Autofire — Allows holding down the primary weapon key / button for
a nominal rate of fire.
Our cat suites are available at
a nominal rate of $ 15 to $ 17.50 for 24 hours and canine suites at $ 20 to $ 24.50 for 24 hours.
So, a general rule of thumb is that if
the nominal rate of the card is significantly higher than your other debts, pay it off first even if there is a 0 % introductory period.
What are you using for your predicted
nominal rate of return for stocks / bonds and the rate of inflation?
Isn't the 80 year
nominal rate of return nearly 10 %?
This method expresses
the nominal rate of return in real terms, which keeps the purchasing power of a given level of capital constant over time.
In other words, even though
the nominal rate of return on your savings is 5 percent, the real rate of return is only 2 percent, which means the real value of your savings only increases by 2 percent during a one - year period.
The real rate of return is
the nominal rate of return minus the inflation rate.
The nominal rate of interest minus the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index (i.e. the rate of inflation).
I believe a mid-single digit
nominal rate of return over the next 5 - 10 years in the current interest rate environment would be a somewhat optimistic outlook for U.S. stock market returns.
The math calculation of RRSP and TFSA benefits ($ 1,165) equals the difference between the future values of the after tax savings ($ 3,500) compounded for 10 years, at
the nominal rate of return (10 %) vs. at the after - tax rate of return (8.5 %).
«Tax Efficiency» (or the «Tax Haircut») measures «the difference between an asset's
nominal rate of return and its after - tax rate of return» in a taxable account.
While
the nominal rate of return reflects the investor's earnings as a percentage of his initial investment, the real rate takes inflation into account.
Second, it meant (and means) that investors are finally receiving at least
a nominal rate of interest on their cash equivalents and short - term bond holdings going forward — a welcome change for patient value investors.
The nominal rate of return is the annual percentage return realized on an investment before being adjusted for inflation and taxes.
The nominal rate of return gives you an idea of how your money / investment is growing, while the Real Rate of Return tells you how much your purchasing power is growing.
You need to give importance to
both nominal rate of return and real - rate of return.
The formula to calculate real return given nominal return is r = (1 + R) / (1 + i)- 1, where r = real rate of return, R =
nominal rate of return, and i = inflation rate.
It is possible for real interest rates to be negative if the inflation rate exceeds
the nominal rate of an investment.
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Even if we agree that «doing nothing» means «doing nothing with
the nominal rate of interest», that leaves open the question of how long the Bank holds
the nominal rate of interest constant.
Despite some investors waxing rhapsodic about things like «mass collaboration and sharing enabled by technology and global communications networks,» S&P 500 Index revenues have grown at
a nominal rate of just 3.2 % annually over the past 20 years, and just 1.6 % annually over the past decade, and that includes the benefit of stock buybacks.
Between 1967 and 2007, the US economy grew at an average
nominal rate of 7.3 % per annum.
Not exact matches
If the Fed were to adopt an operating policy
of achieving a steady
rate of growth in
nominal thin - air credit, it could return to its prior anonymity.
«A decrease in
nominal GDP growth resulting solely from a one - year, 1 - percentage - point decrease in the
rate of GDP inflation» reduces the budgetary balance by $ 1.9 billion.
Financial outlook assumes EUR / USD exchange
rate of 1.15;
nominal launch schedule and satellite health status and includes the impact
of IFRS accounting changes.
(The Bank
of Canada estimates that the
nominal neutral interest
rate, or the
rate at which the level
of interest is neither stimulative or contractionary, is between 2.75 % and 3.75 %, compared with 4.5 % and 5.5 % before the crisis.)
«The recent behavior
of both
nominal and real wages point to weaker labor market conditions than would be indicated by the current unemployment
rate,» Yellen said in a speech to central bankers last week.
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.
Real interest
rates, which subtract inflation from the
nominal rate to show the true cost
of borrowing, soared as high as 8 % in the aftermath, as demand for goods and services evaporated and prices tumbled.
Finally, in a
nominal GDP targeting regime, a decline in r - star caused by slower trend growth automatically leads to a higher
rate of trend inflation, providing a larger buffer to respond to economic downturns.
Table 3 shows the changes in the average private sector economic forecasts for
nominal GDP (the most applicable tax base for budgetary revenues), and for short - and long - term interest
rates, from the first estimate
of the deficit to the final outcome.
This occurs when the
nominal interest
rate is equal to the growth
rate of nominal wages.
There is,
of course, a great deal
of skepticism about the 7 % real GDP growth
rate that China has reported, but we should remember that in the first quarter,
nominal GDP growth was much lower, 5.8 %.
Because
nominal wage growth for a large fraction
of workers has been held to zero, a somewhat higher
rate of inflation would grease the wheels
of the labor market by allowing real wages to fall (Akerlof, Dickens, and Perry 1996).
Since the average
nominal wage
rate has now risen to $ 21 an hour, the amount given back by the borrower is still equivalent to 1,000 hours
of labour - time.
They include upwards revisions in economic forecasts, expectation
of monetary tightening, rising real and
nominal long - term interest
rates, fiscal stimulus on a huge scale in a full employment economy, rising protectionism that should choke off import flows, and tax reform directed at reducing capital outflows and increasing capital inflows.
I use the term «forecast» somewhat loosely, since these are conditioned on a range
of assumptions, such as a fixed
nominal exchange
rate and a particular path for the cash
rate, and hence could better be described as «projections».
Low inflation and the impossibility
of pushing
nominal interest
rates significantly below zero meant that there was little scope for lowering real interest
rates and easing credit conditions by conventional means.
The only important thing a Neo-Wicksellian would add is that it's important to distinguish between
nominal and real
rates of interest (real =
nominal minus inflation), so if we have a 2 % inflation target we add 2 % to the natural
rate to get the «neutral»
nominal rate.
Neither group
of countries, in other words, could help us determine what a «normal» interest
rate is compared to
nominal GDP.
In this case the «cost»
of financial repression to households was the gap between
nominal GDP growth and
nominal lending
rates, plus an additional 1 - 1.5 % to account for the larger than normal gap between the lending
rate and the deposit
rate.
While stocks have a terminal value beyond a 10 - year period, the effects
of interest
rates and
nominal growth on those projections largely cancel out because higher
nominal GDP growth over a given 10 - year horizon is correlated with both higher interest
rates and generally lower market valuations at the end
of that period.
Most importantly, with
nominal GDP growth
rates having dropped from 20 % to 8 - 9 % the greatest
of all the distortions, the interest
rate distortion, has been the one most dramatically to adjust in the past three years.
First, it is now much harder for borrowers to justify investment in non-productive projects because they can no longer count on the huge gap between
nominal GDP growth and the lending
rate to bail them out
of bad investments.
In the last year or so, however, the official lending
rate has risen to 7.5 % and
nominal GDP has dropped to 8 - 9 % (and just under 8 % in the first quarter
of 2014).
The more appropriate measure
of financial repression is not the deflator, whichever one we choose to use, but rather very roughly the gap between the
nominal lending
rate and the
nominal GDP growth
rate, the latter
of which broadly represents the return on investment within the economy.
Well, we know that earnings, revenues, and
nominal GDP have historically proceeded at a peak - to - peak growth
rate of 6 % annually across economic cycles.
And that is a
nominal rate; if, for example, a government were to take on excessive debt and inflate itself to regain solvency, real
rates of return could easily be negative for equity holders.
But regardless
of the debate, the point to remember is that when the
nominal lending
rate is much below the
nominal GDP growth
rate, two very important things happen.