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41Compound interest — The effect of earning 20% annual interest on an initial $1,000 investment at various compounding frequencies Compound interest arises when interest is added to the principal, so that from that moment on, the interest that has been added also… …
42Effective interest rate — The effective interest rate, effective annual interest rate, Annual Equivalent Rate (AER) or simply effective rate is the interest rate on a loan or financial product restated from the nominal interest rate as an interest rate with annual… …
43base rate — Also known as the repo rate. The rate set by the Bank of England which determines how much other banks and building societies pay for loans they take out from the Bank of England. The base rate in turn affects the minimum rate at which banks are… …
44Loans and interest in Judaism — The combination of loans and interest, in Judaism, is a complicated and detailed subject. The biblical Hebrew terms for interest are neshekh (Heb.: נשך), literally meaning a bite , in reference to its painfulness to the debtor, and marbit /… …
45Vested interest — is a communication theory that seeks to explain how influences impact behaviors. Coined by William Crano, vested interest refers to the amount that an attitude object is deemed ally relevant by the attitude holder (Crano, 1995). Not to be… …
46London Interbank Offered Rate — The London Interbank Offered Rate, that is, the interest rates at which banks borrow funds, in marketable size, in the London Interbank Market. + LIBOR USA LIBOR (or the London Interbank Offered Rate) is a daily reference rate based on the… …
47adjusted Eurodollar rate — USA Also referred to as the Eurodollar rate in combination with the Eurodollar base rate. A method of determining the interest rate in a loan agreement. Eurodollar refers to US currency held in banks outside of the United States that is generally …
48discount rate — n 1: the interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan 2: the interest levied by the Federal Reserve for advances and rediscounts Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …
49internal rate of return — (IRR) A compound rate of interest worked out over the life of a private equity fund reflecting both the investment return and the rate at which the return is produced. The IRR is calculated by way of an iterative mathematical formula which values …
50prime lending rate — The lowest rate of interest that a financial institution, such as a bank, charges its best customers, usually large corporations, for short term unsecured loans. Dictionary from West s Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005. prime lending rate …
