PUNITIVE DAMAGES
Legal recompense that is charged as punishment for a wrong or offense committed by the payor. Punitive damages are awarded by a court of law in a lawsuit. They are often required in order to make up for a perceived shortfall in compensatory damages and are merely intended to indemnify the plaintiff.
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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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Gauging Inflation
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December 31 is fast approaching. The next thing you know you need to file your income tax return. So before you get swarmed by the hustle and bustl ...
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Analysts and investors look at the working capital and its trends to measure a company’s financial performance. This metric determines a busi ...
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| Time | Country | Indices | Period |
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| 09:00 | CPI | Apr | |
| 11:00 | 10-y Bond Auction | Apr | |
| 11:00 | Consumer Confidence | ||
| 14:00 | CPI | Apr | |
| 14:00 | Harmonized CPI | Apr | |
| 01:01 | BRC Shop Price Index | Apr | |
| 01:30 | Unemployment Rate | Mar | |
| 01:50 | Retail Sales | Mar | |
| 01:50 | Industrial Production | Apr |
