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

A high discount rate causes loans to be more expensive and encourages people to save more money. This could be considered ...

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 ...

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 new regime of higher bond yields has transformed pension funding for defined benefit (DB) schemes in the G7, due to reduced liability valuations Even though credit spreads are close to 10 yr lows, ...