The bank discount rate is a calculation of the interest investors earn on short-term instruments such as Treasury bills.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. She writes about strategic financial issues in higher education. Beyond the average tuition discount rate, schools are providing ...

Massachusetts has some of the highest electric rates in the country, and every year, many residents struggle to pay their utility bills. To help to make energy more affordable, utilities offer ...

By Ann Saphir Jan 6 (Reuters) - Directors at two-thirds of the Federal Reserve's regional banks voted to leave the interest rate charged to commercial banks for emergency loans unchanged ahead of last ...

The average discount rate at private colleges topped 50 percent this past academic year, according to a new study from the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO).

The share of mortgage borrowers paying discount points doubled from 2021 through 2023, with the increase larger among consumers with lower credit scores, a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau study ...

We show that firms' nominal required returns to capital (i.e., their discount rates) are sticky with respect to expected inflation. Such nominally sticky discount rates imply that increases in ...

WASHINGTON, June 8 (Reuters) - Investors waiting for the Federal Reserve to raise the premium it charges for emergency bank loans to pre-crisis levels could be waiting around a long time -- perhaps ...

The influence of temporal discounting on decision-making and self-control Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his ...

SPRINGDALE -- A proposal to give senior citizens a break on their water rates drew interest and support from aldermen, but generated some pushback from the head of the Springdale Water Utilities.