71.   The bank has also generally guided the key interbank overnight rate below the discount rate.

72.   The article in the Mainichi newspaper speculating the central bank was allowing overnight rates to climb also weighed on prices, traders said.

73.   The Bank of Japan let overnight rates charged among banks to fall below the discount rate in July last year.

74.   The cut in overnight rates prompted speculation the Bank of France would cut an official interest rate tomorrow.

75.   The drop in the overnight rate was expected in the wake of weak economic data.

76.   The Fed left its target overnight rate between banks unchanged after its Federal Open Market Committee meeting this week.

77.   The higher overnight rates are expected to trigger another increase in the treasury bill rates on Monday.

78.   The high overnight rate is already causing an increase in benchmark borrowing rates.

79.   The overnight rate helps set borrowing costs for companies and consumers, and as far as stocks are concerned, the lower, the better.

80.   The overnight borrowing rate has more than doubled in the week since the devaluation of the baht.