| 21. | The key lending rate is currently at 18 . 25 percent.
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| 22. | Lending rates surged from below 100 percent to over 500 percent.
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| 23. | That typically leads individual banks to raise their prime lending rates.
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| 24. | Most stock investors expect the Fed will keep lending rates unchanged.
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| 25. | Government bonds set the pace for corporate and individual lending rates.
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| 26. | The lending rates now range from 12 to 16 per cent.
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| 27. | Prior to the economic crisis, prime lending rates averaged 13 percent.
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| 28. | The Fed last lowered the overnight bank lending rate in July.
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| 29. | It increased all of its lending rates by 50 basis points.
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| 30. | Treasury bill yields help banks determine their lending rates to clients.
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