An interest rate index for commercial and residential loans.
Most lenders use either the 1 - Month LIBOR (London Interbank Offered Rate), 3 - Month LIBOR, or Prime Rate as their base
interest rate index for variable rate loans.
Not exact matches
The major
indexes have since struggled to hold gains
for the year amid worries about rising
interest rates, a U.S. - China trade war, prohibitive regulation on technology giants and a peak in earnings growth.
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The dollar
index finished last week with slim gains ahead of the Federal Reserve's highly anticipated meeting this week, with investor expectations
for interest rate hikes providing some support.
The consumer price
index (CPI)
for August came in at an anemic 1 percent level, despite the ECB being in the midst of QE, low
interest rates and a weaker euro.
Although the Fed is likely to take a gradual approach to raising short - term
rates, long - term
interest rates — including 10 - year Treasury notes, which serve as an
index for government student loans — are already on their way up.
The Producer Price
Index typically offers the first clues of impending inflation, another key driver
for interest rates.
In a rising
interest rate environment, the risk that investors have in owning all bond mutual funds and / or bond ETFs
for their bond allocation is that both vehicles are managed on a relative return basis versus a benchmark
index.
Bond
indexes have declined this year, as the growing economy has led the Fed to raise
interest rates and investors have grown increasingly concerned about the potential
for accelerating inflation.
Note that the real
interest rates exceed reported
for TIPS because I have adjusted yields to reflect the 35 basis point average difference between the Consumer Price
Index used in calculating TIPS coupons and the Personal Consumption Expenditures deflator targeted by the Fed.
Compass Bank Prime is a reference
rate that we have established
for use in computing and adjusting
interest and is subject to change (increase or decrease) at our discretion, and is only one of the reference
rates or
indices that we use.
The US Dollar
index hit new highs
for the year ahead of the Federal Reserve's
interest rate decision later today, where it's expected they will continue to signal further
rate hikes as the US economy grows at a reasonable pace.
The MOVE
index suggested that US Treasury volatility was expected to be very low, while the flat swaption skew
for the 10 - year Treasury note denoted a low demand to hedge higher
interest rate risks, even on the eve of the inception of the Fed's balance sheet normalization (Graph 9, right - hand panel).
On Wall Street, concerns over rising
interest rates put the major
indexes on track
for their worst weekly performance in two years.
U.S. stocks rose, with the Standard & Poor's 500
Index near a record, as investors weighed economic data
for clues on the timing of higher
interest rates amid optimism that a deal on Greek aid is within reach.
Mortgage
rates for 5/1 ARMs also depend on a margin, which determines how much a homebuyer's
interest rate differs from the
index rate.
Asian
indices are enjoying significant gains on Thursday, tracking the positive lead overnight from Wall Street while the focus now shifts towards the much - anticipated FOMC statement, which may or may not see US
interest rates increased
for the first time in nearly a decade.
As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook
for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential
for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential
for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising
interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers
Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential
for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.
FXStreet (Mumbai)-- Asian
indices are enjoying significant gains on Thursday, tracking the positive lead overnight from Wall Street while the focus now shifts towards the much - anticipated FOMC statement, which may or may not see US
interest rates increased
for the first time in nearly a decade.
When the stock market is near a record high,
interest rates are headed much higher and the market fear
index, the VIX, suddenly shoots up, this is a clear sign of an overvalued market
for conventional intangible assets.
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A margin is then added to the
index rate, and the result is rounded to determine the new
interest rate for your loan.
Like bonds, the prospect of the Fed tapering and causing rising
interest rates has helped bring the 2013 YTD returns
for the S&P U.S. Preferred Stock
Index to -1 %.
As the RBA's operational target
for monetary policy and the reference
rate for OIS (overnight
index swap) and other financial contracts, the cash
rate is the risk - free
interest rate benchmark
for the Australian dollar.
For example, based on our analysis using J.P. Morgan
index data, the EMBIG
index's 7.25 percent performance in 2014 is owed to a -0.35 percent spread return combined with a 7.6 percent Treasury return, as U.S.
rates dropped significantly (remember that when
interest rates fall, bond prices rise, and vice versa).
