Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• STEP-RATE MORTGAGE - A mortgage that allows for the interest rate to increase according to a specified ...
  
  
• STEP-UP BOND - a bond that pays the investor an initial above-market yield for a short, noncall period ...
  
  
• STEP-UP LEASE (GRADED LEASE) - A lease specifying set increases in rent at set intervals during the ter...
  
  
• STEP-UP SWAP - An interest rate swap on which the notional principal increases according to a predeterm...
  
  
• STEP-UPS - A form of callable security for which the coupon rate increases if the security is not calle...
  
  
• STEPPED COSTS - a cost that increases by a reasonably constant sum each time volume or activity increas...
  
  
• STEPPED COUPON BONDS - A bond on which the interest rate periodically changes (increases) over the life...
  
  
• STEPPED-RATE MORTGAGES - A bit like a discount mortgage except the interest rate goes up in stages rath...
  
  
• STEPWISE REGRESSION - A mathematical technique to choose the independent variables that best describe t...
  
  
• STEREO TRADE - A tailed tandem trade (q.v.), with tails designed to produce calendar spread payoffs tha...