ICAHN LIFT
Term referring to increase in stock price in an investment. The term was conceived after well-known activist shareholder Carl Icahn’s act when he started to purchase shares in a firm. Icahn earned a reputation of creating value for the companies’ shareholders in which he is interested.
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It is a system that applies the same rate to all taxpayers regardless of their income bracket.
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Statistical averages that are fixed accordingly intended to catch up on imbalances on the data. Outliers, visible in the data sets will most likely ...
Civil Service Retirement System - CSRS
System establishing the retirement, disability, and survivor benefits for certain Federal employees. The Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) ...
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Nonprofit business organization researching, collating, and distributing information on management and the marketplace. A widely quoted private sou ...
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| 14:30 | Industrial Product Price Index | Mar | |
| 14:30 | New Housing Price Index | Mar | |
| 14:30 | Raw Materials Price Index | Mar | |
| 16:00 | Consumer Confidence | Apr | |
| 02:30 | PMI Manufacturing | Apr | |
| 02:30 | Tertiary Industry Index | Apr | |
| 02:30 | PMI Composite | Apr | |
| 08:00 | Public Sector Net Borrowing | Mar |
