When you need to borrow money, you usually go to a bank or a credit union. But when a bank needs to borrow money, where does it go? Thanks to the discount rate, they can go to the Federal Reserve for ...

In regulatory cost benefit analysis the discount rate translates future value to present terms. Regulatory costs, such as investments in pollution control equipment or redesigning nutrition labels, ...

The Day Bids Assigned a Clearing Price to the Discount RateThe $39 billion U.S. 10-year Treasury auction on October 7th ...

What is the difference between the fed funds rate and the discount rate? Robert 'Bob' Powell answers this question as part of Decoding Retirement's special segment, Ask Bob. Chris Ceder, Goldman Sachs ...

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 ...

The previous installment (#01) was an example where the AI misinterpreted the direction of a formula. This time, it is an example where the AI judged something as "dangerous" based solely on the ...

Eight of 12 Fed bank boards opposed discount rate change in December Fed policymakers overruled banks, cut policy rate by 0.25 percentage point Strong investment demand, tariff outlook may have ...

Requiring that the value of discounted cash earnings is near the Net Asset Value explains why REITs are generally priced near NAV. It makes sense for the market to assign less value to future growth ...