The interest rates, such as home mortgages, many auto loans, some home equity lines of credit are on a high these days. In the business sphere, rates on corporate bonds are expected to go up. It would then become even more expensive to borrow in order to pay for new plants and equipment and other capital investments. All this is being attributed to a succession of budget deficits. Democrats blame the tax cuts for the government's red ink. Economists are vexed by the probabilities of budget deficits as the size of the current budget deficits as it is not clear if a crisis is imminent.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be says the proverb. Slogan of the day is be a borrower provided the cost of borrowing is cheap and the repayment are long and affordable. The title of a borrower puts oneself under restrictions and on a tight leash. This is the same with individuals and countries as well. Settlement of a hug loan should be hard-nosed affair bereft of emotional claptrap. The surplus available could be well directed towards developmental activities. After all state is the reflection of collective homes. Car loan settlement should not come by way of family starvation.
HDFC announced direct dealing with customers in auto loan market. This decision is based on the agreement with IL&FS Trust Company. The customers are to get the loan for no extra cost added to it but for a charge created as a security. On the basis of credit rating it is asserted that the facility enjoyed by the borrowers for car is almost double to that of commercial vehicle and two wheelers under this scheme. The auto loan market may get a boost by the introduction of this at par dealings.
Struggling to cope with its worst ever crisis, General Motors Corp.'s GMAC financial services unit has put up auto loans worth twenty billion dollars for sale to the corporate and investment banking arm of The Bank of Nova Scotia. Along with a similar deal concluded with Bank of America in July, the company plans to sell a total of seventy five billion dollars worth auto loans over the next five years. This sale of auto loans is primarily aimed at raising cash.