If inflation stays low AND
cash rates remain low AND cooperative markets allow portfolio engineering to reduce the risk of stock / bond portfolios, you can make today's valuation levels make sense.
Shorter - term
cash rates remained dismally meager as well: a 30 - day term deposit went from paying 0.90 % to start the year to 1.00 % at the end of it.
With the bids lodged, the Bank then determines which of the bids it is willing to accept, to ensure that the aggregate level of exchange settlement balances is at the level we feel will ensure that
the cash rate remains at the target rate.
The combination of low levels of ES funds and
the cash rate remaining close to its target suggests a couple of conclusions: first, the market players involved with RTGS have adapted well to operating in the new environment; and second, participants have reasonable confidence about the availability of cash near the interest rate announced by the Reserve Bank as its policy target.
Not exact matches
Cash:
Cash rates started out 2011 at intergenerational lows, and there were no changes in administered
rates, such as the target overnight bank
rate, to give them any kind of a boost, so they
remained low throughout.
Echelon is now focusing its growth on «smart» commercial & municipal LED lighting (although its fab-less chip business has apparently now stabilized after a long decline), and if the lighting business accelerates (and it could, due to recent sales force hires and new products), I think there's a chance it can hit a break - even annualized revenue run -
rate of $ 40 million by Q4 - 2019 (pushed back from my earlier hoped - for timeline) at which point — assuming $ 14 million of
remaining net
cash (vs. an estimated $ 18 million at the end of Q2 2018) and 4.7 million shares outstanding (vs 4.52 million today), an enterprise value of 1x revenue on this 53 % gross margin company would put the stock in the mid - $ 11s per share.
We are
cash flow positive, and with our low burn
rate can
remain profitable and can accept funding monthly.
At the time of the Review, we typically assumed that the
cash rate would
remain constant across the forecast horizon.
Given that U.S. short - term interest
rates are stuck at zero, and are likely to
remain unusually low for some time even if the Federal Reserve starts to raise
rates later this year, return for
cash this year is almost certain to be negative.
Mortgage
rates remain attractive: Other homeowners who are
cashing out are looking to eliminate higher cost debt — and with good reason, too.
In these circumstances, banks will respond to higher
cash rates by rationing credit, to ensure that their average default
rates remain low.
If inflation is likely to
remain too low, the
cash rate would typically be lowered.
So all we need to do to keep the
cash rate close to target is to ensure that the supply of
cash remains near that target level of liquidity.
Actually, demand
remains unchanged when we change the
cash rate target and the market automatically reprices for us.
In recent times, you can see that the
cash rate has
remained really quite consistent with the target.
If I add on the
cash rate target here, you can see that there are actually a lot of times when the
cash rate target is changing but the supply of
cash is
remaining the same.
Last quarter, high corporate
cash levels, low interest
rates, and merger deal spreads
remaining at healthy levels served as a good tailwind to merger arbitrage.
Rates paid on
cash deposits
remain anemic, as they have been for years.
Any
remaining deviation in ES balances from this level will attract the appropriate standing facility
rate, either 25 basis points above the
cash rate target in the case of a shortfall or 25 basis points below the
cash rate target in the case of surplus ES balances.
The analyst said his view on Boeing
remains intact despite the M&A discussion, as he projects little upside to production
rates, deliveries, earnings or
cash flow expectations.
In contrast to the steady and ongoing language for higher US interest
rates from the US central bank, the RBA has reiterated the need for
cash rates to
remain at historic lows for a while yet.
The level of intermediaries» interest
rates for households and small businesses
remains historically low — in particular, notwithstanding the fact that the
cash rate exceeds by 1.5 percentage points its level at the previous cyclical trough in 1993/94,
rates paid by borrowers, especially for housing, typically
remain below their level at that time.
The
cash rate has
remained at 5.25 per cent for over twelve months.
Both the
cash rate and other variable lending
rates remain below their averages over the past decade (Graph 66).
Throughout the three months, the target
cash rate has
remained unchanged at 4.75 per cent.
Variable indicator
rates have
remained unchanged since June 2002, reflecting the unchanged
cash rate target (Table 12).
An alternative, and perhaps more likely, interpretation is that the market expects that the target
cash rate will
remain below its average over recent years for some time, and this expectation is reflected in bond yields.
The target
cash rate has been unchanged at 4.75 per cent since June 2002, and similarly, most variable lending
rates have
remained unchanged over this period.
The subsequent improvement in market sentiment has restored the yield curve to a shape similar to that in early May; this has long yields above the
cash rates, though yields on 2 - year bonds
remain around the
cash rate.
As home values continue to rise across the country and interest
rates remain relatively low, now may be a great time to consider a VA
Cash - Out refinance.
On either measure of real
cash rates shown here, they are well below the average of the second half of the 1980s; they have declined since their most recent peak in 1995, but
remain above the low point reached in 1993/94.
While the 25 basis point increases in November and December have brought the
cash rate closer to its average level of the past ten years — a period in which the economy has recorded average annual growth of 3.9 per cent — the
rate still
remains slightly below the average over this period (Graph 66).
Moreover, 96 % of its $ 68 billion in
cash and equivalents
remains overseas, and lower corporate tax
rates would enable it to repatriate that
cash for domestic acquisitions.
While the combination of rapid credit growth and below - average interest
rates suggests that financial conditions
remain expansionary, the slope of the yield curve, as measured by the spread between the yield on 10 - year bonds and the
cash rate, suggests a somewhat different picture.
With the official
cash rate tipped to fall to 2.5 per cent in the next 12 months dividends, buy - backs and any sort of capital management are poised to
remain in favour with income - conscious investors.
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Rounding just a bit (treating the top regular
rate as 40 %) we find that you need to hold a still larger number of shares to secure the maximum tax benefit,
cashing in only 40 % at the time of exercise while holding the
remaining 60 %.
After the promotional period, any
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cash advances, until the amount is repaid in full.
Given that U.S. short - term interest
rates are stuck at zero, and are likely to
remain unusually low for some time even if the Federal Reserve starts to raise
rates later this year, return for
cash this year is almost certain to be negative.
I would insist that RSPs do
remain a
cash grab for the government when people die with no surviving spouse and still have money in their RSPs or RIFs, ALL of which is then taxed at highest marginal
rate, which can be very high.
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Once you've paid off your highest interest
rate card, begin applying all your extra
cash to the card with the next highest
rate, and continue paying the minimums on the
remaining cards.
For example,
cash flow improvement is usually best achieved with both a lower interest
rate AND a re-lengthening of the
remaining term to 30 years.
While the insurance company does charge interest on your loan, because your
remaining cash value continues to earn life insurance dividends, the adjusted interest
rate on the loan can often be lower, sometimes much lower, than you would pay on a comparable personal loan from a bank, home equity line of credit, or by using a credit card.
A third option would be to take the adjustable
rate reverse mortgage, which will allow you to take a
cash advance of $ 200,00 at closing, while still having access to the
remaining funds should you need them in the future.
Select loans allow the portion of the
cash value used as collateral to
remain in the indexed or fixed account, earning the credited interest
rate, even though a loan is outstanding.
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While I can see that using low interest
rates in a
cash flow valuation model leads to higher company valuations, the unanswered question
remains how long interest
rates will stay low.
We believe that it is worth watching but, with no obvious catalysts and a high
cash burn
rate, probably one to avoid unless you are willing to bet that its
remaining cash might attract an activist or the business will turn around before it runs out of money.