It is better than last year, when the rate soared to 87.6 percent.

When interest rates soared to nearly 100 percent in 1995, thousands of these loans went bad.

Result: the Dow fell almost 100 points and interest rates soared.

Of course, if rates soar, your bonds would reach their face value more quickly.

And interest rates had soared into the high teens, which is unlikely here.

In the power vacuum, the rate of killings has soared.

Since the 1980s, rates of childhood obesity have soared from 11% to 30% in developed nations.

As a result, the rental rates of rigs have soared.

The average rate on six-month bills soared 14 basis points, to 8.33 percent.

And as that temptation becomes obvious, interest rates will soar.