Preference Rate definition

Preference Rate means a quarterly rate expressed as a percentage equal to ** per annum, divided by four.
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Preference Rate means cumulative gross preferential dividend rate out of the distributable profits of the Company, at a dividend rate per annum of 3.8% on the Issue Price of the RPS
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Preference Rate means for each Convertible Preferred Unit a daily rate expressed as a percentage equal to (i) 7% per annum until December 31, 2010 and (ii) 14% per annum thereafter, in each case divided by 365 or 366 days, as the case may be, during such calendar year, provided, however, that if a monetization of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets in the Republic of Ghana takes places (x) before December 31, 2010, the Preference Rate shall remain at 7% per annum at all times thereafter, or (y) after December 31 2010, the Preference Rate shall be equal to 7% from the day of such monetization event and remain 7% per annum at all times thereafter. If a change in Preference Rate takes effect during a calendar year, the effects of such change shall be pro-rated for such calendar year.
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Examples of Preference Rate in a sentence

  • This is done with the Social Time Preference Rate (STPR) of 3.5%.

  • The holders of the 8.5% Cumulative Convertible Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, when and as declared by the Board of Directors in its discretion, but only out of funds lawfully available for dividends under the laws of the State of New York, semiannual dividends at the rate (the "Preference Rate") of Eighty-Five and 00/100 ($85.00) Dollars per share, and no more, payable in cash on the last business day of June and December in each year, commencing on the last business day in June 1997.

  • Integration of Congestion Pricing and Intertemporal Preference Rate in Social Welfare Function.

  • The estimated economic impact is therefore discounted by the Social Time Preference Rate of 3.5 % on acase by case basis30.

  • When the Government places a value on the future cash flows of student loans for the purposes of a sale, it applies a discount known as “the Social Time Preference Rate (STPR)”.

  • Events happening more than one year after the financial year in which the event is confirmed are therefore discounted with the Social Time Preference Rate as described in HM Treasury Green Book.Figure 11 illustrates the steps in the calculation of GVA.

  • The UK treasury Social Time Preference Rate (STPR), for use in UK government appraisal is set at 3.5% in real terms63.

  • A Social Time Preference Rate for Use in Long-Term Discounting, A report for ODPM, DFT and DEFRA.

  • CM added that HMT is consulting on two different approaches to setting the discount rate; either continue to use GDP or move to the Social Time Preference Rate (STPR) which was previously used.

  • The Social Time Preference Rate is not applied to GVA from jobs created earlier, since a maximum of one year’s acceleration is assumed.


More Definitions of Preference Rate

Preference Rate has the meaning given to it in paragraph 1.1.1 of Schedule 5 (Preference Share Terms).
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Preference Rate means (A) for each share of Series A Preferred Stock, $0.0167 per annum; (B) for each share of Series B Preferred Stock, Five Cents ($0.05) per annum; (C) for each share of Series C Preferred Stock, $0.0725 per annum; (D) for each share of Series D Preferred Stock, $0.13125 per annum; and (E) for each share of Series E Preferred Stock, $0.25275 per annum.
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Related to Preference Rate

  • Reference Rate means the rate specified as such hereon.

  • Compounded Daily Reference Rate means, with respect to an Interest Period, the rate of return of a daily compound interest investment in the Specified Currency (with the applicable Reference Rate (as indicated in the relevant Final Terms and further provided for below) as the reference rate for the calculation of interest) and will be calculated by the Calculation Agent on the Interest Determination Date, as follows, and the resulting percentage will be rounded, if necessary, to the fifth decimal place, with 0.000005 being rounded upwards:

  • Term SOFR Reference Rate means the forward-looking term rate based on SOFR.

