PLUNGE PROTECTION TEAM - PPT
A colloquial name given to the Working Group on Financial Markets. It was created to make financial and economic recommendations to different sectors of the economy in times of economic turbulence. The team consists of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, the Chairman of the SEC and the Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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Liquidity Adjustment Facility
A tool in monetary policy where banks are allowed to borrow money through repurchase agreements, and to respond to liquidity pressures. The governm ...
Data Warehousing
Electronic storage of information in a business or corporation. It should be secure, reliable and easy to retrieve and manage. It originated in 198 ...
One-Tailed Test
A statistical test where the critical area of a circulation is one-sided so that it is either less than or greater than a specific value, but not b ...
Less-than-Truckload
A shipping service that carries small loads of freight, weight between partial and full truckload. The service is being offered by many large and n ...
Original Cost
It simply refers to the total cost associated in buying an asset.
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