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Facility provided by the Fed enabling member banks to borrow reserves against collateral in the form of governments or other acceptable paper.



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Discount Arbitrage

Discount Arbitrage

A riskless arbitrage in which a discount option is purchased and an opposite position is taken in the underlying security. The arbitrageur may either buy a call at a discount and simultaneously sell the underlying security (basic call arbitrage) or maybuy a put at a discount and simultaneously buy the underlying security (basic put arbitrage). See also Discount.


Discount Points

Discount Points

The fee associated with the note rate for your loan, the more discount points you pay the lower the rate you can buy, the fewer you pay, the higher your rate. If the rate is high enough, the loan is priced above par and these premium points are available to pay closing costs creating a no or low fee loan.


Discount bond

Discount bond

Debt sold for less than its principal value. If a discount bond pays no coupon, it is called a zero coupon bond.


Discount Interest

Discount Interest

Interest at a beginning of the loan. For example if you take out a one-year loan of $100 at a discount interest rate of 10%, you would receive $90 at the outset.


Accretion (of a discount)

Accretion (of a discount)

In portfolio accounting, a straight-line accumulation of capital gains on a discount bond in anticipation of receipt of par at maturity.


Further Suggestions

Accrued market discount
Bank discount basis
dividend discount model
Straight Discount
Discount period
Dividend Discount Model (DDM)
bond discount
Discount broker
Unamortized bond discount
Pure discount bond
Average discount rate
discount rate
Discount
discount yield
Forward discount
Discount period
Discounted payback period rule
Forward discount
Discounted dividend model (DDM)
Discount securities
Deep discount bond
Rediscount
Risk adjusted discount rate
Volume discount
Discounted basis


 
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