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https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cryptocurrency.asp
Cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency What Is a Cryptocurrency? A cryptocurrency is a digital or virtual currency that is secured by cryptography, which makes it nearly impossible to counterfeit or double-spend. Many cryptocurrencies are decentralized networks based on blockchain technology—a distributed ledger enforced by a disparate networ...
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Cryptojacking
Cryptojacking What Is Cryptojacking? Cryptojacking is a type of cyberattack in which a hacker co-opts a target's computing power to illicitly mine cryptocurrency on the hacker's behalf. Cryptojacking can target individual consumers, massive institutions, and even industrial control systems. The malware variants involve...
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CryptoRuble
CryptoRuble What is CryptoRuble The CryptoRuble is a digital currency currently in development, commissioned by Russian President Vladimir Putin. It likely won't be a cryptocurrency in the way that Bitcoin or Ethereum are, as it would be issued by the government and not mined. The value of the CryptoRuble is identical ...
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Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange – CSCE
Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange – CSCE What Was the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange? The Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange (CS&CE) was a commodities exchange established in September 1979 to facilitate commodity futures trading. The exchange had its roots in the Coffee Exchange, which was established in New York City ...
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Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA)
Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) What Is a Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA)? A commodity trading advisor (CTA) is an individual or firm that provides individualized advice regarding the buying and selling of futures contracts, options on futures, or certain foreign exchange contracts. Commodity trading advisors require a...
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Customer to Customer (C2C)
Customer to Customer (C2C) What Is Customer to Customer (C2C)? Customer to customer (C2C) is a business model whereby customers can trade with each other, typically in an online environment. Two implementations of C2C markets are auctions and classified advertisements. C2C marketing has soared in popularity with the ar...
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Currency Transaction Report (CTR)
Currency Transaction Report (CTR) What Is a Currency Transaction Report (CTR) A currency transaction report (CTR) is a bank form used in the United States to help prevent instances of money laundering. This form must be filled out by a bank representative who has a customer requesting to deposit or withdraw a currency ...
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https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cumulative_interest.asp
Cumulative Interest Definition
Cumulative Interest Definition What Is Cumulative Interest? Cumulative interest is the sum of all interest payments made on a loan over a certain period. On an amortizing loan, cumulative interest will increase at a decreasing rate, as each subsequent periodic payment on the loan is a higher percentage of the loan’s pr...
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https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cumulative_preferred_stock.asp
Cumulative Preferred Stock
Cumulative Preferred Stock What Is Cumulative Preferred Stock? Cumulative preferred stock is a type of preferred stock with a provision that stipulates that if any dividend payments have been missed in the past, the dividends owed must be paid out to cumulative preferred shareholders first. This is before other classes...
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Credit Union National Association (CUNA)
Credit Union National Association (CUNA) What is the Credit Union National Association? The Credit Union National Association (CUNA) is the largest national trade organization representing the interests of credit unions in the United States. Understanding the Credit Union National Association (CUNA) The Credit Union Na...
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Cuban Peso (CUP)
Cuban Peso (CUP) What Is the Cuban Peso (CUP)? CUP is the currency abbreviation for the Cuban peso, or "national peso" is one of the two official currencies used in Cuba. The Cuban peso is the national currency of Cuba and is the primary currency used by Cuban nationals as well as the currency in which most Cubans rece...
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Cup and Handle Definition
Cup and Handle Definition What Is A Cup And Handle? A cup and handle price pattern on a security's price chart is a technical indicator that resembles a cup with a handle, where the cup is in the shape of a "u" and the handle has a slight downward drift. The cup and handle is considered a bullish signal, with the right...
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Curb Trading
Curb Trading What Is Curb Trading? Curb trading occurs outside of general market operations, commonly through computers or telephones after the official exchanges have closed. As opposed to trading on official exchanges such as the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) or the NASDAQ Stock Market. The practice is also known as...
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Currency Band
Currency Band What is a Currency Band? A currency band is a currency regulation imposed by a government or central bank that specifies both a price floor and a price ceiling. Between these two specified prices, the currency can float, but at those limits the currency price will stop floating. Key Takeaways A currency...
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Currency Binary Option
Currency Binary Option What Is a Currency Binary Option? Currency binary options offer an all-or-nothing fixed payoff based on an exchange rate in the forex market when the option expires, which can be as little as five minutes after buying the option. Binary options are often used as a means to speculate on currencies...
