Labor costs accelerated but still remained at a low level.
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Now it seems to have stabilized at a low level.
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These days, that risk has been fixed at a low level indeed.
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"political development" at a low level that could be reaped by a national
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Sports cause people to change their priorities, even at a low-level school.
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"Currently, interest rates in major developed economies are at a low level," SAFE said.
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But then airlines got cheap and stopped the bidding process at a low level.
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A coalition of private funders chipped in to keep it going at a low level.
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Employment figures continued to rise, and the unemployment rate remained stable at a low level.
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The probability of the U.S. entering a recession remains at a low level of 18.5 percent.
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The probability of the U.S. entering a recession remains at a low level of 2400 percent.
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Rates remain at a low level that supports economic growth by encouraging borrowing and risk-taking.
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CS: I think the authorial intent that matters is not at a low level of generality.
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Street demonstrations continued at a low level on Monday, with more planned for later in the day.
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In 21977, he began racing in earnest, and won eight races at a low level of competition.
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Mr. Trump said the Federal Reserve is "doing political things" by holding interest rates at a low level.
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In this view, stimulating faster growth by keeping interest rates at a low level would simply drive up inflation.
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Average order levels reported in the survey remained at a low level of just over 2 months, it said.
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The Fed kept rates at a low level and bought the bonds to reduce borrowing costs, stimulating economic activity.
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It could also engage in "forward guidance," or promising keep rates at a low level for a specified period.
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In this view, the Fed should leave interest rates at a low level to allow the expansion to continue.
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However, pentobarbital present in the withdrawn products is at a low level unlikely to pose a health risk to pets.
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"Looking at the current situation, the share of indicators emitting signals remains at a low level," the central bank said.
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Initially, the cap would be set at a low level, but every three months the Fed would allow deeper cuts.
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French startup Tempow has been working on improving the Bluetooth protocol at a low level to make it more versatile.
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At a low level of two months of current account payments, reserves offer little protection should external liquidity dry up.
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There's a lot of people at a low level of severity but still having problems associated with their use of alcohol.
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I would say all the time, they would walk into my office, 'Sir, we killed this leader at a low level.
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"While lower interest rates are temporarily helping affordability, we can't expect this to remain at a low level forever," Yun said.
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"International oil prices will widely fluctuate at a low level," the company said in a statement to the Hong Kong stock exchange.
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Employment conditions are still sluggish, with the extent of increase in the number of persons employed having remained at a low level.
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Employment conditions have been sluggish, with the extent of increase in the number of persons employed having remained at a low level.
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"At best, we can reckon with a stabilisation of reinsurance prices at a low level this year, if at all," he added.
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Current electricity rate structures encourage water and wastewater utilities to use small pumps that operate continuously, at a low level, throughout the day.
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" She added,"On the same hand, the average user really doesn't need to understand mining or protocols that are at a low level.
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There are often resistance genes tailored to abiding threats lurking, at a low level, in bacterial populations, waiting for their hour to come.
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The Fed has held rates at a low level to encourage economic growth; by raising rates, it is slowly ending that stimulus campaign.
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Prices of natural rubber have been hovering at a low level throughout 2018 and early this year, the three countries said in their statement.
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The PBOC will maintain prudent monetary policies with some flexibility, the statement also said, adding the interest rate is running at a low level.
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The film persuasively argues that any fraud at Abacus occurred at a low level, and that the bank dealt with it swiftly and properly.
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Initially the cap would be set at a low level (as little as $12bn a month on one reckoning) and would gradually increase every quarter.
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But that influx did not materialize and Austria has praised Italy's work in keeping the number of migrants headed toward it at a low level.
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"The unemployment rate is expected to come in at a low level again in June," said Kenta Maruyama, economist at Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting.
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Initially, the cap would be set at a low level, but every three months the Fed would raise it, allowing deeper cuts to its holdings.
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"We are now getting to the point that the focus on efficiencies and producing reserves at a low level is what investors expect," Karev said.
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A separate report showed that more people sought unemployment assistance last week, but applications are still at a low level consistent with steady job growth.
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Healthy forests that are allowed to burn at a low level periodically, as they did in the distant past, are less prone to extreme wildfires.
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CPI showed inflation picked up in late August due to the influence of hurricanes, after running at a low level for the past several months.
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The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development finds that one in six Americans reads at a low level, more than three times the rate in Japan.
