Global Markets
Asian currency commonly sold to purchase higher yielding assets
Yen
Money manager who returned 66% annually before fees for over 20 years
Jim Simons
The largest stock exchange in the world by market cap
NYSE
This nation is the top gulf oil producer
Saudi Arabia
The specific term for a 10% drop in a major index from its most recent all-time high
Correction
This global exchange produced the highest returns in 2025
South Korea's KOSPI
Warren Buffet's mentor and author of 'The Intelligent Investor'
Benjamin Graham
This index measures market volatility and is offered referred to as the markets 'fear gauge'
VIX
The US recently removed sanctions on this nation
Venezuela
The North Sea crude benchmark
Brent crude
Europe's largest publicly listed company
ASML
Person famous for breaking the Pound/Deutsche Mark link in the 1990s
George Soros/Druckenmiller
US inflation peaked at this figure during the COVID era
9.1%
This country's natural gas industry was upended by Iranian attacks
Qatar
This term defines a foreign company with shares listed on US exchanges
ADR
This country's currency recently sold off, requiring US intervention after a shock loss in elections
Argentinian Peso
Known as the king of junk bonds
Michael Milken
The stock market crash known as 'Black Monday' occurred in this year.
1987
This country's representatives were in Caracas prior to Maduro being captured
China
This greek measures an options price change for every $1 change in price of the underlying security
Delta
This national debt collapse led to the fall of LTCM in 1998
Soviet Union/Russia
Fed chair known for crushing inflation in the 1970s by hiking rates up to 20% by the early 1980s
Paul Volcker
This money manager traded CDS during the COVID pandemic making 2.6 bn dollars off of 27 million
Bill Ackman
A 2008 short squeeze termed 'the fruit machine' briefly made this company the most valuable in the world
Volkswagen
This model is commonly used to price options with the founders both eventually working at LTCM
Black-Scholes