What is credit interest on free credit balance for stock marginal accounts?

Question: is it calculated on the remaining buying power? why do brokers offer this incentive?

Answer:
Because they want you to have a margin account.

Just stay away from margin. If you don't have enough cash, you are still better off buying options than using margin.

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