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S&P Global Ratings says it expects tax reform to facilitate the repatriation of approximately $ 1.1 trillion in cash held offshore.

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«Still - low global rates continue to support unprecedented levels of debt accumulation,» the IIF said.

«The longer rates are low, the harder it will be to raise them and the more painful that raise will be,» says Eric Lascelles, RBC Global Asset Management's chief economist.

We forget that if interest rates were more normal, banks would be doing better,» he said during an interview with CNBC on Tuesday from the Milken Institute's global conference.

It's long been the case that advertisers paid up to two to three times more for a top - rated sports event compared to a top - rated drama or sitcom, and sports value as real - time programming and its finite availability have only caused its status to grow, says Michael Neale, a managing partner for investment at Mediacom, a global media agency that co-ordinates and purchases advertising space on behalf of marketers.

All dividend stocks risk a hit to earnings from interest rates in the short term, says Rich Peterson, a senior director at S&P Global Market Intelligence.

«If impending old age is the issue, it can be very difficult to convince households via lower rates to shift desired consumption from the future into the present,» Steven Englander, global head of G - 10 foreign - exchange strategy at Citigroup, said in a note Tuesday.

«Warsh is believed to be on the more hawkish side,» said Thierry Albert Wizman, global interest rates and currencies strategist at Macquarie.

The Federal Reserve has locked itself into a strategy to raise rates one more time this year despite whoever is leading the central bank, a global economist of UBS Wealth Management said.

«The global unemployment rate would remain broadly constant during the next five years, at half a percentage point higher than before the crisis,» the ILO said.

It said global growth continued to be solid and broad - based, the economy was running close to its potential and stronger business investment suggested economic capacity could grow even further without lifting the inflation rate.

GIC said that over the 20 years through the end of March, its annualized real rate of return, or the return excluding the global inflation rate, was 3.7 percent a year.

Vodafone (vod), reporting its third - quarter results on Thursday, said it was also seeing lower rates of growth in its global enterprise division, and said it was taking a more disciplined approach to agreeing contracts.

«Trade policy developments are an important and growing source of uncertainty for the global and Canadian outlooks,» the bank said in a statement Wednesday that accompanied its latest rate decision.

Comment: «Air cargo traffic remains a watch item for us as the gradual market recovery continues amid modest overall global economic growth rates,» said Dennis A. Muilenburg.

U.S. economic growth and the expectation for higher interest rates should also give the rally in the dollar more fuel, said Gina Sanchez, CEO of Chantico Global.

«I would reset the rate to the middle of the pack of our chief competitors» — say, around 25 % — which would make the U.S. a competitive place to locate a global business without crippling our corporate tax revenues.

«Globally,» says the IMF in its Global Financial Stability Report, «an increase in the forecast GDP growth rate leads to an increase in equity investments.

«The high adoption rate of AWS cloud services by organizations around the globe has translated into some of the top salaries for those IT professionals choosing to pursue these certifications in particular,» Global Knowledge said in a blog post from earlier this year.

«A lot of these products were priced for higher rates,» says Natalie Taylor, an analyst with CIBC Global Asset Management.

«Rates and inflation, even though they have ticked up, are still at very low levels relative to history, monetary policy is still easy, said Michael Arone, chief investment strategist at State Street Global Advisors in Boston.

«Our «rational exuberance» rests on a combination of above - trend US and global economic growth, low albeit slowly rising interest rates, and profit growth aided by corporate tax reform likely to be adopted by early next year,» Kostin said in a report for clients.

China presents a major opportunity for global insurers as the rapidly growing economy opens up amid low insurance penetration rates, said Manulife's president and CEO.

«Broadly, China is making progress in controlling its debt in various parts of the economy,» said Christopher Lee, managing director in the corporate ratings group and chief ratings officer for Greater China at S&P Global Rratings group and chief ratings officer for Greater China at S&P Global Rratings officer for Greater China at S&P Global RatingsRatings.

