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1. | 1. ''Financial markets.'' | ||
Interest is 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. | 2. ''Financial markets.'' | ||
More generally, interest can be 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). | |||
3. | 3. ''Law.'' | ||
An interest is also a right or expectation in relation to identified property, usually falling short of outright ownership. | |||
For example, a minority interest in a business, or a security interest such as a lien. | For example, a minority interest in a business, or a security interest such as a lien. | ||
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Interest can also refer to a broader class of rights or expectations, not necessarily attached to any particular property. | |||
For example, the public interest. | For example, the public interest. | ||
Revision as of 11:00, 3 March 2019
1. Financial markets.
Interest is 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. Financial markets.
More generally, interest can be 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).
3. Law.
An interest is also a right or expectation in relation to identified property, usually falling short of outright ownership.
For example, a minority interest in a business, or a security interest such as a lien.
4.
Interest can also refer to a broader class of rights or expectations, not necessarily attached to any particular property.
For example, the public interest.
See also
- Compound interest
- Conflict of interest
- Conventional year
- Dual currency bond
- Earnings
- Gross interest
- Interest rate
- Interest rate differential
- Lien
- Minority interest
- NII
- Non-performing loan
- Paying agent
- Periodic
- PIK notes
- Present value
- Principal
- Public interest
- Riba
- Security
- Self-financing loan
- Simple interest
- Time value of money
- Yield
