AAA
Credit rating agencies' highest possible rating given to the bonds of an issuer. Issuer who posses a AAA rating has an exceptional creditworthy degree and can fulfill its financial commitments with ease. Rating agencies such as Fitch ratings and Standard & Poor are using the AA nomenclature for indication of the highest credit quality, while Aaa is used by Moody's.
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VPP
Volumetric Production Payment (VPP) is a structured investment in which the owner of an oil and gas interest is selling a specific volume productio ...
Value Line Index
Value Line Index refers to a stock index that consists of about 1,675 companies from the New York Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, ...
eXtensible Business Reporting Language - XBRL
Standard developed to improve the method financial data is conveyed, making exchanging of business information easier. It is a type of XML, a speci ...
Perfect Competition
A market structure where the following five standards are met:
All firms sell an same product;
All firms are price tak ...
Cardboard Box Index
Index measuring industrial production by using the number of cardboard boxes to evaluate purchases of consumer goods. Acts as an industrial indicat ...
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