MishTalk

OCTOBER 1, 2014

There was a sharp sell-off in the benchmark Merval stock index after Mr Fábrega’s departure was announced. Benchmark deposit rates are at 21%, while inflation is widely believed to be nearly 40%. The government has meddled in wheat production since 2006 by raising export taxes and setting export quotas. pesos for each greenback.

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MishTalk

APRIL 26, 2014

On Friday, April 25th, Russia’s central bank raised its benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points to 7.5 The past few days have been particularly painful for Russian fixed income,” Benoit Anne, the London-based head of emerging-market strategy at Societe Generale SA, said by e-mail yesterday. The Russian economy expanded 1.3

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 26, 2014

While the benchmark deposit rate was officially lowered from 3.00% to 2.75%, the upper limit that banks can pay for deposits remained unchanged at 3.30%. It may seem strange to have both a benchmark rate and a “floating range” that establishes a cap, instead of just setting a cap, as was the case until very recently.

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Banking System Benchmarking Finance 71

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JULY 25, 2015

Federal prosecutors are currently probing an alleged leak at the Fed of market-sensitive information to a private financial newsletter in 2012. "It Unintentional Projections One hike in 2015 : The staff expected policymakers would raise their benchmark interest rate, known as the Fed funds rate, enough for it to average 0.35

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MishTalk

JANUARY 13, 2015

But, almost unnoticed, the market has started to price a return to the parity between the two benchmarks in five years. The bet on a return to WTI-Brent parity appears based on progress to build several new pipelines that promise to de-bottleneck Cushing, the key delivery point for the WTI benchmark, and the return of Libyan crude.

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JANUARY 12, 2014

Google ranked only number 21 based on issued patents in 2012 and was not even in the top 50 in 2011, according to an annual ranking compiled by IFI Claims, a patent research company. The jump partly reflects new products such as the Google Glass “smart” glasses and its development of driverless cars, said Mr Lo.

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AUGUST 4, 2015

July saw factory production in Greece contract sharply amid an unprecedented drop in new orders and difficulties in purchasing raw materials. July’s sharp decrease in the level of new business at manufacturers surpassed the previous record set in February 2012. well below the neutral 50.0 mark and its lowest ever reading.

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Banking Small Business Retail Benchmarking 28

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MAY 29, 2014

As Millennials became a larger and larger share of the marketplace, the idea of “cause marketing” has evolved from a nascent promotional strategy to the key differentiator, not only in deciding what to buy, but who to trust and reward with brand loyalty. Cone’s 2013 survey of over 1,200 U.S.

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JANUARY 23, 2015

Necessary basic reforms are crucial in Europe if it is to restore global competitiveness, increase productivity and get the unemployed back to work. The crucial point is that the ECB has set a benchmark against which cessation of the programme must now be justified. Above all, it will keep going until it hits its target.

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JANUARY 3, 2014

Trillion Yuan in Audit The Washington Post notes "Local debt now equals about 33 percent of China’s gross domestic product, up from about 10 percent in 2008 and almost nothing in 1997." Assets in exchange-traded products backed by gold fell 33 percent to the lowest since 2009 amid sales by billionaires George Soros and John Paulson."

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