COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE
Collating and assessing information on competitors’ strong and weak points, legally and ethically speaking, to improve business decision-making. This can be categorized into two major types: tactical and strategic. Tactical focuses on shorter-term issues, seeking to provide input into matters including capturing market share or escalating revenues. Strategic pertains to longer-term matters including key risks and opportunities an enterprise faces. Opposite of corporate or industrial espionage.
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Multinational Corporation - MNC
A corporation that operates in different countries. These companies have offices and/or factories in several nations and have a centralized head of ...
Hard Sell
Sales practice denoted by forceful language. Hard sell is considered to be a high-pressure method, as it is designed to get a consumer purchase a g ...
Usury Laws
Usury laws are laws that regulate the amount of interest that may be imposed on a loaned fund or asset. The purpose of usury laws are to do away wi ...
Capital Saturation
An economic status in which actual income is big and is assumed to continue to bolster, causing the general public, huge companies and even public ...
60-Plus Delinquencies
Mortgage loan that is over 60 days past due on their debt payments. These are expressed as a percentage of a group of loans within a given time per ...
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Students, How Much Can You Afford to Borrow?
You are about to finish high school. The financial aid office of the university you are considering gave you a financial aid. You are also qualifie ...
Student Loans: Consolidating Private Loans
Fixed interest rates.
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Principles of Trading: Introduction
Trading is an active participation in the financial markets. Those who partake in buy-and-hold investing are called traders. Also called market pla ...
Introduction to Ethical Investing
Since time immemorial, investors look after better profits and income paying stocks. While many consider themselves as ethical investors, the commo ...
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