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discount_rate

discount rate

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discount rate (plural discount rates)

  1. (finance) An interest rate that a central bank charges depository institutions that borrow reserves from it.
  2. (finance) The interest rate used to discount future cashflows of a financial instrument; the annual interest rate used to decrease the amounts of future cashflows to yield their present value.

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