Sentences with phrase «by rate bands»

However, life insurance is priced by rate bands, as they're called in the industry.

Not exact matches

The yuan is under an administered peg regime in which the exchange rate with the US dollar is permitted to fluctuate within a band that is 2 % above and below a value set daily by the central bank.

It's possible we could see the interest rate environment play out as it has in the past by rising sharply or staying in a narrow band for some time to come.

Along with devaluing the currency by 1.86 %, the most since 1994, the PBoC announced that it would modify the way it set the reference rate, known as «central parity», that determines the RMB's trading band, and it would so so «for the purpose of enhancing the market - orientation and benchmark status of central parity».

Each business loan has a risk band assigned by the Credit Team (A + to C +) which corresponds to the minimum interest rate for that loan.

The Swedish central bank has increased policy rates by 85 basis points to 3.75 per cent, while the Swiss authorities have increased their target band by 175 basis points to between 3 and 4 per cent.

Are they a quick stopgap, or are they a pricey band - aid solution to chronic financial problems that compound the problem they purport to solve by charging what amounts to triple - digit interest rates?

With the yuan recently trading closer to the PBOC's dollar - yuan reference rate, conditions are ripening for a widening of the yuan's trading band, that by which the PBOC allows the yuan to move 1 % above or below the reference exchange rate.

With the lower band of the Fed funds rate now at 1.25 %, it's likely to be trading near 2.0 % by the end of 2018.

Elsewhere in the Asian region, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Hong Kong all lowered official interest rates, while Singapore announced that it too would ease monetary policy by lowering the target trading band for the Singapore dollar.

The onshore yuan, also called the renminbi, is constrained by a trading band: China's central bank, the People's Bank of China (PBOC), lets the yuan spot rate rise or fall a maximum of 2 percent against the dollar, relative to the official fixing rate, which is set daily.

Therefore 2016 to 2017 top - up rates are in line with the guarantee and funding to the special school should reflect these rates (for students placed by the home authority); number of students in each band; and the actual numbers of places.

And while headlining its reduction in the top rate of tax (on incomes over # 150,000) and increases in the tax - free personal allowance, the last government achieved a significant revenue increase by letting people on middle incomes rise into the 40 % tax band.

By the evening, the lake - effect band was dropping snow at a rate of three inches or more per hour on metro Buffalo and was expected to leave at least five inches of snow on the ground.

«Having put in place more focused ways of incentivising work and directly supporting children and pensioners at a cost of # 3bn a year, I can now return income tax to just two rates by removing the 10p band on non savings income.»

As a result, she and her students can easily recover bivalve lifespans and growth rates by studying the bands in their fossilized shells, a process analogous to tree - ring dating.

At current global warming rates, the band could shift north 5 degrees by 2100, drying out Ecuador, Columbia and the U.S. Southwest.

The extremely high data rates of 6 Gbit / s was achieved by the group through efficient transmitters and receivers at a radio frequency of 71 - 76 GHz in the so - called E band, regulated for terrestrial and satellite broadcasting.

What's unique about this band is the fact that it measures your resting heart rate, which is taken before you wake up in order to view your heartbeat when it's unaffected by factors like activity and thought.

Mohawk (Blu - ray) Details: 2017, Dark Sky Films Rated: Not rated The lowdown: A historical drama set during the War of 1812 finds a young female Mohawk pursued by a band of renegades thirsting for revenge after members of her tribe set fire to an American soldiers» Rated: Not rated The lowdown: A historical drama set during the War of 1812 finds a young female Mohawk pursued by a band of renegades thirsting for revenge after members of her tribe set fire to an American soldiers» rated The lowdown: A historical drama set during the War of 1812 finds a young female Mohawk pursued by a band of renegades thirsting for revenge after members of her tribe set fire to an American soldiers» camp.

War for the Planet of the Apes MPAA Rating: Pending In this third outing of the re-booted Planet of the Ape's franchise, Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his band of apes battle against a humans army led by Colonel (Woody Harrelson) in a genocidal war.

A Good Old Fashioned Orgy — red band trailer review Directed by: Alex Gregory, Peter Huyck Starring: Jason Sudeikis, Leslie Bibb, Lake Bell, Nick Kroll, Will Forte, Martin Starr, Lucy Punch Rating: R Release Date: September 2, 2011 TRAILER SCORE: 5/10 Thoughts by TSR: Ah, another product of the Apatow comedy era, titled with some real cojones and true matter - of - factness -LSB-...]

Red State — red band trailer review Directed by: Kevin Smith Starring: Kyle Gallner, John Goodman, Melissa Leo Rating: R Release Date: October 19, 2011 TRAILER SCORE: 9/10 Thoughts by TSR: It's been a long time coming for me when it comes to Red State.

Filmed with handicams, starring a pair of art - house favorites, and scored by blog buzz band Grizzly Bear, «Blue Valentine» couldn't look like more of a stereotypical indie romance if it tried — but who wants to ring in the New Year with hopeful thoughts for 2011 and a round of «Auld Lang Syne,» when you can head to the theater and watch Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams getting it on in this bleak romantic drama, already the center of a ratings controversy over the NC - 17 the MPAA slapped on it for an «emotionally intense» sex scene?

