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How can I buy things with monthly payments in the US?

I am a new international student in the US. In our country we didn't have credit cards like in the US and this is a new system to me. If I get a new credit card in the US with a $2000 credit line/...
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Daily interest calculation on a 30/360 basis, considering payment occurs before schedule — how-to in Excel?

I'm setting up a payment spreadsheet for a loan just granted, and want to be able to make daily calculations of accrued interest. The debtor has been given a payment schedule with an interest only ...
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How are mortgage payments decided? [duplicate]

I always used to think that monthly mortgage payments had fixed proportion of interest payments and house payments (determined by rate and term). But, I recently heard that you start off with making ...
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Calculating amortisation payment amount, where first payment date differs from loan start date

I'm trying to reproduce the schedule, but I cant seem to get the same Payment and Interest for each month. The tricky part here is that the Loan start date is 9 Feb 2017 but the first payment is only ...
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Calculating the number of years before an investment with increasing savings reach a certain value

I want to calculate the number of years required before an investment reach a certain value assuming increased payments. Ignoring the increase of payments, I can calculate using NPER (Google Sheets, ...
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What is the formula for loan payoff with daily compounded interest and monthly payment?

My goal is to make a graph using this formula for all possible monthly payments. Let's say... Loans: 21750 Monthly Payment: 220 Daily Interest: 4.0% / 365 What formula would I use to get the total ...
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Monthly/Annual Payments Calculation with percentage increase to equal exact dollar amount over exact specified period

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this kind of a question, but here it goes. I have the following information: A = Total amount needed B = Number of periods (monthly, 12 payments of ...
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