rate of interest

Example Sentences

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In a financial panic, Bagehot prescribes, a central bank should lend freely to solvent banks against good collateral at a high rate of interest.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

Someone offering you a higher fixed rate of interest on bonds, at a moment when the economy is in free fall, is someone offering you free money.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 24, 2025

His annual salary means that since the beginning of September - when the new rate for the year ahead came into force - he is being charged the highest possible rate of interest of 7.3%.

From BBC • Sep. 15, 2024

The effective rate of interest on U.S. mortgage debt was just 3.8% at the end of last year.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 24, 2024

One way was by lending money to Christians, often at a high rate of interest.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz