Liquid Asset Explained
What is a Liquid Asset?
What is a Liquid Asset?
What is a Capital Asset?
In finance, the term ‘Capital Asset’ refers to any type of asset that is purchased or used to generate a profit. As a result of this definition, capital assets differ from normal assets which are typically used for consumption or personal enjoyment.
What does APR mean?
APR (annual percentage rate) is an economic variable used to describe the current interest rate for a whole year.
APRs are attached to credit cards to signify the interest payments attached to their specific line of credit. The APR of a credit card is outlined in the card’s disclosure statement. Many cards have variable APRs which will attach higher or lower interest rates depending on the spending habits of the card user and the items being purchased
The annual percentage rate is the percentage of interest paid for a 12-month period, meaning, if an individual possesses an APR of 10% their monthly interest percentage is .833%. The monthly interest is the amount that the issuer will charge to the remaining unpaid balance per month. For example, a card with an 18 percent APR has a monthly rate of 1.5%. If the cardholder has an unpaid balance of $500, the 1.5% is attached to the remaining balance and the holder is forced to pay an additional $7.50 each month.
The APR is listed as a percentage and typically attached to a credit card to describe the additional payments (used to satisfy the individual’s interest obligation) that the borrower is forced to pay to for the use of credit.
The APR is a finance charge expressed as an annual rate and takes the form of two specific definitions: the nominal APR and the effective APR. The nominal APR is the simplified interest rate delivered as a yearly percentage while the effective APR is the compound interest rate, which includes a fixed fee.
The nominal APR is calculated as the rate delivered for a payment period multiplied by the number of payment periods in that specific year.
The APR is delivered as an annualized rate rather than the monthly fees or rates that are typically applied to mortgages or other long-term loans.
Factors that Affect an APR
The APR on a credit card will fluctuate based on a number of factors and variables, the most critical of which is the holder’s credit history. Additionally, credit card APRs may change over time as interest rates, the Federal Reserve rate and the prime rate fluctuate to control inflation and to encourage borrowing.
Low APR Credit Cards
As a result of these fluctuations and factors, low APR credit cards today may not appear to be low APR credit cards in 5 or 10 years. Given the instability of the credit market and other negative macroeconomic issues present today, low APR credit cards contain an APR between 8 and 12%. Very rarely will an individual obtain low APR credit cards with a rate below 10 percent; however, the majority of card issuers will offer 0 APR for a fixed amount of time.
Those individuals with higher credit scores will be awarded with a lower APR. Lower APR credit cards are awarded to an individual with a higher credit score because of the mitigated risk of default—the issuer of the card views the individual as a safe investment and therefore grants the individual with the ability to possess 0 APR credit cards or credit cards with low APRs. The variables that calculate the APR can fluctuate upwards to 50%, meaning some cards may carry an APR of 50% while others may have an APR of 0.
The APR is only attached to the remaining balance of a credit card. If the individual fails to pay the complete balance owed and opts instead to pay the minimum balance, the APR will be attached to the remaining balance and then carried over to the following month.
What is a Capital Gain?
What does Amortization mean?
What is Equity?
The term ‘equity’ refers to interest or the residual claim of a class of investors in assets once all liabilities have been fulfilled.
What is the FOREX Market?
The FOREX Market is the financial realm in which the trade and exchange of foreign currency systems takes place; the purchase(s) or sales of specific currency systems undertaken by individuals are conducted with regard to the fluctuation of respective fluctuation experienced by tradable and exchangeable currency – although its technical name is the ‘Foreign Exchange Market’, a multitude of traders is commonly refer to it as the FOREX Market.
What is the Virtual FOREX Market?
How Does the FOREX Market Work?
FOREX Market Legality
What is an Amortization Loan Calculator?
An amortization loan calculator is a resource offered by lending institutions that enables a user (individual or entity who has taken out a loan or mortgage) to estimate the monthly payments attached to their particular loan.
The amortization loan calculator will display (subsequent to the satisfaction of a few variables) the remaining payments remaining on their particular loan or mortgage. Through the delivery of an amortization schedule, the amortization loan calculator enables the individual or entity who took out the loan to observe the expected payments until maturity. By viewing this information, the user of the amortization loan calculator is able to develop an appropriate budget to ensure that they meet the obligations of their particular loan. Additionally, through the delivery of such information, a user of an amortization loan calculator can observe the inner-workings of their loan and more specifically how their payments affect the principal and interest of the loan.
An amortization loan calculator is a free resource offered by the majority of lending institutions in the United States. The resource is free and easy to use and requires only the basic information attached to the particular loan or mortgage.
The loans associated with an amortization schedule typically possess a maturity date of 20-30 years. As a result of this long-term maturity schedule, the payments made towards both the principle and the interest would be difficult to evaluate without the inclusion of an amortization loan calculator.
In addition to revealing the expected monthly or periodic payments, the amortization loan calculator will reveal the percentage and total amount of the payments as they coordinate to paying off the interest and principal of the loan. Following the input of the required information, the amortization loan calculator will reveal the expected payments to maturity in a streamlined amortization schedule. The table, which effectively is known as the amortization table, will deliver each month’s payment and reveal how each payment is used to satisfy the interest and principal obligations of the loan.
What information is needed in an Amortization Loan Calculator?
In addition to this generic information, some amortization calculators will offer the user optional information, such as: the monthly additional principal prepayment amount, the one-time prepayment amount, and the annual principal prepayment amount of the loan.
When the above information is entered into the calculator (amortization calculators are typically offered on lending websites) the resource will construct a table that is unique to the user based on the loan information given.