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• n  (computer science) the rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem)

• Its biggest problem is the music streams at a miserly 64K bps and sounds a little thin.
• This spread is below the March 2005 -- September 2006 average, and below the 294 bps average of the past 10 years.
• Since normal wireless connections creep along at 9,600 bps, this is nothing short of revolutionary.

• bits per second

News & Articles

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• Have Treasury Yields Stopped Rising Yet? How Rates Affect MLPs
  Research Highlights -Last week, the yield on the ten year US Treasury increased by 4 bps from 2.13% to 2.17%. Yields increased as the market speculated that the Federal Reserve could soon
  June 20, 2013 - Nasdaq

Quotes

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• Henry Waxman in Christian Science Monitor
  Time after time, it appears that BP made decisions that increased the risk of a blowout to save the company time or expense,he wrote. "If this is what happened, BPs carelessness and complacency have inflicted a heavy toll on the Gulf, its...
• Mike Zafirovski in CNNMoney.com
  Nortel's operating margin, a critical measure of our plan's traction, expanded for the seventh consecutive quarter year over year, recording a 512 bps improvement to 4.7%,said CEO Mike Zafirovski. "We expect to achieve our full year...
• Mike Napoli in TSN
  Things just happen. You just try to keep everything the same. I'm going to work hard and try to keep taking the same BPs I've been taking and keep the same approach in the game,said Napoli of his streaky hitting.