Sentences with phrase «current national interest rate»

As far as savings account interest rates go these days, that's pretty good: The current national interest rate for savings is just 0.06 % APY.

Newly - issued bonds tend to have coupon rates that match or exceed the current national interest rate.

Not exact matches

We assumed a fixed 30 - year interest rate of 4 %, close to the current national average.

But you also want to get a decent interest rate, meaning a rate that's close to the current national average.

When you contrast this with the 0.35 % current national average interest rate on 1 - year CDs banks are offering, one wonders why banks manage regularly to go broke or require taxpayer bailouts to make ends meet.

We can barely pay the current interest rates of close to zero percent on our national debt as it is.

(The current average interest rate for business cards now stands at 12.98 percent — nearly two full percentage points below the national average for all cards.)

National Association of REALTORS ® Chief Economist Lawrence Yun predicts that interest rates will increase from current levels (around 4.2 percent) to nearly 5 percent by early next year.

With record - low mortgage rates, appealing prices and an upgraded housing forecast this year (the National Association of REALTORS ® expects existing home sales to reach 4.66 million in 2012), current market conditions continue to generate interest among first - time home buyers.

«Builder confidence increased by solid margins in every region of the country in July as views of current sales conditions, prospects for future sales and traffic of prospective buyers all improved,» says Barry Rutenberg, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and a home builder from Gainesville, Fla. «This is greater evidence that the housing market has turned the corner as more buyers perceive the benefits of purchasing a newly built home while interest rates and prices are so favorable.»