According to the Treasury Department, the average interest rate paid on that debt was 4.9%.
We currently pay an average interest rate of about two percent on our federal debt.
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The average interest rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage in the US is now just over 3.9%.
Credit cards are the easiest form of credit, but the average interest rate is already very expensive.
Since FLS started in August, average interest rates have dropped across all types of short-term savings accounts.
Larry points out that the average interest rate on government bonds is artificially low because of the recession.
The average interest rate on U.S. debt was 2.8% (a ridiculous 2.27% if we only look at marketable securities).
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Last month, average interest rates on high yielding corporate debt stood at 8.84% compared to 1.9% for 10 year TSYs.
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The weighted average interest rate offered slipped to 7.99 percent from a higher yielding 8.27 percent at the beginning of 2012.
Kansas City, a metro that was fairly insulated from the housing boom, has the second-lowest average interest rate on our list, at 4.94%.
The average interest rate for standard 30-year fixed-rate mortgages fell to 6.01% during the week ending April 25, from 6.04% the previous week.
The growth in income from Treasury securities has come despite a decline in the average interest rate the Fed received from Uncle Sam.
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Well, interest rate baring checking accounts currently pay out an average interest rate of .08 percent, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
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Salinas says, unapologetically, that his bank charges customers--the poorest inhabitants of a poor nation--an average interest rate of 50% annually, or 1% per week.
Our income (GDP) is growing by two percent and we owe an amount equal to our income with an average interest cost of two percent.
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The average interest rate on an outstanding mortgage was about 4.9% at the end of last year, according to data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Indeed, each would have paid above-average interest rates by obtaining a peer-to-peer loan or credit card cash advance, as well as incurred possible tax penalties through 401(k) withdrawals.
Despite a climb in yields on ten-year government bonds to above 7%, the average interest rate Portugal pays on sovereign borrowing is only 3.6%, says Mr Teixeira dos Santos.
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In the second quarter, the average interest rate on existing cards reached 14.7%, up from 13.1% a year earlier, according to research firm Synovate, a unit of Aegis Group PLC.
The Bank of England's figures show that as of last November, the average credit card interest rate was 15.89%, while the average interest rate for a standard variable rate mortgage was just 3.98%.
When interest rates are at 6 percent and the real estate market seems to be booming, the average interest rates in five years may be 12 percent and it may be 3 percent.
At the peak of the housing bubble in 2007, the average interest rates it charged on mortgages were only about three-quarters of a percentage point higher than the price it paid to borrow.
Ownership costs were tallied over five years, consisting of sales tax (a national average of 4.9%), depreciation, fuel costs, interest (a five-year loan with a 15% down payment and an average interest rate of 6.8%), insurance, maintenance and repairs.
Look at the mortgage market: The average interest on a 75% loan- to-value mortgage rose 0.5 percentage points between August 2011 and April 2012 and looks sure to rise further as even at these levels banks are struggling to make adequate returns.
However, this picture has steadily improved over recent months - the overhang of unsold properties has fallen to a 13-year low, while the average interest rate on new mortgages has fallen to an all-time low thanks to interventions by the US Federal Reserve.
If it were to be cut to 0.5% (similar to the rate in Britain), this would affect not just new lending by the ECB but the rate charged on the LTROs (for which banks will be charged the average interest rate over the three years).
Average loan interest rates for consumers in Brazil in April were a stellar 46.8% per year, with the average loan rate overall, including for corporate borrowers, reaching 39.8%.
The average advertised interest rate for credit cards in the U.S. has risen to 13.7% from 11.64% in May 2009, before the legislation was passed, according to Bill Hardekopf, chief executive of LowCards.com, a Web site that tracks the industry.
Germany needs lower interest rates and it can't have them because you have to have an average rate of interest set for the whole of Europe.
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On average Arapua charges interest rates that work out to about 100% a year.
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