EARLY ADOPTER
Individual or business who purchases or uses a new product or technology before most other consumers. Early adopters are likely to pay more for that product or technology than others, but accepts the premium if using the product improves efficiency, cuts down cost, escalates market penetration, or simply increases their social status.
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Linearly Weighted Moving Average
A moving average that designates a greater weighting on recent price data than the common moving average does. To get the average, every closing pr ...
Compensating Balance
Minimum balance a customer must maintain in a bank account, normally non-interest bearing accounts. It is often used to offset some cost a bank inc ...
Tax Loss Carryforward
Negative profit in tax, which occurs when an individual or business’ expenses exceed their revenues. This is done by reducing the overall tax ...
Historical Cost
A measure of value used in accounting in which the price of an asset on the balance sheet is based on its nominal or original cost when acquired by ...
Check Conversion
Reformatting service which allows banks to exchange paper checks into electronic ones, then send those to the receiving bank. Offered by banking me ...
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Buying a Home: Choosing the Best Location
The first consideration when buying a new house is choosing the place where you want to live, regardless if this will serve as an investment or upg ...
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 ...
Digesting Financial Statements: System
A financial statement serves as an avenue for assimilating the overall health of a business. Let’s illustrate the four key steps in a cash-ba ...
Principles of Trading: Charting
Where can you see market movements? Charts. Thanks to technology, traders can view as many market information as they can in one go. But not all ch ...
Retirement Planning: Maximizing the Power of Compounding
“The early bird catches the worm.” – William Camden
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| 02:00 | MI Inflation Gauge | Dec | |
| 02:30 | Retail Sales | Nov | |
| 03:30 | CPI | Dec | |
| 03:30 | PPI | Dec | |
| 11:30 | Sentix Investor Confidence | Jan | |
| 15:15 | Housing Starts | Dec | |
| 16:00 | MPC Member Silvana Tenreyro Speaks | ||
| 17:30 | Overview of business prospects, according to the Bank of Canada | 4 quarter | |
| 17:30 | Bank of Canada Interest Rate Decision | 4 quarter |