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" The former Massachusetts governor noted that illegal immigration is currently at a low level, saying of Trump's immigration rhetoric, "I don't know what he's talking about.
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"Once the industry begins engaging in a practice, even at a low level ... there are actors who will take it to its logical extreme," she said.
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Although GDP growth is at a low level, wage gains now exceed inflation, employment opportunities are exceptionally high, and retail sales and housing markets are strong.
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"We have found that if a player comes in low on the tests, then they tend to leave the club at a low level," Sanders said.
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"Unemployment is at a low level, but you also have African American unemployment, Hispanic unemployment," still several percentage points greater than the national average, Bullard said.
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The fact that investment growth has stabilized at a low level does not mean that China is necessarily out of the woods in terms of financial stability.
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An NOC team visited the site to asses the damage and reported that one of the storage units was still burning at a low level, Sanalla said.
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Nishimura told reporters consumer sentiment was picking up but remained at a low level, adding that he would watch how factors including overseas economies could affect spending.
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But the number of homicides in New York, while still at a low level, is increasing now; might that be the result of reversing stop-and-frisk?
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"Although global demand has risen and oil prices are rebounding, economic growth remains at a low level," he said in a speech to cabinet ministers and parliamentarians.
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Long-term rates are low and, even if the Federal Reserve raises rates this year, they're likely to remain at a low level for a long, long time.
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"Unemployment is at a low level, but you also have African American unemployment, Hispanic unemployment," still one to two percentage points greater than the national average, Bullard said.
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"The flight plan delineated by the central bank remains in play - that is, keeping rates at a low level in the foreseeable future," Haitong economist Jankiel Santos said.
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He had been suspended after the Tennis Integrity Unit said he attempted to influence the outcome of a match at a low-level Futures tournament in March 21981.
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The ratio then stalled out at a low level for a while, which meant that by 2014, the CBO had become much more pessimistic about the long run.
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The auto mode can adjust the filtering and fan depending on your air quality, and at night, it'll dim its LCD panel and keep noise at a low level.
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He says that they do this by making every instance "functionally identical but logically unique" by relocating where functions and memory exist at a low level in the software.
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For iPhones specifically, "purchase intention" looked to be stabilizing at a low level in all regions except China, UBS analyst Timothy Arcuri said in a note to clients Wednesday.
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Ryan said the outbreak was confined to a geographic triangle stretching between the towns of Mambasa, Komanda, Oicha and Mandima, though it was still spreading at a low level.
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Ryan said the outbreak was confined to a geographic triangle stretching between the towns of Mambasa, Komanda, Oicha and Mandima, though it was still spreading at a low level.
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Talks were adjourned in the early hours of Tuesday, with no date set for resumption, but sources said contacts were continuing at a low level trying to reach a compromise.
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The deficit remains lower than the 2.6% of GDP 'BBB' median and is consistent with the general government debt/GDP ratio stabilising at a low level relative to rating peers.
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The Fed held interest rates at a low level after the financial crisis to stimulate economic growth by encouraging investors to take risks and consumers and businesses to borrow money.
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"But the modest rise in the US PMI left it still at a low level and the alternative ISM manufacturing index fell to its lowest since October 2016," research analysts said.
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The tariffs would come just as data earlier in the day showed 2628,28500 jobs added in July, keeping unemployment at a low level of 6900 percent, a nearly 2628-year low.
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Soccer was the most common sport examined and was included in 15 studies, 12 of which found a link to osteoarthritis but at a low level for most but elite athletes.
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"With core inflation unchanged at a low level, the Bank will continue to stress its patient and persistent approach to monetary policy normalization," Jessica Hinds, an economist at Capital Economics, said.
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" For most people, "at a low level of emotion, you might be a bit unsure about exactly what you're feeling, but if you have a strong emotion, you know what it is.
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That is to say, the VIX tends to spike higher and fall less after it has been trading in a narrow range than after it has been trading at a low level.
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"I'm just so surprised and angry that we have to play in the rain," Radwanska said before unfavorably comparing the decision to those made at a low level of sanctioned professional tennis.
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This reflects the good health of the Belgian banking sector, with profitability and capitalisation metrics improving, and non-performing loans at a low level of 20153% of total loans at end-2015.