«Interest rates aren't anticipated to pose a problem for the economy or equity markets this year,» Mike Bell, global market strategist at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, said in the quarterly report out Tuesday.

Separately, CDP said French cosmetics giant L'Oreal and Anglo - Dutch consumer goods group Unilever (ul) were the top performers on the global ranking, scoring straight «A» s on a scorecard that rates corporate policies on preventing climate change, ensuring water security and protecting forests.

The report said one potential danger to greater global financial stability is the possibility that long - term interest rates could rise more sharply than anticipated.

In a conference held on Tuesday, Lee said:» «We kept the base rate unchanged today as there is a need to closely examine growing protectionist measures and uncertainties abroad, although the local economy is expected to keep firm growth on the back of improvements in the global economy.»

The S&P Global Ratings report said that a huge drop in the value of cryptocurrencies would be unlikely to disrupt financial markets.

S&P Global Ratings Tuesday said the economic risks facing financial institutions operating in New Zealand have heightened, partly due to continued strong growth in residential property prices.

«This is strategic transaction, this is creating a new global leader in the QSR sector, and it's not being driven by tax rates,» he said.

«However, China, which accounts for 45 percent of global steel demand, is expected to return to a more subdued growth rate after its recent short uplift,» it said in a statement.

It now puts them in an awkward position of having to justify higher rates into a slowing job market,» said David Lafferty, chief market strategist at Natixis Global Asset Management.

Overall, Treasury yields, which influence the interest rates that borrowers pay on mortgages and other loans, have been «remarkably stable» given the Fed could raise rates against the backdrop of ongoing turmoil in global markets, said Kathy Jones, chief fixed income strategist at Schwab.

«Inflation in the euro zone is still below target, there's no need to raise rates or to tighten monetary policy,» Willem Buiter, global chief economist at Citigroup, said at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

There is a «mental model of what people think rates will go to, and for a lot of people it is 5 %,» says Russ Koesterich, head of asset allocation for the Global Allocation team at investing giant BlackRock (blk).

«The history of currency pegs is that they are susceptible to changes in economic fundamentals that warrant a completely different level in the exchange rate,» said Neil MacKinnon, global macro strategist at VTB Capital.

Rubrik said in February that it was close to achieving a $ 300 million global bookings run rate and it now has 900 employees, more than Cohesity.

«Mortgage rates dropped over the course of last week as global tensions increased surrounding events in the Middle East and the Korean peninsula,» said Mike Fratantoni, chief economist for the MBA.

The online small business lending market in Australia is growing at a faster rate than the US market did at a similar stage of development, the CEO of OnDeck Global has said.

Phil Orlando, chief equity strategist at Federated Investors and head of its Global Allocation fund, said he was not put off by the fact that U.S. home ownership rates hit a 20 - year low in the fourth quarter.

Despite the mainland's capital controls, its bond market joined the global market ructions on Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve surprised by saying it expected to hike interest rates three times next year, rather than the previously forecast two hikes.

Citing persistent weak labor - market conditions and continued global financial turmoil, the Fed says its monetary easing «should put downward pressure on longer - term interest rates, support mortgage markets and help to make broader financial conditions more accommodative.»

Ethan Harris, co-head global economic research at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, said the Fed laid the groundwork for a December rate hike, but the election now looms large and it could even become a factor for the Fed.

«Yet the economy is weak enough and the unemployment rate weak enough that the Fed is going to do QE3 eventually,» Roubini, founder of Roubini Global Economics, said.

Alan Ruskin, Deutsche Bank Global Co-Head of G - 10 FX Strategy, says to not get too obsessed with the Fed funds rate.

The Prime Day sales event added 2 percent to the company's global revenue growth rate, Olsavsky said in a conference call with reporters.

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«Every time the bond market moves dramatically and unexpectedly higher in yield, the consensus forecast plays catch - up,» says Matthew Hornbach, Global Head of Interest Rate Strategy for Morgan Stanley Research.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says Canada will face global pressure to raise interest rates in 2014, as the United States begins to step back from its policy of extraordinary economic stimulus through intervention in bond markets.