Microsoft Excel 2010 can be a huge help for a business when it comes to crunching the businesses numbers. Excel has a number of financial functions revolving around the periodic interest rate ...

The U.S. central bank’s decision to hold interest rates steady in June was unanimously supported, but officials were starting ...

Find a company's periodic interest rate by dividing interest expense by total debt and multiplying by 100. To annualize a quarterly rate, multiply the periodic interest rate by four. Use income ...

A bill to limit the interest rate on credit cards has been introduced in Congress. The banking industry says capping rates would have unintended consequences.

To calculate an APR, lenders multiply the periodic interest rate by 365 days. Credit cards typically have a fixed APR, while some loans may have a variable APR.

President Trump says Fed rate cuts would save the government as much as $900 billion a year in interest payments on its debt.

"Considerable uncertainty" around timing, size, and duration of tariffs' potential impacts divides Federal Reserve officials.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will tell the Senate banking committee the Fed isn't "in a hurry" to resume its interest rate cutting campaign.

Not all interest rates work the same. Your choice among these two main types come down to how you save and how you borrow. Here's what to know about fixed and variable rates.

In the interim, the periodic interest payments you’ll get while you hold the TIPS will be equal to the coupon rate multiplied by the value of the inflation-adjusted principal.

While a 10% rate cap may sound appealing, experts say the intricacies of how it is structured are important, with consideration for periodic interest rates, fees and the repayment structure.