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15. Notes with appreciation that the overall utilization factor for 1997 exceeded the benchmark of 80 per cent, in particular at Geneva and Vienna

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11. Welcomes the improvement, relative to 1995, in the overall utilization factor for 1996, which exceeded the benchmark of 80 per cent, in particular at Geneva and Vienna

So, if the PBOC sets the interest rate on one year deposits at 3 , commercial banks can offer depositors a rate as high as 3.3 . Many analysts viewed this policy, which introduced a small degree of previously non existent competition among commercial banks, as a sign that China would soon liberalize interest rates further.

Meanwhile, Western central banks are using another kind of financial repression by maintaining negative real interest rates (yielding less than the rate of inflation), which enables them to service their debt for free. The European Central Bank s policy rate stands at 0.75 , while the eurozone s annual inflation rate is 2.5 .

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While the federal funds rate may be heading to 1 over the next 12 or 18 months, by then the narrowing GDP gap will imply an even higher Taylor rule interest rate. And, complicating things further, given US banks vast holdings of excess reserves as a result of the Fed s bond buying policies (quantitative easing), the federal funds rate is no longer the key policy rate that it once was.

23. Mr. Yamagiwa (Japan) welcomed the improvement in the overall utilization of conference servicing resources to the extent that the utilization factor had exceeded the benchmark of 80 per cent.

20. The Committee on Conferences took note with appreciation that the overall utilization factor for 1997 exceeded the benchmark of 80 per cent and that the utilization factors at Geneva and Vienna, respectively, were 87 per cent and 88 per cent.

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Fear over the growth effects of the European Central Bank s 2006 rate increases is based on confusion between real and nominal interest rates. By the end of the year, European interest rates will have been raised 150 basis points (to 3.5 , from 2 in January).

The fact that the Provident Fund humanitarian loans do not carry any interest rate (commercial or otherwise) renders the effective interest rate method for amortization inapplicable, as there are no interest deductions from the repayment instalments as required by the effective rate method.

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The 2005 average actual rate was used for Kigali.

But, in the end, the FOMC members must recognize that they cannot postpone the increase in interest rates indefinitely, and that once they begin to raise the rates, they must get the real (inflation adjusted) federal funds rate to 2 relatively quickly. My own best guess is that they will start to raise rates in September, and that the federal funds rate will reach 3 by some point in 2017.

All of this implies that if the economy is at full employment and targeted inflation, the federal funds rate should equal 2 plus the rate of inflation. It should be higher if the inflation rate is above the target level and lower if current GDP is less than the full employment level.

On June 27, the People s Bank of China lowered the reserve requirement ratio and the benchmark interest rate. But the Shanghai Composite Index kept falling, reaching 4,200 on July 1.

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The trend of Hong Kong dollar interest rates and US dollar interest rates will be more consistent. Everyone must be more careful to manage risks and prepared to cope with market fluctuations.

III. Review of the problems and factors involved in bodies whose utilization factor was below the benchmark figure for at least three sessions

But what matters is the real rate of interest, that is, the difference between the market rate and inflation. Aggregate economic balance may require a negative real interest rate but with inflation at an all time low the IMF expects it to be negative this year and next in the advanced economies, and zero in the emerging economies this is not feasible.

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America s Interest Rate Puzzle

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