Interest

1. The amount, usually expressed as an annual percentage of the principal, charged for borrowing money, or earned from a fixed income investment or from a floating interest rate investment.
2. Any difference between the terminal value and the present value of a borrowing or an investment, often expressed as a money amount (though it can also be expressed as a percentage).

See also

• Conventional year
• Dual currency bond
• Earnings
• Gross interest
• Interest rate
• Interest rate differential
• Non-performing loan
• Paying agent
• Periodic
• Present value
• Principal
• Self-financing loan
• Simple interest
• Time value of money
• Yield