TROUBLED ASSET
Assets that are overpaid by banks including loans made to borrowers who can no longer fulfill their debt obligations. Often guaranteed by collateral, these are valued lower than the value of the loan itself.
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Return On Assets - ROA
ROA measures the profit a company generates as percentage of its total assets’ value.
Channel Stuffing
Deceptive business practice in which a firm inflates its sales and earnings futures by sending more inventory to retailers than it can sell to the ...
Actuarial Cost Method
A method employed by actuaries for the calculation of the periodic amount that a company has to pay for the coverage of the pension expenses. The t ...
Absolute Priority
It is a rule that says the order of payment when a company liquidates its asset—creditors first before the shareholders. This rule is commonl ...
Gadfly
Colloquial term for an investor criticizing a firm’s executives at the annual shareholders meeting. This shareholder outlines certain issues ...
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Digesting Financial Statements: Revenue
When it comes to reporting revenue, companies should pinpoint the perilous revenues, match reported revenues to the money at hand, and analyze and ...
Ethical Investing: Instruments for Ethical Investing
The investment instruments available to ethical investors are similar to those available to all other investors, including bonds, exchange-traded f ...
An Introduction to Student Loans
A college education is one of the most essential investment in a person’s life. Unfortunately, in this time and age, it has also become one o ...
Digesting Financial Statements: Filing
Companies need to file several financial reports in different periods with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
14A Prox ...
Connection of Inflation and Interest Rates
We cannot simply ignore the connectivity of inflation and interest rates. Both items are interrelated. So, whenever there is a news item about a co ...
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| 04:00 | Real GDP (YTD) | 3 quarter | |
| 04:00 | Fixed Asset Investment | Sep | |
| 04:00 | Industrial production | Sep | |
| 04:00 | Retail Sales | Sep | |
| 04:00 | Unemployment Rate | Sep | |
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| 08:00 | Wholesale Price Index | Sep | |
| 12:00 | Bundesbank Monthly Report |
