A high discount rate justifies only a modest carbon price, while a low discount rate justifies rapid, substantial action to reduce emissions.
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But even more daft, rather than the Obama administration's 3 percent discount rate, Trump's EPA is using a discount rate of 7 percent.
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That's daft, but even more daft, rather than the Obama administration's 3 percent discount rate, it is using a discount rate of 7 percent.
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The government also plans to consult the industry on the Ogden discount rate, including whether the existing methodology for setting the discount rate is appropriate.
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The remarkable result is that while the discount rate in the balance-sheet calculations has been falling, the discount rate used for the contribution of officials rose in 2016.
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For now the important point is that a higher discount rate leads to lower present-day ambition, while a lower discount rate (which puts a higher value on future damages) justifies more ambition.
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The higher the discount rate, the lower the present cost.
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A bond yield is thus the most appropriate discount rate.
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The higher the expected return, the higher the discount rate.
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The choice of a discount rate matters a great deal.
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But what discount rate you set determines how much more.
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The higher the discount rate, the less money has to be put aside now; American public plans tend to use a discount rate of around 7.5%, based on the investment return they expect to achieve.
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A higher discount rate is justified for riskier businesses, he said.
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Nine Fed members voted to raise the discount rate in November.
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That need not imply the use of a 0% discount rate.
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On a more conservative 23% discount rate, this drops to 45%.
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Mr Weitzman assumed that the correct discount rate is itself uncertain.
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The discount rate for students and educators remains $1 per week.
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Repatriation at a discount rate "is a tax break," he said.
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Which discount rate best serves our interest in valuing climate risk?
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On Thursday, the discount rate was also kept unchanged at 16.25 percent.
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General admission tickets are now available at an early-bird discount rate.
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The discount rate cut will push up the size of the payments.
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Depending on the discount rate, the answer ranges from $48 to $615.
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The discount rate corresponds to the return victims should expect from investments.
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The discount rate is how economists value costs and benefits across time.
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The Fed kept the discount rate unchanged at 2.25% at its Dec.
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Kuwait's central bank said it was maintaining its discount rate at 3%.
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It's the discount rate for the present value of the future cash flows.
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That suggests the yield on long-term debt is the appropriate discount rate.
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"We assign a relatively high discount rate to the proposed changes," Brown said.
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But many argue that he was too slow to raise the discount rate.
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BECAUSE WE'RE ALL DISCOUNTED – IT'S A DISCOUNT RATE FOR THE PRESENT ASSET CLASSES.
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But Mr. Trump's executive order points to using a 7 percent discount rate.
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General admission tickets are available at an early-bird discount rate until August 18th.
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Local governments and public workers groups pled for moderation in lowering the discount rate.
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What these data warranted was either leaving the discount rate unchanged or hiking it.
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The Fed opted to hold the discount rate steady last month at 1 percent.
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It's giving a discount rate of $29.99 per month on the first 1,000 orders.
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The further you peer into the future, the lower your discount rate should be.
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Finance uses something called the discount rate to compare future value with present value.
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In December, the board reduced the discount rate to reflect the new portfolio allocation.
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Our group chose to emphasize estimates based on a discount rate of 20093 percent.
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Which discount rate you choose completely shapes the results of your climate economic model.
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Britain announced plans to change the discount rate used to calculate compensation for personal injuries.
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But the central bank ultimately left the discount rate unchanged at 1 percent in June.
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Subjectivity comes in the determination of the future earnings, as well as the discount rate.
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The Fed left its benchmark lending rate and the discount rate unchanged at its Jan.
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The seemingly arcane debate about the discount rate on pension liabilities hinges around this point.
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The result is a nominal discount rate of 4.8% and a real rate of 20173%.
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The Ministry of Justice cut the discount rate to minus 0.75 percent from 2.5 percent .
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Then Britain would not be "punished" by the use of a historically low discount rate.
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"The discount rate is a symptom of the larger things they're facing," Mr. Behaunek said.
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The steadily growing tuition discount rate suggests that the price discrimination payoff is in decline.
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The Board of Governors raised the discount rate in December to 1.25 percent from 1 percent.
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This cost has jumped from around €22017bn in 22017 because the discount rate has fallen sharply.
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Directors at the St. Louis and Minneapolis Fed also wanted no change in the discount rate.
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This column has always argued for the use of a bond yield as the discount rate.
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As employers compete for scarce workers, the discount rate would rise and profits would be squeezed.
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The use of an appropriate discount rate reduces the social cost of carbon to approximately zero.
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Buffett went on to explain a few key differences between a discount rate for bonds and stocks.
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The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis asked to leave the discount rate unchanged, according to Fed minutes.
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What discount rate will you apply to compensate for the small probability of this deal working out?
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The higher the assumed return, the higher the discount rate and the lower the current cost appears.
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In the Budget, the British government lowered the discount rate it assumes for funding future pension liabilities.
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A year ago, the Bank of Tanzania cut its discount rate from 12 percent to 9 percent.
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The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers welcomed the new discount rate, which will be introduced on Aug.
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After one year, the discount rate would increase by 2.5 percent every six months, the paper said.
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Some insurers already set aside reserves for a lower interest rate than the 2.5% Ogden discount rate.
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In the 2005-06 academic year, the average freshman discount rate at private colleges was 1003 percent.
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The reversal was as a result of new rules issued by the insurance regulator which allow banks to calculate the policy reserves at a discount rate and "illiquidity premium" to be added on top of the eight-quarter weighted average government bond yields for the discount rate, it said.
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If the agency's standard discount rate is applied, the cost rises to $32 billion for each life saved.
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The discount rate is the interest rate the U.S. central bank places on its loans to commercial banks.
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So it is necessary to reduce the future payoffs by some annual percentage, known as a "discount rate".
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"About a quarter of institutions have rates well above 50 percent," Redd said of the freshman discount rate.
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A 7 percent discount rate is often used in present-day financial transactions — the stock market, for instance.
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You'll take that dollar today, but there's some discount rate where you would take, say, $1.50 next year.
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The discount rate was increased at the 11 banks that requested it at the end of that meeting.
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In the medium term, the revised Ogden discount rate represents a permanent, higher claims cost to motor insurers.
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A concept known as the discount rate makes it possible to translate future damages into their present value.
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Now there's a lot of challenges there obviously — how do you estimate the discount rate on these assets?
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It governs the discount rate, which puts a value on future income streams (the so-called capitalization rate).
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Not much: Only 8 percent of economists think the current discount-rate method is appropriate for climate policy.
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The decline in 2016 can largely be attributed to the one-off impact of the Ogden discount rate change.
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Six Federal Reserve banks wanted to raise the discount rate in June despite a shockingly weak May jobs report.
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But at a discount rate of 4%, today's sweet-toothed rational actor would be willing to forgo just two.
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This is based on a discount rate of 20703% in nominal terms and 22070% in real terms (after inflation).
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Unfortunately, the accounts of the England and Wales teachers' pension scheme show a real discount rate of just 0.24%.
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Equities are priced as the discounted value of future profits; the lower the discount rate, the higher the price.
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For all undergraduates, the average institutional tuition discount rate rose to an estimated 44.2 percent, up from 43 percent.
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The tuition discount rate is defined as institutional grant dollars as a percentage of gross tuition and fee revenue.
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All sixteen economists in a Reuters poll had expected the central bank would leave the benchmark discount rate unchanged.
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It should also decouple its discount rate from its rate of return, using something like the Muni 85033 Index.
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Companies calculate their liabilities to pensioners using a "discount rate", based on the yield on AA-rated corporate bonds.
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Taiwan's central bank kept its discount rate steady at 1.375 percent for the sixth consecutive quarterly meeting in December.
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In wanting to keep the discount rate unchanged, directors of the regional banks cited recent soft readings on inflation.
