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As universally expected, the Federal Reserve left things as they were after yesterday's Federal Open Market Committee meeting: the target for the Fed funds rate stays between 0 and 0.25 per cent and the bank will continue to buy $ 40 billion - worth of mortgage - backed securities, plus $ 45 billion of longer - term treasuries per month.

The Reserve Bank of Australia has left the cash rate unchanged at 2.25 per cent after cutting it in February.

In turn, Bolger added, the bank's effective tax rate after one fiscal year will move to the lower end of its range of 22 per cent to 24 per cent.

Eighty per cent of CEIBS» international grads express interest in working in China after graduating, but, says MBA director of Admissions and Career Services Yvonne Li, «the successful staying rate is 50 %.»

Green's attack on the lenders came after he discovered that loans of $ 300 were costing up to $ 1,600 because of fees and annualized interest rates he found to be about 546 per cent.

After accounting for the impacts of measures and adjustments, the Sales Tax revenue base is projected to grow at an average annual rate of 4.3 per cent over the forecast period, roughly consistent with the average annual growth in nominal consumption of 4.0 per cent over this period.

The Fed left its key short - term rate at 1.5 per cent to 1.75 per cent — the level it set in March after its sixth increase since December 2015 — as it gradually tightens credit to control inflation against the backdrop of a tight labour market and a pickup in consumer prices.

Investors saw about a 78 per cent chance that interest rates will be higher after the June meeting, according to federal funds futures prices at midday New York time.

A report from the Labor Department showed hourly worker compensation accelerated at a 3.4 per cent rate in the first quarter after rising at a 2.4 per cent pace in the October - December period.

However, the additional tax burden has become less severe after the headline US corporate tax rate was lowered to 21 per cent from 35 per cent.

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The country's biggest banks raised their prime rates after the Bank of Canada hiked its overnight lending rate earlier this month by a quarter of a percentage point to 1.25 per cent.

Cenovus Energy Inc. closed down 5.56 per cent after it said its oilsands operations have been operating at reduced rates due to wider - than - normal light - heavy oil price differentials and pipeline capacity constraints.

It's not news that the MPs» plan promises rich benefits (although it certainly raises eyebrows that its indexed entitlements accrue at the rate of 3 per cent annually to a maximum of 75 per cent of the best five years of pay and are available after only six years of service).

After rising modestly over the first half of 2003, import volumes increased at an annualised rate of 16 per cent over the second half of the year, more than double the trend rate.

Today's surprise hike of the central bank's overnight lending rate to 1.0 per cent comes less than a week after the latest data for economic growth showed an impressive expansion of 4.5 per cent for Canada in the second quarter.

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On Thursday, Royal Bank of Canada will hike its five - year fixed - rate mortgage to 3.89 per cent, one day after the Bank of Montreal raised its rate to 3.79 per cent.

Other central banks to ease included the Bank of Canada which cut its policy rate by 25 basis points in July to 3.0 per cent, and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, which cut a further 25 basis points to 5.00 per cent in July, after similar - sized cuts in April and June.

After moderating in the first half of 2003, the volume of imports expanded by 3 1/4 per cent in the September quarter, to be 12 1/2 per cent higher over the year, which is well above trend rates of growth.

After only modest growth initially following the 2001 global recession, international trade in goods and services has rebounded strongly of late, increasing by about 10 per cent in 2004, or approximately double the rate of growth in world GDP (Graph A1).

At a quarterly rate, the increases in the March and June quarters (0.5 and 0.4 per cent) show a small pick - up after a succession of increases of 0.3 per cent in 1997.

Over recent months the unemployment rate has fallen to 5.6 per cent, after it had moved in a narrow band of between 6 and 6 1/4 per cent for most of the past year.

Again, empirical work suggests that, at current levels of approvals and credit growth, a once - only 10 per cent decline in approvals would reduce the monthly rate of credit growth by around 0.3 of a percentage point after about three months (Graph C3).

If they continue to save $ 400 per week and the accounts were to grow at an average rate of 3 per cent per year after inflation with an aggressive strategy, they would have about $ 1,000,000 in 2017 dollars on the eve of Sam's retirement at 65.

