Higher rates tend to make a nation's currency more valuable.
Lower rates tend to enhance the value of bonds already in circulation.
These rates tend to be high, though, so be careful.
As big customers leave the utility system, rates tend to rise for those remaining.
Lower rates would tend to drive down the value of the dollar.
That rate would tend to hold workers in the East.
Lower American rates tend to make the dollar less attractive.
Lower rates tend to encourage a certain amount of extra spending by corporations.
Higher rates tend to support the dollar by increasing foreign demand for American investments.
Their rates tend to be lower because they don't have to pay commission to middlemen.