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 […]
Read more →504 Program Rate Update for May 2015 4.850% – 20 Year Debenture Effective Rate * 4.374% – 10 Year Debenture Effective Rate * Today’s vocabulary word: Weltanschauung Welt·an·schau·ung ‘veltˌänˌSHouəNG/ * noun defined as a particular philosophy or view of life; the worldview of an individual or group. (German) Imagine, if you will, Bavarian […]
Read more →504 Program Rate Update for April 2015 4.591% – 20 Year Debenture Effective Rate * Debenture Rate drops, however, Core CPI… “Uncharted waters” is a term one hears very regularly as regards the location of the Federal Reserve in plotting a return to “normalized” interest rates. Given the various […]
Read more →2015 Annual SCTD Lender’s Conference South Central Tennessee Development invites you to a free Lender’s Conference set to begin at 8:30 on April 21st, 2015 at the Northfield Workforce Development and Conference Center . The purpose of the program is to raise awareness and inform lenders in […]
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Read more →504 Program Rate Update for March 2015 4.401% – 10 Year Debenture Effective Rate * 4.799% – 20 Year Debenture Effective Rate * “And now for something completely different . . . “ This being March, next to April that cruelest of months, the first uptick in the Twenty Year […]
Read more →504 Program Rate Update for February 2015 4.546% – 20 Year Debenture Effective Rate * “As the World waffles . . . “ Things economic and political seem to lack a clear sense of direction: in the EU Greeks and Brits may be coming or going; in the Ukraine the […]
Read more →504 Program Rate Update for January 2015 4.601% – 20 Year Debenture Effective Rate * 4.416% – 10 Year Debenture Effective Rate * “There is a floor down there…somewhere.” Welcome to 2015, the year in which long term interest rates will start to rise. Seriously. However, until then… […]
Read more →504 Program Rate Update for December 2014 4.782% – 20 Year Debenture Effective Rate * Frying Pans and Fires Mark Mobius, the renowned specialist in foreign and emerging markets, observed in the financial press this weekend, that the risk in the world economy leaned either to accelerating deflation […]
Read more →504 Program Rate Update for November 2014 4.879% – 20 Year Debenture Effective Rate * 4.555% – 10 Year Debenture Effective Rate * “If it be now, ’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it […]
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