Sentences with phrase «other federal rates»

Congress still sets the interest rate, but it's generally higher than other federal rates.

Not exact matches

In the U.S., unemployment is below the U.S. Federal Reserve's (Fed's) estimate of the «natural» rate that is consistent with stable wage growth, while unemployment rates in many other developed economies are rapidly approaching a similar point.

That leaves the U.S. Federal Reserve the best part of a year to widen the gap between U.S. and Eurozone interest rates still further, a trend that will make the dollar more attractive vis - a-vis the euro (all other things being equal).

Unsatisfied with the unemployment rate, the U.S. Federal Reserve added numerous other labour - related gauges to its dashboard, including participation numbers and the pace at which Americans were quitting their jobs.

«We are pleased the federal court in San Diego decided Qualcomm must establish the fair value of its technology and defend its business practices in court before forcing Apple and others to pay exorbitant and unfair rates, which amount to a tax on our own inventions,» Apple spokesman Josh Rosenstock said in a statement.

To tweak interest rates, the Fed adjusted the federal funds rate, also known as the interbank lending rate, which is used by financial institutions to set the prime rate, or the base rate upon which other interest rates are set.

That's likely an extreme case, but other investigations by state attorneys general and the Federal Trade Commission have routinely found debt - settlement companies with completion rates of 10 % or less.

If the 8,000 Canadians who received stock options as part of incomes over $ 250,000 paid taxes on this money at the same rate as the rest of their income — treating executive compensation the same way you treat the income of any other working stiff — it would have raised $ 337 million for federal coffers in 2009, a down year for options.

The yield, a barometer for mortgage rates and other financial instruments, has jumped in April on signs of nascent inflation and as the Federal Reserve stood by its plan to gradually tighten monetary policy.

Increasing the federal rate to 19 per cent would bring us up to the average of the other G - 7 countries.

The greenback may lag further against its peers in 2018 as investors expected other major central banks to reduce their stimulus while the Federal Reserve has signaled it would raise interest rates further, analysts said.

But the biggest driver may be the Federal Reserve, which raised U.S. interest rates on Wednesday, at a time when few other central banks are.

Repeating a theme at the Delivering Alpha conference, Singer faulted the Federal Reserve and others for creating unusual dangers that are unique in the «5,000 years - ish» history of finance due to low and negative interest rates.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

And the New York Fed president has a permanent seat on the Federal Reserve's interest - rate - setting committee, whereas heads of the other regional branches have to share rotating seats.

If I'm right (and others have made the same prediction), and the jobless rate falls further this year, a key question is whether the Federal Reserve will accommodate or pushback on falling unemployment.

It is of great importance that the public is confident that the federal funds rate will be, on average over time, within the target range set forth by the FOMC, and that other money market rates will continue to move closely with changes in the federal funds rate.

Team members present their analysis to Federal Reserve officials and other experts, recommend a target interest rate, and respond to questions.

A number of operational features were required to implement such an overnight reverse repo, or ON RRP, facility: It would need same - day settlement; 16 the operation would need to be run predictably, every day, and as late in the day as possible, to give lenders time to bargain with other counterparties using the outside option of investing with the Federal Reserve; 17 an appropriate spread below IOR would be required to ensure that the facility neither induced large changes in the structure of money markets nor lost the ability to support interest rate control; 18 and the operations would need enough unused capacity that lenders could credibly propose to leave borrowers that did not offer an adequate interest rate.19

All federal student loan interest rates are fixed, unlike other lenders who may offer a variable interest rate option to borrowers.

The other provinces would have access to Canada Pension Plan surpluses, in proportion to the contributions made by their residents, through the sale of provincial bonds and provincially guaranteed securities on 20 year terms at the long - term federal bond rate.

Despite several rate hikes this year, the federal funds rate is low, which means other interest rates also are low.

Federal Funds Sold are short - term loans to other depository financial institutions without any collateral, provided by Federal Reserve banks, usually at the Federal Funds rate.

Instead, the Federal Reserve's new framework is premised on the payment of interest on reserves and on ensuring sufficient competition in money markets so that the rate of interest paid on reserves is passed through to other money market rates and thus to deposit rates offered to households and firms.2

Federal Funds Purchased are short - term loans to other depository financial institutions without any collateral, provided by Federal Reserve banks, usually at the Federal Funds rate.

