Until the next meeting of the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee May 20, which could produce another rate increase, " we may be locked in a trading range with a downward bias,"
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Americans are carrying a heavier debt burden than ever, and that as much as anything will " put a downward bias " on their spending habits, notes Smith Barney economist Bill Sharp.
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"It should help keep a downward bias to German interest rates, and whenever German interest rates are sliding it's good for Europe, " said Steve Englander, an economist at Smith Barney in Paris.
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The Bundesbank has also kept a downward bias on German interest rates by letting its repurchase rate, its target for overnight money rates, fall steadily from 4.50 percent to 3.97 percent last week.
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The bank's regular monthly policy meeting ruled the key Selic rate should remain unchanged and gave no hints as to what could come next, setting no upward or downward bias on the rate.
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The Bundesbank showed it is keeping a downward bias on German interest rates by letting its variable repurchase rate, its target for overnight money rates, slip by 1 basis point to 4.02 percent yesterday.
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Reflecting the market's downward bias, traders shrugged off news that saboteurs had blown up an oil well in northern Iraq late Tuesday, an act that was said to cut into the country's oil production.
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"' VIX Downward Bias . "'( left ) This figure plots the VIX downward bias, measured by daily ( VIX " GVIX ) from Jan 2005-May 2014, corresponding to different levels of VIX values.
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"' VIX Downward Bias . "'( left ) This figure plots the VIX downward bias, measured by daily ( VIX " GVIX ) from Jan 2005-May 2014, corresponding to different levels of VIX values.
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Economists said the cash infusion, only the second unscheduled round of credits in the past year, will keep a downward bias on money rates when the Bundesbank allots its regular credits to banks next Wednesday.