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Nine of the 12 banks voted to raise the discount rate in the last round of voting, in September.
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The Fed left its benchmark lending rate and the discount rate unchanged at its July 31 - Aug 1 meeting.
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HALF OF U.S. FED REGIONAL BANKS WANTED NO CHANGE TO DISCOUNT RATE AHEAD OF FED'S JULY POLICY MEETING- MINUTES
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DIRECTORS OF NEW YORK, BOSTON, CLEVELAND, ATLANTA, KANSAS CITY, RICHMOND FED BANKS WANTED NO CHANGE TO DISCOUNT RATE-MINUTES
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The Trump order would direct regulators to use a "discount rate" that would dramatically reduce, or eliminate, that cost.
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The discount rate represents how much the value of a present good fades as it is delayed into the future.
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In a broader sense, it increases the discount rate investors apply to future profits, lowering the present value of shares.
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But the cost estimate needed for Britain to pay its "fair share" will depend on what discount rate gets used.
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In other words, if the discount rate falls because of slow growth, so should your expectation of future cashflows (profits).
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Insurance companies will take over pension schemes but when they do, they use a bond yield as their discount rate.
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In the early 20063s accounting regulations began to require companies to use a corporate-bond yield as the discount rate.
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The two-year bonds are sold at an 8-percent annual discount rate, the Central Bank said in a statement.
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At that more manageable discount rate, retailers were then able to give ShopBack commission for helping to promote their brands.
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The administration's rulemaking also indicates that Pruitt plans to use a discount rate of 22016 percent to assess climate benefits.
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It was the first policy change since the second quarter of 2016 when it cut the discount rate to 1.375%.
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DIRECTORS OF FIVE FED REGIONAL BANKS WANTED QUARTER-POINT CUT TO DISCOUNT RATE; MINNEAPOLIS FED WANTED HALF-POINT CUT-MINUTES
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It was the first policy change since the second quarter of 0.73 when it cut the discount rate to 20.7%.
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The steadily increasing discount rate also suggests that a popular strategy for optimizing college revenues is running out of steam.
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Yes, from your finance courses, a higher discount rate means you're going to see lower valuations, all else being equal.
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Pension funds have in the past had to use that discount rate to calculate the net present value of their obligations.
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The study showed China enjoys a discount rate of over 1 percent on World Bank loans versus the 10-year Treasury.
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At that point, some farmers agreed to a discount rate on using Monsanto's newer Intacta seeds for four years, it said.
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He does expect the ECB to cut rates in September and ultimately take its negative 0.4% discount rate to negative 0.6%.
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As a Eurostat document shows*, the discount rate in these numbers is a 22-year average of real government-bond yields.
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The minutes of the discount rate meetings suggest more disagreement from regional banks over the increase than had previously been understood.
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For a long time, most company pension schemes used the assumed rate of return on their assets as the discount rate.
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Full disclosure: I bought an annual subscription to Tech In Asia at the early-bird discount rate being offered right now.
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A high discount rate makes the current cost look small but governments may be storing up a nasty surprise in future.
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The answer is going to be around £571m because insurance companies use a low discount rate when taking on a scheme.
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The federal government's talents reside more with countercyclical financing, particularly borrowing money from future generations at a lower discount rate. 3.
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Application of this lower, market-based discount rate would cause reported liabilities to balloon, worsening the funded status of most plans.
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Roughly speaking, discount rate measures how we value future costs and benefits — how much we discount them relative to present investments.
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"Low bond yields are cited as providing a reduced discount rate such that much higher multiples can be appropriate," Levkovich said.
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Wilshire estimated only a 17 percent probability that CalPERS would earn its new 7 percent discount rate over the next decade.
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When discounting future costs, the markets tell us to choose a discount rate that matches the risk profile of the investment.
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To use a business concept, we have to apply some kind of "discount rate" when thinking about future climate economic impacts.
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I think you have a dynamic now if you keep the discount rate on hold, the Fed has functionally given global guidance.
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The discount rate is paid by the merchant to banks, card payment networks, and other financial intermediaries for handling a digital transaction.
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Those payments are worth about 03 billion euros over the next 20 years, assuming no growth and applying a 10% discount rate.
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If the cost next year will be $100, and the discount rate is 5%, then the cost in today's terms is $95.
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The estimated average institutional tuition discount rate for first-time, full-time freshmen at small institutions was 50.9 percent in 2016-1003.
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Taiwan's central bank trimmed its benchmark discount rate 12.5 basis points Thursday, its fourth consecutive rate cut aimed at reviving economic growth.
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Another $26 billion in six-month bills was auctioned at a discount rate of 0.480 percent, up from 0.370 percent last week.
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At that point, some farmers agreed to get a discount rate to use Monsanto's newer Intacta seeds during four years, it said.
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The expected rate of investment return, or discount rate, was lowered in December 2016 to 7 percent over the next three years.
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Problem is, such a high discount rate makes far-future costs and benefits — the kind found in climate models — all but worthless.
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It said the discount rate should not be linked to one investment asset, but to a "low-risk, mixed portfolio" of assets.
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The Obama administration settled on a 3 percent discount rate that put the social cost of carbon at $42 per metric ton.
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The expected move would be the first policy change since the second quarter of 803 when the bank cut the discount rate.
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DUBAI, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Kuwait's central bank said on Wednesday it had decided to cut its discount rate to 2.75% from 3.0%.
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At the time, CalPERS board member J.J. Jelincic proposed reducing expectations further to align the discount rate more closely with advisers' forecasts.
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Direct Line's operating profit would have been 578.6 million pounds without the discount rate change, the insurer said in a trading statement.
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Tickets are currently available for Disrupt NY at a super early bird discount rate and applications are about to close for Startup Battlefield.
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As well as varying staff demographics, the age of the scheme, its assets and existing discount rate could all stymie the accountants' plans.
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They have a student discount rate and I bite the bullet because I want to find a studio that I like at school.
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The central bank's benchmark annual refinancing rate is currently 6.25 percent, and was last lowered in July, with the discount rate at 4.25.
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In the U.S., it costs the same as Apple Music, and that same discount rate will apply in the new countries, as well.
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At research institutions, the first-time, full-time freshman discount rate was 44.2 percent, while the rate for all undergraduates was 44.1 percent.
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Icon sees about $1.26 in value for every dollar invested in these midstream players, based on forward-looking earnings and its discount rate.
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The discount rate is being set at 2.8% and employers will pay higher contributions to the schemes from 2019-20 as a result.
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NAIROBI, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Tanzania's central bank has cut its discount rate to 7 percent from 9 percent to help spur credit growth.
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DUBAI, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Kuwait's central bank decided to keep its key discount rate unchanged at 3.0 percent, the bank said on Wednesday.
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As a result of the drop in bond yields, the corporate discount rate fell by 0.25 percentage point to 3.66 percent in June.
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The Treasury Department auctioned $31 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 0.350 percent, up from 0.275 percent last week.
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The discount rate had not budged since the Fed last raised its short-term rate target the previous December, and at the Dec.
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Los Angeles Fire and Police Pensions expects compound returns of 6.33 percent over the next decade, considerably below its 7.5 percent discount rate.
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Direct Line Chief Executive Paul Geddes said the insurer was well-positioned "in a market disrupted by the reduction in the discount rate".
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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) uses a central value of $21 per tonne of CO22100 (in $2011) at a 3% discount rate.
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It is the second consecutive meeting at which the Kansas City and Richmond regional banks have pushed for an increase in the discount rate.
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Easily the most consequential is the discount rate, which captures how much more lightly welfare in the future is weighed compared with welfare today.
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Seven of the nine banks that called for an increase in the discount rate also urged such action in late May and early June.
