Home equity loan rates vary by lender, so employing a few simple strategies could help you find the best rate.

If you pay attention to financial news, you may have heard the term “prime rate” and wondered what it meant. You might have even confused it with the federal funds rate or your loan’s ...

The Fed’s short-term rates matter, but the main action now is in the 10-year Treasury market, which influences mortgages, ...

HSBC, one of the city’s three currency-issuing lenders, unveiled on Wednesday new mortgage plans offering a fixed rate of ...

Try refreshing your browser, or tap here to see other videos from our team. The banks said they would decrease the prime rate by 25 basis points from 5.45 per cent to 5.20 per cent just hours after ...

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Craig Sebastiano is a personal finance writer based in Toronto. He was previously the managing editor at Ratehub.ca and has written about credit cards, mortgages, banking, investing and investment ...

Tokyo, Feb. 10 (Jiji Press)--Mizuho Bank said Monday that it will raise its long-term prime lending rate for February by 0.20 percentage point from the previous month to 2.20 pct, the highest ...

Inflation reached 12.7% in December 1974 and the economy entered into a recession. The prime rate was 6% in 1972 before the BoC began raising rates. It peaked at 11% in 1974–or so most people ...

More interesting is the variable-rate market, where discounts from prime rates are getting squeezed. That’s particularly true in the mortgage broker market, for reasons that have to do with mortgage ...

The prime rate is a base rate set by Canadian banks to determine the variable interest rates they can charge on lending products, such as mortgages and loans. Many or all of the products featured ...