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Interest Rate

Interest Rate

The amount a lender charges for lending your money, or a borrower pays you for borrowing your money.

The amount a lender charges for lending your money, or a borrower pays you for borrowing your money.

More terms

Alpha

The percentage by which an investor outperforms a relevant benchmark.

Investment Return

The amount of money made or lost from an investment. Usually expressed as a percentage.

Maturity value

What's the maturity value of a bond?

Arithmetic Mean

The sum of a set of numbers added together and then divided by the total amount of numbers in that set.

Securities

Bonds and stocks.

Holding Period Return

The amount of money generated by an asset during the time that it was held by an investor..

Junk Bond

A form of debt investment that carries higher risk because of the likelihood that the issuer will default.

Venture Capital

A type of financing that investors provide to startups, who sometimes announce getting said financing in TechCrunch, to big fanfare.

Base rate

What's the base rate?

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