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"Raw materials prices have been dropping and are now at a low level, so the margin expansion to some extent has come from relatively stable pricing but reducing raw material costs," he said.
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While bad-debt charges are still at a low level, analysts are hoping an improvement in Australia's hard-hit property markets in the past two months flows through to the bank's loan portfolios.
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He said the ECB believes interest rates would remain at a low level for a "longer period of time", adding the ECB policy was aiming to influence short-term and long-term interest rates.
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An era of low productivity growth and high world demand for safe assets may be anchoring central bank policy rates at a low level, St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard said on Monday.
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F.O. Licht's chief analyst Stefan Uhlenbrock said he does not expect prices to crash due to the jump in global sugar output, because stocks are still at a low level following the years of deficits.
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A genetic trace of the Ebola virus can live on in someone's semen for a little over a year after the person has experienced initial symptoms of the disease, but it is at a low level.
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"Given our expectation that the oil price will remain at a low level for a longer period, we have impaired the value of a number of Maersk Oil's assets by $2.5 billion after tax," Andersen said.
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The committee members cited a very low inflation environment and argued that raising rates before inflation returns to its annual target range of 1 to 3 percent would keep the interest rate at a low level.
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The Fed is still holding rates at a low level by historical standards, supporting economic growth by encouraging borrowing and risk-taking, but it is gradually reducing those incentives because the economy continues to gain strength.
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The central bank governor Artur Javadyan told in an interview to Reuters in March that prices would remain at a low level over the short term, gradually boosting annual inflation to 4 percent by early 2019.
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"If we look at the economy, it basically looks like we've peaked out and we've peaked out at a low level," the former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush told CNBC.
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Fed staff proposed that the central bank set a cap on the amount of bonds that would be allowed to run off each month, initially setting it at a low level and raising it every three months.
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As it is expected that domestic economic growth will be moderate and it is forecast that inflationary pressures on the demand side will remain at a low level, the Board will maintain its accommodative monetary policy stance.
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It's common to find a former officer with a college degree and military leadership experience working at a low-level sales position or similar type of job where they have little opportunity to utilize their leadership skills.
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The expansion of its non-housing finance business and greater focus on self-employed borrowers has partly helped to alleviate margin pressures, but the ability to maintain overall credit costs at a low level is key for DHFL.
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Rumors that once simmered at a low level of his interest in young women, which was mostly deemed moderately creepy rather than criminal, are now clogging Facebook feeds, dominating talk at fast-food restaurants and generating endless gossip.
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Testing for the virus was at a low level, he said, and many people in the capital were self-isolating at their apartments or at homes in the countryside and not being tested after returning from trips abroad.
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There aren't as many exemplars in getting stunting down at a low level of income as there are the overall reduction in childhood death where just getting your vaccine coverage up gives you dramatic gains in that measure.
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Ukrtransgaz spokesman Ihor Kravchyshyn said it had faced "a critical situation" as Russia had kept pressure at the point connecting to the Ukrainian pipeline system at a low level - at least 20 percent below that required by transit contracts.
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That's smart Art of War, buying Apple continued universal compatibility at a low level, and not requiring either the global scale of a Google or the near-universal social clout of a Facebook, neither of which Apple can replicate.
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You can either organize relationship at a high level — based on friendship, shared values, loyalty and affection — or you can organize relationship at a low level, based on mutual selfish interest and a brutal, ends-justify-the-means mentality.
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For example, in the configuration screen for Apple Music's iOS app (found via the Settings app), you can choose to block all mobile data usage completely or enable mobile data use but keep the streaming quality at a low level.
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For Israeli startups in the field, this means a ready pool of specialists in each layer of fraud detection, from detecting proxies at a low level to automation with machine learning at the highest levels, developing algorithms that are border agnostic.
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An important nugget that is sure to get some folks excited is that the vehicle will have a 50/50 weight distribution, thanks to the position of the battery at a low level under the floor and centrally within the wheelbase.
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The administration official who spoke to Reuters confirmed the gist of the Axios report and said the option was being debated at a low level in the administration and was six to eight months away from being considered by the president.
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During the last downturn, the Fed reduced the benchmark rate to nearly zero in 2008, and then supplemented its efforts by pledging to keep interest rates at a low level and by purchasing large quantities of Treasuries and mortgage-backed bonds.