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The regional reserve banks can signal support for raising the Fed's benchmark rate by voting to raise a separate rate, called the discount rate.
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This might seem like an arcane accounting issue, but the choice of discount rate can make an enormous difference, yielding either urgency or indifference.
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Pruitt's high discount rate is the administration's way of saying to future generations the same thing it is saying to other countries: bugger off.
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The refinancing rate will be cut to 5% from 6% and the discount rate to 3.5% from 4.0%, the bank said in a statement.
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At its core, using a lower discount rate to calculate the social cost of carbon means paying more to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions today.
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The FTSE 100 company achieved a full-year combined operating ratio from continuing operations of 97.7 percent, also hit by the discount rate change.
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President Lyndon Johnson pushed Fed Chairman William McChesney Martin against a wall after Martin dared to raise the discount rate half a percentage point.
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In any calculation about possible future costs and benefits, economists use a "discount rate," whereby we value future benefits less than present-day benefits.
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The Federal Reserve banks of Boston, Richmond and St. Louis voted for a 0.25 percent hike in the discount rate before the May jobs report.
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As oft pointed out here, US public sector funds use the assumed rate of return on their assets as the discount rate (currently 7.5%-8%).
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The reason is simple: Using a 85033 percent discount rate would lead to far smaller — or even negative — values for the social cost of carbon.
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The U.S. central bank raised the discount rate by a quarter percentage point to 2 percent and increased its benchmark lending rate at its Dec.
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It has cut the policy discount rate three times in a row between last September and March in a bid to shore up flagging growth.
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It also helped to raise the funded status to 68 percent from 65 percent the previous fiscal year, based on a 7 percent discount rate.
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Last fall, the administration substantially reduced the value of the SCC by using — incorrectly — a high discount rate and a narrow construction of domestic benefits.
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"When you keep a discount rate low, which the central banks are doing, all the cash flow gets to equities in two forms," Rieder said.
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So at a discount rate of 7 percent, a dollar of benefits a year from now is worth $0.93 relative to an investment dollar today.
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And the Trump administration analyzed a discount rate of up to 7 percent — a rate at which even costs far into the future become trivial.
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At the Board of Governors meeting that afternoon, he called for a vote to raise the discount rate a half-percentage point, to 4.5 percent.
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A day later, Minneapolis Fed directors also voted to raise the discount rate, a request that was immediately approved by the Washington-based Fed Board.
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Worries of Britain's motor insurers that battle stiff competition have been compounded by the country's changed discount rate used to calculate compensation for personal injuries.
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The magazine&aposs report said that the gangs tried to spread panic among farmers to force them to sell their livestock at a discount rate.
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The overnight interbank rate opened Tuesday and Wednesday at its lowest level since late June, the last time the central bank sliced the policy discount rate.
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Since a pension is, in effect, a long-term debt, private-sector schemes must use a bond yield as the discount rate, according to accounting rules.
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The average school's discount rate for full-time freshmen students reached 50% in the 22018-259 academic year, up from 2039% in 22016-22000, NACUBO found.
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Motor insurers took a hit to profits and insurance premiums rose earlier this year after Britain made an unexpectedly large change to the existing discount rate.
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Vehicle insurers' profits were dented when Britain in 2017 unexpectedly cut here the so-called Ogden discount rate to minus 0.75 percent from 2.5 percent previously.
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But given how low bond yields are, pension deficits would look larger (and required contributions would be much higher) if such a discount rate were used.
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DUBAI, July 31 (Reuters) - Kuwait's central bank said on Wednesday that it had decided to maintain its discount rate unchanged at its current level of 3%.
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Directors at the Federal Reserve banks of Chicago, Minneapolis and St. Louis based their decision against raising the discount rate on the disappointing readings on inflation.
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The economists expect the policy discount rate to reach 1.25 percent later this year with two more rate cuts to help bolster Taiwan's consumption and investment.
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A lower discount rate drives up the size of the upfront payments as it assumes claimants will receive lower investment returns from investing their lump sums.
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Because you know where these reporters are coming from, you can factor that into their reporting and use whatever discount rate you want for their perspective.
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The US Postal Service has long maintained a special discount rate for periodicals to facilitate the dissemination of journalism and the viability of journalism business models.
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The refinance rate will be cut to 5% from 6% and the discount rate to 3.5% from 4.0%, the country's central bank said in a statement.
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The majority of the 21 economists in a Reuters poll had expected the central bank to cut the discount rate by 230.4170 basis points to 1.25%.
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The Ohio Public Employees Retirement System expects an average 216.3 percent return over the next five to seven years, short of its 21.5 percent discount rate.
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However, we acknowledge legal uncertainties could remain an overhang and update our model to reflect theoretical legal penalties and increase our discount rate to ~10% (from ~8%).
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"You've just seen a ballooning effect of liabilities" as the discount rate continues to fall to new lows, said Zorast Wadia, a principal at actuarial firm Milliman.
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There are essentially two components to the discount rate-based risk modeling: the concept of time value of money, and the additional risk premium for the investment.
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The announcement comes just two weeks after the central bank cut its discount rate to 12 percent from 16 percent to expand credit to the private sector.
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The U.S. central bank held the discount rate at 2-1/4 percent while also holding steady its benchmark lending rate at its May 1-2 meeting.
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The Ministry of Justice said in March last year that it would change the Ogden discount rate to lower costs for insurers and motor premiums for drivers.
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By using the 7 percent discount rate, the calculated "benefits" of reducing carbon dioxide emissions would be greatly diminished and would not fit the Obama administration's messaging.
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The majority of the 17 economists in a Reuters poll had expected the central bank to cut the benchmark discount rate by 12.5 basis points to 1.25%.
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Meeting hours after the U.S. Federal Reserve lowered interest rates, Taiwan's central bank kept its benchmark discount rate at 1.375%, where it has stood since June 2016.
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With a discount rate of 3 percent, these damages are worth $5.20 today — that is, we would be willing to pay up to $5.20 to avoid them.
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The uplift of the reserves discount rate benchmark can help in mitigating the reserves required for long-term traditional products in the current low-interest-rate environment.
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The government's new proposal, announced yesterday, is to introduce a discount rate that assumes claimants will take "low" rather than "very low" risks in investing their lump sum.
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Although half of the Federal Reserve banks supported a raise in the discount rate, the Federal Open Market Committee ultimately decides whether to maintain or increase existing rates.
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The power of compounding, and the long time horizons involved in climate change, mean that the choice of discount rate matters hugely when weighing policies against one another.
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Using a discount rate of 1%, someone might be willing to forgo as many as 37 chocolate bars today in order to have 100 a century from now.
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Meeting after the Federal Reserve left U.S. rates unchanged hours earlier, Taiwan's central bank held its benchmark discount rate at 1.375%, where it has stood since June 2016.
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Excluding the change to the discount rate for calculating personal injury and accident claims in Britain, business operating profit rose 14 percent year on year to $1.218 billion.
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The headline average institutional tuition discount rate for first-time, full-time students hit an estimated 2119 percent in 219-17, up from 48 percent the previous year.
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A change of discount rate assumption of reserves of traditional insurance contracts also caused the profit drop, China Life said in a separate regulatory filing posted last week.
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A discount rate of 4%, for example, would mean the average public pension plan would have a funding ratio of only 45%, not 72%, according to the CRR.
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First, asset class return assumptions should be identical for all public plans with the same discount rate applied to all plan liabilities, no matter a pension's funded status.
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The U.S. central bank subsequently held its benchmark lending rate steady at its July 25-26 meeting and kept the discount rate unchanged at 1-3/4 percent.
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A higher discount rate implies we shouldn't pay as much today to avoid harms far in the future, which, in turn, produces a lower social cost of carbon.
