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Year-on-year growth of 2.2-percent exactly matched the Bank of England's forecast... reinforcing expectations that interest rates are set to remain unchanged for several more months to come.

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With the likelihood that the Reserve Bank will be easing sooner rather than later, and other parts of the world actually raising rates, the pressure's going to remain on the currency.

With the import side holding up more strongly than exports for now, the Reserve Bank is unlikely to respond with lower interest rates in the near term.

We regard this agreement as a natural development of our long-term relationship with Bank of China.

Top doctors, I have come to believe, are as big a menace to your health as top money managers are to your bank account. They are almost never available to talk to.

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This ... suggests that the bank is well aware that the six consecutive hikes ... have a cumulative impact that has not yet been fully felt.

This suggests more weakness and casts doubt on the sustainability of stronger consumer spending. The Bank of England's growth forecasts look a bit optimistic.

We?re really going to have even more demand on the food bank than in the past because of high energy costs. ?Can I pay my heating bill, or do I eat, this week?? That?s a tough spot to be in.

With the safeguards we have proposed, ... subsidiaries and affiliates are absolutely identical with respect to the ability of a bank to transfer any subsidy that may exist in the bank.

With the national average petrol price at a record high, the Reserve Bank will not touch interest rates.

U.K. data has been weaker than expected, but investors don't believe this will be enough to persuade the bank to cut rates. This leaves gilts vulnerable.

We're still in an environment where the Fed is likely to raise interest rates and the Bank of Japan won't for six months at the earliest. The interest-rate differential is likely to widen and that will be bad for the yen.

We're still going to do some fundraising. I'd rather have money in the bank rather than borrow it. We have some requests out there, so this gives everybody more time to think it through.

We're still fairly young on the left side of the line, but they're coming along. They're battling and they're fighting. We've got to bank on Mike and John's experience coming through.

We're still concerned, however, about the imbalances in the economy, but it's positive that the central bank is reacting.

We're seeing massive buying in bank stocks on the back of economic optimism. What we need to see is this sort of targeted buying of lenders spreading to other industries. With that we will have further sustainable gains.

We're seeing a combination of concerns over the Bank of Japan and feedback from the futures side ahead of special quotation day weakening the market.

We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.

We have said throughout the campaign that New Zealanders would pay for National's tax cuts through higher mortgage and interest rates and today's statement from the bank bears that out,

We have no information that this case relates to identity theft or bank fraud.

When fixed-income investors conclude that the central bank isn't going to raise rates any time soon, ... there tends to be a convergence of rates.

We are also grateful for this chance to help the public understand the purpose for the bank and that many corporations including Target, GM, and Toyota already operate industrial banks.

The refund should always come directly to you or to your bank account.

This will not be a bank that a consumer ever sees. Its only customer is Wal-Mart.

We did not get the financial resources we expected. The grants did not come through, nor did the bank loan. Consequently we had to put everything on hold.

We did not expect any change in interest rates today from the Bank of England, although clearly a further reduction in the run-up to Christmas would have been helpful to both retailers and industry in general.

We did get a report from the detectives that his credit cards haven't been used and there's been no activity in his bank account.

There is a reasonable chance of the bank cutting rates.

There is a question mark over May. The Bank of England is overly optimistic on their forecasts so they will have to revise those, but I'm not sure they will do it in time (for May).

There are few things so futile, and few so amusing, As a peaceful and purposeless sort of perusing Of old random jottings set down in a blank book You've unearthed from a drawer as you looked for your bank book

There are expectations that the Fed will cut rates, which may allow Brazil's Central Bank to do the same.

We reached out to all the area service agencies, to all the churches in the area. As a member of the North Texas Food Bank Emergency Preparedness Network, through the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army, through several state and other web sites, through all the hospitals, many know to use our services.

We hope to get the sidewalk in the area open and protected with some jersey barriers, and then we will begin feeling our way up the bank to see what is left that is loose.

Yesterday's sharp fall in bank shares is overshadowing sentiment,

We have reason to believe Goodman has some knowledge about the bank robbery and we'd like to talk to him about it.

We've seen for six months on the trot the Bank of England asking for higher rates. A new chancellor will have to build credibility with markets, so he'll almost certainly have to deliver a rate hike if one's asked for.

