Continental had depended on short-term deposits made by large institutions from around the world.

The 5-to-4 decision found there was no taking because individual clients could not earn net interest on such small short-term deposits.

The money market is the market in short-term deposits and loans.

The i.o.u.'s pay 5 percent interest, more than banks do for short-term deposits.

The short-term deposit and commercial paper ratings were also lowered, to Prime-3, from Prime 2.

The rating agency said, however, that the bank's short-term deposit and commercial paper rating remained at Prime-2.

It lifted the ceiling rates of the call money market, short-term deposits, bills rediscounting, etc.

He also said short-term deposits stood to perform better than longer-term bonds if interest rates continued to rise from their historically low levels.

And thanks to the plunge in interest rates on short-term deposits, average bank margins have risen sharply in recent months.

This type of risk is particularly relevant for banks since their business model involves funding long-term loans through short-term deposits and other liabilities.

Bank interest rates on short-term deposits fell from 400 percent a year to 260 percent, and the market for dollar-denominated bonds rallied.

It pools the short-term deposits that lawyers hold in trust for their clients and uses the interest produced to finance indigent legal services.

The rating for short-term deposits of all Barnett subsidiary banks remained unchanged at Prime-1, the highest level.

The holding company's commercial paper and the bank's short-term deposit ratings were unchanged at Prime-3 and Prime-2 respectively.

Ratings of Security Pacific's commercial paper and its bank units' short-term deposits were unchanged at Prime-1.

Whatever the case, money was pouring not into gold but into the money markets-i.e., short-term deposits.

To search for higher yields from these low rates in bank deposits, investors used money market funds for short-term deposits instead.

The bank ratings are a notch higher, at A-2 for long-term deposits and P-1 for short-term deposits.

Medium-term loans are to a large extent funded by short-term deposits which have to be repaid and then re-borrowed on a continuous basis.

As well as indicating the net surplus cash at 31 August 1992, this also reveals that cash is invested in short-term deposits.

On the other hand, 'controlled' mismatch, such as between short-term deposits and somewhat longer-term, higher-interest loans to customers is central to many financial institutions' business model.

In other words, a forward rate agreement (FRA) is a tailor-made, over-the-counter financial futures contract on short-term deposits.

Citibank's Aa-2 rating for long-term deposits is under review, but not the bank's Prime-1 rating for short-term deposits.

Franklin, like most savings institutions, has a large block of short-term deposits, on which interest rates can change rapidly, depending on the level of rates in the economy.

In April 2012, Moody's announced a possible downgrade of the Bank's current Financial Strength Rating as well as its local currency long- and short-term deposit ratings.