Sentences with phrase «last time interest»

The average interest rate on credit card accounts was 11.83 percent in May, the Fed report said, the same reading as in February, the last time interest rates were examined in the consumer debt figures.

You can expect to get back the face value of the bonds plus any interest that has accrued since the last time interest was paid to you.

Not exact matches

Banking also offers some tantalizing practical applications for deep - learning innovators, too; of the three possibilities listed by Agrafioti — personalized AI - driven customer service, real - time fraud prevention and risk management — it's the last one that might appeal most to those interested in industry disruption.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Sure, the world has changed over the last 90 years, but that time period does include periods when interest rates were every bit as low as they are today.

Treasury officials looked at the idea of just paying debt interest the last time Congress pulled this stunt in July 2011.

The Fed raised interest rates last December for the first time in nearly a decade, and at that time projected four more hikes in 2016.

Still, the launch came at a time when cryptocurrency markets fell sharply from their record highs last year, suggesting interest may have declined.

Nor is it a coincidence that our least favourite airlines seem to be the ones that repaint their planes the most often, or that BlackBerry underwent a name change just in time for what may be its last act (substitute Alicia Keys for Drake as the borrowed pop - culture interest in that story).

Some examples are, perhaps the other civilizations aren't interested in communicating or perhaps they don't last very long, so although a lot of them, they come to exist, at any one time, there aren't very many.

For only the second time since 2008, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates last week, surprising no one.

And it could convert some pirates to paying subscribers — Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes admitted on an earnings call last year that «Game of Thrones» is the most pirated show in the world, which he said was «better than an Emmy» for driving interest in the network.

The approach comes at a time of renewed interest by large drugmakers in smaller biotech firms, with U.S. - based Celgene clinching a deal to buy Impact Biomedicines for up to $ 7 billion on Sunday and Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical agreeing last week to buy another Belgian biotech group TiGenix for $ 630 million.

Fed chief Janet Yellen's confidence as her team raised interest rates for the third time in six months last week surprised investors who had expected more caution about the economy.

Think about the last time you attended an event about something you were interested in.

Last week, the Danish central bank cut interest rates to a record low for the third time in 10 days, while Russian policymakers reduced the central bank's main interest rate amid mounting recession fears.

The central bank, which has raised its benchmark interest three times since last summer, has said it is carefully monitoring the economy's sensitivity to higher interest rates.

Typically retail firms roll over debt to buy time, but interest rates have risen since the last set of buyouts several years ago, making that prospect more expensive.

Keen for the core audience of young men who come to Vice, media giants like 21st Century Fox, Time Warner and Disney all showed interest in the company last year.

Fisher, who was addressing a New York audience for likely the last time before stepping down, again warned against delaying an interest rate hike in the face of weak inflation, according to Reuters.

And in the face of record valuations and record debt, we're seeing rising interest rates (the yield on the 10 - year Treasury hit 3 % last week for the first time since 2014) and other signs of inflation like rising oil and copper prices.

Looking back over the Hansard of the last meeting in May 2001, I see that I was explaining why we had lowered interest rates three times (in February, March and April).

It's been a very, very long time since I added to any of my health REITs as most have performed quite well until last summer when their gradual decline began to take hold as interest rate hike fears began to grip the sector.

For the third time in two years, the Federal Reserve lifted interest rates 0.25 percent last week following the previous week's phenomenal jobs report.

WESSEL: Right, five times in the last five years - and interest rates are still low.

What is more interesting, though, is the story of Windows» decline in Redmond, culminating with last week's reorganization that, for the first time since 1980, left the company without a division devoted to personal computer operating systems (Windows was split, with the core engineering group placed under Azure, and the rest of the organization effectively under Office 365; there will still be Windows releases, but it is no longer a standalone business).

Generally, this period lasts around 20 years, but the timing can vary depending on the amount borrowed and how much the interest rate has fluctuated.

The executive, who co-founded Dish more than 30 years ago, contacted Deutsche Telekom AG last year, expressing an interest in buying its T - Mobile US Inc. unit after a deal to merge T - Mobile with Sprint Corp. fell apart, people with knowledge of the matter said at the time.

The Fed, at Janet Yellen's last meeting, made clear that they're on track to raise interest rates three times, maybe four times this year.

The last time the United Kingdom's central bank increased bank rates was in July 2007, when it hiked interest rates from 5.50 to 5.75 percent.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

The People's Bank of China cut interest rates four times between November and the end of June, with the last of these cuts seen in part as an effort to prop up stock prices.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell, who was sworn in as Fed Chair to replace Janet Yellen in early February, indicated in testimony before Congress late last month that the Fed would likely need to raise interest rates four times in 2018.

late last month that the Fed would likely need to raise interest rates four times in 2018.

Despite the fact that we do live in interesting times, short term we repeat last year's mantra: BORING IS GOOD and VALUE plus GROWTH IS BEST and Trade for short term profit 15 - 25 % moves.

Nassim Taleb was on Bloomberg TV yesterday making an interesting point (his TV appearances have been less interesting in the last couple of years) that although made many time before in many places is still important.

The 2017 tax year will be the last time that you can deduct interest paid on home equity loans and home equity lines of credit if you borrowed up to $ 100,000, no matter how you spent the money.

Federal Reserve officials referred to an improved labor market last week as they announced the end to a third round of quantitative easing while repeating a pledge to keep interest rates low for a «considerable time.»

But he stresses that he did this analysis on his own because he's been asked so many times lately what could happen to the housing market — which has already suffered a slump in sales and an easing of growth in prices since tougher mortgage lending rules were introduced last summer — if interest rates inch up from historic lows.

On the back of improving economic data, the Fed raised interest rates last December for only the second time since 2006.

The U.S. central bank hiked its overnight benchmark interest rate last December for the first time in nearly a decade.

Strong investor interest in mergers and acquisitions for education companies is likely to continue for the second half of 2015, after a record - setting first half of the year in which the value of transactions reached $ 6.11 billion — 29 percent higher than the same time last year, according to Peter Yoon, a managing director for education at Berkery Noyes, an investment bank.

Last week, China cut interest rates for the first time in three years, as economic growth in that country has fallen to the point where talks of a hard landing are gaining momentum.

If interest rates are around one, that gets you down to negative four, so this is how it's been every time for the last 70 years.

Richard: Great insight as always, and last time we talked about the commercial real estate bubble and we thought today we'd do a special focus on the millennial generation and how financial repression through repressed interest rates and quantitative easing has resulted in asset bubbles that ultimately have affected the millennial generation in terms of their values, how they look at the economy and life and the way they're conducting themselves in the economy: what they're facing in terms of the housing market and the job situation.

Last time we talked about the commercial real estate bubble and we thought today we'd do a special focus on the millennial generation and how financial repression through repressed interest rates and quantitative easing has resulted in asset bubbles that ultimately have affected the millennial generation in terms of their values, how they look at the economy and life and the way they're conducting themselves in the economy: what they're facing in terms of the housing market and the job situation.

The Federal Reserve meeting last week, where the central bank raised interest rates for the fifth time in the last 15 months and signaled two more are on the way by the end of the year, should have breathed new life into the bears.

This opened up an interesting opportunity for a national debate about what we want E.I. to be — coverage right now is at all time lows, and the accumulated deficit from the last recession -LSB-...]

Whereas this time last year crypto was largely confined to the grimy underbelly of the Internet, the market's 2017 runup has everybody and their grandmother interested in the digital tokens.

The Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate last month and said it would raise rates two more times this year.