SWEETENER
Special benefit or feature added to a debt instrument or preferred stock to make it more appealing to investors. Warrants and rights are two known forms of sweetener, enabling the holder to either change securities into stock at a later date or acquire shares lower than its market prices.
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Specific-Shares Method
Specific-shares method is a personal financial accounting whose purpose is to cut down realized capital gains for multiple stock or mutual fund pur ...
Voting Trust Certificate
Voting Trust Certificate is a document issued by the limited-life trust of a corporation, which is created to limit the control of a corporation to ...
Sample Selection Bias
Sample Selection Bias is a type of bias resulting from the selection of non-random data meant for statistical analysis.
Combined Loan to Value Ratio - CLTV Ratio
Ratio determining the default risk of a potential homebuyer if he would purchase a home using multiple mortgages. In general, creditors are willing ...
Contagion
Possibility a significant economic changes in a country will spread to other nations. It pertains to the spread of either an economic boom or econo ...
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Students, soon after your graduation, you need to enter the repayment phase. In other words, you have to start paying off your student loans. This ...
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Investments are what trading is all about. And knowing about the various a ...
Macroeconomics: Basic Concepts
The concepts involved in macroeconomics focus on three fields, including national output and income, unemployment, and inflation and deflation. The ...
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: Well Known Trading Instruments
Traders look at two primary factors when choosing the instruments they desire to trade: liquidity and volatility. Liquidity is the extent to which ...
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