Direct program expenses were up $ 1.0 billion (5.5 %), primarily due to the timing of payments as well as an increase in federal government employee pension and other future benefit liabilities, reflecting the impact of lower interest rates.

Federal Fund rates commonly known as the fed rates are the interest rates banks charge each other overnight.

Refinancing one private loan to another private loan is a less drastic decision, since it's more or less a switch from one set of interest rates and conditions to another, with no loss of federal benefits or other factors.

SYDNEY (Reuters)- The dollar rose to its highest in over four years against a basket of currencies on Thursday after the Federal Reserve's guidance on interest rates highlighted the diverging pathways between the United States and other rich nations.

We do support, however, changes to the funding and management of the federal employees» pension plans, including the move to more equitable contribution rates, changes in retirement provisions for new employees, among others.

On the other side of the debate, Narayana Kocherlakota, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, argued in a speech on Thursday night that the Fed should not raise rates this year because price inflation remains too low.

The U.S. economy and others are «too highly leveraged» to tolerate a federal funds rate above 2 % when inflation is near 2 %, he says.

That unit has a higher credit rating because the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (that is, you and me and other taxpayers) are backing the deposits.

The federal government can borrow at a much lower interest rate than the other jurisdictions, given its strong credit position.

The combined federal - provincial tax rate for small businesses in B.C. will remain at 13 per cent for 2016, which is reasonable when compared to other jurisdictions (and lower than all other Canadian provinces except Manitoba and Saskatchewan).

This is because Navy Federal has a maximum interest rate of 18 % whereas most other lenders have rates up to 36 %.

The Federal Reserve has limited options, other than to keep interest rates low and money supply plentiful.

Entering 2017, few strategists» calls were as unanimous as the view that the U.S. dollar, already at a 14 - year high, would strengthen because the Federal Reserve was hiking interest rates while other central banks remained accommodative.

This hypothetical illustration assumes the investor met the holding requirement for long - term capital gains tax rates (longer than one year), the gains were taxed at the current maximum federal rate of 23.8 %, and the loss was not disallowed for tax purposes due to a wash sale, related party sale, or other reason.

This kind of money has been made by speculating on Brazilian, Indian and Chinese securities and those of other countries whose exchange rates have been forced up by credit - flight out of the dollar, which has fallen by 7 % against a basket of currencies since early September when the Federal Reserve floated the prospect of quantitative easing.

In the U.S., the Federal Reserve (the Fed) is moving toward a more «normalized» stance on interest rates, while other countries and regions are heading in the opposite direction.

As in other cities, 5/1 ARM rates were quoted as higher than fixed - rate mortgages at every bank except Third Federal.

Some reasons for the fall include: the Federal Reserve lowering the Fed Funds rate, declining inflation, improved monetary efficiency, economic slack, the continued global demand for US assets, and relative stability in the US vs. other markets.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Under the other TRAs, we generally will be required to pay to each Reorganization Party described under «Organizational Structure» approximately 85 % of the amount of savings, if any, in U.S. federal, state and local income tax that we are deemed to realize (using the actual U.S. federal income tax rate and an assumed combined state and local income tax rate) as a result of:

Much of the outperformance in growth stocks can be attributed to historically - low interest rates brought on by the Federal Reserve and other central banks.

That's when the Federal Reserve lowers the fed funds rate, and all other interest rates fall as a result.

While the Federal Reserve has no control over it, the prime interest rate is usually pegged to the federal funds rate (or the rate at which banks and credit unions lend funds to other financial institutions through overnight transacFederal Reserve has no control over it, the prime interest rate is usually pegged to the federal funds rate (or the rate at which banks and credit unions lend funds to other financial institutions through overnight transacfederal funds rate (or the rate at which banks and credit unions lend funds to other financial institutions through overnight transactions).

They include as potential influencers three other precious metals futures, crude oil spot and futures, two commodity indexes, U.S. and world stock indexes, currency exchange rates, 10 - year U.S. Treasury note (T - note) yield, U.S. Federal Funds Rate (FFR), a volatility index (VIX) and U.S. and world consumer price indexes.

Consequently, the Fed can no longer target the effective federal funds rate, and influence other short - term interest rates, just by making modest changes to the stock of bank reserves.