"A combination of exchange-rate pressures and slowing demand are causing some pricing pressures to appear in a few segments of the industry, " said Mark Diverio, an analyst at UBS Securities.
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Interest rate pressure is due to surging inter-bank rates _ the interest rates at which banks borrow from each other, notably to defend the local dollar link with the US currency.
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"Despite lower export coal volume, the railroad produced strong earnings, which helped offset the continuing effects of rate pressures on our container-shipping and barge companies, " said John Snow, chairman and chief executive.
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The Central Bank under the Cubas administration ( August 1998-March 1999 ) kept interest rates high on guarani-based bonds sold to private banks, limiting liquidity, and keeping exchange rate pressures off the guarani.
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"We have interest rate pressure and as we go into the first-quarter earnings season, a lot of companies are tempering analyst expectations, " said Ira Katzin, an investment adviser at RBC Dominion Securities Inc.
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But Steven Goldman, a strategist at Weeden & Co ., fretted about the persistence of rate pressure as the government auctioned $ 7 billion of inflation-indexed notes, and corporate issuers readied other big deals.
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But Steven Goldman, a strategist at Weeden & AMP; Co ., fretted about the persistence of rate pressure as the government auctioned $ 7 billion of inflation-indexed notes, and corporate issuers readied other big deals.
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"So many banks are chasing deposits that it has caused deposit rate pressure, " said Alexander Kemper, president and CEO of UMB Financial Corp . " It is like taking a football to a soccer match.
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Boston Chicken shares have dropped 13 percent since the start of the year due to non-company related issues, like interest-rate pressure on high-growth multiples and concerns that the weather will negatively impact restaurant earnings, Oakes said.
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Unfortunately, in order to keep overall monetary conditions consistent with maintaining price stability, it appears that we will have to accept rather less interest rate pressure than might be ideal, and rather more exchange rate pressure than might be ideal,
