BLOW UP
Slang term for complete and abject failure of an individual, bank, company, development project, or hedge fund. Although commonly used to describe a hedge fund’s downfall, it is not limited to hedge funds.
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Sir Allen Stanford is a former banker. He is most famous for undergoing investigation due to allegations of securities fraud that involved $8 billi ...
Cost Accounting
Accounting process seeking to know a firm’s production costs by determining and evaluating the input costs of every production step, as well ...
Book Runner
The lead manager in the issuance of new equity, debt or securities instruments. More than one book runner can manage a security issuance, in which ...
Debit Spread
Two options with different market prices that an investor trades on the same underlying security. The higher priced option is purchased and the low ...
Shadow Banking System
The Shadow Banking System is the financial intermediaries that are present in the facilitation of the creating credit across the global financial s ...
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An Introduction to the Basics of Economics
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Ethical Investing: Instruments for Ethical Investing
The investment instruments available to ethical investors are similar to those available to all other investors, including bonds, exchange-traded f ...
What is the Standard Moving Cost?
You concluded remodeling is expensive upon considering all important factors. So you decided to move to another house instead. But, is moving less ...
A Guide to Income Tax: Overlooked Credits and Cuts
The US tax code changes from time to time, and majority of taxpayers cannot name at least three of the most common deductible expenditures. On that ...
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| 15:15 | BOC Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Wilkins Speaks | ||
| 16:30 | Leading Index (Conference Board) | Jun | |
| 17:00 | FOMC Member Raphael W. Bostic Speaks | ||
| 20:00 | ECB's Jens Weidmann Speaks | ||
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