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Currency Depreciation
Currency Depreciation What Is Currency Depreciation? Currency depreciation is a fall in the value of a currency in terms of its exchange rate versus other currencies. Currency depreciation can occur due to factors such as economic fundamentals, interest rate differentials, political instability, or risk aversion among ...
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Currency Peg
Currency Peg What Is a Currency Peg? A currency peg is a policy in which a national government sets a specific fixed exchange rate for its currency with a foreign currency or a basket of currencies. Pegging a currency stabilizes the exchange rate between countries. Doing so provides long-term predictability of exchange...
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https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/currency-risk-sharing.asp
Currency Risk Sharing
Currency Risk Sharing What Is Currency Risk Sharing? Currency risk sharing is a way of hedging currency risk in which the two parties of a deal or a trade agree to share in the risk from exchange rate fluctuations. Investors or companies that have assets or business operations across national borders are exposed to cur...
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Currency Substitution
Currency Substitution What is Currency Substitution? Currency substitution is when a country uses a foreign currency in lieu of, or in addition to, their domestic currency, primarily due to the greater stability of that foreign currency. Key Takeaways Currency substitution is when a country uses a foreign currency in ...
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Currency Translation
Currency Translation What Is Currency Translation? Currency translation is the process of converting one currency in terms of another; often in the context of the financial results of a parent company's foreign subsidiaries into its functional currency, or the currency within the primary economic environment in which a...
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Currency
Currency What Is Currency? Currency is a medium of exchange for goods and services. In short, it's money, in the form of paper or coins, usually issued by a government and generally accepted at its face value as a method of payment. Currency is the primary medium of exchange in the modern world, having long ago replace...
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Currency Internationalization
Currency Internationalization What is Currency Internationalization? Currency internationalization is the widespread use of a currency outside the borders of its country of issue. The level of currency internationalization for a currency is determined by the demand other countries have for that currency. Such currencie...
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Currency Basket
Currency Basket What Is a Currency Basket? A currency basket is comprised of a mix of several currencies with different weightings. It is often used to set the market value of another currency, a practice commonly known as a currency peg. Colloquially, a currency basket is also referred to as a currency cocktail. Under...
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Currency Carry Trade
Currency Carry Trade What is a Currency Carry Trade? A currency carry trade is a strategy whereby a high-yielding currency funds the trade with a low-yielding currency. A trader using this strategy attempts to capture the difference between the rates, which can often be substantial, depending on the amount of leverage ...
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Currency Forward Definition
Currency Forward Definition What Is a Currency Forward? A currency forward is a binding contract in the foreign exchange market that locks in the exchange rate for the purchase or sale of a currency on a future date. A currency forward is essentially a customizable hedging tool that does not involve an upfront margin p...
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Current Account Savings Account (CASA)
Current Account Savings Account (CASA) What Is a Current Account Savings Account (CASA)? A current account savings account (CASA) is aimed at combining the features of savings and checking accounts to entice customers to keep their money in the bank. It pays very low or no interest on the current account and an above-a...
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Current Dividend Preference
Current Dividend Preference What is Current Dividend Preference? Current dividend preference is a safety feature of preferred shares, whereby holders of such shares are entitled to receive dividends before common shareholders. Current dividend preference means that preferred shareholders have priority or preference ove...
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Current Index Value
Current Index Value What Is Current Index Value? The term current index value refers to the most current value for the underlying indexed rate in a variable rate loan. Variable rate loans rely on the indexed rate and a margin to calculate the fully indexed rate that a borrower is required to pay. This value should refl...
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Current Liquidity
Current Liquidity DEFINITION of Current Liquidity Current liquidity is the total amount of cash and unaffiliated holdings compared with net liabilities and ceded reinsurance balances payable. Current liquidity is expressed as a percentage, and is used to determine the amount of an insurance company’s liabilities that c...
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Current Account
Current Account What Is the Current Account? The current account records a nation's transactions with the rest of the world—specifically its net trade in goods and services, its net earnings on cross-border investments, and its net transfer payments—over a defined period of time, such as a year or a quarter. According ...
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Current Exposure Method (CEM)
Current Exposure Method (CEM) What Is the Current Exposure Method (CEM)? The current exposure method (CEM) is a system used by financial institutions to measure the risks around losing anticipated cash flows from their derivatives portfolios due to counterparty default. The current exposure method highlights the replac...
