These pay a fixed rate of interest but only if the bank is profitable.

这些金融工具只有在银行盈利的情况下方可支付定额利息。

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Two-thirds of mortgage borrowers enjoy good credit and a fixed interest rate and can depend on the value of their houses remaining far higher than their borrowings.

三分之二的抵押贷款的借款人有良好的信用记录和固定的利率，他们拥有的房产价值远高于他们的借款。

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Damon Daniel, an organiser, says none of the 16 who applied got a write-down, though some might have their mortgages converted from an adjustable to a fixed interest rate.

一位组织者达蒙·丹尼尔说，虽然有些申请人的贷款已经从浮动利率转为固定利率，但是16位申请人都没能减少本金。

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Adjustable rate mortgages have a long term -they might last for thirty years -but the interest rate is not fixed for the whole thirty years.

可调利率抵押贷款的期限很长,也许会长达30年,但是利率在30年间并不是固定的

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Underlying the rate worries, bonds -- whose fixed return makes them linked to interest rate and inflation expectations - also weakened.

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Take, for example, one indicator of the market's appetite for risk, the spread between swaps of fixed- and floating-rate interest payments (see chart).

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With bond yields rising since the Fed announced QE2, 30-year fixed rate mortgage interest rates went up to their highest level since the week of September 30 to 4.46%.

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