FINANCIAL SHENANIGANS
Acts that are designed to mask the true financial performance or position of a company. Financial shenanigans can range from relatively minor infractions involving creative interpretation of accounting rules to outright fraud over many years. In almost every instance, the revelation that a company’s stellar financial performance has been due to financial shenanigans rather than management prowess will have a calamitous effect on its stock price and future prospects. Depending on the scale and scope of the shenanigans, the repercussions can range from a steep sell-off in the stock to the company’s bankruptcy and dissolution.
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Pure Play
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Ultra ETF
Ultra ETF refers to a class of ETFs (or exchange-traded funds) that uses leverage in order to achieve double the return of a particular benchmark.< ...
Franchise Factor
The measurement of the impact on a company's price-earnings (P/E) ratio per unit growth in new investment. For example, a franchise factor of 3 ...
Option Pool
It refers to the shares of stock reserved for employees of a private company and is possibly issued at a later time.
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| 08:00 | Prelim Machine Tool Orders | Mar | |
| 10:00 | New Yuan Loans | Mar | |
| 11:00 | Retail Sales | Feb | |
| 13:00 | MPC Member Andy Haldane Speaks | ||
| 15:00 | MPC Member Silvana Tenreyro Speaks | ||
| 16:30 | Overview of business prospects, according to the Bank of Canada | 1 quarter | |
| 16:30 | Bank of Canada Interest Rate Decision | 1 quarter | |
| 19:00 | FOMC Member Eric Rosengren Speaks | ||
| 19:01 | 10-y Bond Auction | Apr |
