Interest Rate
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2010 Corporate Travel Index: Int'l Per Diems Show Oil Cities' Ascendance
… states, perform, and also on U.S. interest rates . If the Federal Reserve starts to raise interest rates this year, that will tend to support the dollar, because capital goes where interest rates are highest, and the U.S. is expected …
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Fuel Costs Demand Legislative Action, Sabre CEO Tells NBTA
… opinion is the weakened dollar. The Federal Reserve put down interest rates very quickly last fall and early this year to ease the credit ..... dramatically in tight correlation over that same period. We need interest rates to go back up just as quickly now to strengthen the dollar …
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House Votes For Delta, Northwest Pension Relief
… to the companies' bond yields: the higher the rate, the lower the payments. The bankrupt carriers are paying higher interest rates on their notes because they are higher credit risks. The House acted after failing throughout the week to reach an agreement …
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Navigant Offers Insight On CWT Sale In Quarterly Earnings Report
… named as a financial priority during its 2005 year-end earnings call ( BTNonline , Feb. 10) —though higher interest rates from those payments resulted in a 16.9 percent year-over-year increase in quarterly net interest expense …
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Multinational Corporate Card Consolidation Accelerates
… incentives in the rest of the world. Incentives are based on a complex range of variables including income from merchant fees, interest rates from banks and payment terms, the upshot of which, according to Eavis, is that card companies pay out less in Europe …
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RevPAR Up In Top Mkts.
… hotel has experienced and continues to experience very significant increases in cost: construction material, land and, as interest rates go up, the cost of capital. The cost bar keeps going up." In addition to receiving minimal room inventory additions …
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One-On-One: SW CEO: Crisis Opens Door
… I tend to agree with all the theories that increased energy prices are a form of a tax, with the same effect as raising interest rates . My feeling is the economy will slow down in 2005. That has to have an impact on business travel. We have not seen the …
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Corps. Reconsider Use Of Cash Over Incentive Travel
… of incentive travel has rebounded considerably. However, since the economy is uncertain—based on the stock market, interest rates edging up a little and earnings questionable at best—we have not come back to pre-9/11 levels at this point …
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Lodging Industry Sees Capital Improvement
… anxious to redeploy capital either in other lodging products or other locations." Potential buyers are motivated as well. " Interest rates still are at an all-time low, so the cost of financing continues to decrease," he said. Smith agreed with Hanson that …
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WashingtonWire - 2004-04-26
… funds operated by seven carriers currently are underfunded by $20.5 billion because their assets have been drained by low interest rates and the poor performance in the stock market in recent years. The seven airlines include: Alaska, American, Continental …
