Sentence examples for conventional interest rate from inspiring English sources

Conventional interest rate policy is exhausted, with an interest rate of 0.5%.

The Fed could lower the rate further, but as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke noted in a speech this week, "the scope for using conventional interest rate policies to support the economy is obviously limited".

Moreover, the mark-up used in murabaha is usually benchmarked to a conventional interest rate.

Subprime mortgages are offered at higher than conventional interest rates to people with less than stellar credit histories.

The banks extending these loans are small community and regional outfits attracted to their relatively high interest rates (anything from 25 basis to 200 basis points over a conventional loan's interest rate).

But pessimists say that although the United States has acted quickly to head off deflation there are signs it may have already exhausted many of the conventional tools, from aggressive interest rate reductions to tax cuts, and so far without great effect.

Carter also favours fixed-rate mortgages, adding: "Although this can't be guaranteed I would expect interest rates to rise over the next 18 to 24 months and the conventional way of managing interest rate risk is to either fix or have a mortgage with a cap on the variable rate".

This leads to a higher valuation of future benefits relative to conventional methods that ignore interest rate uncertainty.

An interesting theory on negative yields Conventional wisdom says interest rates are low because growth and inflation expectations are low.

Mortgage experts say that jumbo loans now carry a lower interest rate than conventional.

Mr. Bernanke acknowledged the limitations of the Fed's conventional policy-setting tool, the interest rate, and suggested that future actions by the Fed would focus on providing liquidity to the financial system by directly buying securities and acting as a backstop for the credit markets.