INTERNATIONAL CURRENCY MARKETS
A market where participants worldwide can buy, sell, exchange, and speculate on several currencies. These are comprised on banks, commercial firms, central banks, hedge funds, investment management companies, retail forex brokers, and investors.
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Foreign Direct Investment - FDI
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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Options Transaction Via Day Trading
Given so many concepts and terminologies in the foreign exchange market, anyone outside the field of finance may have a hard time coping up. Howeve ...
Buying a Home: Getting Into the Escrow Process
You write an offer and the seller accepts it. Deal closed. It is about time to go through the escrow process. Why does a buyer need to undergo this ...
Introduction to Banking
Banking is an integral part of any financial system. In order to keep your money safe and start building wealth, you need a place where your funds ...
Defining Inflation
Inflation is the sustained increase in the overall level of products and services in an economy over a particular time period. Expressed as percent ...
Health Savings Account: Eligibility
We discussed the fundamental information regarding HSAs. Now, we shall tackle the qualifications for opening an HSA.
Any person can utili ...
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01:30 | Unemployment Rate | Mar | |
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