31.   Issing declined to say what impact the above-target inflation rate will have on interest rates, which the Bundesbank has kept on hold for three months.

32.   Interest rates soared on concern that rates might have to rise even further to keep investment in Brazil during cash crunch following market losses around the globe.

33.   Likewise, welfare rates have either no significant effect or only a small effect on the odds that whites will have children outside marriage.

34.   Lloyd Thomas, professor of economics at Kansas State University, said rates had to head higher because the economy was improving.

35.   Motor march rates have to be adjusted accordingly.

36.   Quite clearly, the rate of construction has to pick up in the next five years.

37.   Researchers have found that people who have atrial fibrillation, as an irregular heartbeat is known, have higher rates of death and disability when they have heart attacks.

38.   Rates would have to be kept low longer to help banks write off their bad debts.

39.   Rising rates have the opposite effect.

40.   Rising vacancy rates will then have an impact.