level of interest rates

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• Interest Rate Risk — The risk that an investment s value will change due to a change in the absolute level of interest rates, in the spread between two rates, in the shape of the yield curve or in any other interest rate relationship. Such changes usually affect… …   Investment dictionary

• Interest Rate Options — An investment tool whose payoff depends on the future level of interest rates. Interest rate options are both exchange traded and over the counter instruments. Interest rate options from exchanges in the United States are offered on Treasury bond …   Investment dictionary

• interest-sensitive — Denoting an activity that is sensitive to changes in the general level of interest rates. For example, the demand for consumer goods usually bought on some form of hire purchase basis is interest sensitive because they cost more as interest rates …   Big dictionary of business and management

• interest — in·ter·est / in trəst; in tə rəst, ˌrest/ n [probably alteration of earlier interesse, from Anglo French, from Medieval Latin, from Latin, to be between, make a difference, concern, from inter between, among + esse to be] 1: a right, title, claim …   Law dictionary

• interest-rate risk — interest rate exposure The risk arising from changes in interest rates. In recent decades the different forms of interest rate risk have been the subject of much analysis, monitoring, and scrutiny. In the 1980s, for example, the savings and loan… …   Accounting dictionary

• interest-rate risk — interest rate exposure The risk arising from changes in interest rates. In recent decades the different forms of interest rate risk have been the subject of much analysis, monitoring, and scrutiny. In the 1980s, for example, the savings and loan… …   Big dictionary of business and management

• interest rate cap — Under a cap arrangement, the seller of the cap will make payments to the buyer if interest rates rise above an agreed rate. The payment to be made is calculated by reference to a notional principal sum over an agreed term. In return, the buyer… …   Law dictionary

• level playing field — ˌlevel ˈplaying field noun [singular] informal COMMERCE a situation in which different companies, countries etc can all compete fairly with each other because no one has special advantages: • Banks should be able to compete on a level playing… …   Financial and business terms

• Interest group democracy — was an attempt by the American President Franklin D. Roosevelt to create broad support for the New Deal by giving major interest groups at least part of what they wanted. In addition to aiding bankers, farmers, corporations, and the unemployed,… …   Wikipedia

• Interest — For other uses, see Interest (disambiguation). Interest is a fee paid by a borrower of assets to the owner as a form of compensation for the use of the assets. It is most commonly the price paid for the use of borrowed money,[1] or money earned… …   Wikipedia

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