Market interest rate

The international energy technology market is brutal and competitive.

China s exchange rate intervention probably hurts a number of other emerging market exporters that do not intervene as much and are less competitive as a result.

87. The shipping market is highly competitive, but crucially dependent on market intelligence about ship availability and cargo specifications.

The scheduled implementation date for the competitive electricity market is 1 July 1995.

The first is below market fixed rate bonds.

The other eurozone countries are not as competitive as Germany at today s exchange rate.

Kuroda s stance has already weakened the yen s exchange rate, making Japanese goods more competitive.

Emerging market interest rate spreads now are abnormally low.

Japan, of course, is not alone in using exchange rate policies to keep exports competitive.

The Norwegian Competition Authority successfully used this procedure to ensure that the market remained competitive.

The timing of the 2001 rate decrease stunned the market.

Many small producers are not competitive and are handicapped in doing business and meeting market exigencies.

And, despite a more competitive exchange rate, the US continues to run a large current account deficit.

This in turn should help SMEs in those countries to become more competitive in the global market.

Small and vulnerable economies must not be abandoned to their fate in the current highly competitive market.

The move to a competitive market will allow a range of specific energy benefits to be realised.

Indeed, the official unemployment rate understates the weakness of the labor market.

19.1 The rate of participation of young girls in the labour market.

Eli Lilly in, again, the fiercely competitive pharmaceutical world has created a market for solutions for pharmaceutical problems.

Client relations and marketing UNOPS services assume critical importance for a multiple service line provider in a competitive market.

In theory, import subsidies could be as efficient as market access preferences in remedying the competitive disadvantage of LDCs.

They nevertheless retain the responsibility to provide a regulatory framework for the effective operation of a competitive market system.

France proposes that market rate interest should be imposed on all late payments.

PSD will invest in building strategically important market and competitive knowledge through market research and ensure that internal decision making is more than ever supported by this knowledge.

(a) Enhance and support competitive productive capacities able to produce according to market requirements in terms of quality and quantity

Raising women s labor market participation rate boosts economic performance in a number of ways.

Since 2003, the market has posted a compound annual growth rate of over 110 .

Market dominant banks still extract hefty fees on debit and credit card transactions from merchants, who are forced to pay a multiple of what a truly competitive market would bear.

According to the Labour Market Service Act, employers are paid labour market service subsidy through the employment office if the employer employs an unemployed person with a lower competitive ability.

According to the followers of Knut Wicksell, the central bank must keep the market rate of interest near the natural rate of interest.

Finally, South Africa, with its world class banking sector and internationally competitive construction companies, can supply services to the Chinese market.

This means that, in a competitive labor market, real wages will always be instantly adjusted to changes in conditions of demand.

Market oriented reform, by leveling the competitive playing field, would hurt their interests and reduce their privileges, making fierce opposition likely.

What implications does this have for market structure? Concentration in well defined deposit and loan markets is linked with competitive pressure.

Emerging market economies will take some steps, including interest rate cuts, to safeguard domestic growth.

Sometimes we rely on our judgment in combining interest rate action with open market operations.

As a result, market oriented interest rate reform is now needed to help optimize capital allocation and support the development of China s financial market, thereby laying the groundwork for future capital account and exchange rate liberalization.

Combined with efforts to maintain a competitive exchange rate, this has led to considerable reserve accumulation, but also a concomitant capital outflow.

The challenge is that the rise of online shopping will increase competitive pressure, regardless of whether big foreign retailers enter the market.

In today s hyper competitive global economy, there is no reliable third way for countries to avoid continued liberalization and market oriented reforms.

Competitive advantage is a firm s ability to do something better, faster, cheaper, or uniquely, when compared with rival firms in the market.

Some technologies are already mature and economically competitive, while others need only minor additional development steps to become ready for the market.

(b) In most cases examined, below 100,000, where the requirement exists for competitive quotations or bidding, only minimal market testing had occurred.

This may be particularly relevant today, with China s rising wages and appreciating exchange rate underscoring rapid change in global comparative and competitive advantage.