If well invested at our assumed rate of 3 per cent after inflation, the return would partially make up for the loss of 7.2 per cent per year penalty charged.

Future TFSA income based on present balances of $ 108,437 growing at the present rate of $ 7,200 per year for the next 12 years at 3 per cent after inflation would rise to $ 259,850 and support payments of $ 15,342 per year.

If the Fed does stick with its forecast for three rate increases this year and three in 2019, its key policy rate would stand at 3.4 per cent after five years of credit tightening.

, the best that they could come up with was a FIVE PER CENT «success» rate (i.e. of the AA attendee actually staying sober after 1 year!).

Thirdly, after putting up its prices on Coles, Arnott's is now being attacked for tax offshoring, despite paying an effective tax rate of 31 per cent on its Australian earnings.

The Australian dollar hit a fresh four - month low, to US73.53 cents, after the release of the disappointing retail sales figures, which reinforced expectations of steady interest rates for months to come.

The Australian dollar surged above US80 cents after the Australian Bureau of Statistics released higher - than - expected core inflation data, crushing market expectations of a rate cut at next week's Reserve Bank of Australia meeting.

Late on Tuesday, Domino's committed to introducing a 10 per cent penalty rate for work after 10 pm and a 15 per cent penalty rates for work after 12 am from December 1.

Late on Tuesday, after several years of negotiations, Domino's finally proposed a new agreement that paid workers a few cents higher than the award rate and introduced three - hour minimum shifts.

After the government failed to bring in the new top rate for individuals, French companies will now have to pay the 75 per cent rate as a business cost (30 per cent up to $ 1m then an additional 45 per cent afAfter the government failed to bring in the new top rate for individuals, French companies will now have to pay the 75 per cent rate as a business cost (30 per cent up to $ 1m then an additional 45 per cent afterafter).

In New Lenox, the Public Library District is seeking voter approval of a 13 - cent increase in its tax rate to restore hours of service at the library that were cut after a proposed 15 - cent tax rate increase was rejected in November.

The figures show cancer patients now enjoy a 46.2 per cent survival rate ten years after diagnosis, an increase from 23.6 per cent 30 years ago.

From April next year, there'll be a one percent increase in the main rate of Class 4 National Insurance Contributions for the self - employed, with another one per cent increase the year after.

Labour's approval rating has slumped to 27 per cent after Gordon Brown's potentially endured one of his worst weeks as prime minister.

There have been renewed concerns about the economy after official figures showed a 0.5 per cent jump in the rate of unemployment from the previous quarter as 164,000 people lost their jobs.

Meanwhile the headline rate of the retail Price Index (RPI) inflation rose from -0.8 per cent in October, after hovering at -1.4 per cent the month before.

Back in November 1979, six months after Margaret Thatcher became prime minister, interest rates hit 17 per cent, the highest since records began in 1694.

This came the day after the prime minister, interviewed by Andrew Marr on BBC 1, talked of the 15 per cent interest rates «in the last world downturn».

Asthma admissions and preterm birth rates both fell by 10 per cent within a year after smoking restrictions were implemented, on average (The Lancet, doi.org/r49).

The UBC Okanagan study found that 42 per cent of U.S. adult male inmates who did not take psychedelic drugs were arrested within six years for domestic battery after their release, compared to a rate of 27 per cent for those who had taken drugs such as LSD, psilocybin (commonly known as magic mushrooms) and MDMA (ecstasy).

Incidences of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) are happening more often, with patients facing low chances of surviving the disease using current treatments - this can be as low as five per cent survival rate 12 months after diagnosis.

In fact, the volume of the brain and its weight declines with age at a rate of around five per cent per decade after age 40.

It is true that younger people burn calories faster than older people; metabolic rate peaks in our teenage years and drops by about three per cent every year after that.

In 2009 Riverside Primary School in Rotherhithe, South East London, scored a 100 per cent pass rate in Sats tests in English, maths and science after pupils were taught breathing exercises by a yoga teacher before the exams.

After six months, nearly 90 per cent of women rated the outcome of their cosmetic surgeries as «good» or «very good».