47 % Think Interest Rates Will Be Higher A Year From Now
Sunday, April 15, 2012
The Federal Reserve Board plans to keep interest rates at record lows at least through late 2014, but many Americans believe the rates will go up over the next year.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 47% of American Adults think they will be paying higher interest rates a year from now. Nine percent (9%) feel they will be paying lower interest rates in a year's time, while 32% predict they'll be paying about the same amount. Thirteen percent (13%) are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here .)
The survey of 1,000 American Adults nationwide was conducted on April 7-8, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC . See methodology .