Credit Card Forum
  1. #1
    Gold Member
    Join Date
    Jul 2011
    Location
    NYC
    Posts
    35

    Default What's better prime + margin or quarterly prime + margin

    have a newbie question that i hope someone can help with....essentially i get that LIBOR is best as far as rates go but what i am trying to figure out if prime (plus margin) is better than quarterly prime (plus margin). i have been PIF'ing each month but i probably will want to carry a balance starting in the new year and i have one card that calculates my rate as quarterly prime + margin and another that gives me prime + margin.
    Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote

  2. #2
    Centurion Member Mogul of Pineapples's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2008
    Location
    Smogland
    Posts
    1,399

    Default

    Quarterly prime rate is typically based, to the best of my knowledge, on the first business day of the first month of the quarter. However since the prime rate isn't going up in the foreseeable future, I would say both will be the same.
    Disclosure: I am a moderator/paid staff of this site, which does have advertising relationships with some credit cards that are discussed. Regardless, anything I say is my honest opinion.

    Current Cards:
    American Express: Blue Cash, Simply Cash Bank of America: WorldPoints Platinum Plus Chase: Amazon, British Airways, Cash Plus Rewards, Freedom, Ink Cash Citi: Thank You Premier, Dividend Platinum Select Discover: More
    Primary Everyday Card: American Express Blue Cash
    Primary Travel Card: Citi Thank You Premier
    Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiTweet this Post!
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote