Directors at two-thirds of the Federal Reserve's regional banks voted to leave the interest rate charged to commercial banks ...

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

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. She writes about strategic financial issues in higher education. Beyond the average tuition discount rate, schools are providing ...

The average discount rate at private colleges topped 50 percent this past academic year, according to a new study from the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO).

Massachusetts has some of the highest electric rates in the country, and every year, many residents struggle to pay their utility bills. To help to make energy more affordable, utilities offer ...

U.S. corporate pension funding surpluses improved in October thanks to rising discount rates that brought liability values down, according to the latest Milliman 100 Pension Funding index. Milliman ...

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 influence of temporal discounting on decision-making and self-control Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Milliman, Inc., a premier global consulting and actuarial firm, today released the results of its latest Milliman 100 Pension Funding Index (PFI), which analyzes the 100 ...