Some might argue that the deficit is scaring away investment because interest rates are too high.
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The issue is confusing because interest rates at all maturities are highly correlated to one another.
The very idea that the economy is weak because interest rates are too high is laughable.
Today, we are approaching a high and investors are focusing on dividends because interest rates are so low.
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This affects savings accounts and other deposits because interest rates are unlikely to rise until the U.S. economy strengthens.
U.S. schools say they cannot become complacent just because interest now is strong.
Lenders' write-offs have been surprisingly low during the latest downturn, largely because interest rates are low and house prices high.
With inflation so low, households have been borrowing more because interest payments do not swallow up so much of their income.
And because interest rates are so low, the pension you can get for any given amount of savings has also fallen.
Analysts say investors are increasingly putting their money into stock markets because interest rate cuts had made the return on bonds appear unattractive.
Japan, for example, can have a debt to GDP ratio of 300% and still pay it back because interest rates are barely above 0%.
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Banks should like it because interest-only mortgages earn a premium rate and they get to lock in low-risk assets at their current depressed values.
Falling prices increase the real burden of debt, and real interest rates cannot be reduced to boost the economy, because interest rates cannot be negative.
This dissolution of the relationship between economics and finance is a huge problem, because interest rates are the theoretical and practical foundation of all financial valuation.
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But bonds will not carry on being the money-spinner they have been for the past couple of years, because interest rates will not go much lower.
Our unbroken record of keeping our word could end, with taxpayers bearing the cost for years to come, because interest rates would go up on United States obligations.
That's because interest payments on corporate debt are tax-deductible.
And so if a person is investing for the short term, then they would not want to put them those in long-term CDs, because interest rates will eventually have to go back up.
Because interest rate differentials are a big factor in currency moves, the DBV shorts the three currencies of G10 countries with the lowest rates and goes long the three with the highest rates.
Sure, bonds have generated strong returns since then but that is partly because interest rates have been on a steady downward slope to zero, pushing up the value of bonds even as each new crop yields less.
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This full disclosure was in their best interest because increasing interest rates generated more revenue.
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Also, mortgages have a duration (a calculation of the time it takes to get paid back) that is a variable, hypothetical duration that varies with prepayment speeds, so a short duration mortgage portfolio is not protection against a sudden increase in interest rates, because if interest rates rise the duration will rise which hurts the value of the bond.
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But if a security trades lower because market interest rates have risen or because of problems in the market itself, requiring an immediate write-down is unduly harsh, because capital is reduced by the same amount.
Because the interest rates are low and perhaps too because its a community enterprise, there are very few problems with people not making their repayments.
Not only does a fixed rate prevent a central bank from using interest rates to prevent an economy from overheating (because higher interest rates would push up the value of the currency), but it also encourages too much foreign-currency borrowing when foreign interest rates are lower than local ones.
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It has continued to rise in real terms, in large part because debt interest payments have risen.
Export growth may weaken, in part because higher interest rates have pushed up the real, the currency.
The defendants did not provide notice to the plaintiff because his interest in the property did not appear of record.
Because the interest rate varies based on the prime rate, which you would know if you read the fine print.
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