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The new school says it is changes in risk appetite—the discount rate that investors apply to future earnings—that explains much of the variation in asset prices.
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The models widely used to project damages from climate change determine the present value of future climate damages (the "social cost of carbon") by applying a discount rate.
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Scotts Valley, a small city outside of Santa Cruz, expects its annual pension costs to jump by nearly 75 percent over three years under CalPERS' new discount rate.
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There's a great deal of controversy over the correct discount rate to use in climate modeling — should we use the same rate we use for personal financial decisions?
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Rather than key values (discount rate, chances of catastrophic outcomes, SCC) being rectally extracted by the modeler, they should be based on a broad sample of expert opinion.
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Tiny adjustments to expected future growth rates, or even tinier adjustments to the discount rate being used, can result in large swings in the fair value of the stock.
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The change in the Ogden rate, or discount rate, has required insurers in Britain to set aside more money than they expected to compensate victims of serious car crashes.
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Then the sum of future benefits has to be discounted at some rate to work out the current cost; the higher the discount rate, the lower the presumed expense.
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The language describing the views expressed at the discount rate-setting meetings closely mirrors that used in the Fed's statement issued following its June decision to keep rates steady.
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Meeting after the Federal Reserve left U.S. rates unchanged hours earlier, Taiwan's central bank kept the benchmark discount rate at 1.375 percent, where it has stood since June 2016.
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For the knobs and dials of benefit and contribution changes to mean anything, the discount rate and rate of return need to reflect reality as well as they can.
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On Wednesday, central bank governor Mohammad al-Hashel said in a statement that exchange rates featured in the board of directors' decision to lift the discount rate this time.
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The change in the 'Ogden rate', or discount rate, has required insurers in Britain to set aside more money than they expected to compensate victims of serious car crashes.
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A world of lower interest rates has far-reaching implications for asset classes from fixed income, as expected, to stocks, whose valuations are adjusted for the prevailing discount rate.
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Kuwait's central bank raised its discount rate, used to determine maximum interest rates on dinar borrowing at local banks, by a quarter of a percentage point to 2.50 percent.
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Motor insurance premiums have also risen after Britain's Ministry of Justice in February unexpectedly cut a discount rate used to calculate the payments, to -0.75 percent from 2.5 percent.
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The change to the statutory minimum reserve requirement (SMR), which took effect in April, follows the central bank's decision to slash its discount rate to 12 from 16 percent.
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The benchmark discount rate has remained at 1.375% since June 2016, and the decision to leave it there was as expected by all 15 economists in a Reuters poll.
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In a league whose governing structure increasingly rewards only teams at the performance extremes—the very good and the very bad—getting that discount rate right can be very tough.
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In 2016, J&J says discounts and rebates on its medicines amounted to about $11 billion in the U.S., or a discount rate of 35 percent off the list price.
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Most economists polled by Reuters expect a fourth consecutive rate cut, bringing the discount rate to fresh six-year lows, as the central bank tries to shore up flagging growth.
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A government decision last year to cut the personal injury discount rate contributed to an increase in the size of payouts, denting insurers' profits and driving premiums to record highs.
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Investors who seek appraisal do not get paid at the deal's closing, but they collect interest of 5 percentage points above the federal discount rate while the case is pending.
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Bruegel, a think-tank in Brussels, concluded that, if this more generous discount rate were used, the British pensions bill would fall by between a third and more than half.
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I chat with my husband about the event he attended last night, a meet-up for electric vehicle owners with a presentation by our electric utility about discount rate programs.
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A government decision this year to cut the personal injury discount rate contributed to a rise in the size of payouts, denting insurers' profits and lifting premiums to record highs.
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The college's discount rate has been pushed up by a recent effort to boost enrollment and academic standing by offering full scholarships to a high-achieving student in every state.
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The U.S. central bank subsequently raised its benchmark lending rate by a quarter percentage point at its June 13-14 meeting and the discount rate to 1-3/4 percent.
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Only the Federal Reserve Banks of Minneapolis, St. Louis and New York had urged the Fed's board to maintain the discount rate at 1-1/2 percent, the minutes showed.
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Require public plans to follow U.S. generally accepted accounting principles that call for a discount rate based on the yield of high-quality bonds just as private-sector pensions do.
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It also released 13 million pounds of reserve after a review of the additional costs from a lower Ogden discount rate indicated a smaller than expected increase to claims costs.
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Siemens' pension deficit widened to 9.3 billion euros ($10.6 billion) at the end of December from 9.0 billion euros a quarter earlier, mainly due to a lower discount rate assumption.
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"The central bank left the discount rate unchanged at 2.75 percent to consolidate an atmosphere conducive to the recovery of economic growth rates," the central bank said in a statement.
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Motor insurers' profits were dented and insurance premiums have risen after Britain unexpectedly cut the rate - known as the Ogden discount rate - in February to -0.75 percent from 2.5 percent.
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The ABI said it would prefer a dual rate, in which the discount rate was lower for the first years of a claim, before stepping up to a higher rate.
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But if the risk is potentially disruptive, like a severe recession or worse, then markets point to a lower discount rate, perhaps like gold's annual average return or even lower.
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But if those risks are real, using a low discount rate to choose the degree of climate mitigation today will be like having invested in gold before the Great Recession.
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If, for example, the sticker price is $22011,1503, but the average student pays $2150,2100, the discount rate is the difference ($2100,000) divided by the sticker price ($50,000), or 40 percent.
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Currently, the method used by the US government to calculate the future costs and benefits of policies (including climate policies) is a fixed discount rate, pegged to market interest rates.
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The Fed opted to hold the discount rate steady last month at 1 percent and held its main benchmark interest rate unchanged at the subsequent policy meeting on April 26-27.
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Rising rates make high stock multiples of growth technology stocks less attractive because investors use U.S. government bond yields as their "risk-free" discount rate in financial models to value equities.
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This may be accompanied by a tiering system, whereby banks pay a discount rate on part of their excess liquidity, although this tool still left a significant number of governors unconvinced.
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Stripping out the impact of the discount rate cut to minus 0.75 percent from 2.5 percent, which will see lump-sum payouts rise, the firm said profits were up 3 percent.
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The Ogden discount rate was cut to minus 0.75 percent from 2.5 percent in February, effectively raising the amount insurers must pay out in the event of successful personal injury claims.
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The U.S. central bank raised the discount rate by a quarter percentage point to 2-1/4 percent and also increased its benchmark lending rate at its March 20-21 meeting.
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The spike in rates make higher equity valuation multiples less attractive because investors use U.S. government bond yields as their "risk-free" discount rate in financial models to value stock investments.
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BV: To clarify, even a low positive discount rate means you're willing to sacrifice a certain high-magnitude number of people in the future for the sake of one person today.
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The prospect of inflation prompted currency traders to dump the British pound, forcing the Bank of England to raise its discount rate to 21960 percent from 220 percent, a huge jump.
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"Nordhaus argues that because the dynamic of disintegration is slow moving, a moderate discount rate puts the damages at close to zero in net present value terms," the report's authors write.
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Several insurers have seen profits dented after Britain's justice ministry last week cut the discount rate used in the calculations of lump sum payments to minus 0.75 percent from 2.5 percent.
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Thirteen out of 14 analysts polled expect the bank to trim the discount rate by 12.5 basis points (bps) to 1.50 percent, while one thought it would be cut by 25 bps.
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The pension changes in 2015 for Ford were caused by the fluctuating discount rate and changes to the government-issued mortality tables, which were outside the company's control, the auto maker said.
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Minnesota's plan also reduces cost-of-living annual increases and hikes contributions, as well as lowering the state retirement plans' funding discount rate to 7.5 percent from as high as 8.5 percent.
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The rise in yields also makes higher equity valuation multiples less attractive because investors use U.S. government bond yields as their "risk-free" discount rate in financial models to value stock investments.
