Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• MONTHLY FIXED INSTALLMENT
  
  The portion of the total monthly payment that is applied toward principal and interest. When a mortgage negatively amortizes, the monthly fixed installment does not include any amount for principal reduction and doesn't cover all of the interest. The loan balance therefore increases instead of decreasing.
  
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