Sentences with phrase «term rates where»

It's probably smart to have some cash on hand... to be prepared for credit markets to tighten unexpectedly... and to lock in long - term rates where you can.

You believe rates won't rise soon and you have a short - term rate where you can make higher - than - required payments to maximize the reduction of your mortgage

Not exact matches

And although they seem to be making efforts to address complaints, the same can't be said necessarily for the new batch of lenders, where interest rates on loans can be exorbitant, and repayment terms extreme.

Where do you rate in terms of customer satisfaction and brand differentiation?

But on the other hand, where it matters — interest rate policy — he sees no material impact, at least for the near term.

The terms of the deal will allow Pfizer to domicile in Ireland, where corporation tax is just 12.5 percent, significantly less than the 40 percent rate charged in the U.S.

In addition to the rules - based approach, Mester also suggested the Fed not focus so much on short - term data changes in its economic projections, and tweaking those projections to link them to where each individual member believes the funds rate should be if those conditions come to fruition.

«For 30 years, interest rates have been coming down, lower highs and lower lows but we're at a point now in terms of a long - term trend line where 2.6 percent represents the point where an interest rate reversal should take place.

Recent economic data point to some growth firming, inflation remains hard to find and long - term rates are up by barely 10 basis points (bps) from where they started the year, according to data accessible via Bloomberg.

«So where does all of this leave us, in terms of our outlook for the timing of the next default cycle, and perhaps more specifically, our outlook for default rates next year?»

One way to gauge what the market expects in terms of short - term rates is to look at Fed Funds future contracts, which allow investors to place bets on what where the federal funds rate will be in the future (This long - term view can influence short - term rates).

That said, how does Samsung's device fit in the bigger picture for professionals and where does it rate in terms of the competition?

On Wednesday, the Fed raised its key short - term lending rate to a range of 0.50 % - to - 0.75 %, or about two percentage points below where we said it would be.

Official short - term interest rates - the instrument of choice for central banks - were cut aggressively but soon hit the zero lower bound, where most of them have remained for the past five years (Chart 1).

You can see that rates fluctuate over time but there have also been definitive long - term periods where the trend is moving up (1900s - 1920s and 1960s - 1980s) and others where there is an obvious downtrend (1920s - 1940s and 1980s - present).

Also, bills have typically traded below other money market rates during tightening cycles, as they do now; periods where bills trade at or above other rates have been the exception and not the rule.36 Thus, the smaller increase in bill yields than in rates on other term instruments is not surprising, and I do not read it as undermining the general conclusion that the policy rate increase was effective in firming money market conditions.37

Since no one can predict where interest rates are going over any reasonable time frame, I'm more interested in how these securities will perform over the long - term, since that's where investors should be focusing their time and efforts.

So while there could be one or even five year periods where longer maturity bonds perform fairly well from these yield levels, over the long - term they're likely to be a poor investment in terms of earning a decent return over the rate of inflation.

In other words, they provide a way for market participants to take a view on where short - term rates will be a year from now, or two years from now, or even three years.

I like the idea of having gold for inflation risk and long - term treasuries for deflation but I can envision a future where interest rates and inflation remain low for years which would be bad for returns on both.

I have little doubt that this estimate was obtained by some version of the dividend discount model: Price = D / (k - g), where Ed Kershner decided to pick a long - term return on stocks k really, really close to the long term growth rate of dividends g. Gee, why didn't he just go ahead and set them equal and shoot for thrills?

Federal Reserve keeps interests rates where they are, with an upcoming increase likely Short - term interest rates stayed where they were on Wednesday, but the Federal Reserve indicated that it will gradually increase them within the next few months, the Wall Street Journal first reported.

It is the wrong question to ask «where else am I going to put my money with short - term interest rates near zero?»

[For mathematically inclined clients, a simplistic, but useful way to see this is to examine the dividend discount model: Price = Dividend / (k - g) where g is the long - term growth rate of dividends and k is the long - term return required by investors, written as the sum of the risk free rate and a risk premium (k = Rf + z).

While investors appear more convinced that the Federal Reserve (Fed) will indeed hike rates later this year, real yields remain well below where they started the year and even further below their long - term average.