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An equity is worth a stream of future cashflows, discounted to the present day; as long-term yields fall, so does the discount rate, and the present value of an equity rises.
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Minutes from the Federal Reserve's discount rate meeting released Tuesday showed nine regional Federal Reserve banks pushed for an increase in the rate commercial banks are charged for emergency loans in September.
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Aircraft materials and overhaul costs increased 39% to 50.7 million euros due to fleet growth, price rises, the decline in the U.S.-based discount rate of maintenance reserves and exceptional maintenance events.
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The present value of the estimated profit gains, after applying an 8.5 percent discount rate to reflect Wirecard's cost of capital, was betweeen 152 million and 199 million euros, the company said.
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The central kept the benchmark discount rate at 1.375 percent, where it has been for seven quarters, as global demand for electronics continues to boost the island's economy and inflation remains mild.
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Hoesterey is not included because his retirement benefit is the new 401(k) plan.) Then, they translate all those future payments into today's dollars with a rate — often called a discount rate.
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On July 28503 President Trump effectively hijacked U.S. monetary policy-making from the Federal Reserve Board and cut the discount rate by 22019 basis points, to a range of 2.00-2.25 percent.
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The discount rate was cut because it is linked to index-linked British government bonds, known as gilts, which currently have negative yields, partly as a result of low UK interest rates.
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This extra reward is the equity risk premium—and to Mr Cochrane's way of thinking the discount rate, the risk premium and the expected return on equities "are all the same thing".
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DUBAI, March 4 (Reuters) - Kuwait's central bank lowered its discount rate to 2.5% from 2.75%, it said in a tweet on Wednesday, a day after the U.S. Federal Reserve's emergency rate cut.
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Changes in discount rate news, the market interest rates investors use to value future streams of earnings, behave differently, in large part because the discount rates tend to revert to previous means.
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The significant improvement in net profit was "due to the impact of the update of discount rate assumption of reserves of the company's traditional insurance contracts," the company said in the filing.
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If you choose a 0 percent discount rate, you're saying future damages are worth exactly as much as damages today; it's worth spending $1 today to prevent $1 of damage in 2100.
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Durant signed at a relatively discount rate — shaving more than $69 million off the luxury tax bill for the team — and made possible the retention of Steph Curry, Draymond Green and Shaun Livingston.
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The company said its loss ratio - the amount it spends on claims compared to how much it earns on premiums - including the impact of the new discount rate was 81.1%, compared with 73.8%.
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And the question is, how far in the future, how much money, and what is the appropriate discount rate to take it back to the present day and determine how much you pay?
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A potentially more tax-efficient alternative would allow equity holders to be offered to buy tokens at a variable discount rate that depends on their respective ownership of equity on the cap table.
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The Federal Reserve Banks of New York, San Francisco, Atlanta, St. Louis and Minneapolis asked the Fed's board to keep the discount rate unchanged at 1-1/4 percent in meetings held Feb.
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The classic method of pricing financial assets is to say they are worth the discounted value of future cashflows; since central banks have kept the discount rate steady, prices have been steady too.
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LONDON, March 8 (Reuters) - Car insurer Admiral on Wednesday posted a 25 percent fall in full-year pretax profit after the British government lowered the discount rate used to calculate personal injury payouts.
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Mackenzie said its recent entry into the sector meant it was not much affected by an unexpectedly sharp cut to the discount rate used to calculate lump sum payments in personal injury claims.
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"This will remain the lowest discount rate in the Western world, leaving England and Wales an international outlier at a time when we need to boost our attraction to international capital," Evans said.
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As a result, the fund's long-term average would more closely align with CalPERS's new discount rate, which the board voted in December to lower from 7.5 percent to 7 percent by 2020.
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The unanimous vote to keep the Fed's discount rate at 3% ahead of the March policy meeting showed policymakers' caution in light of what the minutes characterized as "mixed" reports on U.S. economic activity.
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A credit crunch ensued in August, leading to a decline in the Fed Funds rate, and at the end of the year, Martin's Fed lowered the discount rate back to the mid-1965 levels.
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In order to show its gratitude, AMADAS will also offer the same discount rate to the Kickstarter backers who have already signed up and keep them informed of any key milestones in the future.
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In December, Taiwan's central bank kept its policy discount rate unchanged at 1.375 percent for the sixth consecutive quarterly meeting as inflationary pressures remained mild in spite of healthy export growth and improving consumption.
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Most companies were hit by the cut in the Ogden discount rate for UK liability business, which will lead to higher lump-sum payments being calculated for long-term care costs or lost earnings.
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The results were impacted by a 26% fall in life insurance profit from its insurance subsidiary attributed to a decline in the discount rate used to value long-term insurance contract liabilities, OCBC said.
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Even that claim is doubtful, since the models' outputs depend on the choice of the real discount rate, a number which purports to quantify how much people do or should care about the future.
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Both the Federal Reserve Banks of Cleveland and Richmond urged the Fed's board to raise the discount rate to 1-1/2 percent from 1-1/4 percent ahead of its Jan. 31-Feb.
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"The key will be precisely how the discount rate is to be set in the future and the frequency with which it will be adjusted," Eamonn Flanagan at Shore Capital said in a note.
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LONDON, July 15 (Reuters) - Britain's Ministry of Justice said it plans to change the discount rate applied to personal injury lump sum compensation payments to minus 0.25% from minus 0.75%, it said on Monday.
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All 15 economists polled said they expected the central bank to keep the benchmark discount rate TWINTR=ECI at 1.375%, where it has stood since June 2016, when its policy board meets on Thursday.
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The discount rate incorporates a buffer rate, which is released to VWFSA at each monthly payment date as a deferred purchase price, and as such the transaction yields no excess income to reimburse losses.
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"As Amex approaches acceptance parity with Visa and Mastercard in the US, there should be less pressure on the discount rate going forward," Atlantic Equities analyst Kunaal Malde said in a note to clients Tuesday.
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The government plans to review the discount rate every three years, meaning future changes to the rate should be more predictable and insurers are less likely to have to make big step changes to reserves.
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The board agreed that the discount rate, or the assumed rate of investment returns, be lowered to 7.375 percent in fiscal year 2017-18, 7.25 percent in 2018-19 and 7 percent in 2019-20.
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The discount rate, charged on emergency loans, usually moves in lockstep with the central bank's main target rate for interbank lending, which is currently a range of between 1 percent and 1 1/4 percent.
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DUBAI, March 16 (Reuters) - Kuwait's central bank cut its discount rate by 100 basis points to 1.5% from 2.5%, setting the rate at its lowest level in history, it said in a statement on Monday.
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The increase in bodily injury claim settlements caused by the Ogden discount rate cut is likely to increase demand for excess-of-loss reinsurance as firms attempt to reduce their exposure to individual large claims.
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RBC analysts said the results were better than expected when taking account of the discount rate change, reiterating their 'outperform' rating on the stock and raising their target price to 410 pence from 13 pence.
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If every FTSE 100 company followed Tesco, using updated mortality statistics and increasing the discount rate by 0.3 percentage points, they would enjoy a total accounting surplus of 54 billion pounds, RBC analyst Gordon Aitken said.
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However, Saga said it had begun to see the government's decision to cut the discount rate used by insurers to settle personal injury claims being reflected in premiums across the market and affecting the net rates.
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Staff proposed on Tuesday that the discount rate, or the assumed rate of investment returns, be lowered to 7.375 percent in fiscal year 2017-18, 7.25 percent in 2018-19 and 7 percent in 2019-20.
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DUBAI, June 14 (Reuters) - Kuwait's central bank said on Wednesday it was keeping its discount rate at the current level of 2.75 percent, despite the U.S. Federal Reserve's decision to raise rates by 25 basis points.
