The S&P 500 dividend yield is only about 0.8 % below the 10 - year Treasury rate and 3 % higher than the 10
year rate if you add share buybacks.
There's no sense paying for a 30 -
year rate if you're going to move in six.
Not exact matches
The ECB, however, said after its latest policy - making meeting Thursday that it still doesn't expect to raise its own interest
rates until «well past» September next
year — and even then, only
if it is absolutely sure that inflation is back on track after a decade of undershooting.
And lastly,
if rates start hiking significantly, they will be breaking away from the trend registered in the past few
years — the 10 -
year paper hasn't hit 3 percent since 2014.
For
years,
if you wanted to guess the path of interest
rates, you watched hiring indicators.
If cutting
rates by 500 bps over the last few
years didn't spark a recovery then why would cutting from 25 bps?
If rates rise across the board by one percentage point, it would amount to about $ 91 billion a
year in extra income and thus extra spending money for these people and businesses.
If the Bank of Canada hikes two more times this
year, some households could be renewing at a
rate 75 basis points higher than what they previously paid, according to Rob McLister, CEO of intelliMortgage Inc. in Toronto.
If you can afford to pay the mortgage now — and you can still afford to pay the mortgage five
years from now after
rates have risen, then you can afford to buy.
Equally, when a company that is burning $ 175,000 / month tells me they're raising $ 10 - 15 million it sets off alarm bells because even
if I assume you'll double your burn
rate it still implies 2.5 - 3.5
years of cash runway, which is too much for a startup.
In 2013, I always worked hard to make sure that everything was 100 % perfect, but I know that
if I keep growing at a 90 %
rate that is 90 % perfect, I will get a lot farther than I did last
year.
If the Bank of Canada ultimately raises its benchmark
rate by 50 basis points from the start of the
year, that could increase borrowers» monthly payments by approximately 5 per cent, according to Rob McLister, founder of comparison site RateSpy.com.
If you were in the market to buy, he'd tell you that this machine has the highest suction
rating J. D. Power gives, with «level suction,» which means the vacuum's suction will be as good in the tenth
year as it does in the first.
So
if it can get customers to buy its currently offered 25 - months CD at 2.75 %, it locks in this source of funding for two
years at a lower overall
rate.
But
if all goes well for the global recovery, central bank activity and speculative demand will put upward pressure on the loonie this
year, especially
if the Bank of Canada increases
rates before the U.S. Federal Reserve does.
More specifically, the «Mad Money» host wants to see
if Williams, a non-voting Federal Open Market Committee member who previously talked about having three interest
rate hikes this
year, will change his view and advocate for four hikes.
Another potential pitfall of tax - loss harvesting is that over the
years,
if the losses you lock in are significant enough, you may inadvertently drive up your future tax
rate, he said.
But
if Christine Lagarde and the IMF have their way, zero interest
rate policy in America will last at least into
year eight.
If the
year's current run
rate holds steady in the last quarter, global fintech investment dollars and deal activity could hit records.
Perhaps more importantly,
if we take his new statements literally he is now predicting that installation of a Tory government will immediately cause the economy to grow at an absurd 10 per cent per
year, 5 times the current
rate by implementing only three - tenths of the Million Jobs Plan.
If that hypothetical student borrowed using a federal direct loan for graduate school, which had a
rate of 5.84 percent last academic
year, she would have accrued $ 1,682 in interest during the grace period.
Our growth
rate is under 2 %, and so that's a good investment in what we're delivering will be in service at least 30,
if not more,
years from today.
But that pain today would arguably be less severe than
if rates go up
years from now, when households have piled on even more debt.
That means you pay the long - term capital
rate (typically 20 %)
if you sold it after a
year, or the ordinary income
rate if you sold it before then.
Even
if you have to put aside saving for a a couple of months or even a
year, it's totally worth it in the end since you can now put that monthly payment towards your retirement savings and not an outrageous interest
rate.
They wanted to know
if they should break their mortgages and refinance at BMO's limited - time, bargain - basement 2.99 %
rate — the lowest
rate ever officially offered by a Canadian bank for a five -
year, fixed -
rate mortgage.
If all 1,400 guests pay the only standard
rate of $ 40,000 a day, then the park is bringing in over $ 20 billion a
year in revenue.
If the market has had a down
year, try to restrain your spending with a 2.5 %
rate.
