If you are prepared for some risk, junk bonds pay about 5%, but they tend to get whacked when interest rates rise. Same with lower-yielding but higher-quality corporate bonds.

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

In a relatively low interest rate environment, Commercial Banks will record growth in deposits via the growth in the Current And Savings Accounts (CASA) base owing to the prevailing low rate differential between Fixed Deposits and Savings Deposits

To finance deficits, the government must sell bonds to investors, competing for capital that could otherwise be used to invest in stocks or corporate bonds. Government borrowings raise long-term interest rates, stifling economic growth.

We had to guess each year what interest rates would do in the coming year, which is difficult to do in today's markets, and budget for that,

Can interest rates shore up the euro? Not so far,