125 basis points.
Globes (Tel Aviv, Israel);  August 27, 2007 ;     508 words ......to raise the interest rate by a relatively modest 0.25 percentage points was...at around 2 percent. The market...expects that the interest rate will rise over...points to 5 percent in September, the interest rate gap will narrow...

Article: Brazil raises annual basic interest rate to 13.75 percent
Xinhua News Agency;  September 11, 2008 ;     215 words ......raises annual basic interest rate to 13.75 percent RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept...June, Copom raised the interest rate by 0.5 percent twice, and in July...members voted for a 0.5 percent increase of the interest rate. The Brazilian government...

Article: Fischer cuts interest rate 0.5 percent: The unexpectedly large rate cut is intended to bring inflation back up to within the 1-3% price stability target. (updated).
Globes (Tel Aviv, Israel);  December 25, 2006 ;     256 words ......January 2007 interest rate by 0.5 percent to 4.5 percent...means that the interest rate has been cut by 1 percent in three monthly...reductions. Israel's interest rate gap with the US is now 0.75 percent in favor of the...target of 1-3 percenta ...

Article: Sweden raises interest rate by 0.25 percent
Xinhua News Agency;  September 4, 2008 ;     187 words ...Sweden raises interest rate by 0.25 percent STOCKHOLM, Sept. 4 (Xinhua...decided to raise benchmark interest rate by 0.25 percent to 4.75 percent. Riksbank said in a statement that the interest rate has reached the highest...

Article: ECB holds its key interest rate unchanged at 2.5 percent
AP Worldstream;  May 4, 2006 ;     430 words ......Bank held its key interest rate unchanged at 2.5 percent on Thursday, setting...a quarter of a percentage point _ but feels...rates," he said. Interest rate increases are...zone rose to 2.4 percent in April from...was the first interest rate increase in ...

Article: Ukraine to raise interest rate to 12 percent
Xinhua News Agency;  April 21, 2008 ;     139 words ...Ukraine to raise interest rate to 12 percent KIEV, April 21 (Xinhua...made to raise the base interest rate to 12 percent on April 30," Shapovalov...National Bank raised the base interest rate to 10 percent from 8 percent on January...

Article: Writethru: China raises benchmark interest rate by 0.27 percent
Xinhua News Agency;  August 18, 2006 ;     420 words ......raises benchmark interest rate by 0.27 percent BEIJING, Aug. 18...year benchmark interest rate by 0.27 percent from August 19...the benchmark interest rate for a one-year...raised from 5.85 percent to 6.12 percent...