  • SONIA Reference Rate means, in respect of any London Banking Day, a reference rate equal to the daily Sterling Overnight Index Average ("SONIA") rate for such London Banking Day as provided by the administrator of SONIA to authorised distributors and as then published on the Relevant Screen Page (or if the Relevant Screen Page is unavailable, as otherwise is published by such authorised distributors) on the London Banking Day immediately following such London Banking Day; and

  • Reset Reference Rate means in respect of a Reset Period, the gross redemption yield (as calculated by the Agent Bank on the basis set out by the United Kingdom Debt Management Office in the paper “Formulae for Calculating Gilt Prices from Yields”, page 5, Section One: Price/Yield Formulae “Conventional Gilts”; Double dated and Undated Gilts with Assumed (or Actual) Redemption on a Quasi-Coupon Date (published 8 June 1998, as amended or updated from time to time) or if such basis is no longer in customary market usage at such time, in accordance with generally accepted market practice at such time, on a semi-annual compounding basis (rounded up (if necessary) to four decimal places) of the Benchmark Gilt in respect of that Reset Period, with the price of the Benchmark Gilt for the purpose of determining the gross redemption yield being the arithmetic average (rounded up (if necessary) to the nearest 0.001 per cent. (0.0005 per cent. being rounded upwards)) of the bid and offered prices of such Benchmark Gilt quoted by the Reset Reference Banks at 11.00 a.m. (London time) on the Reset Determination Date in respect of such Reset Period on a dealing basis for settlement on the next following dealing day in London. Such quotations shall be obtained by or on behalf of the Issuer and provided to the Agent Bank. If at least four quotations are provided, the Reset Reference Rate will be determined by reference to the rounded arithmetic mean of the quotations provided, eliminating the highest quotation (or, in the event of equality, one of the highest) and the lowest quotation (or, in the event of equality, one of the lowest). If only two or three quotations are provided, the Reset Reference Rate will be determined by reference to the rounded arithmetic mean of the quotations provided. If only one quotation is provided, the Reset Reference Rate will be determined by reference to the rounded quotation provided. If no quotations are provided, the Reset Reference Rate will be the previous Reset Reference Rate or (in the case of the first Reset Period) 1.581 per cent., where:

  • Successor Reference Rate means the rate that the relevant Independent Adviser determines is a successor to or replacement of the Reference Rate which is formally recommended by any Relevant Nominating Body.

  • Original Reference Rate means the originally-specified benchmark or screen rate (as applicable) used to determine the Rate of Interest (or any component part thereof) on the Notes.

  • Replacement Reference Rate means a reference rate which is:

  • LIBOR Reserve Percentage means the reserve percentage prescribed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (or any successor) for "Eurocurrency Liabilities" (as defined in Regulation D of the Federal Reserve Board, as amended), adjusted by Bank for expected changes in such reserve percentage during the applicable Fixed Rate Term.

  • CB Floating Rate means the Prime Rate; provided that the CB Floating Rate shall never be less than the Adjusted One Month LIBOR Rate on such day (or if such day is not a Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day). Any change in the CB Floating Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate or the Adjusted One Month LIBOR Rate shall be effective from and including the effective date of such change in the Prime Rate or the Adjusted One Month LIBOR Rate, respectively.

  • LIBOR Daily Floating Rate means, for any day, a fluctuating rate of interest per annum equal to LIBOR as published on the applicable Bloomberg screen page (or such other commercially available source providing such quotations as may be designated by Administrative Agent from time to time), at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two (2) London Banking Days prior to such day, for Dollar deposits with a term of one (1) month commencing that day; provided that if the LIBOR Daily Floating Rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed zero for purposes of the Loan Documents.

  • Weighted Average Advance Rate means, as of any date of determination with respect to all Eligible Collateral Obligations included in the Adjusted Aggregate Eligible Collateral Obligation Balance, the number obtained by (i) summing the products obtained by multiplying (a) the Advance Rate of each such Eligible Collateral Obligation by (b) such Eligible Collateral Obligation’s contribution to the Adjusted Aggregate Eligible Collateral Obligation Balance and (ii) dividing such sum by the Adjusted Aggregate Eligible Collateral Obligation Balance.

  • EURIBOR Rate has the meaning assigned thereto in the definition of “Eurocurrency Rate”.

