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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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.
We currently pay an average interest rate of about two percent on our federal debt.
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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.
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, 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%.
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%.
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 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%.
Her credit card carries an annual interest rate of 19%, compared with an average rate of 13.7%.
But it's tough for low-income families to qualify for these loans in the first place (they often require a co-signer), and the interest rate offered will depend in part on the average default rate of students at the school a child attends.
Andy expects one more interest rate hike before CPI cools to a full-year average of 4.5 percent.
The bonds carry a variable interest rate that tracks six-month Euribor rates with an average additional margin of 263 basis points.
The bank's net interest margin--the difference between its cost of capital and average loan rate--has fallen for five consecutive quarters, to 0.9%.
By 2010, the average 30-year fixed rate mortgage fell to 4.69 percent, but the share of mortgage interest crept up to 6.3%.
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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.
For example, the interest rate earned by the notional accounts is set by the growth of average wages, not that of the total pay bill, which means that it is unaffected by fertility-induced falls in employment.
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For example, the Goldman Sachs monetary-conditions index (based on a weighted average of short-and long-term interest rates and the trade-weighted exchange rate) suggests that America's monetary policy is currently at its tightest since 1989, largely reflecting the strong dollar.
Mr. Barrickman said his fund has been doing well because of bigger exposure to interest rate risks, as measured by his portfolio's average 6.2-year duration a key measure of how bonds' prices fluctuate in relation to a given yield change.
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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.
In 1990, the average 30-year fixed rate mortgage was more than 10% but mortgage interest payments were only 4.3 percent of expenditures.
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The average risk premium on the country's bonds has fallen from a peak of 18 percentage points above the interest rate on United States' Treasury bonds to below six.
Japan's Nikkei Stock Average slipped 0.1% for a sixth straight loss after the Bank of Japan left unchanged its key interest rate and the size of its asset-purchase program.
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