Sentences with phrase «nominal interest rates on»

Double - digit nominal interest rates on savings accounts were commonplace but so was double - digit inflation; prices increased by 11.3 % in 1979 and 13.5 % in 1980.

2 Average of nominal interest rates on outstanding loans (fixed and variable).

(a) Average of nominal interest rates on outstanding loans (fixed and variable); pre terms of trade boom average is 1993/94 — 2002/03; year - ended observation is the June quarter 2016 average (b) Consumer price data exclude interest charges prior to September quarter 1998 and deposit & loan facilities to June quarter 2011, and are adjusted for the tax changes of 1999 — 2000 (c) Pre terms of trade boom average is 1997/98 — 2002/03

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They include upwards revisions in economic forecasts, expectation of monetary tightening, rising real and nominal long - term interest rates, fiscal stimulus on a huge scale in a full employment economy, rising protectionism that should choke off import flows, and tax reform directed at reducing capital outflows and increasing capital inflows.

High inflation usually goes with high nominal interest rates, so high inflation may well impose cash flow constraints on borrowing, even if the underlying project is viable.

While stocks have a terminal value beyond a 10 - year period, the effects of interest rates and nominal growth on those projections largely cancel out because higher nominal GDP growth over a given 10 - year horizon is correlated with both higher interest rates and generally lower market valuations at the end of that period.

There is a growing sense that the world is demand short — that the real interest rates necessary to equate investment and saving at full employment are very low and may be often unattainable given the bounds on nominal interest rate reductions.

Tactically, now may be an appropriate time to consider taking on more interest rate risk; nominal yields on government bonds look attractive and we believe can persist through the quarter.

Interest rates and nominal economic growth rates tend to move in tandem, so their competing effects on «justified» valuations generally cancel out.

That set of features suggests downward pressure on real U.S. interest rates (i.e. nominal interest rates declining without a corresponding decline in inflation rates).

The policy framework of the MAS is focused on managing the Singapore dollar's nominal effective exchange rate (NEER), or the trade - weighted exchange rate, against an undisclosed basket of currencies, rather than interest rates.

If she had added: «Plus, even though we are currently above the Effective Lower Bound on nominal interest rates (which is probably below 0 %) we are worried that the margin of safety is getting a bit small, and are pleased that fiscal policy is making that margin of safety a bit bigger than it otherwise would be» that would also be an internally consistent thing for the Bank of Canada to say.

But as I noted last week (see Two Point Three Sigmas Above the Norm), nominal growth and interest rate variations have historically canceled out over the past century, with little effect on the accuracy of our valuation estimates — matched reductions in the growth rate and the discount rate really don't affect fair value.

If the nominal rate on a loan is 5 %, borrowers can expect to pay $ 5 of interest for every $ 100 loaned to them.

Of course, there are several types of interest rates: real, nominal, effective, annual and so on.

Most bonds have an interest rate, also called the coupon or nominal rate, applied to the par value that the bond issuer will pay to the bondholder on a semiannual basis.

[Geeks Note: The interest rate estimates here are based on the inverse of the liquidity preference function, which explains 96 % of the historical variation in money holdings as a fraction of nominal GDP.

While the nominal interest rate is the interest rate officially assigned to the product or investment, the real interest rate is a reflection of the change in purchasing power derived from an investment based on shifts in the rate of inflation.

As I noted this past January in Sixteen Cents: Pushing the Unstable Limits of Monetary Policy, a collapse in short - term yields to nearly zero is a predictable outcome of QE2, based on the very robust historical relationship between short - term interest rates and the amount of cash and bank reserves (monetary base) that people are willing to hold per dollar of nominal GDP:

In order to get an estimate of how much interest you will accumulate over that period, we need to calculate the actual interest rate based on that nominal APR figure.

Calculating the effect of inflation on the interest rate of a loan results in a figure called the real interest rate, which is roughly equal to the difference between a loan's advertised interest rate, called the nominal rate, and the rate of inflation:

I just wanted to emphasize that nominal interest rate return on a P2P loan is not directly comparable to interest rate return on a savings account or CD.

Second, it meant (and means) that investors are finally receiving at least a nominal rate of interest on their cash equivalents and short - term bond holdings going forward — a welcome change for patient value investors.

In this case, the nominal or stated rate is the rate the lender advertises, and it is the basic interest rate the consumer pays on the loan.

Advertised interest rates are typically nominal rates that are the annual interest rates disregarding any add - on fees and compounding.

However, although the nominal interest rate remains the same, it takes longer for the principal to decrease, thereby increasing overall interest paid on the loan.

Balance transfer checks on the other hand often have a nominal interest rate of between 1 % to 3 % and almost never waive the balance transfer fee of 4 %.

You see, many Eastern European borrowers like the idea of borrowing in Swiss francs or Euros, because the nominal interest rate is currently drastically lower than what they'd pay on a local currency loan.

A banking institution may present the interest rate on a loan as a nominal amount.

On the other hand, a borrower who pays a fixed - rate mortgage of 5 percent would benefit from 5 percent inflation, because the real interest rate (the nominal rate minus the inflation rate) would be zero; servicing this debt would be even easier if inflation were higher, as long as the borrower's income keeps up with inflation.

Example: What would the monthly payment be on a 5 - year, $ 20,000 car loan with a nominal 7.5 % annual interest rate?

Low nominal and real interest rates on bonds mean a wider risk - premium spread on stocks and a cheaper relative valuation.

Keep in mind that the fees you will pay are based on the amount you borrow, but they are nominal in terms of dollars spent, although the interest rate might appear high, on an annual basis.

After this interest (a nominal rate) on the premium due is calculated and the policy holder will have to pay this extra amount to restart the policy.