FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK ACT
Passed by the Hoover administration in 1932, which was designed to encourage home ownership by providing a source of low-cost funds for member banks to extend mortgage loans.
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Coskewness
Statistical measure used in computing the symmetry of a variable’s probability distribution relative to another variable. Given that all thin ...
Rule Of 78
A method of allocating the interest charge on a loan across its payment periods. Under the Rule of 78, periods are weighted by comparing their nume ...
Gilts
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| Time | Country | Indices | Period |
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| 09:00 | KOF Economic Barometer | Mar | |
| 09:00 | CPI | Mar | |
| 10:30 | Net Lending to Individuals | Feb | |
| 10:30 | M4 Money Supply | Feb | |
| 10:30 | Mortgage Approvals | Feb | |
| 11:00 | Consumer Confidence | Mar | |
| 14:00 | CPI | Mar | |
| 14:00 | Harmonized CPI | Mar | |
| 16:00 | Pending Home Sales | Feb |
