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  • 41rate — The cost of debt service paid by a borrower or issuer to a lender or investor. The rate is expressed as an annual percentage of the amount borrowed. For some notes and bonds that pay interest semiannually, the semiannual interest due to the… …

    Financial and business terms

  • 42Floating Interest Rate — An interest rate that is allowed to move up and down with the rest of the market or along with an index. This contrasts with a fixed interest rate, in which the interest rate of a debt obligation stays constant for the duration of the agreement.… …

    Investment dictionary

  • 43Floating exchange rate — A country s decision to allow its currency value to freely change. The currency is not constrained by central bank intervention and does not have to maintain its relationship with another currency in a narrow band. The currency value is… …

    Financial and business terms

  • 44floating exchange rate — A country s decision to allow its currency value to change freely. The currency is not constrained by central bank intervention and does not have to maintain its relationship with another currency in a narrow band. The currency value is… …

    Financial and business terms

  • 45Floating Price — The leg of a swap that is based on a fluctuating interest rate. In a plain vanilla interest rate swap, there are two streams of cash flows. Each stream is based on the same amount of notional principal, but one stream pays interest on that… …

    Investment dictionary

  • 46floating debt — 1) The part of the national debt that consists primarily of short term Treasury bills Compare funded debt See also funding operations 2) Short term borrowing (i. e. for less than one year). 3) Debt with a floating rate of interest …

    Big dictionary of business and management

  • 47floating — float·ing adj 1: not presently committed or invested floating capital 2: short term and usu. not funded floating debt 3: having no fixed value or rate floatin …

    Law dictionary

  • 48floating interest rate — n. A variable interest rate that changes based on the money market. The Essential Law Dictionary. Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008 …

    Law dictionary

  • 49floating interest rate — Rate of interest that is not fixed but which varies depending upon the existing rate in the money market …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 50floating interest rate — Rate of interest that is not fixed but which varies depending upon the existing rate in the money market …

    Black's law dictionary