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'' | 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 == | |||
* [[Assets]] | |||
* [[Capital]] | |||
* [[Compound interest]] | |||
* [[Conflict of interest]] | |||
* [[Conventional year]] | |||
* [[Dual currency bond]] | |||
* [[Earnings]] | |||
* [[Equity]] | |||
* [[Financial asset]] | |||
* [[Financial liability]] | |||
* [[Gross interest]] | |||
* [[Interest rate]] | |||
* [[Interest rate differential]] | |||
* [[Lien]] | |||
* [[Minority interest]] | |||
* [[NII]] | |||
* [[Non-performing loan]] | |||
* [[Paying agent]] | |||
* [[Periodic]] | |||
* [[PIK notes]] | |||
* [[Present value]] | |||
* [[Principal]] | |||
* [[Public interest]] | |||
* [[Return]] | |||
* [[Riba]] | |||
* [[Security]] | |||
* [[Self-financing loan]] | |||
* [[Simple interest]] | |||
* [[Time value of money]] | |||
* [[Yield]] | |||
[[Category:Cash_management]] | |||
[[Category:Financial_products_and_markets]] | |||
[[Category:Liquidity_management]] |
Revision as of 12:52, 4 August 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
- Assets
- Capital
- Compound interest
- Conflict of interest
- Conventional year
- Dual currency bond
- Earnings
- Equity
- Financial asset
- Financial liability
- Gross interest
- Interest rate
- Interest rate differential
- Lien
- Minority interest
- NII
- Non-performing loan
- Paying agent
- Periodic
- PIK notes
- Present value
- Principal
- Public interest
- Return
- Riba
- Security
- Self-financing loan
- Simple interest
- Time value of money
- Yield