*** These activities also require additional materials which are easy to come by: Plastic water bottles (4 per group) Plastic soda bottles (1 per group) Plastic cups (16 per group) Small rocks (2 - 3 cups per group) Sand (2 - 3 cups per group) Old t - shirts (1 per group) Dirt (1 large Ziploc bag per group) Variety of edible plant seeds, at least 8 different kinds (tomato, lettuce, etc...) Salt (1 large container per group) Sticks (10 per group) String (1 roll per group) Roll of plastic trash bags (1 bag per group) Duct tape (1 roll per group) Foam pool noodles (1 per group) Poster board (1 per group) Rubber bands (5 - 10 per group) A container large enough to hold water for testing floatation (ideally 1 per group but can be just 1 for the class) *** Please make sure to rate and leave feedback.

«To improve the quality of education; make health and safety improvements; modernize / construct classrooms, restrooms and school facilities: and improve P.E. fields and facilities; shall Laton Joint Unified School District issue $ 7,000,000 of bonds at legal rates, averaging $ 421,000 annually as long as bands are outstanding at a rate of approximately 6 cents per $ 100 assessed value, with annual audits, an independent citizens» oversight committee, no money for salaries, and funding that can not be taken by the State?»

Based around the forthcoming Real Driving Emissions phase 2 (RDE2) regulations that aim to measure «real world» economy and emissions, the change will see the «First Year [tax] Rate» currently applied to new diesel cars rise by one band if they can not meet the Euro 6 emissions standards in the RDE2 «real world» tests.

According to some reports from actual users, there were roving bands of «bullies» on the site, some of them actual moderators approved by Goodreads, who seek out eBooks or ARC titles to destroy with artificially low rankings and ratings.

This movie (based on the 1965 novel by Sol Yurick) took the most terrifying thing about the New York City of that era — roving bands of gangs and criminals behind the sky - high crime rate — and moved it into comic book territory.

According to some reports from actual users, there are roving bands of «bullies» on the site, some of them actual moderators approved by Goodreads, who seek out titles to destroy with artificially low rankings and ratings.

In a side - by - side test against the Dell Venue 8 Pro the Acer Iconia W4 didn't remain connected at as high a rate but in transfer tests the performance was good in our test location a few walls away from an 802.11 n WiFi hotspot (2.4 Ghz band) with few other hotspots in the area.

I assume that would be in the low rate tax band still by then, so I'd net # 33k - # 36k / year, or around # 3k / month.

MYGA yields to maturity shown for high - band contracts with the MVA option offered by carriers with minimum credit rating according to A.M. Best.

Factors impacting real - world returns include transaction costs, signal banding to reduce turnover, applying a fund management fee, and adjusting for tail winds provided by secular decline in global interest rates.

Each plane had a propellor powered by a rubber band, and when each was completed, at a rate of one every 2 minutes, [24] the machine launched it to fly up and circle around the gallery.

OLR increases in the optically thinner bands would lead to atmospheric warming in general, but this has to be accompanied by OLR decreases somewhere, such as in optically thicker bands (and always in the band where optical thickness was added, assuming positive lapse rates everywhere as is the case in a 1 - dimensional equilibrium model with zero solar heating above the tropopause, or at least not too much solar heating in some distributions), which will tend to cause cooling of upper levels.

A sharp change in lapse rate will (absent sharp changes in optical thickness per unit distance, which occurs at TOA and at the surface even in wavelength bands dominated by well - mixed gases) tend to differ from radiative equilibrium — the inflection point may correspond to a maximum deviation from radiative equilibrium if the radiative equilibrium profile has some intermediate lapse rate in that vicinity.

By mid-summer ablation rates do not vary substantially within the 1600 m - 2400 m elevation band, which is the primary elevation zone for glaciers.

I have, in front of me, the paper «The influence of the 15 micron carbon - dioxide band on the atmospheric infra - red cooling rate» by Gilbert Plass of the Johns Hopkins University.

The Conservative Party stole a march on the government last October when George Osborne announced that he would raise the nil rate band to # 1m and fund that by a # 25,000 annual charge on «non-doms».

The judiciary advised the Law Society in December 2017 that the review of SHR had been concluded and the chief justice had approved the following set of SHR, increasing the rates across solicitors of each level of seniority by more than 40 % and introducing two additional bands of seniority of solicitors:

10th September 2015 Private Client IHT, inheritance tax, nil rate band, probate, wills Posted by Raveet Phull

Shearman & Sterling has frozen the pay bands for most of its associates but increased the rate for newly qualified (NQ) lawyers by 6 % and boosted trainee salaries by up to 15.4 %.

Because of this, another sample looks at university attendance, which includes all those lawyers rated as Band 1 (the top band) by Chambers UK.

SDLT has already been replaced in Scotland by Scottish Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) which also has its own rates and bands.

So Mr Cook — head of Thomson & Bancks» private client department — succeeded in reducing the liability of his client's estate's to inheritance tax by transferring her first husband's nil rate band — even though he died in 1942.

I reported in April how Yorkshire law firm Denison Till used new legislation to help clients avoid a # 30,000 inheritance tax bill by transferring the unused nil rate band of the deceased's husband, an RAF officer who died in action in 1943.

But over # 150,000 of Dr Phizackerley's nil rate band was wiped out by his inability to deduct his IOU debt, which had become an asset of his wife's nil rate band trust, from the value of his own estate which at his death included the whole value of the family home.

The guideline rates for summary assessment of civil and family costs have been uprated for inflation by 1.7 % for work done after 31 March 2010 so, for example, band A London 1 fee earners will now...

Her estate, consisting almost entirely of her share in the family home, was within the nil rate band and under the terms of her will passed into the discretionary trust created by her will.