11. Lower rates hurt a currency by making bank deposits denominated in it less attractive. 12. Lower rates make it cheaper for companies to borrow money, which can boost their profits and stock prices. 13. Lower rates make stocks more appealing than bonds and bank deposits. 14. Lower rates mean lower borrowing costs, increased spending and growing corporate profits. 15. Lower rates often hurt a currency by making bank deposits denominated in it less attractive. 16. Lower rates usually make loans more attractive and help to boost car and truck sales. 17. More likely, interest rates fell, and the entire neighborhood refinanced its thirty-year fixed rate mortgages at the lower rates. 18. Police crime figures always show much lower rates, because forces do not record every incident reported to them. 19. Probably because of the very much greater stick forces and lower rates of pitch occurring in most light aircraft. 20. Since then, this relationship has broken down and architects have enjoyed lower rates of unemployment relative to the national situation. |