AGGREGATOR
A party integrated to the secondary mortgage market that buys mortgages, belonging to financial institutions, which will be then securitizes into a mortgage-backed securities (MBS). The aggregators earn their profit through buying individual mortgages at a lesser price and then sells the pooled MBS at a higher value.
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An index which measures the equity market performance of the emerging market indexes of Brazil, China, India, and Russia. One of MSCI's Regiona ...
Stock Market Crash
Rapid and precipitous decline in stock prices or economic conditions, which can be the result of collapse of long-term speculative bubble, economic ...
Overhead Ratio
A comparison of operating expenses and total income that is not directly related to the production of a good or service. A firm's operating exp ...
European Financial Stablisation Mechanism - EFSM
Permanent fund created to provide financial assistance to EU member states in times of financial difficulties. In essence, it generates money throu ...
Alston D. Correll
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