But the bankers also say it’s unclear how the pandemic might affect commercial customers—and the banks themselves—in the longer term.
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Peter Dunn talks to guest host Lesley Weidenbener about all things home buying, including mortgages, determining how much house you can afford, why you shouldn’t put down less than 10% and why the idea of starter homes and family homes is silly.
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A borrower who took out a 30-year, $200,000 mortgage in 2018 at an interest rate of 4.55% would have a monthly payment of $1,019. By refinancing into a 30-year mortgage with a 3.46% interest rate, the monthly payment would drop to $865.
Amid the widespread economic disruption caused by the pandemic, banks have already granted payment deferrals of up to six months to a significant number of commercial and individual borrowers.
For an eight-hour period that began at 4 p.m. Wednesday, the PPP loan application portal is being reserved only for the nation’s smallest lenders: those with assets of less than $1 billion.
The Paycheck Protection Program began accepting applications again Monday with an additional $310 billion. But local business owners who were shut out during the first round were uncertain whether they’ll fare any better this time.
The banks approved 35,990 individual loans for companies and organizations in Indiana before the program ran out of money.
The Fort Wayne-based bank’s new Indianapolis market president, Tim Oliver, will primarily work from the bank’s new Monument Circle location, which opened earlier this year.
Banks say they’re seeing overwhelming demand for Paycheck Protection Program coronavirus relief loans, and the Small Business Administration’s website is getting bogged down when they attempt to submit loan applications.
Chase has temporarily closed a few of its local branches, while many others are moving to appointment-only service and drive-through service in response to the outbreak.
Stocks fell from the opening of trading in New York, including a 3.7% loss for the S&P 500. The losses deepened as the day progressed, and the Dow Jones industrial average was down more than 1,000 points in the early afternoon.
The former bank branch, which closed in late 2016, will reopen as a co-working space called Vault.
President Trump said that the Fed’s high level of interest rates in comparison to other countries was keeping the dollar too strong and making it more difficult for U.S. manufacturers to compete.
Clark Kellogg, a first-round draft pick for the Indiana Pacers in 1982 and current lead basketball analyst for CBS Sports, has been a member of the bank’s advisory board since 2001.
Old National Bancorp, the largest Indiana-based bank, reported a 43% increase in second-quarter profit.
The rate reduction was the first since December 2008, when the Fed dropped its benchmark effectively to zero as it battled recession and financial crisis.
Under Chairman Jerome Powell, the Fed has faced pressure to ease credit since it raised its key rate in December for the fourth time in 2018 and hinted that additional rate increases were likely this year.
Elizabeth Warren’s plan, the latest in a series of policy ideas that have propelled the Massachusetts senator to the top tier of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary field, would hold private equity firms liable for debts and pension promises made by the companies they acquire.
Members of both parties demanded to know why a company with massive market power and a track record of scandals should be trusted with such a far-reaching project, given the potential for fraud, abuse and criminal activity.
Bank reform wouldn’t have been so heavy-handed had small- and medium-sized banks gotten their act together, Mark Hills
says.
In other markets, homeowners who can afford their payments are making the ethical and financial calculus to hand the keys
back.
A lawyer says too many parents withhold information about estate from heirs and unwittingly set up the heirs for a battle.
