SUPERVISORY CAPITAL ASSESSMENT PROGRAM - SCAP
Financial stress test which evaluates the capital buffers of American banking organizations. The Federal Reserve System conducted this test in 2009, during the financial crisis between 2008 and 2009, to gauge the financial strength of 19 biggest financial institutions surging forward in the United States.
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Oil Price to Natural Gas Ratio
It is a mathematical ratio which compares the prices of natural gas and crude oil. In the oil price to natural gas ratio formula, the oil price is ...
Budget Control Act - BCA
Federal statute, signed into law by US President Barack Obama, which was enacted in response to the Debt Ceiling Crisis in 2011. The Act seeks to i ...
Medicare Doughnut Hole
The range of total prescription drug spending in the Medicare Part D program where all of the costs must be covered from the participants’ ow ...
Proprietary Trading
Proprietary trading is when a firm trades for direct gain instead of commission dollars. The firm has essentially decided to profit from the market ...
Common Law Property
System used in determining property ownership owned during marriage. The property purchased by one spouse belongs solely to that individual while p ...
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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 ...
Principles of Trading: Well Known Trading Instruments
Traders look at two primary factors when choosing the instruments they desire to trade: liquidity and volatility. Liquidity is the extent to which ...
Getting to Know The Federal Reserve
The world’s largest economy in the world is the economy of the United States and running it, keeping it in check, and making sure that it doe ...
Principles of Trading: Automating Strategies
An automated trading system basically lets a computer to do the work of a trader by setting certain rules for entering and exiting trades. That com ...
Starting Your Own Small Business: Choosing What You Want to Sell
Some people say that the only real way to get rich is by starting your own business. However, this is untrue; there are a lot of reasons to start y ...
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