Federal Funds Rate
INTEREST RATE IS THE RATE AT WHICH LOANS AND ADVANCES ARE GIVEN BY THE COMMERCIAL BANKS TO GENERAL PUBLIC. INTEREST RATE IS THE RATE AT WHICH LOANS AND ADVANCES ARE GIVEN BY THE COMMERCIAL BANKS TO GENERAL PUBLIC.
The discount rate is the rate of interest that Federal Reserve Banks charge member banks for overnight loans. Currently the rate is.75%. There are rumors that the rate will rise a certain number of basis points near the end of February, 2014.
Many different ways, but the most common way would be from giving out loans and collecting interest from them. Loans such as mortgages, business loans and more.
When banks give out loans, there is an increase in the money circulation. This usually increases the rate of inflation and needs to be checked by the body in charge of monetary policy.
Banks use excess reserves to make loans to customers so that they can make profits on the interest.
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They charge a much higher interest on loans than they pay on deposits.
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PLR stands for Prime Lending Rate. This is the rate of interest at which banks grant loans to their best customers. Usually the PLR is comparable and has very little difference between banks. The PLR is usually very similar among banks
Banks let customers borrow the money that you keep in your savings account. Since they offer you an interest on the money you keep in your account and they need to make a profit from the loans they grant, they usually charge more interest. This interest is usually atleast 2-3% greater than the interest they offer on deposit accounts.
By paying out less in interest on deposits than it earns in interest on loans
They loan out the money in their customers' accounts and charge a higher interest rate on the loans.
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Banks let customers borrow the money that you keep in your savings account. Since they offer you an interest on the money you keep in your account and they need to make a profit from the loans they grant, they usually charge more interest. This interest is usually atleast 2-3% greater than the interest they offer on deposit accounts.
Federal Funds Rate
The central bank does not directly determine the rates but the rates that it fixes like the Repo rate, Cash reserve ratio etc have a direct impact on the rates banks charge. When the repo rate is less and CRR is less then banks charge a lesser rate of interest and vice versa.