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But in June this year it kept its discount rate flat even though the Fed tightened policy again, and after the latest U.S. hike was announced on Wednesday, Kuwait again decided to leave its rate unchanged.
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DAR ES SALAAM, March 6 (Reuters) - Tanzania's central bank cuts its discount rate to 12 percent effective Monday from 16 percent, a central bank circular to lenders showed, in order to boost the economy through lending.
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While the average cost of a motor insurance policy in Britain rose in 2019, competition and a change in the Ogden's discount rate, which is used to calculate compensation for personal injuries, hurt insurers last year.
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And there is arguably no more consequential instance of the need to choose an appropriate discount rate than the case of climate change, because the greenhouse gases we release today will alter the climate for centuries.
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It would have taken 20-some years for the heat pump to pay off the difference, and my wife's discount rate, even factoring in adjustments in the name of marital harmony, is somewhat higher than that.
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Specifically, the bill requires utilities to adopt the federal government's current SCC, as established in Executive Order 12866 — roughly $68 per ton, rising to $116 per ton by 2050 — at a discount rate of 2.5 percent.
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It not only involves estimating the timing and severity of climate impacts, which are notoriously uncertain, but it also means choosing a discount rate, which determines how much you discount future harms relative to present harms.
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All but one bank requested to raise an interest rate the U.S. central bank places on its loans to commercial banks for the month of December, according to Federal Reserve Board discount rate minutes released on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - All 12 regional Federal Reserve banks supported holding steady the interest rate commercial banks pay for emergency loans ahead of the central bank's latest policy meeting, minutes of Fed discount rate discussions showed on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three out of 12 regional Federal Reserve banks opposed increasing the rate commercial banks pay for emergency loans ahead of the central bank's latest policy meeting, minutes of Fed discount rate discussions showed on Tuesday.
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Profit at its motor insurance business, the largest contributor to earnings, slumped 36%, partly hampered by a 15.9 million pounds charge relating to Britain's plans to change the discount rate used to calculate compensation for personal injuries.
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Some UK insurance stocks fell and analysts warned of higher insurance motor premiums after Britain's Ministry of Justice on Monday cut the discount rate used to calculate lump sum payouts to minus 0.75 percent from 2.5 percent.
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He stressed the importance of "liquidity tools" such as other moves the Fed made to lower the discount rate for banks to borrow from the Fed and to provide dollar swap lines with other global central banks.
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The majority of the 17 economists in a Reuters poll said they expected the central bank to cut the benchmark discount rate TWINTR=ECI by 12.5 basis points to 1.25% when its policy board meets on Thursday.
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But public pensions are wary of lowering their expected return rates, or the discount rate, too quickly because doing so would drastically increase costs for state and local governments and their employees, whose contributions form the funds.
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"Pension fund status hasn't improved as much as you might think because the discount rate has stayed persistently low and has even fallen in some cases," said Matt McDaniel, U.S. head of defined benefits at Mercer Consulting.
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India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman last year said businesses with annual turnover of 500 million rupees will not have to pay a merchant discount rate on debit card and other digital modes of transactions, excluding credit cards.
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Hastings expects 2019 loss ratio - the amount it spends on claims compared to how much it earns on premiums - to be in the range of 81% to 82% before the impact of the July discount rate change.
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Across the country, public pension funds have been steadily decreasing their expectations for investment returns from an 8 percent median discount rate in 2010 to 7.5 percent today, according to the National Association of State Retirement Administrators.
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SoftBank is preparing to buy shares of Uber at a price that values Uber at only $48 billion, a steep 30 percent discount rate for ownership in the company, which was last valued at almost $70 billion.
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Last month, India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that businesses with annual turnover of 500 million rupees will not have to pay a merchant discount rate on debit card and other digital modes of transactions, excluding credit cards.
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Had the EU used the discount rate it applied to its balance-sheet to calculate the size of contributions, its officials would have had to stump up a lot more—resulting in significant cuts in take-home pay.
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However, the Montenegrin government said on Tuesday the total amount it would pay had been trimmed "from 13 million euros to 230.6 million euros, at a discount rate that corresponds to Montenegro's borrowing parameters and the corresponding maturity".
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Eleven of the 12 regional Fed banks voted in favor of keeping the Fed's discount rate steady at 1 3/4 percent, with the Kansas City Fed voting for a hike to 2 percent, according to the minutes.
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The bonds were issued in fixed and floating-rate tranches, with the fixed bond paying 5.25 percent annually and the floating bond paying a coupon of 2.25 percent annually over the Kuwaiti central bank discount rate, KIPCO said.
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The FTSE 100 company also said profit at its motor insurance business was hampered due to a charge of 15.9 million pounds relating to Britain's plans to change the discount rate used to calculate compensation for personal injuries.
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These challenges are making the job of the Fed far more complicated than it has been so far this year, namely, how to continue the incremental discount rate raises without dampening the robust labor market and consumer demand.
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Students should work with schools directly in order to asses how much a given school will cost them and can ask for the "discount rate " in order to determine how much the average student actually pays to attend.
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Their preferred habitat of low-valuation stocks has underperformed while more expensive stocks have benefited from easy money (a lower discount rate applied to their distant future earnings has given growth, or "momentum", stocks a relatively greater boost).
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While the cost of a motor insurance policy fell in the UK for the last quarter, Britain's plans to change the discount rate used to calculate compensation for personal injuries has also hurt main players in the sector.
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And by the 2016-0003 school year, the 411 private nonprofit schools that the National Association of College and University Business Officers surveyed were reporting an average discount rate of 49 percent for first-time, full-time students.
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"The current methodology used to calculate the discount rate is fundamentally flawed as it does not reflect the reality of how claimants invest their damages," James Dalton, director of general insurance policy at the ABI, said in a statement.
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It would also have to pay them interest for holding the cash they would have received for their shares for the duration of legal proceedings—at a remarkably juicy 5 percentage points above the federal discount rate, currently 3%.
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The social costs were determined by multiplying carbon emissions by the "social cost of carbon" (the US government uses a social cost of carbon estimate developed by its own Interagency Working Group), using an average 3 percent discount rate.
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Even if it shrinks by 5 percent a year after that, FCA would earn its current enterprise value in free cash flow by 2027 at an 8 percent discount rate, implying it has no value whatsoever after that point.
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Research by Sandy Pepper of the London School of Economics shows that the typical discount rate that managers apply to deferred bonuses is 30%, far in excess of the risk-free interest rate used in accounting valuations of LTIs.
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"Most of the adverse impact from the increase in the costs of large injury claims, resulting from the change in the Ogden discount rate, was captured in our 2016 second half result," said David Stevens, Group Chief Executive Officer.
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Other models, like that of Yale's William Nordhaus, apply a higher discount rate, implying that future damages are worth much less to us than present-day damages — and thus that climate policy should start slow and gradually ramp up.
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Yet the latest dramatic evidence of Aramco's vulnerability, and the possibility of regional reprisals by the volatile Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, make it almost certain that international investors will apply a higher discount rate to its future earnings.
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The association tracks the average tuition "discount rate" at private colleges and universities — that is, the difference between the "sticker price" that colleges advertise and the actual price they charge students, after subtracting scholarships granted by the colleges themselves.
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Public pension funds across the country have been steadily revising downward their expectations for investment returns from a median discount rate of 8 percent in 2010 to 7.5 percent presently, according to the National Association of State Retirement Administrators.
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LONDON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Chief executives of 15 of Britain's biggest motor and commercial liability insurers will meet finance minister Philip Hammond on Tuesday to ask him to stop this week's "crazy" discount rate decision, an industry trade body said.
