The prime interest rate is linked to what the South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) has determined as the prevailing rate, also ...

A real interest rate is the difference between a nominal interest rate and the rate of inflation. Nominal interest rates are the rates set by financial institutions, such as banks and credit card ...

Whether effective and nominal rates can ever be the same depends on whether interest calculations involve simple or compound interest. While in a simple interest calculation effective and nominal ...

Nominal yield is the starting point for calculating a bond’s return. Also known as the bond’s coupon rate, is a fixed interest rate that a bond issuer agrees to pay to a bondholder until the ...

Former Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda signaled that the central bank has a lot of room to raise borrowing costs in ...

The Bank of Japan kept interest rates steady on Friday and revised up its assessment on consumption, signalling its ...

A BLOOMBERG article published on September 15 entitled "Funds pour into Southeast Asia as rate-cut cycle gets under way" ...

The Draft Law on the Protection of Financial Service Users was published today, as announced by the Governor of the National ...

This differs from discussing the nominal rate of return on a stock ... enterprise value-to-earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization and then comparing these results to ...

The Fed’s anticipated rate cut offers an opportunity to make some money moves that take advantage of the coming downward tilt ...

Nominal GDP Targeting ... there's a third thing in there, moderate long-term interest rates. But where do we see the Fed really coming to terms with this call for price stability?

Retail sales were unchanged in seasonally adjusted terms despite market expectations of a 0.3 per cent rise in nominal retail ... good news for the interest rate outlook. “We note that this ...