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''Interest rates - market rates.''


Collectively, the four large tech companies Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google (Alphabet), all listed on NASDAQ and currently (or formerly) believed by some market commentators to have strong prospects for future growth.
Any method of paying interest that is periodically refixed in line with the current market rate.


After the acronym was coined, Google's holding company became Alphabet Inc.
Floating rate interest is not fixed for the life of the issue, but is periodically reset according to a predetermined formula.


Floating rate debt, for example, carries an interest rate which will vary as market interest rates vary.


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More broadly, the market sector including these companies and other similar businesses.
There is a time lag between the setting of the rate for each tranche of interest at the ''start'' of the interest calculation period, and its payment at the ''end'' of the interest period.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[BAT stocks]]
* [[Basis swap]]
* [[FAAMGs]]
* [[Drop-lock bond]]
* [[FAANGs]]
* [[Exposure period]]
* [[NASDAQ]]
* [[Fixed debt]]
* [[Tech unicorn]]
* [[Fixed rate]]
* [[Venture capital]]
* [[Floating debt]]
* [[Floating exchange rate system]]
* [[Floating rate payer]]
* [[Standard variable rate]]
* [[Variable rate]]


[[Category:The_business_context]]
[[Category:Corporate_financial_management]]
[[Category:Financial_products_and_markets]]
[[Category:Technology]]

Revision as of 12:20, 31 March 2021

Interest rates - market rates.

Any method of paying interest that is periodically refixed in line with the current market rate.

Floating rate interest is not fixed for the life of the issue, but is periodically reset according to a predetermined formula.

Floating rate debt, for example, carries an interest rate which will vary as market interest rates vary.


There is a time lag between the setting of the rate for each tranche of interest at the start of the interest calculation period, and its payment at the end of the interest period.


See also