EXCESS RESERVES
Capital reserves held by a bank or financial institution above the required amount by creditors, internal controls, or regulators. For commercial banks, it is gauged against standard reserve requirement fixed by central bank authorities. These ratios set the minimum liquid deposits including cash that should be held at a bank.
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Investments made by an entity based in one country, into an entity based in another country.
Robert W. Fogel
An American economic historian and scientist who won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Economics, along with Douglass North, for his methods of explaining ec ...
Breadth Thrust Indicator
Technical indicator which determines the market momentum by computing the number of advancing issues on an exchange and dividing it by the aggregat ...
Cost of Funds
Interest rate a financial institution pays for using the funds in their business. The difference between the cost of funds and the interest rate im ...
Bearer Share
An equity security that is completely possessed by anyone who holds the tangible stock certificate. The issuing firm neither records the person who ...
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