  • SOFR Rate means the rate that will be obtained by the Paying Agent for each Interest Period on the SOFR Adjustment Date as of the SOFR Determination Time (or, if the Benchmark is not SOFR, the Reference Time) and, except following a determination by the Administrator that a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred, means, with respect to the Class A-2b Notes as of any SOFR Adjustment Date, a rate equal to Compounded SOFR; provided, that, the Administrator will have the right, in its sole discretion, to make applicable SOFR Adjustment Conforming Changes.

  • Debt Rate means, with respect to (i) any Series of Equipment Notes, the rate per annum specified for such Series under the heading “Interest Rate” in Schedule I to the Trust Indenture (as amended, in the case of any Additional Series, at the time of original issuance of such Additional Series), and (ii) any other purpose, with respect to any period, the weighted average interest rate per annum during such period borne by the outstanding Equipment Notes, excluding any interest payable at the Payment Due Rate.

  • Applicable Reference Rate means, for any Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in any LIBOR Quoted Currency, LIBOR, for any Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in euros, EURIBOR, for any Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in Australian Dollars, BBSY, for any Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in Canadian Dollars, CDOR and for any Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in New Zealand Dollars, BKBM, as applicable.

  • Adjusted LIBOR Rate means, at any time with respect to any LIBOR Loan, a rate per annum equal to the LIBOR Rate as in effect at such time plus the Applicable Margin Percentage for LIBOR Loans as in effect at such time.

  • LIBOR Rate Reserve Percentage means as of any day the maximum percentage in effect on such day, as prescribed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (or any successor) for determining the reserve requirements (including supplemental, marginal and emergency reserve requirements) with respect to eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as “Eurocurrency Liabilities”).

  • Base Rate means a fluctuating interest rate per annum in effect from time to time, which rate per annum shall at all times be equal to the highest of:

  • Alternate Rate means, for any day, the sum of (a) a rate per annum selected by the Administrative Agent, in its reasonable discretion based on market conditions in consultation with the Borrower and the Lenders, plus (b) the Applicable Spread for Eurocurrency Loans, plus (c) the Mandatory Cost. When used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, “Alternate Rate” refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Alternate Rate.

  • Hurdle Rate means the minimum annual rate of return over the Net Asset Value at launch, or the beginning of the relevant Performance Period, as applicable, that must be achieved before an Equalisation Performance Fee is applied (details of which are set out in the section headed “Unit Class Information” in the Supplement for the relevant Fund where applicable). This rate is accrued at each Valuation Point.

  • Initial LIBOR Rate Not applicable.

  • LIBO Base Rate means with respect to each day an Advance is outstanding (or if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day), the rate per annum equal to the rate published by Bloomberg or if such rate is not available, the rate appearing at page 3750 of the Telerate Screen as one-month LIBOR on such date, and if such rate shall not be so quoted, the rate per annum at which the Lender is offered Dollar deposits at or about 11:00 A.M., eastern time, on such date by prime banks in the interbank eurodollar market where the eurodollar and foreign currency and exchange operations in respect of its Advances are then being conducted for delivery on such day for a period of one month and in an amount comparable to the amount of the Advances to be outstanding on such day.

  • Revolving Interest Rate means, with respect to Revolving Advances, an interest rate per annum equal to (a) the lesser of (i) the sum of the Alternate Base Rate plus the Applicable Revolving Domestic Rate Margin and (ii) the Maximum Rate, with respect to Domestic Rate Loans, and (b) the lesser of (i) the sum of the Eurodollar Rate plus the Applicable Revolving Eurodollar Rate Margin and (ii) the Maximum Rate, with respect to the Eurodollar Rate Loans.

  • U.S. Base Rate means, for any day, the rate of interest per annum equal to the greater of (a) the interest rate per annum publicly announced from time to time by the Administrative Agent as its reference rate in effect on such day at its principal office in Toronto for determining interest rates applicable to commercial loans denominated in U.S. Dollars in Canada (each change in such reference rate being effective from and including the date such change is publicly announced as being effective) and (b) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day plus 1/2 of 1%.

  • Prime Rate Spread means the difference (expressed as the number of basis points) between (a) LIBOR plus the Spread on the date LIBOR was last applicable to the Loan and (b) the Prime Rate on the date that LIBOR was last applicable to the Loan; provided, however, in no event shall such difference be a negative number.