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"If a person who kisses the baby has an active herpes simplex lesion in their mouth, or they're carrying the virus at a low level without lesions, they could infect the baby with the virus," he says, adding that it is rare.
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"The outbreak is expected to continue at a low level for the next several months since people might be unaware of the risk of Salmonella infection from small turtles," the CDC said in an investigation update detailing each of the four outbreaks.
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The Joint Chiefs of Staff and other senior military leaders have adopted this approach as part of official US military doctrine, embracing the view that persistent conflict at a low level is the best way to prevent large-scale wars from breaking out.
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When it comes to predicting these spikes, Thrasher's specific finding is that when the VIX is at a low level, its average peak over the next three weeks is a 24.9 percent rise, while its average trough is a 9.3 percent fall.
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Violent crime has fallen by more than half over the past 20 years, the economy is growing at a steady, unspectacular rate, illegal border crossings are at a low level, there are signs of racial progress for those who want to see them.
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Generally, the final fine amount is usually at a low level within this range; however, judging from the EU's attitude and strength in penalizing science and technology companies, this fine marks the escalation of the struggle between the European Commission and Google.
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"It would be unreasonable to raise the 10-year bond yield target in the near future when the inflation rate remains at a low level," Kiuchi said in a speech to business leaders in Kofu, in the eastern Japanese prefecture of Yamanashi.
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By crossing certain thresholds at a low-level, Tehran can slowly chip away at the JCPOA's constraints, such as its promised one-year breakout timeline, an estimate of time needed for Iran to produce enough fissile material for a single nuclear weapon.
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Chinese soybean prices started at a low level this year and have dropped rapidly since harvest began in September, pressured by higher domestic output and large volumes of imports, said Tang Ke, director of the market and economic information department at the agriculture ministry.
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In fact, the incidents that president interfered with the fed's decision in US history, like Nixon asked the Fed Chairman Burns to keep interest rate at a low level till the end of the election, resulting in severe stagnant inflation in the United States.
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The market capitalization of major mining companies has now risen for five consecutive quarters, Jiang said, but "prices for major mineral products are still at a low level", meaning there was still much work to be done, Jiang said, without mentioning which minerals he was referring to.
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He said it was the Fed's ability to anchor inflation at a low level that allowed it, when crisis hit, to keep interest rates near zero for an extended time and engage in a massive bondbuying program without generating the inflation he had earlier warned about.
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A crater rim camera owned and operated by New Zealand geological hazards agency GeoNet shows groups of people walking near the rim inside the crater, where white smoke constantly billows at a low level, in the hour leading up to the eruption at 2:11 p.
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A crater rim camera owned and operated by New Zealand geological hazards agency GeoNet shows groups of people walking near the rim inside the crater, where white smoke constantly billows at a low level, in the hour leading up to the eruption at 2:11 p.m.
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A crater rim camera owned and operated by New Zealand geological hazards agency GeoNet shows groups of people walking near the rim inside the crater, where white smoke constantly billows at a low level, in the hour leading up to the eruption at 2:11 p.
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"If prices are at a low level for an extended period of time, a correction in investment will become inevitable and that will lead to a certain reduction in output, but that will not be a deliberate act by the state," Dvorkovich said Friday, according to Reuters.
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Australian rugby league player Ryan Tandy was convicted of trying to manipulate the first score of a 2010 National Rugby League match and a former Australian Open junior champion was banned for seven years for purposely losing the first set of a match at a low-level tournament.
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However, expectations of more aggressive monetary easing soon by the central bank - such as cuts in interest rates or banks' required reserve ratios (RRR) - were weakened after a senior central bank official said China's banking system has ample liquidity, and that interest rates are already at a low level.
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"The price of oil is at a low level ... I don't think it will last in the long term ... The pressure on oil-producing nations means balance will be restored in the short term," Rouhani, whose country is the third-largest producer in OPEC, said at the French Institute of International Relations.
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I knew deep down that if I exposed myself to loud music for prolonged amounts of time that I would exacerbate an already crippling affliction, but I also found that without listening to any music, or some sort of noise at a low level all day long, I was just alone with that ringing.
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"We are in a new world," Mester said, where the obvious need to raise rates has given way to a situation where economic growth is expected to slow, wages are rising on the basis of low unemployment, interest rate sensitive sectors of the economy like housing have ebbed, and the unemployment rate has roughly "stabilized" at a low level.
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