We've seen a steady improvement from a woeful starting position. That will all help the arithmetic of the GDP numbers. The Bank of England will take heart from this.

The creation of a new Scottish bank holiday on November 30 will do very little to raise awareness of Scotland's patron saint or make that a day of celebrations.

The CPI report continues to be encouraging. These numbers are stimulating consumer spending by giving consumers more spending power. At the same time, lower inflation will also encourage the central bank to do whatever they need to do.

The CPI report continues to be encouraging, ... These numbers are stimulating consumer spending by giving consumers more spending power. At the same time, lower inflation will also encourage the central bank to do whatever they need to do.

The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.

There is a window in that we'll have big 27 show up for the next round. It's not etched in stone yet, but it's almost money in the bank and we're pretty excited about it.

We have approached a point where we need to consider a gradual change in monetary policy. We share this view with the Finance Ministry. Monetary policy is based on economic growth, consumer prices and allocation of resources. The perception that the central bank would not raise interest rates had been prevalent, so I needed to send a signal not to shock the markets.

We have invited the commission and the ... bank to take forward technical work on a European support package, including discussions with other international partners to establish a loan guarantee scheme for small businesses,

This proposal from the Bank does not suggest a strong ambition to re-direct financing away from existing fossil fuel patterns, or to deliver sustainable energy to the two billion people currently without.

We've regularly highlighted this account as an example of a big bank getting it right.

When I arrived, the bank was knocking at the door, the College was in a crisis, and everyone in the place was afraid for their jobs. It was not a pretty picture. My job was clear: save it, sell it, or shut it down. Clear and obvious, but by no means simple or straightforward. I always say that you should never mistake a clear view for a short distance.

The only nation I've ever been tempted to feel really racist about are the Swiss - a whole country of phobic hand washers living in a giant Barclays Bank

We need to look at the West Bank and end the occupation there,

When was last time you had to take $100 out of your savings account and you walked into a bank and waited in line for a teller to serve you? It's a matter of just going to the ATM and taking care of it, and that's about the way it is with these.

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

The plant's once-through cooling is continually killing fish. Mitigation can be used to make up for the past, but it can't be used as a bank for future losses.

There are two camps at the Bank of England: one that thinks there is too much liquidity in the market, and the other is concerned about a lack of growth. The report tends to have subtle changes that lay the groundwork for the next three months. It's more about the message.

We're short on money for Kentucky's most important priorities. In that case, they have to come before just having money sit in bank accounts.

We're looking at a pretty favorable environment for bank stocks, and financials in general, over the next three-to-six months. But what I would say is that there's still a little bit of an overhang in terms of the commercial banking sector, due to credit quality concerns. So that's going to weigh heavily on the banks. But we could see growth in some of the other areas. Brokerage continues to be very strong,

Make sure the bank gives you an absolute commitment.

Macquarie has always been treated as a growth bank and their guidance that came out, even though it was strong, was probably disappointing to what the market was chasing.

Liberalizing trade by itself is not enough to generate growth and to fight poverty. While the World Bank has done the right thing in promoting more open trade worldwide it has not done everything right to help generate the payoffs.

Lewiston-Auburn has probably been the area that's been hit the hardest by bank robberies.

Low inflation buys the Bank of Korea some time before the next rate hike.

Many investors are reluctant to trade actively before the central bank starts its two-day meeting Wednesday.

Many of the bank stocks that have been mentioned as takeover targets are underperformers that don't meet earnings expectations. We would not be chasing them.

Many so-called emerging markets have long since emerged. Russia now has an investment-grade credit rating and with oil where it is right now, probably more money in the bank than the U.S.

Many Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire during the early part of the last century deposited money, gold and other assets into Turkish branches of Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank.

Scotland is the only case in the world where the poor part of a territory wants to separate from the rich part. If independence came, one option is to keep the pound as its currency, so that all economic decisions will continue to be taken by the Bank of England.

Setting a new guidepost by the Bank of Japan is crucial. There are growing concerns in financial markets about how to gauge the Bank of Japan's next move after the conditions are met, including when it will start to raise rates.

