Floating exchange rate — Floating rate may also refer to a floating interest rate applied to a loan or other lending product. A floating exchange rate or a flexible exchange rate is a type of exchange rate regime wherein a currency s value is allowed to fluctuate… … Wikipedia
Floating rate note — Floating rate notes (FRNs) are bonds that have a variable coupon, equal to a money market reference rate, like LIBOR or federal funds rate, plus a spread. The spread is a rate that remains constant. Almost all FRNs have quarterly coupons, i.e.… … Wikipedia
Floating Battery of Charleston Harbor — The Floating Battery of Charleston Harbor was an ironclad vessel that was constructed by the Confederacy in early 1861, a few months before the American Civil War ignited. Apart from being a marvel to contemporary Charlestonians, it was a… … Wikipedia
Floating currency — A floating currency is a currency that uses a floating exchange rate as its exchange rate regime. A floating currency is contrasted with a fixed currency.In the modern world, the majority of the world s currencies are officially but not really… … Wikipedia
Price, George — ▪ 1996 U.S. cartoonist (b. June 9, 1901, Coytesville, N.J. d. Jan. 12, 1995, Englewood, N.J.), as a longtime contributor (1926 95) to The New Yorker magazine, depicted the absurdities of human nature in distinctive drawings that were… … Universalium
Floating Rate Notes — Als Floater (Floating Rate Note, FRN) bezeichnet man eine Anleihe mit variabler Verzinsung, die an einen Referenzzinssatz wie zum Beispiel alle 3/6 Monate an den Libor oder Euribor gekoppelt wird. In manchen Fällen wird zusätzlich ein… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Floating Rate notes — Als Floater (Floating Rate Note, FRN) bezeichnet man eine Anleihe mit variabler Verzinsung, die an einen Referenzzinssatz wie zum Beispiel alle 3/6 Monate an den Libor oder Euribor gekoppelt wird. In manchen Fällen wird zusätzlich ein… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Floating Stock — Shares of a company that are freely available for purchase by investors on the secondary market. The more shares of floating stock are available, the less volatile a company’s stock price is likely to be, and vice versa. Floating shares are … Investment dictionary
Fixed Price — The leg of a swap that is based on an unchanging interest rate. A plain vanilla interest rate swap is an exchange of two streams of cash flows. Both streams are based on the same amount of notional principal, but one stream pays interest on that… … Investment dictionary
Inverse floating rate note — An inverse floating rate note, or simply an inverse floater, is a type of bond or other type of debt instrument used in finance whose coupon rate has an inverse relationship to short term interest rates (or its reference rate). With an inverse… … Wikipedia
