Jumbo loans, as they're known, are scarce and being offered a full interest point higher than conforming mortgages, according to MonitorBankRates.com, an online personal finance journal.
Banks now get a 25 basis point interest rate return on their reserve deposits with Federal Reserve Banks, including their excess reserves.
All this despite a slew of government interventions this week, including synchronized 50-basis-point interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and several other central banks, including China's.
Looking ahead, the optimists point to further interest-rate cuts (perhaps another half point during the next few months) and a tax rebate.
They just raised interest rates another quarter point this morning to deal with inflation.
The main point of interest will be when Apple reports after the markets close.
For example, virtually every article has a quiz to tease the interest while proving her point.
Perhaps an additional half of a percentage point on interest rates, over time, according to some analysts?
At that point, interest rates could go up by much more than the 0.5% some are predicting.
At some future point, interest rates will rise which mean bond prices will fall (the old yield-price see-saw).
So far, it has failed, despite a cut of a percentage point in interest rates on February 28th.
But pre-orders point to interest in the book and the way it communicates a bit about how Jobs thought and spoke.
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However, the point that interest me the most is the way that prices themselves are showing us why the pipeline is so badly needed.
Recall that a Keynesian liquidity trap occurs at the point when interest rates become so low that cash balances are passively held regardless of their size.
As a point of interest, Canada appears to have over-indexed the most, using its 8th largest installed base to drive the 4th most downloads over the holiday period.
That points to an extra one percentage point on interest rates for the higher risk that comes with being small and in an illiquid part of the government bond market.
There is already a wind speed meter on the spire which relays information to the cathedral floor where it is checked by members of staff and is a point of interest to visitors.
The central bank signaled a need to raise interest rates at some point if it was going to meet its inflation-fighting objective that challenges it to maintain consumer prices between a 2-3% band.
The European Central Bank has raised interest rates a quarter point to 1.5pc to curb inflation and signalled more to come, despite faltering growth in southern Europe and acute stress in peripheral bond markets.
China Daily compared photographs of the bond complete with coupon clippings to make it look as if the bearer actually turned some of those coupons in for interest payments at one point to examples of counterfeits published on the U.S. Treasury website.
Suffice to say, if Japan succeeds with its 2% inflation target, interest rates will rise at some point and they just need to reach 2.8% for the interest on government debt to equal government revenues (currently, interest of government debt takes up 25% of government revenue).
In December 2008, the Bank of England cut base interest rates by one percentage point.
The prices of euroyen futures indicate a further half-point rise in interest rates next year.
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We still just about see a 25 basis point hike in interest rates next month.
At this point, fixed interest rates, even for high yield (junk-rated) debt, are near historic lows.
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The Riksbank, Sweden's central bank , raised its key interest rate by a quarter point, to 3%.
If you buy a ten-year Treasury today, a three-percentage-point rise in interest rates will inflict a 22% loss.
Assume that the pessimistic Fed watchers are correct and that short-term interest rates climb a percentage point over the next year.
MPC's half-point cut in interest rates last month, is now calling for a repeat performance on December 10th.
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