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A financial intermediary that purchases receivables from a company. It is essentially a funding source that agrees to pay the company the value of the invoice less a discount for commission and fees.
What is a factor?
100
the measure of the output of a country. It is the value of all goods and services produced by a country within a given time period (usually one year).
What is GDP?
100
is a term used to describe behavior, very commonly used in behavioral economics. It suggests that human beings tend to operate in groups and are unwilling to go against the general consensus.
What is herding?
100
an accounting term used to denote anything a company owns which it can turn into goods and services.
What is inventory?
100
A business arrangement in which two or more parties agree to pool their resources for the purpose of accomplishing a specific task.
What is a joint venture?
200
a derivative which can be traded on financial markets. It is a contract that means the buyer (seller) is obligated to buy (sell) an asset at a pre-determined date at a pre-determined price.
What is a future?
200
a standardized set of rules and systems used by all firms with regards to their financial statements. All financial statements have to conform to it for them to be credible and believable.
What is GAAP?
200
a term referring to price spreads and the market value of assets. The other meaning of the term is how much an asset is reduced in value for calculating collateral levels.
What is a haircut?
200
A fee paid to a fund manager by investors. they are typically dependent upon the manager's performance over a given period and are usually taken in relation to a benchmark index.
What is incentive fee?
200
a high-risk bond that is rated BB or lower by one of the main ratings agencies. There is a reasonably high risk that the issuer of the bond will default on the payments.
What is a junk bond?
300
any form of currency that is in itself worthless, but because it has the backing of a government is deemed to have value. For example, the paper used to print US dollars is essentially worthless, but the dollar bill is worth money. (two words)
What is fiat money?
300
a term used in trading to assess the rate of change of the delta of an asset relative to the change in the price of the asset, and is used to analyze the movement of derivatives relative to the underlying value.
What is Gamma?
300
When two parties involved in the purchase of a good and service negotiate the price until both parties can mutual agree on a price.
What is to haggle?
300
A company or government is deemed to be this when it cannot pay its debts (i.e. is due to default).
What is insolvent?
300
A general increase in stock prices during the first month of the year.
What is January Effect?
400
He was a mathematician and the term applies to his number sequence. The sequence he invented is used in technical analysis to determine levels of support and resistance. The analysis used suggests that price trends will change around levels determined by this analysis.
What is fibonacci?
400
A model of optimality taking into consideration not only benefits less costs, but also the interaction between participants. It attempts to look at the relationships between participants in a particular model and predict their optimal decisions.
What is Game Theory?
400
A simplified derivative instrument that allows investors to hedge or speculate on economic events such as housing prices, commodity prices, interest rates, currencies and economic indicators.
What is a hedgelet?
400
A metric used to quantify the display of an advertisement on a web page.
What is impression?
400
A theory stating that a country's trade deficit will worsen initially after the depreciation of its currency because higher prices on foreign imports will be greater than the reduced volume of imports.
What is J Curve?
500
a term used to describe a firm that was once extremely popular, but has declined greatly in value.
What is a fallen angel?
500
An illegal practice whereby two or more market makers collectively attempt to influence and change the price of a stock. It is used by corrupt companies to affect stock prices so they can profit from the price movement.
What is ghosting?
500
A model identifying price factors according to the premise that price is determined both by internal characteristics of the good being sold and external factors affecting it.
What is hedonic pricing?
500
a trading term referring to the value of options. If an option is said to be this, then it has value. It does not mean you have made profit yet, because the profit has not been realized. However, it does mean that selling the option will give you profit. (might be more than one word)
What is In The Money?
500
An inventory strategy companies employ to increase efficiency and decrease waste by receiving goods only as they are needed in the production process, thereby reducing inventory costs. This method requires that producers are able to accurately forecast demand.
What is JIT (Just in time)?