Some people have a fifteen- or twenty-year loan, often with an adjustable interest rate instead of a rate that never changes.

VOA: special.2011.01.24

Interest rate strategist Christian Carrillo with Societe Generale Securities calls the BOJ's decision weak and without purpose.

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

Federal Reserve officials on Wednesday decided to leave this interest rate at nearly zero percent.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

Initial news of the BOJ's emergency meeting on Tuesday raised hopes of an interest rate cut, and stocks rose immediately after the BOJ's announcement Tuesday.

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

Like the Bank of England, the U.S.Federal Reserve has all but exhausted one of its most powerful tools for stimulating the economy -- lowering the key interest rate that banks charge to lend to each other.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18