Clark_Kent
Senior Member
It's not terribly complicated. The federal funds rate (or the main benchmark interest rate) influences short-term consumer lending interest rates. Private lenders use the benchmark interest rate to set their own rates. The fed funds rate is substantially higher today than it was in years past. When the Federal Reserve raises interest rates at the FOMC meetings, expect to pay more to borrow money. Yesterday's price is not today's price.Yeah and it doesn't seem that high credit matters. At all.
I second trying credit union. I won't pretend to understand what math goes into calculating these rates, but dating back to the early-mid 2000s, I've gone through Navy Federal because their rates were always S tier. That all changed in the 2010s until now, where I was somehow quite pleased to land a 5.04% for 72 months. I know that's way off the 2-4% I've been used to for years but all things considered, not bad.
I did submit an application to see what the dealer could do, and got a "we can't come close" to the rate I got through Navy Fed.
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