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...

Texas Investors, Business Owners Have Different Takes on Higher Interest...

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  May 23, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Holmes' point of view, higher interest rates can't come soon enough. We're waiting with bated breath for interest rates to go back up to some reasonable...Merrell's point of view, higher interest rates couldn't come at a worse time...

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...

Out of Greenspan's hands: American investors reckon that the Federal...

The Economist (US);  October 27, 1990 ;     700+ words ......consumers are all pressing him to cut interest rates soon, to prevent the American economy...Congress and the White House, they expect interest rates to fall swiftly. Do not bank on it...than most economists expect for high interest rates to slow the economy; stimulating the...

Believe it or not, higher interest rates can help

Daily Breeze;  August 4, 2003 ;     700+ words ......movement. I call it Americans for Higher Interest Rates and Rising Inflation. Your only duty...solution and a better fate." While higher interest rates and rising inflation may be an unlikely...being a nation of savers and lenders. e Interest rates are now so low, further reduction ...

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...

On balance, rising interest rates not all bad ; As the economy picks up...

Portland Press Herald (Maine);  June 6, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Maine) 06-06-2004 On balance, rising interest rates not all bad ; As the economy picks...people - he isn't too worried that interest rates will start climbing this summer for...Downeast Maytag benefits from falling interest rates, but it does even better when rates...