Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• INTEREST RATE FLOOR - The lowest interest rate possible under an ARM contract. Floors are less common t...
  
  
• INTEREST RATE FUTURES - a legal commitment to sell financial instruments at a future price and date
  
  
• INTEREST RATE FUTURES CONTRACT - A futures contract based on an interbank deposit rate or an underlying...
  
  
• INTEREST RATE INCREASE CAP - The interest rate increase cap is the maximum allowable increase in your i...
  
  
• INTEREST RATE INDEX - The interest rate index is the specific fund/security that your interest rate on ...
  
  
• INTEREST RATE LOCK - When a lender guarantees to loan you money at a set interest rate, protecting you ...
  
  
• INTEREST RATE ON DEBT - The firm's cost of debt capital.
  
  
• INTEREST RATE PARITY LINE (IRP) - Diagonal line on a graph that characterizes interest rate parity.
  
  
• INTEREST RATE PARITY THEOREM - Expression that the interest rate differential between two countries is ...
  
  
• INTEREST RATE RISK - the risk that a savings association's assets and/or liabilities will decline in ma...