Even in the current interest-rate environment, I do think bonds have an important part in the portfolio.
Negative real interest rates occur when the inflationary rate, or CPI, is greater than the current interest rate.
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That depends on what worries entrepreneurs more: current interest rates, or the future possibility of losing their home.
The current interest rate reduction passed with bipartisan support in 2007, but Republicans have pointed out that then-Sen.
The speculation is that the ECB will cut its current interest rate of 0.75% by half a percentage point.
It also helps that there is a current interest in India and Bollywood.
Mr. Martin's current interest payment is 2.5% over a prime rate of 3.25%, which yields a 5.75% interest rate.
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Even at current interest rates you could get a couple of million a year from that sort of sum.
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The current interest rate charged by IRS is at an annual rate of 4%, but is subject to change quarterly.
At current interest rates, says Springfield, Ill. charitable planner Vaughn W. Henry, grantor CLATs work for a surprising variety of donors.
Their yields, based on current interest payments, are 5% and 4.5%, respectively, and they trade at premiums of 10% and 4%.
The current interest rate on investment grade bonds, as measured by the Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Market index is 2.0 percent.
"HSBC keeps its savings rates under review, and they remain competitive in the current interest-rate environment, " says HSBC Vice President Neil Brazil.
What he doesn't mention is that Romney came out this week in favor of extending a freeze on the current interest rates.
The current interest rate on a 20 year treasury bond is 3.06%.
Such preferential treatment is only possible because current interest rates are so low and debt service represents only about 10% of total revenue.
With current interest rates on savings accounts, CDs, and money market accounts languishing near zero, expect purchasing-power losses to continue for depositors.
With consumer-backed loans, particularly with mortgages, the rate of prepayment on the loan is rather predictable depending on current interest rates and economic conditions.
But the current interest in LNG for large trucks is undeniable.
Though you'd pay much more over its life, a 40-year loan at current interest rates would be considerably less expensive on a monthly basis than your existing loan.
That current interest rate is 7% by the way.
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But looking now at what your current interest rate is--particularly if you're in a conforming mortgage--Freddie can refinance you up to 125% loan devalue, whereas it used to be 80%.
NASA's current interest in Vesta, however, is entirely scientific.
At current interest rates, homes would still be affordable even if prices rose by 20% from their current levels, said John Burns, chief executive of a home-builder consulting firm in Irvine, Calif.
While there are suggestions that an NBA franchise in Louisville may detract from current interest in the Louisville Cardinals, many people are excited about the potential of bringing professional basketball to the city.
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Accounting ignores these critical details while finance incorporates them by using cash flow metrics rather than earnings metrics and a cost of capital measure that reflects current interest rates plus a component for a company's overall riskiness.
Chalk it up to a backlash against austere boutique hotels, or to the current interest in multigenerational family travel, but the Adirondack "great camp"--that rustic outpost of the Gilded Age--is enjoying a renaissance as a travel destination.
The housing affordability index gauges the amount of a local, median-priced home (the price at which 50% of homes are more expensive and 50% are less expensive) you can buy if you earn the local median income, given current interest rates.
Current interest rates are 11.75%.
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