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- From: joseph@emmax5crd.ge.com (joseph)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Interest Rate Calculations
- Keywords: Interest, Daily
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.140521.16109@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 14:05:21 GMT
- Sender: joseph@emmax5 (joseph)
- Reply-To: joseph@c2a.crd.ge.com (joseph)
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- Organization: GE Research
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- If I get a loan (say, a car loan or a mortgage) at a
- specified interest rate (like 10 percent), does the daily
- rate change depending on whether it is a leap year or
- a non-leap year ?
-
- Even though 92 is a leap year, both my car-loan and and
- my mortgage banker calculates the daily interest rate
- as:
- Daily rate = Quoted rate/365
-
- but I think it should be
-
- If (leap year) then
- Daily rate = Quoted rate/366
- else
- Daily rate = Quoted rate/365
- endif.
-
- The fact that two different banks use 365 for the
- calculations leads me to speculate that there may be
- some accounting practice or law that allows them to
- do this.
-
- Okay, I admit it, I like nit-picking and penny pinching.
- Besides, I like giving the banks a hard time if I can.
-
- joseph@c2a.crd.ge.com
-