If you find yourself deep in thought before going to get a car loan approval, this is not an uncommon situation at all. After all, a car loan is all about getting best interest rates and manageable payment plans. But at the eleventh hour you might just be concerned about one thing: Interest Rate.

Yes, indeed, it is true. People getting car loan are usually most concerned about the interest rates they may get. ‘Interest’, essentially, is the extra amount of money you will be paying to your lender at the end of the day, in addition to the amount of loan. So what determines this amount of money?

Other than the terms provided by your lender, interest that you pay primarily depends upon the way your interest is calculated. There are three common ways lenders go about this: they may calculate the interest amount by using either the method of Simple Interest, Compound Interest or Rule of 78.

An insight into the mechanisms of the calculations under these three methods would give you some advantage when you are selecting a particular loan out of the many choices that you have.

Interest Calculated by ‘Simple Interest’ Method:

Just as the name suggest, this method is the simplest among all. It is not only simple as with the respect of its calculation but also with the respect of the amount of interest it determines.

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There are signals that mortgage interest rates will go up in near future. Leading indicator for this trend is increase in yields for mortgage-bonds issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Upward trend is quite strong as it is persistent since last five days.

Mortgage refinance activity is also slowing down as lending banks are also stalling on existing applications. There is a 21 percent decline in new mortgage refinance requests. Analysts believe that the downward trend is due to recent hikes in mortgage rates which are significantly up from historic low reached earlier this year.

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Mortgage rates went down sharply last week. It is the sharpest decline we have seen over a peed of past few weeks. Home mortgage rates have come down intensively from the peak in June 2009. The most obvious reason for this is that world economy in general and US economy in particular is showing signs of late recovery. Some economic pundits are even saying that we have not seen the bottom yet!

Week Economic Outlook

Amidst of all this week economic data, and poor financial outlook, U.S. Treasury rates have declined significantly. Federal Reserve Bank is in no mood to touch the interest rate in near future. This situation is likely to keep Fed fund’s target rates between zero percent and one quarter of a percentage. U.S. economy is very less likely to rebound swiftly. Even European Union has also moved it forecast for economic recovery to late 2010 or early 2011.

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