While there are some signs of recognition such as the Fed's reduction in its estimated neutral rate from 4.5 percent to 3.0 percent during the last 2 years, the IMF's explicit use of the term secular stagnation in its World Economic Outlook, ECB president Mario Draghi's call for global coordination and greater use of fiscal policy, and Japan's indicated interest in fiscal - monetary cooperation, policymakers still have not made sufficiently radical adjustments in their world view to reflect this new reality of a world where generating adequate nominal GDP growth is likely to be the primary macroeconomic policy challenge for the next decade.

In the near term, we see a market at an inflection point, where interest rates have topped out on a short - term basis.

More impressive still is that in spite of the Fed raising short - term interest rates by a total of 1.0 % since mid-December 2015, the approximately 2.30 % yield on the 10 - year Treasury as of mid-July is near where it was at the end of 2015 and 2016 (see the chart below).

Where the term of an SF Repo contracted via the unilateral facility extends overnight, the repurchase price is automatically adjusted at a rate of interest that is 25 basis points above the Reserve Bank Board's prevailing target for the cash rate.

Strong business credit scores can help business owners secure better interest rates on loans, decrease instances where you need to prepay for a specific product or service, and secure better trade terms with important suppliers in your industry.

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Yet despite the most extreme version of these assurances in Japan, where the Bank of Japan has driven long - term interest rates to negative levels and has purchased stocks outright, the Nikkei 225 index is no higher than it was in November 2014.

This compares poorly to the Consumer Staples Sector, where 73 % (in terms of market value of stocks) of stocks get and Attractive - or - better rating.

Companies like AT&T or Realty Income deserve higher P / E ratios when interest rates are 2 % compared to 8 % as the purpose of the investment is usually a quasi-bond with a growth kick compared to something like Visa where the purpose is long - term future growth.

According to Bloomberg data, U.S. equities, as measured by the S&P 500 Index, barely budged; long - term U.S. Treasury rates are currently trading within 10 basis points (bps) of where they were on January 1; and, with the exception of the last two weeks of the year, the Federal Reserve (Fed) sat on its hands.

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Back in July of last year I pointed out that in a world where official short - term interest rates are close to zero, some short - term market interest rates are also going to be very close to zero, and that, in such cases, interest - rate dips below zero could occur as a result of insignificant price fluctuations.

This is evident in a number of developments, including: increased demand for higher - risk assets; the increase in «carry trades» — a form of gearing where funds are borrowed short - term at low interest rates and invested in higher - yielding assets, often in other countries; growth in alternative investment vehicles such as hedge funds; and growth in alternative investment strategies such as selling embedded options (see Box A).

Overall, your credit score helps determine if you get approved for a new loan and at what terms and interest rate, so it pays to know where you stand.

In a situation where the relevant short - term US$ interest rate (LIBOR) is close to zero, why would this be important or in any way strange?

That depends on where you stand right now, in terms of your mortgage rate and equity level.

The following will provide an overview of how equipment financing works, what rates and terms you can expect in today's marketplace, what are the basic qualifications for these loans, and where you can obtain such a loan.

Keep in mind that the funding amount, duration of the credit line, and repayment terms all depend on where your business stands in terms of credit rating, history, revenue, and several other factors.

For example, in a world where short - term interest rates are zero, Wall Street acts as if a 2 % dividend yield on equities, or a 5 % junk bond yield is enough to make these securities appropriate even for investors with short horizons, not factoring in any compensation for risk or likely capital losses.

«Deregulation» and other changes have seen these controls abandoned to the point where short term interest rates are now virtually the only monetary policy instrument.

And so, there is this big dichotomy I think between what the Fed governors are forecasting in terms of their so - called «dot plot,» where they think interest rates are going to be and where the market is again, saying well, actually we know better, bond yields are always going to stay low.

For example, in an ideal world, a stock that earns E, pays a proportion d of that out in dividends, reinvests the rest to grow at a perfectly constant rate g, and is expected to stay in business into the indefinite future, should have a P / E ratio of d / (k - g) where k is the desired long term rate of return (say 0.10 or 10 %) that the stock should be priced to deliver.

Gold's strength relative to commodities we outlined in our last note (Ask Better Questions to Make More Money), where we also explained how gold's relative value has powerful insight it can share on long term interest rates.

This will tend to understate the performance of the taxable account in circumstances where long - term capital gains and qualified dividends, which are currently taxed at lower rates than ordinary income, are a component of investment returns, as is the case for investments with significant equity holdings.

However, bond yields have been mostly driven by US developments, where bond yields appear unusually low against a background of strong growth, rising inflation and increasing short - term interest rates.