The phrase "affect interests" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how something influences or has an impact on someone's interests or concerns.
Example: "The new policy changes may affect interests of local businesses, prompting them to adapt their strategies."
Alternatives: "influence interests" or "impact interests".
We explored the contribution of sex hormones to career-related interests, in particular studying whether prenatal androgens affect interests through psychological orientation to Things versus People.
Publication of the paper does not affect interests, financial or otherwise, of any organization, neither employment nor consultancy or shared ownership, of any of the authors.
This could affect interest payments and asset values, leaving investors and borrowers out of pocket.
It will, like the Bundesbank, use repurchase operations (buying securities and selling them back later) to affect interest rates.
"There are other things that affect interest rates, but point number one is where is the economy going," said Paul A. Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve.
But this argument rests on how government deficits affect interest rates, and the relationship between government deficits and interest rates varies.
Planned budget cuts will not affect interest-bearing student group accounts after Dean for Student Life Larry G. Benedict pledged to fund interest that would have been diverted.
"We do recognize the hiatus" may affect interest in "Mad Men," Ms. Schupack said, so "we're treating the premiere differently, as an event".
Academics differ about just how much bigger budget deficits and higher public debt affect interest rates, but most agree that they do.
The "Mundell-Fleming" framework shows how various government policies, such as higher spending, will affect interest rates, economic output and thus, indirectly, the current account.
The U.S. Treasury also influences the working of the monetary system through its management of the national debt (which can affect interest rates) and by changing its own deposits with the Federal Reserve banks (which can affect the volume of credit).