So in the background, too, is the notion that if there is any move to sell the dollar, there will be central bank intervention.

She's all-American. I think people saw, bank shots, post-ups, she does it all.

Some offshore investors secured cheaper funds here in yen for investing in Japanese equities. They appeared to be nervous as they consider an end to the current ultra-loose monetary policy by the Bank of Japan would increase their costs.

Should consumer services start to reinvigorate as anecdotal evidence suggests, the outlook for the sector as a whole should improve substantially. The data is very much consistent with the Bank staying on hold next week.

Signs of slowing growth and wages moving sideways rather than picking up, and of course the currency showing some signs of life, suggest that the Reserve Bank has probably administered enough monetary medicine for the time being.

Sick criminals are deliberately using the mining disaster in an attempt to steal from others, without a thought for the families of the victims, who have surely been through enough anguish. Everyone should be wary of emails such as these, as it is a common trick used by fraudsters to steal money and bank account information.

Since the Reserve Bank of Australia raised rates in March, the housing market has just been going sideways. Rates are on hold until the third quarter of this year.

Sit on the bank of a river and wait: Your enemy's corpse will soon float by.

Most small streams and creeks will be close to bank full and anybody living near small streams and creeks should be especially watchful for rising waters.

Most of the time, your risk management works. With a systemic event such as the recent shocks following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, obviously the risk-management system of any one bank appears, after the fact, to be incomplete. We ended up where banks couldn't liquidate their risk, and the system tended to freeze up.

Mr. Lauren and his family are going to put into the bank around $450 million after this offering, which is not a bad piece of loose change.

Mr. Gerard is eminently suitable to be a member of the Reserve Bank board, ... He is a fit and proper person to be on the board.

Ms. Lau has an outstanding record of achievement at American and is successfully transforming the bank from a retail thrift to a full-service community bank.

Mr. Arafat cannot accept less than 100 percent of the 1967 border of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Mr. Ackermann is Mr. Deutsche Bank these days. He holds in his hands the vision and strategy for the bank.

MDA and (Community) bank were responsible for disbursing all the funds.

One might expect that bank financing would play a big role for these companies of extraordinary potential, but why go there and incur the cost if there are other options? Today, most are able to self-finance their expansion thanks to their healthy gross margins. But how long this can continue, given escalating energy costs, is anybody's guess.

None of this will ease concerns for those at the Bank of England nervous about the outlook for consumption in the months ahead, particularly after the loss of momentum early this year.

No one's ever seen anything like this. There can be various patterns to the way the Bank of Japan will exit the policy.

My concern is the families we serve. We've always done what the food bank told us to do. The whole thing has been set up by the food bank.

My bank has all my phone numbers. If something happens, they know how to get a hold of me.

Money is very tight right now, ... You can't go to a bank and ask for a commercial loan if you don't have a business to show them, no profit and loss statements because you're not doing any business.

My guess is Bank of America will come here,

My father was a bank clerk. He was also a Utopian Socialist and he wrote a Utopian novel. It was a kind of allegory or fairy tale.

My dad never had a bank balance of more than three lakh and was always extremely compassionate towards his producers.

Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.

Nutrition is like a bank account. If you take in more money than you spend, your bank account will grow. If you take in more calories than you use, your waist will expand. If you deficit eat, your waste line will shrink.

Now you have the Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve all with the same interest-rate policy, and that's very positive. It's a strong indication that global central bankers will contain inflation and not necessarily choke off economic activity, which has been a big concern here.

Now you have access to a distribution network and ATMs that is almost national. From my point of view there is a benefit of being able to bank with my bank anywhere.

Now you can bank from your computer at home or your laptop. What we keep coming back to is that our customers want to see a real person when they walk into a branch.

Now, with the economic recovery appearing to be somewhat in place and the central bank not lowering rates, we see people trying to get in at the gates before rates start to rise.

New services reflect the changing demographics of bank customers and banks' are adopting new strategies for retaining core deposits. The first baby boomers will turn 65 in 2011, and by 2030, one in five Americans is expected to be 65 or older. Add the trend toward increased equity ownership, and it's hardly surprising that more than half of the bankers expect to offer brokerage services (61%) and half will offer mutual funds (50%) in the next three years.