504 May 2016 Rates 4.194% – 10 Year Debenture Effective Rate * 4.320% – 20 Year Debenture Effective Rate * Pascal’s Wager & Interest Rates Another month, another round in the debate between “lower for longer” or a “spike is in the offing” as regards long term interest […]
Read more →504 January 2016 Rates 4.288% – 10 Year Debenture Effective Rate * 4.831% – 20 Year Debenture Effective Rate * Wither the RMB (“Ren Min Bi”: 人民币) & What that means for 504 Rates. So was the intent to posit a downward trend in the value of the Chinese […]
Read more →504 December 2015 Rates 4.865% – 20 Year Debenture Effective Rate * Waiting for Yellen. The thought of “Economics” scripted by Samuel Beckett, is somewhat disconcerting. This past weekend both the Financial Times and Barron’s published articles on substantial surveys on the direction of rates, specifically the […]
Read more →504 November 2015 Rates 4.176% – 10 Year Debenture Effective Rate * 4.778% – 20 Year Debenture Effective Rate * The Last Hurrah! So the near decade of ultra-low interest rates end, not with a whimper, but the BANG of 271,000 new jobs. With that coda, attention now […]
Read more →SCTD – SBA Fiscal Year Opens with Fee Changes for 7 (a) and 504 Loans Costs of SBA credit go down for FY 2016 with Fee Waivers and Reductions on Primary Loan Programs How many lenders in the past 24 hours have been wondering: “Is this […]
Read more →504 September 2015 Rates 4.215% – 10 Year Debenture Effective Rate * 4.890% – 20 Year Debenture Effective Rate * Stability is an Underrated Virtue The Summer of 2015 has been hectic. The roller coaster that is the Shanghai Composite Index has, along with a non-stop debate regarding […]
Read more →504 August 2015 Rates 4.909% – 20 Year Debenture Effective Rate * 东方红,太阳升 The former national anthem of the People’s Republic of China, “The East is Red”, seems more appropriate now that the financial media is covered in pictures of bewildered individuals in Shanghai standing in front of electronic […]
Read more →IDS Corporation ALS Ice Bucket Challenge: Every August, Every Year, … until a cure! Growing up in New York City, it was not possible to be unfamiliar with the story of Lou Gehrig standing on the field of Yankee Stadium, saying that he was the “luckiest […]
Read more →504 July Rates 4.326% – 10 Year Debenture Effective Rate * 4.961% – 20 Year Debenture Effective Rate * James Carville once observed that in his next life, he wanted to come back as something really powerful, like “The Bond Market”. Perhaps in a demonstration of that power, “The Bond Market” has, over […]
Read more →504 June Rates 5.062% – 20 Year Debenture Effective Rate * Sturm und Drang Interest rates can and do, sometimes, go up. Sometimes they even do so precipitously. Consider the chart below (Source: The Financial Times), showing the movements of the German Ten Year Government Bond over the past few […]
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