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Some motor insurance stocks slid on Monday and analysts warned insurance premiums would rise after the Ministry of Justice slashed the discount rate used to calculate lump sum payments for personal injury claims, pushing up the size of the payments.
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A government decision this week to cut the discount rate used by insurers to settle personal injury claims is expected to see car insurance premiums rise even more, and Gocompare's chief executive, Matthew Crummack, said this should benefit the firm.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of regional Federal Reserve banks calling on the central bank to raise the rate it charges commercial banks for emergency loans rose to eight in July, minutes from the Fed's discount rate meeting released on Tuesday showed.
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Another way of understanding the decline is to focus on the theoretical basis for share valuations; a share represents the future cashflows the investor will receive, discounted at the appropriate rate (the higher the discount rate, the lower the current price).
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of regional Federal Reserve banks pushing the central bank to raise the rate it charges commercial banks for emergency loans rose to six in June, minutes from the Fed's discount rate meeting released on Tuesday showed.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will change the discount rate used to calculate compensation for personal injuries to minus 0.25% from minus 0.75%, disappointing insurers who were hoping for a higher rate to limit the money they must set aside to cover payouts.
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About 2,170 residents of New York City Housing Authority buildings, or less than 20153 percent of annual Citi Bike members, have signed up for the bike-share program at the discount rate, according to a spokesman for the Department of Transportation.
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Even if it shrinks by 5 percent a year after that, the company would earn its current enterprise value in free cash flow by 2027 at an 8 percent discount rate — implying it has no value whatsoever after that point.
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"When discount rate shocks become more correlated across markets but cash flow shocks don't, long-horizon investors can still use global diversification to attenuate long-run cash-flow risk, which is the most relevant risk to them," the authors write.
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However, CalPERS still expects its long-term return to align more closely with a discount rate that it plans to reduce to 275 percent by 22021, because it anticipates returns will jump to 16.33 percent in the decades to follow.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve's 12 regional banks wanted to keep unchanged the rate commercial banks are charged for emergency loans ahead of the U.S. central bank's last policy meeting, minutes from the discussion of the discount rate showed on Thursday.
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The so-called discount rate - the proxy that pension plans use as the expected income they will make annually from a corporate bond - is at 248 percent, compared with nearly 53 percent two years ago and 25 percent at the end of 220.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nine out of 12 regional Federal Reserve banks wanted an increase in the rate commercial banks are charged for emergency loans ahead of the U.S central bank's last policy meeting, minutes from a discussion of the discount rate showed on Tuesday.
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The directors at the Federal Reserve banks of Chicago, Minneapolis and Atlanta voted on March 8 to keep the discount rate steady, saying economic data was not strong enough to warrant a change in policy, according to the minutes released on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - All of the Federal Reserve's 12 regional banks wanted to hold steady the rate commercial banks are charged for emergency loans ahead of the U.S central bank's last policy meeting, minutes from a discussion of the discount rate showed on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON, May 24 (Reuters) - The number of Federal Reserve banks pushing the central bank to raise the rate it charges commercial banks for emergency loans rose to four in April from two in March, minutes from the Fed's discount rate meeting showed.
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Initial proposals to overhaul the PERA board and prevent it from lobbying, start a new plan for new employees with the defined contribution as the default option, and fund the defined benefit plan using a more accurate, market-based discount rate were dropped.
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In the Obama administration's analysis, using a 5 percent discount rate — which would put comparatively little weight on the well-being of future generations — would imply a social cost of $12 (in 2007 dollars) for emitting one metric ton of carbon dioxide.
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Some models, like that of UK economist Nicholas Stern, apply a very low discount rate, implying that future damages are almost as important to us as present-day damages — and thus that we should take immediate, aggressive steps to prevent future climate change.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - All of the Federal Reserve's 12 regional banks wanted to keep unchanged the rate commercial banks are charged for emergency loans ahead of the U.S. central bank's last policy meeting, minutes from the discussion of the discount rate showed on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Only the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas pushed for an increase in the rate commercial banks are charged for emergency loans ahead of the U.S. central bank's last policy meeting, minutes from the discussion of the discount rate showed on Tuesday.
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In other words, a 44.2 percent average institutional discount rate for all undergraduates means that more than 44 cents of every dollar in gross tuition revenue that colleges and universities counted never made it to the bottom line because it was dedicated to financial aid.
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Glass Lewis said investors should vote at an annual general meeting against a resolution to allow the board to issue new BEA shares under a general mandate because there is no maximum discount rate set on the issuance, which could potentially hurt existing shareholders.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two out of 12 regional Federal Reserve banks pushed for an increase in the rate commercial banks are charged for emergency loans ahead of the U.S. central bank's last policy meeting, minutes from the discussion of the discount rate showed on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Only two out of 12 regional Federal Reserve banks wanted an increase in the rate commercial banks are charged for emergency loans ahead of the U.S central bank's last policy meeting, minutes from a discussion of the discount rate showed on Tuesday.
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WATCH THIS: Disney-Loving Couple Visits All 6 Theme Parks in 1 Day: 'It's Just Been a Dream Come True' The most expensive resort on the list is the DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Orlando, which is still just $129 a night with the teachers discount rate.
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A government review earlier this year led to a cut in the discount rate, or Odgen rate, used to calculate personal injury claims payments to minus 0.75 percent from the 2.5 percent in place since 2001, a move that wiped millions off the profits of British insurers.
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The US Postal Service delivers periodicals at a discount rate, and the Federal Communication Commission's television station licensing requirements include a vague but meaningful "public interest" standard that is generally held to require both the production of local newscasts and the airing of major national news events.
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Directors at the Dallas Fed made their request for an increase in the discount rate by a quarter percentage point from its current 2 percent rate due to "solid growth, tight labor-market conditions, and an expected rise in inflation toward 2 percent," according to the minutes.
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In Kuwait, the three-month interbank rate KIKWD3MD= has tumbled 30 bps below the U.S. rate as banks bet that the central bank, which declined to imitate the Fed's most recent two interest rate hikes last year, will again keep its discount rate flat this week.
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So falling share prices either indicate that investors have become more pessimistic about future cashflows (they fear falling profits) or that they have raised the discount rate they apply (a sign they have become more cautious, and demand a higher return for the risk of owning shares).
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"The dovish stances of most other G10 central banks is offsetting the impact of potential Fed action on the U.S. dollar crosses," Foley said, noting, for instance, that she expects the European Central Bank to cut its discount rate further into negative territory at its September meeting.
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They are not part of the "shortfall" you characterize, but subsequently arose from proactive management and responsible valuation of pensions, like lowering the actuarial discount rate to 7 percent, more conservative than the majority of public plans, and updating mortality assumptions to better reflect life spans.
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Directors at all eleven other regional Fed banks voted to raise the discount rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 1-1/4 percent in board meetings held in November and December, up from nine banks ahead of the Fed's policy meeting in early November.
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The reduction in the Ogden discount rate, which is used to calculate lump-sum payments in bodily injury claims to cover long-term care costs or lost earnings, triggers a need for larger bodily injury claims reserves and will lead to substantially higher motor insurance premiums.
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"Many of the challenges observed throughout 2019 will persist in 2020, as cost pressures remain from expensive vehicle repairs, theft claims, last summer's discount rate change, Brexit-related uncertainty and IPT increases," Graham Wright, UK lead of P&C Personal Lines Pricing at Willis Towers Watson, said.
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British motor insurers have been grappling with steep costs to repair cars, while a change in the discount rate used to calculate compensation for personal injuries has meant that they have to set aside more money for lump sum payments for people seriously injured in car crashes.
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WASHINGTON, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Only two out of the 12 regional Federal Reserve banks wanted to lower the rate commercial banks are charged for emergency loans ahead of the U.S. central bank's last policy meeting, minutes from the discussion of the discount rate showed on Tuesday.
