1.   And our competitive rates mean your repayments are easy to manage.

2.   Lower rates mean lower borrowing costs, increased spending and growing corporate profits.

3.   Lower rates mean that firms are more likely to rack up profits in the coming months.

4.   He also warned, however, that reduced mortality rates will mean that the population as a whole will continue to grow.

5.   The decision to allow trusts to set their own pay rates has meant that pay bargaining is now becoming devolved.

6.   Allison responds, simply, that the declining fertility rates mean that the international family planning community must be doing something right.

7.   And these higher rates will soon mean higher interest payments for business and consumer loans, mortgages and car loans.

8.   As bond investors have sadly learned this year, rising rates mean declining bond prices.

9.   Banks and property shares paced the decline as higher rates would mean shrinking corporate profits.

10.   Because corporate depreciation schedules are not indexed to inflation, higher inflation rates mean higher effective rates of taxation on profits.