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Prime rate

Prime rate is an administered interest rate on loans quoted by leading banks and usually set by a vote of each bank’s board of directors; the interest rate that is usually though by the public to be the best (lowers) rate for loans and that a bank quotes to its biggest and best customers (principally large corporations).

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