Education Articles
More people than ever are taking control of their finances and exploring the world of investing. But, the stock market can be a tricky and daunting thing to navigate if you don’t know what you’re doing.
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Financial Glossary
List of Education Articles
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What is an Earnings Report?
An earnings report is a document that all publicly traded companies are legally required to produce each quarter to outline the financials of the...
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What is a Recession?
A recession constitutes a significant decline in economic activity for a prolonged period. Economic shock, inflation, deflation, debt & bubbles...
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What is Debt-to-Equity (D/E) ratio?
Debt-to-equity ratio (D/E) is used to evaluate a company’s financial leverage. It's calculated by dividing a company’s total liabilities by its...
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What is an Investing Platform?
An investing platform is an online service that allows you to buy, sell and hold funds.
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What is Liability?
A liability is something a person or company owes, most commonly a sum of money.
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What is a Correction?
A correction is a decline of 10% or more in the price of a security from its most recent peak price.
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What is Quantitative Easing?
Quantitative easing enables central banks to purchase predetermined amounts of government bonds and other assets to help inject money into the...
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What is a Mutual Fund?
A mutual fund is a financial vehicle made up of a pool of money that has been collected from a number of investors to invest in securities.
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What is a Venture Capitalist?
A venture capitalist is a person who invests in young companies to aid the process of growth and for the potential return on investment if the...
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What is a Hedge Fund?
A hedge fund is an actively managed investment pool that is managed using a wide range of strategies.
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What is Market Capitalization?
Market capitalization is the total dollar market value of a company’s outstanding shares of stock.
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What is GDP?
Gross Domestic Product or GDP is the total monetary or market value of the goods and services produced within a country during a specific time period.
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What is an NFT?
A non-fungible token (NFT) is a cryptographic asset that contains unique identification codes and metadata to distinguish them from each other.
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What is an REIT?
A Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) is a company that owns, operates or finances income-generating real estate.
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What Insider Trading?
Insider trading is the act of trading in a public company’s stock by someone who has non-public information about that stock.
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What is a ‘Unicorn’?
A unicorn is a term used within the venture capital industry to describe a privately owned startup company that has a value of more than $1 billion.
