market rates
Current trading values
Market rates are the prevailing prices or fees determined by supply and demand rather than by regulation or fixed agreement.
The term appears most often in financial contexts—interest rates, wages, rents: We're paying below market rate for this apartment, The bond yields at market rates.
To charge or pay market rate is to match what others are charging or paying for comparable goods or services.
- bond yieldReturn on fixed-income securities
- interest rateCost of borrowing money
- basis pointsHundredths of a percent
- capital flowsMovement of investment money
- cost of capitalRequired return on investment
central bank · demand curve · bid · quoted · offer · unemployment rate · LIBOR · inflation rate · prevailing · trade balance · prime rate · fiscal policy · GDP growth · price · monetary policy · floating rate · fixed income · going rate
- market pricesstock prices, bond prices, share prices, commodity prices, gold prices
- pricingpricing, discount price, overpricing, discounts, overcharge
- legal feeslegal fees, attorney fees, legal costs, fees, billing
- salary infopay grades, base pay, annual salary, total compensation
market ratesfixed prices
Unchanging predetermined charges
price controls · tariff rates · price caps · price ceilings · price floors