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These companies negotiate drug prices and manage prescription benefits for insurers.
What are pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs)
This technology lets businesses rent computing power over the internet.
What is cloud computing?
This animal represents a rising stock market.
What is a bull?
This term describes a sustained increase in the general price level.
What is inflation?
This movie-theater chain was halted repeatedly as meme stocks surged in May 2024.
What is AMC Entertainment?
This federal agency approves new drugs before they reach the U.S. market.
What is the Food and Drug Administration or FDA?
This cyberattack holds encrypted files hostage until the victim pays.
What is ransomware?
Companies return profits to shareholders through this payment.
What is a dividend?
This inflation measure tracks prices paid by urban consumers.
What is the Consumer Price Index or CPI?
Trading as DJT, this Truth Social parent was paused repeatedly for volatility in October 2024.
What is Trump Media & Technology Group?
This lower-cost drug has the same active ingredient as its brand-name counterpart.
What is a generic drug?
This business model offers a free basic version and charges for premium features.
What is freemium?
This order sets the maximum price an investor will pay per share.
What is a buy limit order?
Government spending and taxation are tools of this economic policy.
What is fiscal policy?
A June 2024 NYSE glitch briefly showed this Buffett-associated company’s Class A shares down nearly 100%.
What is Berkshire Hathaway?
This inactive treatment serves as a comparison in drug trials.
What is a placebo?
A platform becomes more valuable as more people join through this effect.
What is a network effect?
Do one of these 2-for-1, and you double the shares outstanding while halving the price per share.
What is a stock split?
This term describes slowing inflation while prices continue to rise.
What is disinflation?
This headphone maker, whose ticker matches its name, was halted for volatility in July 2024 amid Roaring Kitty speculation.
What is Koss?
Drugmakers face this revenue plunge when legal protections expire and cheaper competitors enter the market.
What is a patent cliff?
This noncash compensation expense is often excluded from tech companies’ adjusted earnings but can dilute shareholders.
What is stock-based compensation?
This is the difference between a stock’s highest bid and lowest asking price.
What is the bid-ask spread?
Short-term bond yields exceed long-term yields in this shape of the yield curve.
What is an inverted yield curve?
Trading as HKD, this Hong Kong-based company surged after its July 2022 NYSE IPO, with repeated volatility halts.
What is AMTD Digital?