As
for what this means
for the timing of a Federal Reserve (Fed)
rate hike, data about the U.S. economy on balance exceed the reasonable measures a «data dependent» Fed might require to move off of «emergency
interest rate» levels, as BlackRock's proprietary «Yellen
Index» of labor market / economic conditions shows in the chart below.
Furthermore, the Fed would like to adhere to the so - called «Taylor Rule» (in spite of Professor Taylor's protestations that it is misinterpreting and misusing his concept), a mathematical construct that purports to make monetary policy more «scientific» by establishing an arithmetic rule
for varying the administered
interest rate according to the variance of «actual from target inflation» (note that «inflation» refers to the change in a price
index in this case, not the phenomenon of inflation of the money supply as such), as well as the variance of economic output from «potential output» (i.e, the so - called «output gap» is incorporated in the formula as well).
Long - only funds keep an eye on the
index for their benchmark performance
rate, and will also be
interested.
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Interest rate on income contingent loans set at maximum of Retail Price
Index (RPI) plus 3 percent
for graduates earning above # 41,000 per year (and tapered to RPI
for graduates earning # 21,000 per year); payments stop when balance is paid, or after 30 years, whichever comes first.
The number of percentage points (
for example, 2.75) the lender adds to the
index rate to calculate the ARM
interest rate at each adjustment.
Many COSI -
indexed ARMs often have minimum payment change caps (usually, up to 7.5 % of minimum payment amount), as well as lifetime
interest rate caps (usually, about 12 %) but no periodic
interest rate caps creating the possibility
for negative amortization.
The
interest rates in effect on these deposits are the basis
for the GDW COSI
index.
Our
indexed universal life insurance quote calculator computes a monthly premium cost estimate along with a cash value estimates
for the guaranteed
interest rate.
For example, if your 3/1 ARM has a 3 percent margin and the
interest rate index is 5.4 percent when the
interest rate is scheduled to change, the new
rate would be 8.4 percent.
Instead, it changes over time according to a formula - typically, a base
interest rate (
index) plus a certain percent (margin)(
for example, Libor plus 3 percent).
Notes: All amounts
indexed for inflation, except
for the reverse mortgage draw, which continues
for 15 years if
interest rates do not increase.
The
rates for annuities vary with
interest rates — which are currently quite low — but right now a 70 - year - old couple can get an income of 4.8 % of the principal you put down
for life, fully
indexed to inflation, says Otar.
A series of
indexes which are used the basis
for determining
interest rate changes for many Adjustable Rate Mortga
rate changes
for many Adjustable
Rate Mortga
Rate Mortgages.
This
index is primarily used
for ARMs with monthly
interest rate adjustments.
The Canadian dollar to US dollar exchange
rate can be obtained by processing the Yahoo! Finance quote
for USDCAD = X. (If you are
interested here's how the exchange
rate is obtained: «=
Index (ImportHTML («http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=USDCAD=X»,» table», 1), 8,2)».).
One of several
indexes used to set
interest rate changes for certain Adjustable - Rate Mortga
rate changes
for certain Adjustable -
Rate Mortga
Rate Mortgages.
Since the W - COSI is more steady than the other popular
indexes more closely tied to market
interest rates, ARMs tied to this
index are good
for you if
rates are rising (but not good if they are falling).
Fixed
index annuities are designed
for people who want the potential to earn higher
interest rates than they would through traditional bank products, 1 but who are uncomfortable with exposure to market volatility.
When shopping
for an FHA home, the FHA adjustable
rate loan
for your FHA home means you should do some homework about the
index, which is the measurement of how the
interest rate changes.
The Bloomberg Barclays US Aggregate
Index was down -0.7 % as fears of inflation and rising
interest rates created headwinds
for traditional fixed income securities
The MSCI EAFE
Index (Hedged to US$) consists of the results of the MSCI EAFE
Index hedged 100 % back into U.S. dollars and accounts
for interest rate differentials in forward currency exchange
rates.
For example, the BMO S&P / TSX Laddered Preferred Share
Index ETF, symbol ZPR on the Toronto stock exchange, holds floating -
rate preferred shares that pays dividends that fluctuate with changes in
interest rates.
A margin of 12.5 % is added to the
index for VISA ® credit cards and a margin of 7.5 % is added
for secured credit cards to establish the
interest rate.
Many COFI -
indexed ARMs often have payment caps, but no periodic
interest rate caps creating the possibility
for negative amortization (your loan balance can increase).