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Key Rate

An interest rate that a bank uses to determine the interest rates it charges borrowers and pays depositors. Common key rates include the fed funds rate, the fed discount rate, and the LIBOR.

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The unusual reverse in key rates will leave little room for the Bank of Korea (BOK) to maneuver, making it almost impossible to conduct a rate cut.

US rate hike to raise debt burden here

Prospects for import growth among Norway's trading partners is somewhat weaker than in June and expected key rates have fallen slightly.

Norway : The key policy rate unchanged at 0.50 percent

The adjustment in key rates was kept on hold yesterday as the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) saw more stable consumer prices through 2016.

Regulator keeps interest rates steady

The European Central Bank (ECB) has to lower its key rates further and step up its injections of liquidity in order to combat the risk of deflation in the eurozone, say senior officials at the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

ECB SHOULD LOWER RATES, SAYS IMF

-Hungary central bank holds key rates steady

Other key rates will fall as well, the central bank said.

Russia cuts key interest rate by 25 basis points

6 August 2009 - Denmark's central bank, Nationalbanken, is likely to keep its key rates unchanged now and to cut them by 10 basis points in early September, Danske Bank forecast before today's meeting on prime rates of the European Central Bank (ECB).

Danske Bank expects c-bank to cut key interest in Sep '09

Other central banks are also setting their key rates at low levels.

BOE leaves key rate at record low 0.5%, will continue buying assets

Signs of growing pressures in the economy will generate expectations of higher key rates, with an attendant increase in market rates.

Transparency and predictability in monetary policy (1)

The QPN 8505 leverages breakthroughs in the underlying quantum cryptography architecture that provide customers greater distances, higher key rates, and more reliable deployment through utilization of the decoy state architecture.

MagiQ Technologies Announces a Significant Increase in Network Security Through First Commercial Exploitation of Decoy State Based Quantum Cryptography Solution

3 August 2009 - Denmark's central bank is likely to maintain its key rates, Nordea said before Nationalbanken tomorrow reports on its foreign exchange (FX) reserves for July and the European Central Bank (ECB) on Thursday holds its monthly meeting on interest rates.

Nordea expects Danish central bank to maintain key rates

European Central Bank (ECB) President Jean-Claude Trichet said Thursday that damage to European exporters from a soaring euro ''should be partly compensated for'' by an expansion of global demand, after the ECB made a widely anticipated decision to leave its key rates unchanged.