Negative real interest rates occur when the inflationary rate, or CPI, is greater than the current interest rate.
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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.
The current interest rate charged by IRS is at an annual rate of 4%, but is subject to change quarterly.
The current interest rate on investment grade bonds, as measured by the Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Market index is 2.0 percent.
The current interest rate on a 20 year treasury bond is 3.06%.
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%.
So the idea is that if you have one of these loans, you live in the home, you're still current on the mortgage, you'll be able to keep the current interest rate, and hopefully, in a couple of three years, when the housing market settles and more credit is flowing into the housing market, you'll be able to refinance into another mortgage and stay in the home.
This will require further measures beyond the current zero interest rate policy of the Bank of Japan.
Even in the current interest-rate environment, I do think bonds have an important part in the portfolio.
In the current low interest rate environment, intergenerational sales of family businesses are particularly easy to structure.
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The current low interest rate environment is ideally suited for Unilever to take advantage of cheap credit available.
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"HSBC keeps its savings rates under review, and they remain competitive in the current interest-rate environment, " says HSBC Vice President Neil Brazil.
As a result of the sell-off in the quarter, Sherman thinks high yield is now undervalued given the current low interest rate environment.
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The dynamics behind the current low interest rate environment, suggest to me that low, low rate are here for the balance of this decade.
For this group, a common factor in most plans is the utilization of a current market interest rate to convert the monthly pension to a lump sum figure.
In an address to the European Parliament, Mr Duisenberg said the bank had no reason to change its view that its current benchmark interest rate - currently at 4.5% - was appropriate.
Finally, realize that even in the current low interest rate environment, short-term, low-yield bonds offer the advantage of liquidity and little downside risk, allowing them to potentially play an important role in your portfolio.
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Indeed, I think you could argue that the current low interest rate environment has slowed down the move from physical retail to online: if and when we get back to a more normal environment of two to three percent real interest rates, perhaps 5 or 6 % nominal, then those burdens of multiple stocks are going to be felt more keenly.
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The elderly, many of whom get by on a combination of Social Security and investment income, are suffering more than any other group from our current low-interest rate fiscal environment.
In the current negative real interest rate environment, these large cap stocks will be big beneficiaries as investors seek out secure, growing dividend yields, something that fixed income markets will not be able to provide.
For now Moynihan is clearly banking on cost-saving measures associated with mass layoffs to help convince stock market investors that Bank of America is headed in the right direction and can deal with the current low-interest rate environment, mortgage-related legacy issues and new international banking capital requirements that Moynihan said were the biggest challenges facing his bank.
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Many analysts assume the current low-interest-rate environment will force investors into riskier assets such as stocks.
For as people refuse to buy the rolled over debt at current prices, the interest rate that has to be paid to roll over that debt rises and thus Italy becomes insolvent.
That is, the very thought that the current Chancellor thinks that current market long term interest rates are lower than they should be given future rate rise risks has changed current market long term interest rates so they are no longer as low as they were.
The loan has been fully drawn down, matures in five years and accrues interest at LIBOR plus 9.25%, for a current rate of 10.75%, with interest payable quarterly in arrears.
The Bank of Canada meets on Tuesday to discuss the latest series of economic releases and has to reconcile a current 1% benchmark rate of interest along with a deteriorating take on inflation.
Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank President Thomas Hoenig sounded the inflation-curbing call earlier than Trichet when he said Wednesday that the central bank should consider lifting its target interest rate from its current low point of 0-0.25% that has been in place for more than 2 years.
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