Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• INTEREST RATE RISK (IRR) - The potential that changes in market rates of interest will reduce earnings ...
  
  
• INTEREST RATE SPREAD - a percent calculated as follows: (dollars of interest earned divided by the doll...
  
  
• INTEREST RATE SWAP - A financial instrument representing a transaction in which two parties agree to sw...
  
  
• INTEREST RATE SWAPS - An arrangement that requires both sides of the transaction to make payments to ea...
  
  
• INTEREST SUBSIDY - The value of a firm's deduction of the interest payments on its debt from its earnin...
  
  
• INTEREST TAX SHIELD - The reduction in income taxes that results from the tax-deductibility of interest...
  
  
• INTEREST-BEARING - means paying interest.
  
  
• INTEREST-COVERAGE RATIOS - A ratio that uses historical financial information. sometimes combined with ...
  
  
• INTEREST-ONLY - A term loan calling for payments of interest only, not to include any amount for princi...
  
  
• INTEREST-ONLY (IO) TRANCHE - A CMO (q.v.) Tranche (q.v.) that receives a portion of only the CMO's unde...