Essentially the goal in re-mortgaging an existing loan is to reduce the payment by getting a lower interest rate, stretching out the payments over a longer period of time, or both.
The Federal Reserve this week decided to keep its key federal funds rate at 2.0% after having lowered it at each of its last seven policy meetings, stretching back to September, when the rate was 5.25%.
Light particles passing through the void would be expected to lose a little more energy than those passing through space cluttered with matter - if dark energy is stretching the Universe apart at a faster and faster rate.
With data stretching from 1980 to 1998, he calculated that a 10% increase in an average state's rate of gun ownership, proxied by magazine sales, was associated with a 2% rise in its homicide rate.