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What Is Expectations Theory? Predicting Short-Term Interest Rates

By Itho December 17, 2003

[ad_1] What Is Expectations Theory? Expectations theory attempts to predict what short-term interest rates will be in the future based on current long-term interest rates. The theory suggests that an investor…

Duration Definition and Its Use in Fixed Income Investing

By Itho November 27, 2003

[ad_1] What Is Duration? Duration measures how long it takes, in years, for an investor to be repaid a bond’s price through its total cash flows. It is also used…

Demand: How It Works Plus Economic Determinants and the Demand Curve

By Itho November 26, 2003

[ad_1] What Is Demand? Demand is a consumer's willingness to buy something, and demand is generally related to the price that consumer would have to pay. Generally speaking, demand…

Depreciated Cost: Definition, Calculation Formula, Example

By Itho November 26, 2003

[ad_1] What Is Depreciated Cost? Depreciated cost is the value of a fixed asset minus all of the accumulated depreciation that has been recorded against it. In a broader economic sense,…

What Is Disposable Income, and Why Is It Important?

By Itho November 26, 2003

[ad_1] What Is Disposable Income? Disposable income is the amount of money that an individual or household has to spend or save after federal, state, and local taxes and other…

Excess Returns: Meaning, Risk, and Formulas

By Itho November 20, 2003

[ad_1] What Are Excess Returns? Excess returns are returns achieved above and beyond the return of a representation of the stock market. They depend on a designated investment return comparison…