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  2. Interest Compounded Daily vs. Monthly: Which Is ... - AOL

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    Your bank might compound interest daily, for example, and credit it to your balance monthly. Examples of Savings Account Interest Compounded Daily vs. Monthly SmartAsset: interest compounded daily ...

  3. What is compound interest? How compounding works to ... - AOL

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    Compound interest is the interest earned on that higher balance. Often described as earning interest on your interest, compounding is done on a schedule — such as daily, monthly or annually.

  4. Compound interest - Wikipedia

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    Richard Witt's book Arithmeticall Questions, published in 1613, was a landmark in the history of compound interest. It was wholly devoted to the subject (previously called anatocism), whereas previous writers had usually treated compound interest briefly in just one chapter in a mathematical textbook. Witt's book gave tables based on 10% (the ...

  5. Annual percentage yield - Wikipedia

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    This is a reasonable approximation if the compounding is daily. Also, a nominal interest rate and its corresponding APY are very nearly equal when they are small. For example (fixing some large N ), a nominal interest rate of 100% would have an APY of approximately 171%, whereas 5% corresponds to 5.12%, and 1% corresponds to 1.005%.

  6. Effective interest rate - Wikipedia

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    The effective interest rate (EIR), effective annual interest rate, annual equivalent rate (AER) or simply effective rate is the percentage of interest on a loan or financial product if compound interest accumulates in periods different than a year. [1] It is the compound interest payable annually in arrears, based on the nominal interest rate ...

  7. Credit card interest - Wikipedia

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    In general, credit cards available to middle-class cardholders that range in credit limit from $1,000 to $30,000 calculate the finance charge by methods that are exactly equal to compound interest compounded daily, although the interest is not posted to the account until the end of the billing cycle. A high U.S. APR of 29.99% carries an ...

  8. Rule of 72 - Wikipedia

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    The rule number (e.g., 72) is divided by the interest percentage per period (usually years) to obtain the approximate number of periods required for doubling. Although scientific calculators and spreadsheet programs have functions to find the accurate doubling time, the rules are useful for mental calculations and when only a basic calculator ...

  9. Mortgage calculator - Wikipedia

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    The latter amount, the interest component of the current payment, is the interest rate r times the amount unpaid at the end of month N–1. Since in the early years of the mortgage the unpaid principal is still large, so are the interest payments on it; so the portion of the monthly payment going toward paying down the principal is very small ...