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However, given the announcement and the competitive nature of the reinsurance market, we now expect reinsurance pricing to increase only modestly in the January 2018 renewal period, even if the new discount rate has not taken effect by then, which will be beneficial for both insurers and their policyholders.
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"What we hear from the sector about the (discount) rate is it is very likely to push up prices and our experience is that when you see price rises, you tend to see more people looking for better deals and therefore it's an opportunity for us," he told Reuters.
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Short-term rates that can be affected by our Federal Reserve include the Federal Funds Rate, which is the rate that one bank charges to lend reserves to another bank, and the Discount Rate, which is the rate that banks pay when they borrow money from the Fed.
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Only the directors at the St. Louis Fed recommended a quarter-of-a-percentage-point cut to the so-called discount rate, citing "current and anticipated economic conditions," according to a summary of discussions at the regional Fed banks ahead of the Fed's June 18-19 policy meeting.
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"Surprises like this that occur late in the game tend to have a high discount rate by voters because they are suspicious of the politics behind such revelations," said Chris LeHane, a veteran presidential campaign aide who served as a senior adviser to the super PAC Ready for Hillary.
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The Athletic reported then that the Warriors and Thompson had engaged in discussions on a contract that would keep him in Oakland for at least another five years — at a discount rate to also help the club retain All-Stars Kevin Durant and Draymond Green for years as well.
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"The current methodology used to calculate the discount rate is fundamentally flawed as it does not reflect the reality of how claimants invest their damages," James Dalton, director of general insurance policy at the ABI, said in a statement outlining the trade body's response to a government consultation.
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Johnson found out that disagreements over the Fed's policies didn't amount to a valid "cause" when he asked his Justice Department in 1965 if he could fire a Fed board governor after clashing with him for raising the discount rate amid signs the economy was starting to overheat.
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Analysts say a controversial decision this week to cut the discount rate for personal injury claims will push up lump sum payments and may bring more traffic to websites like Gocompare, which allows customers to compare insurance rates and prices of financial, travel and business products, utilities and household services. Gocompare.
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"When you have trouble holding even 2 percent on the 10-year Treasury, logically valuations would be higher, because the discount rate is lower, so it is consistent there, " Colas said, referring to the negative correlations between interest rates and valuations, as well as between the VIX and stock prices.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson found out that disagreements over the Fed's policies didn't amount to a valid "cause" when he asked his Justice Department in 1965 if he could fire a Fed board governor after clashing with him for raising the discount rate amid signs the economy was starting to overheat.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Three out of 12 regional Federal Reserve banks were against an increase in the rate commercial banks are charged for emergency loans ahead of the U.S. central bank's last policy meeting when it raised interest rates, minutes from the discussion of the discount rate showed on Tuesday.
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Then we had the first rate cut of the subsequent easing cycle coming in at 50 basis points as well in September 2007 (the discount rate was lowered in August) and again, who knew we would end up at zero along with multiple rounds of Quantitative Easing and Operation Twist?
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While the cost of a motor insurance policy in the UK rose last quarter after falling in the first three months of this year, Britain's plans to change the discount rate have brought in more uncertainty for insurers, who now have to make larger initial lump sum payments for claims.
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Based on recent financial statements from around 1,700 listed companies, Goldman Sachs estimates that a 13 basis point drop in the discount rate, which is used to calculate future pensions and roughly tracks long-term JGB yields, would increase total pension liabilities to 98 trillion yen ($896 billion) from 89 trillion yen.
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"Clarity over the new Personal Injury Discount Rate (the 'Ogden' rate) in July 2019 led to an increase in the number of large claims settling in 2019 compared to recent years which contributed to the level of releases," the company said, adding that there was no change to its "prudent approach to reserving".
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And even by March 9, less than a week before the meeting, directors at the influential New York Fed wanted the Fed to stand pat on its discount rate, which is what commercial banks are charged for emergency loans and which typically moves in tandem with the Fed's main short-term policy rate.
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Negative rates should lower the cost of loans and therefore support loan demand, lower the cost of capital and therefore encourage investment, and lower the discount rate on asset prices and therefore boost valuations; • Fifth, while monetary policy makers are rummaging ever deeper into their toolkits, they are not out of options.
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The purchase price will equal the aggregate discounted receivables balance less an amount required to fund the CCA and OC. The discount rate incorporates a buffer rate, which is released to VWFSA at each monthly payment date as a deferred purchase price, and as such the transaction yields no excess income to reimburse losses.
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I pay $12,2158.29Internet: $2129 (my husband covers utilities, which is comparable)Phone Bill: $2129, but my husband reimburses me for halfRock Climbing Gym Membership: $2129Netflix: $7.99Hulu Plus: $7.99New York Times Weekender subscription: $6 (special discount rate)Standing donation to Karam Foundation to support a Syrian refugee family: $50Yearly ExpensesTaxes (Accountant Fee): $162.50 for my half.
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"A lot of the volatility that has occurred and a bit of the repricing of financial assets, stocks in particular, is a result of there (being) a little bit of uncertainty as to what we should use as that discount rate," said Michael Arone, chief investment strategist at State Street Global Advisors in Boston.
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Directors of the Federal Reserve banks of Cleveland and Kansas City made their requests for an increase in the discount rate by a quarter percentage point from its current 2-1/2 percent rate "in light of the outlook for continued solid economic growth, tight labor markets, and inflation remaining near...2 percent," according to the minutes.
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One interesting finding in the JFE study is that so-called "sophisticated buyers," which are buyers of second homes or homes for investment purposes, are factoring in a steeper discount rate due to rising sea level concerns than buyers who then live in those homes as their primary residence and rely on that equity for retirement income.
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Buffett has been clear about the discount rate he prefers to use, saying at the 21 shareholder meeting that he doesn't think he can be very good at predicting interest rates and so he thinks in terms of "the long-term government rate," as long as the business being considered first meets another requirement: it is one that the investor can understand.
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You might apply Klarman's idea of conservatively estimating a company's cash flows and the applicable discount rate in valuing a company as part of a margin of safety, but taking a conservative view of what the market may be for a venture investment is arguably even worse than overshooting it because it will probably lead you to miss out on some great opportunities, like Airbnb above.
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KEY RATING DRIVERS Credit Support: The class A and B notes benefit from credit enhancement (CE) of 13.0% and 8.0%, respectively, provided by the subordinated loan, overcollateralization (OC) and the cash collateral account (CCA) which are funded by a purchase price discount Discount Rate The aggregate principal amount of the notes, the subordinated loan and OC equals the present value of the purchased receivables discounted at a rate of 103%.
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The problems with that analysis are legion, but the central ones are the use of global (rather than national) benefits to drive the benefit/cost comparison; the failure to apply a 7 percent discount rate to the streams of benefits and costs, despite clear direction from the Office of Management and Budget; and — most important — the use of ozone and particulate reductions as "co-benefits" of climate policies.
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KEY RATING DRIVERS Credit Support: The class A and B notes benefit from credit enhancement (CE) of 13.0% and 8.0%, respectively, provided by the subordinated loan, overcollateralisation (OC) and the cash collateral account which are funded by a purchase price discount Discount Rate The aggregate principal amount of the notes, the subordinated loan and OC equals the present value of the purchased receivables discounted at a rate of 8.89%.
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Finally, the recent dismay of President Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE with the Fed's practice and inclination to raise the discount rate in the future could sway the Fed into taking undesirable actions, not fully warranted by purely economic considerations.
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Martin: What I said to the press was this, that I wanted to make it clear that we would not have raised the discount rate at this time if it had not been for the British action, that we had been for some time watching the possibility of inflationary pressures developing or some problems with the balance of payments developing, but that you had indicated that you wanted us to stimulate the economy in every way that we could.
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