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31Interest Only (IO) Strips — The interest portion of mortgage, Treasury or bond payments, which is separated and sold individually from the principal portion of those same payments. The periodic payments of several bonds can be stripped to form synthetic zero coupon bonds.… …
32zero coupon bond — noun A bond (e.g., corporate debenture or government debt) that has no coupon (i.e., pays no interest), during the life of the issue. Such a bond is initially sold at a deep discount to its …
33Compound 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… …
34Credit card interest — Finance Financial markets Bond market …
35Fixed rate mortgage — A fixed rate mortgage (FRM) is a mortgage loan where the interest rate on the note remains the same through the term of the loan, as opposed to loans where the interest rate may adjust or float. Other forms of mortgage loan include interest only… …
36discount rate — The interest rate charged on loans by the Federal Reserve Bank. Chicago Board of Trade glossary The interest rate charged by the Federal Reserve to its member banks (banks which belong to the Federal Reserve System) for funds they borrow. This… …
37London Interbank Offered Rate — The London Interbank Offered Rate (or LIBOR, pronEng|ˈlaɪbɔr) is a daily reference rate based on the interest rates at which banks offer to lend unsecured funds to other banks in the London wholesale money market (or interbank market). LIBOR will …
38Internal rate of return — The internal rate of return (IRR) is a capital budgeting metric used by firms to decide whether they should make investments. It is an indicator of the efficiency or quality of an investment, as opposed to net present value (NPV), which indicates …
39Short rate model — In the context of interest rate derivatives, a short rate model is a mathematical model that describes the future evolution of interest rates by describing the future evolution of the short rate.The short rateThe short rate, usually written r t… …
40Inverse floating rate note — An inverse floating rate note, or simply an inverse floater, is a type of bond or other type of debt instrument used in finance whose coupon rate has an inverse relationship to short term interest rates (or its reference rate). With an inverse… …
