A Loan Officer States,"Thousands of Dollars Can Be Saved by Switching

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Essay

A loan officer states,"Thousands of dollars can be saved by switching to a 15-year mortgage from a 30-year mortgage." Calculate the difference in payments on a 30-year mortgage at 9% interest versus a 15-year mortgage with 8.5% interest.Both mortgages are for $100,000 and have monthly payments.What is the difference in total dollars that will be paid to the lender under each loan?

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Definitions:

Public

Pertaining to or involving the affairs of the community as a whole, often relating to government or public companies accessible to all people.

Semistrong-Form Efficient

A market hypothesis stating that share prices incorporate all publicly available information, making it impossible to consistently achieve higher returns.

Weak-Form Efficient

A market hypothesis suggesting that all past prices of stock are reflected in the current price, hence historical data cannot be used to predict future prices.

Strong-Form Efficient

A hypothesis that states all information, both public and private, is completely accounted for in stock prices, and that no investor can achieve consistently higher returns.