71.   Investors often lay bets on lower rates by purchasing bonds with long durations.

72.   It has few opportunities to lend, since its customers, big companies, can raise money at lower rates by selling securities, McCarthy said.

73.   It cut another key rate by the same amount.

74.   Interest-rate futures contracts also point to higher Bundesbank rates by the end of the year.

75.   It is not clear how fast competition will force insurers nationwide to adjust liability rates by model.

76.   It recovered some when the Federal Reserve, nervous about conflicting evidence of a weakening economy, eased its short-term rate by a slim quarter of a percentage point.

77.   Its quitting rate by Medicare patients is the lowest among the plans surveyed.

78.   Judging from Eurodollar futures, or dollars on deposit outside the U.S., few investors foresee higher central bank rates by the end of the year.

79.   Judging from Eurodollar futures, or dollars on deposit outside the country, few investors foresee higher central bank rates by the end of the year.

80.   Judging from Eurodollar futures, or dollars on deposit outside the U.S, some investors foresee higher central bank rates by the end of the year.