What does prime rate mean?

What does prime rate mean?

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The prime rate really focuses on second mortgages, student loans, credit cards. Indeed based on your risk factors such as your income, your credit, your assets, down payments and all that fun stuff, you can either get a below prime rate deal, or above prime rate. But once again, its all based on your risk factors.