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- Implications of Lower Interest Rates. Ali, Muhammad Imtiaz // Economic Review (05318955);Feb2000, Vol. 31 Issue 2, p6
Discusses the implications of lower interest rates for the economy of Pakistan. Goal of creating additional demand for credit and to make low-cost credit available to industries; Role of market forces on interest rates; Government fiscal policies affecting interest rates; Background on the...
- Interest rate cut--expect only a token impact. Preece, Howard // Finance Week;06/22/2001, p17
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- Fed rate cut drives prime to 8.75% at some banks. Matthews, Gordon // American Banker;7/7/95, Vol. 160 Issue 129, p1
Reports that banks cut their prime rates on July 6, 1995 after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates for the first time in nearly three years. Banc One Corp. and BankAmerica Corp. as among the first to cut rates; Fed's cutting of its target rate for overnight loans of bank reserves; Increase...
- Are Prime Rate Changes Asymmetric? Dueker, Michael J. // Review (00149187);Sep/Oct2000, Vol. 82 Issue 5, p33
Focuses on the asymmetric relation between prime rates and market interest rates in the United States. Reasons for the asymmetric behavior of prime rates; Use of a dynamic ordered probit model; Data and estimation results on the rate relationship.
- Prime rates, Federal Reserve signaling, and financial instability. Epstein, Gerald // Journal of Post Keynesian Economics;Summer90, Vol. 12 Issue 4, p618
Describes a simple model of prime rate setting process used by the United States Federal Reserve in times of financial instability. Illustration of the process for estimating discount rate setting; Results indicating that commercial banks did not coordinate their prime rates using the Federal...
- Interest rates. // Indianapolis Business Journal;5/6/96, Vol. 17 Issue 7, p34A
Presents information on bank interest rates in Indiana, as of May 2, 1996.
- Key rates. // American Banker;9/29/1995, Vol. 160 Issue 188, p24
Presents a chart showing bank rates in the United States as of September 29, 1995. Federal funds; Prime rate; Eurodollars; Dealer commercial paper.
- BANK BASE RATES. // Accountancy;Oct98, Vol. 122 Issue 1262, p56
Presents on the bank base rates in Great Britain, from February 2002 to January 1996.
- Soundbites . . . // Professional Engineering;6/23/2004, Vol. 17 Issue 11, p19
The article presents respondents' views on interest rates hike in the Bank of England. According to responder Oliver Kirkby, "The last two interest rate rises were largely due to the housing and credit booms, it's wrong that manufacturing should have to share the burden for controlling these...
