Financial History
The Unites States abandoned this federal policy in 1971 removing the tie between gold and the US dollar.
What is the Gold Standard?
Following its September meeting, this central bank announced its first interest rate cut since 2020, lowering the policy rate by 50 basis points.
What is the U.S. Federal Reserve?
This financial metric is used to measure a company’s profitability relative to its revenue and is calculated as Net Income ÷ Revenue.
What is Profit Margin?
This company, known for its role in global payment processing, trades under the ticker V.
What is Visa?
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What is Shift Space?
This stock market index was introduced in 1896 and is one of the most well-known indicators of the U.S. economy.
What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
This technology company saw its stock price surge dramatically at the start of 2024, driven by advancements in AI and semiconductor technology.
What is NVIDIA (NVDA)?
This formula calculates the percentage return on an investment relative to its initial cost.
What is Return on Investment (ROI)?
The ticker symbol for this luxury electric vehicle manufacturer, headquartered in California, is LCID.
What is Lucid Motors?
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What is Ctrl D?
This central banking system was created in 1913 to regulate U.S. monetary policy.
What is the Federal Reserve?
This major investment bank’s CEO stepped down in 2023 after leading the company for more than a decade and will likely retire by the year’s end.
Who is James Gorman (Morgan Stanley)?
This financial formula estimates a company’s intrinsic value based on projected dividends and a discount rate:
(Look At Tab 2)
What is the Gordon Growth Model (Dividend Discount Model)?
The stock ticker for the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturer, based in Taiwan.
What is TSM (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company)?
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What is Ctrl Shift 5?
This 1944 international agreement pegged world currencies to the U.S. dollar.
What is the Bretton Woods Agreement?
In September 2024, more than 30,000 workers from this aerospace manufacturer went on strike after overwhelmingly rejecting a new contract proposal.
What is Boeing?
This model, often used to estimate the cost of equity, is expressed as:
(Look at tab 3)
What is the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)?
This cosmetics and beauty company, known for brands like Maybelline and Lancôme, trades under the ticker LRLCY.
What is L'Oréal?
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What is Alt W V G?
The 1930 act, infamous for worsening the Great Depression, that raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act?
This Swedish bank announced that its Chief Financial Officer, Masih Yazdi, would step down, with a search for his replacement underway.
What is SEB (Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken)?
This advanced formula, used in options pricing, involves calculating the price of a European call or put option:
(Look at tab 4)
What is the Black-Scholes Model?
The stock ticker for the world’s largest retailer, headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas.
What is WMT (Walmart)?
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What is Alt H O I?