With respect to interest
rates, we continue to see a bifurcation for U.S.
rates where shorter - dated yields move higher in response to possibly two or three more Fed
rate hikes, while the U.S. Treasury 10 -
year yield trades in a 2.25 percent to 2.75 percent range, with a temporary move toward 2 percent possible
if geopolitical risks become realities.
If this all occurs while
rates are rising, which of course means bond prices are moving in the opposite direction, we could surely see a very sloppy bond market over the next
year or two.
Its staff posed the following question:
If the U.S. created a tax code that eliminated virtually all personal and corporate tax breaks, and also required that the plan be revenue neutral ---- meaning that receipts in 20
years had to match the numbers forecast today ---- how low could
rates go?
If the majority of private sector economists are correct, the Bank of Canada will raise interest
rates on July 12 for the first time in nearly seven
years.
If every guest is only paying the standard
rate, Westworld brings in over $ 20 billion in revenue a
year.
Japan has already lost its AAA status, and Fitch
Ratings recently warned it might downgrade the country's sovereign debt
if it issued more than the planned ¥ 44 trillion in bonds next
year.
If the 8,000 Canadians who received stock options as part of incomes over $ 250,000 paid taxes on this money at the same
rate as the rest of their income — treating executive compensation the same way you treat the income of any other working stiff — it would have raised $ 337 million for federal coffers in 2009, a down
year for options.
Though «Daily Show» host Trevor Noah's
ratings ticked up in the first quarter of the
year and «The President Show» resonated with audiences,
if not with some critics, network representatives still remember fondly Stewart's and Colbert's domination of the 11 - t0 - midnight time slot among key demographics pined over by advertisers.
For example,
if you are nine months into the
year, and you spent $ 500,000,
year to date, on operating expenses, regardless of revenues coming in, your burn
rate would be approximately $ 55,555 ($ 500,000 divided by nine months and rounded off).
For example,
if you look at a graph of the 10 -
year Treasury
rate from the height of its peak in 1981, at 15.41 %, to the bottom in June 2016 (during Brexit), at 1.49 %, the chart looks more like a roller - coaster ride versus a simple straight line down.
The productivity savings are in the billions, at a cost to the treasury of $ 100 million a
year if 50 % of tariff
rates are set to zero and $ 600 million
if 90 percent of tariff
rates are eliminated.
If the maturity of the loan is seven
years or more, however, the
rate can be boosted to the prime
rate plus 2.75 percent.
It is Apple's No. 1 priority, according to senior vice president and CFO Luca Maestri, who noted that
if the tax
rate was lowered, it would give the company «flexibility around its capital return activities» last
year at a Goldman Sachs investor conference.
According to the SBA, fixed
rate loans are not allowed to exceed the prime
rate plus 2.25 percent
if the loan matures in less than seven
years.
It's got all this stuff in the news, with ghost cities and real estate markets crashing, but when we think about it,
if the U.S. economy is forecast to grow somewhere between 2.75 % and 3 % for 2015, and China is growing at 6.5 % or 7 %, we're still looking at essentially twice the U.S. [growth
rate] on a much bigger base than 10
years ago,» she says.
At the Federal Reserve's target
rate of 2 percent, inflation could erode more than $ 73,000 of a retiree's purchasing power over 20
years if that person were receiving the monthly average Social Security retirement payment of $ 1,341.
But
if you're paying that interest
rate for a
year and a half to be able to buy something that you've always wanted to do and that you've been very passionate about, to me, it absolutely worked.
If that homeowner moved to a similarly - priced home but had a 5.5 %
rate, their annual payments would rise by $ 3,000 a
year, to $ 17,000.
If that growth
rate continues, the U.S. industry will increase its revenues for the second
year in a row — the first time it has had back - to - back growth
years since CD sales hit their peak in 1999.
If the Fed raises
rates this
year, as most of his colleagues expect, «things could go okay, but you are creating a risk of further declines in where market - based inflation expectations are, basically to the credibility of our inflation target, and I think you are creating downside risks our pursuit of our employment mandate.»
I wouldn't have taken out a loan with high interest without knowing that I can repay it, because
if you're paying that interest
rate for six
years, yes, it's ridiculous.
«
If interest
rates were to move quickly, volatility was to move quickly it could be an interesting financial market in the next couple of
years,» he warned.