QUALIFIED ANNUITY
An financial product that accepts and grows funds, and is funded with pre-tax dollars. "Qualified" is a descriptor given by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to indicate that the qualified annuity may be eligible for tax deduction. When a distribution is made, it is subject to income tax.
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Anomaly
A term which describes an incidence wherein the actual results, under a certain set of assumptions, is different from the one which is expected. An ...
Pure Play
A publicly traded company that is focuses on only one product or industry. These companies are popular with specific types of active investors who ...
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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Defining Inflation
Inflation is the sustained increase in the overall level of products and services in an economy over a particular time period. Expressed as percent ...
How Do You Intend to Live?
How do you want to live?
You are no longer happy with the current state of your home. So you are mulling the idea of moving out or remode ...
Digesting Financial Statements: Cash Flow
Companies generate money from borrowers and/or borrow money from creditors. Next, firms purchase assets and/or finance projects and programs. Then, ...
Digesting Financial Statements: Long-Lasting Liabilities
Long-lived liabilities refer to obligations which are due more than a year. Some examples of long-term debt include convertible bond and capital le ...
Principles of Trading: Introduction
Trading is an active participation in the financial markets. Those who partake in buy-and-hold investing are called traders. Also called market pla ...
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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 |
