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.
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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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.
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.
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%.
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.
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).
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.
Despite what you might expect, consumer protection laws are not lowering average credit card interest rate charges at Discover.
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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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The average daily volume of interest rate contracts increased by almost 25% in Q1 2011 compared to the same quarter of the prior year.
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However, fewer people - if you ask the average person what their interest rate is, how that interest, you know, behaves, you know, if it's going to adjust, if there's a prepayment penalty, most people will not know.
It is the refinancing rate that usually dictates average money market interest rates with the deposit facility rate acting as a lower floor.
Her credit card carries an annual interest rate of 19%, compared with an average rate of 13.7%.
Although the interest rate is 0% to 0.1%, average deflation of -1.3% in the past 15 years means that the real interest rate (nominal interest rate 0% minus the price change of -1.3%) is a positive 1.3%.
However, real GDP had grown at an average rate of 4.2% over the previous ten years, and the real interest rate on Greek government debt was only about 1.5%.
But holders of U.S. debt purchased over the last few years are getting interest rate payments below 2% on average, even less after inflation.
At average annual real economic growth rates above the real interest rate on federal debt (about 3%), the present value of future federal revenues is infinity, regardless of tax rates.
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