Chapter 5 : Interet rates Page161 Interest rate quotes and adjustments 5-1. Your bank is offering you an account that will pay 20% interest in total for a two-year deposit. Determine the equivalent discount rate for a period length of a. Six months. b. One year. c. One month. a. Since 6 months is [pic] of 2 years‚ using our rule [pic] So the equivalent 6 month rate is 4.66%. b. Since one year is half of 2 years [pic] So the equivalent 1 year rate is 9.54%. c. Since
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Part I – Relation between BI rate and banks interest rate A. BI rate We take the BI rate‚ as the variable being estimated‚ from the period of 2006 until 2012. We then take the average rate in each year‚ rather than taking the rate in each month. As a note to the year 2012‚ we take the average rate that ranges only from January until August. Figure 1. BI rate (Percent per Annum) Source : Indonesian Financial Statistics‚ Bank of Indonesia‚ http://www.bi.go.id/web/en/Statistik/Statistik+
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America’s Credit Card Debt By Paul C.Wright Global research‚ March 03‚ 2010 March 03‚ 2010 Region: USA Theme: Global Reseach When the U.S. economy began to melt down in 2007 and entered a rapid period of decline in 2008‚ all eyes were fixed on the subprime mortgage crisis. Though the mortgage crisis‚ triggered by spurious lending practices and unprecedented risky investment bank practices‚ was undoubtedly the dominant factor affecting the American consumer in 2008‚ credit card debt and default
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government in the country’s own currency is often considered "risk free". However‚ risks can be more suffered when it comes to foreign national debt Firstly‚ ‚ the market interest rate tends to be unstable and different for debts of different countries‚ which is a practical problem to both the debt in the country’s own currency and the foreign purchasers. Secondly‚ policies in the other countries can be unstable which can be anything but risk-free to the foreign purchasers. Examples of this phenomenon
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N of RISK-ADJUSTED DISCOUNT RATES and LIABILITY BETA RUSSELL E. BINGHAM T H E H A R T F O R D FINANCIAL SERVICES G R O U P Table of Contents Page 2 3 5 7 8 11 12 13 14 14 15 16 17 17 18 Subject Abstract 1. Summary 2. Total Return Model 3. After-Tax Discounting 4. Derivation of Risk-Adjusted Discount Rate and Liability Beta Figure l : Baseline Risk / Return Line vs Leverage 5. Liability Beta Figure 2: Equity vs Liability Beta Figure 3: Equity Beta vs Risk-Adjusted Discount Rate (After-Tax)
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The capital market supply long term funds to corporations‚ government entities and other users of capital. The general type of debt instrument of the capital market is the bond. Bonds usually pay interest to the holder once in every six months (semi annually) and pay the principal or face amount upon maturity. Treasury notes and treasury bonds: The long term bond issues of the treasury that are available to investors are the treasury notes and the treasury bonds. Treasury notes have original fixed
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FACTORS AFFECTING INTEREST RATE ON LISTED NEPALESE BANKS AND FINANCE COMPANIES By AAKASH PARAJULI Shanker Dev Campus T.U. Regd. No. 5-1-33-1-99 Campus Roll No. : 313/062 A Thesis Submitted to: Office of the Dean Faculty of Management Tribhuvan University In partial fulfillment of the requirement for the Degree of Master of Business Studies (M.B.S) Kathmandu‚ Nepal July‚ 2009 RECOMMENDATION This is to certify that the Thesis Submitted by: AAKASH PARAJULI Entitled: FACTORS
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1) A $100 deposit today that earns an annual interest rate of 10% is worth how much at the end of two years? Assume all interest received at the end of the first year is reinvested the second year. 2) An investment of $100 today is worth $116.64 at the end of two years if it earns an annual interest rate of 8%. How much interest is earned in the first year and how much in the second year of this investment? 3) Which of the following investments has a larger future value? A $100 investment
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1. Describe the path of interest rates in Canada since WWII and specifically the past 2 decades. Over the past several decades the path of the interest rates were able to be recorded and charted. Strictly after World War II‚ interest rates seemed to drop for a bit‚ speculated that after the hype of the Second World War‚ there was not enough jobs for the returning soldiers‚ causing a recession. When the 50s arrived‚ the Government began to invest more into national security. This spending concerned
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What is the rule of 72? Well… here’s the equation: Years to double = 72 / Interest rate DO NOT reread this equation. The rule of 72 is a hard rule to explain. I will do my best to try to explain it. The answer to ‘rule of 72’ gives us a number of years. This number of years tells us how long it takes to double our money. Let’s say you have 100 dollar. The ‘rule of 72’ helps us figure out how long it will take to have 200 dollars. Scenario 1: You have invested your 100 dollars in a 3%
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