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Is it important to get a low interest rate when you borrow money like on a credit card or student loan?
It depends on whether the interest rate is a low introductory rate or a fixed rate. It also depends on how fast you plan to pay it off. The faster you pay it off, the less significant the rate of interest is.
What do savings account usually offer a high or low interest rate?
As low an interest as the borrower can get away with and still attract investment.
When you are earning interest is it better to have high or low rates?
High rates.However, high interest rates are usually a consequence of high inflation rates and so what matters is not the interest rate but the real interest rate which is the nominal interest rate relative to the inflation rate.Thus a 3% interest rate when inflation is 1% is better that a 5% interest rate when inflation is 4%.
What does a lower interest rate mean for savers?
It means that they are getting less money for deferring expenditure and saving instead. However, it is not the low nominal interest rates which matter but what the "real" interest rates are. This is the difference between the nominal interest rate and the rate of inflation. An interest rate of 2% when inflation is 0% is good news for savers but an inflation rate even as high as 10% is bad news if inflation is higher than 10%.
What is the formula to calculate monthly interest rate if the annual interest rate is known?
Annual Interest Rate divided by 12= Monthly Interest Rate
