How to Use discount rate in a Sentence

discount rate

noun
  • That does not include that just the change of the discount rate.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2022
  • As a result, the call was charged at the discount rate.
    oregonlive, 22 Nov. 2022
  • To subscribe to the Free Press at discount rates, click here.
    Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 24 Mar. 2024
  • The discount rate is clearly stated in bold at the top of the agreement.
    Kyle Westaway, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • But most of the time there is a tighter focus on the outlook for earnings and the discount rate.
    James MacKintosh, WSJ, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The greater the risk of an investment, the higher the discount rate, and the lower the present-day value.
    Jesse Barron, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • In simple terms, the lower the Treasury yield, the lower the discount rate.
    Dan Runkevicius, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • To subscribe to the Free Press at discount rates and read lots of short stories plus some long ones, click here.
    Detroit Free Press, 10 Mar. 2024
  • That reduces the discount rate and makes the pension hole even bigger.
    The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
  • The result is a nominal discount rate of 4.8% and a real rate of 3.1%.
    The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The break-even ages were 79 without using a discount rate and 84 using it.
    Robert Powell, USA TODAY, 6 June 2018
  • One way to look at it is that the government has a very low discount rate for its own cash flow for taxes.
    Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 25 June 2021
  • Trump’s discount rate was 7%; currently the rate is 3%.
    Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 1 Sep. 2022
  • At a ten-per-cent discount rate, one life now would be worth a million in a mere century and half.
    Paul Bloo, The New Yorker, 9 July 2021
  • Kohl’s and JCPenney topped the list with the highest overall discount rate at 66.3 percent.
    Michelle Darrisaw, Southern Living, 16 Nov. 2017
  • Real yields are a key part of the discount rate applied to future earnings.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Saba's choice of discount rate was a major point of contention.
    Ryan Finley, Forbes, 26 May 2022
  • The discount rate, typically 15% to 25% percent, gets applied to the per-share price of the new investor.
    Kyle Westaway, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
  • At the same time, the school is looking to increase its discount rate to around 37% from 31%, to compete with peers dangling discounts of their own.
    Melissa Korn, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Under a 3% discount rate, for instance, a dollar today would be worth 97 cents in a year.
    Maxine Joselow, Scientific American, 24 Aug. 2021
  • The blooms join a range of misshapen produce sold by the retailer at discount rates, part of a program to reduce waste.
    Fox News, 3 Aug. 2018
  • Then, as the market cooled, the discount rate slowly began rising again.
    John Walkup, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021
  • In August 2007, the Fed cut its discount rate as the first brushfires of the financial crisis were burning.
    Paul Vigna, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2020
  • The Cowen analysts used a discount rate of 10% to compute the present value of their free cash flow forecasts for Amazon.
    Hersh Shefrin, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The discount rate is comprised of two major elements: (1) the risk-free rate of return and (2) the risk profile of the specific stock.
    James Berman, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The discount rate is the sum of two factors, the risk-free interest rate, and and equity risk premium.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2018
  • If the real interest rate is lower and looks likely to stay that way, discount rates will fall, too.
    The Economist, 7 Oct. 2017
  • In turn, that hurt tech stocks whose future cash flows are worth less in today’s terms when a higher discount rate is applied.
    Caitlin McCabe, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2022
  • The two firms have been embroiled in negotiations around the merchant discount rates — also known as interchange fees — charged by Amex at the point of sale.
    Rachel Ventresca, Fortune, 6 June 2024
  • But the decline in r* implies that the three percent discount rate is too high, and by using that too-high factor, economists are underestimating the SCC.
    James H. Stock, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2021

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