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Current Income
Current Income What Is Current Income? Current income refers to cash flows that are anticipated in the immediate to short-term. Current income investing is an investing strategy that seeks to identify investments that pay above-average distributions. Common current income sources include dividends and interest payments...
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Current Population Survey
Current Population Survey What Is the Current Population Survey? Current Population Survey is a statistical survey that is jointly sponsored by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the U.S. Census Bureau (Census) on a monthly basis. It is the primary source for U.S. labor force statistics. The survey includes ...
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Current Portion of Long-Term Debt (CPLTD)
Current Portion of Long-Term Debt (CPLTD) What Is the Current Portion of Long-Term Debt? The current portion of long-term debt (CPLTD) refers to the section of a company's balance sheet that records the total amount of long-term debt that must be paid within the current year. For example, if a company owes a total of $...
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Current Price
Current Price What Is Current Price? The current price is the most recent selling price of a stock, currency, commodity, or precious metal that is traded on an exchange. It is the most reliable indicator of that security's present value. In the case of a bond, the current price is often quoted as 10% of par or face val...
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https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/currentratemethod.asp
Current Rate Method Definition
Current Rate Method Definition What Is the Current Rate Method? The current rate method is a method of foreign currency translation where most items in the financial statements are translated at the current exchange rate. When a company has operations in other countries, it may need to exchange the foreign currency ear...
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Current Yield
Current Yield What Is the Current Yield? Current yield is an investment's annual income (interest or dividends) divided by the current price of the security. This measure examines the current price of a bond, rather than looking at its face value. Current yield represents the return an investor would expect to earn, if...
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https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/curtesy.asp
Curtesy
Curtesy What is Curtesy? Curtesy is a common law right of a husband to the estate and property of his deceased wife. Also known as statutory share, the rights apply to the man if a child was born during the marriage. Key Takeaways Curtesy is a husband's right to the estate and property of his deceased wife, if a chil...
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https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/curve-steepener-trade.asp
Curve Steepener Trade
Curve Steepener Trade What Is a Curve Steepener Trade? A curve steepener trade is a strategy that uses derivatives to benefit from escalating yield differences that occur as a result of increases in the yield curve between two Treasury bonds of different maturities. This strategy can be effective in certain macroeconom...
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https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/custodialcare.asp
Custodial Care
Custodial Care What Is Custodial Care? Custodial care is non-medical care that helps individuals with their activities of daily living (ADL), such as eating and bathing. Custodial care for an individual is generally recommended by authorized medical personnel, but providers of custodial care are not required to be medi...
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Custodian
Custodian What Is a Custodian? A custodian or custodian bank is a financial institution that holds customers' securities for safekeeping to prevent them from being stolen or lost. The custodian may hold stocks or other assets in electronic or physical form. Since they are responsible for the safety of assets and securi...
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Customer Information File (CIF)
Customer Information File (CIF) What Is a Customer Information File (CIF)? A customer information file (CIF) is an electronic file that stores all pertinent information about a customer's personal and account information. The customer information file (CIF), which contains a CIF number, allows the business to view its ...
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Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) What Is Customer Relationship Management (CRM)? Customer relationship management (CRM) refers to the principles, practices, and guidelines that an organization follows when interacting with its customers. From the organization's point of view, this entire relationship encompasses ...
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Cut-Through Clause
Cut-Through Clause What Is a Cut-Through Clause? A cut-through clause is a reinsurance contract provision that allows a party, other than the ceding company and reinsurance company, to have rights under the agreement. Cut-through clauses are often triggered by specific events, such as when a ceding company becomes inso...
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Cutting a Melon
Cutting a Melon What Is Cutting a Melon? Cutting a melon is a phrase used when a company decides to issue an extra dividend that is above and beyond the original schedule of dividend payouts, which will be distributed to some or all of its shareholders. This additional dividend may come in the form of cash, stocks, or ...
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Cape Verde Escudo (CVE)
Cape Verde Escudo (CVE) What Is CVE? CVE is the ISO 4217 currency code for the Cape Verde escudo, the official national currency of Cape Verde. The Cape Verde Escudo (CVE) subunit is called the centavo. The dollar symbol ($) is used in lieu of a decimal point. Therefore, 20 escudo is written as 20$00. The Banco de Cabo...
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Cyber and Privacy Insurance
Cyber and Privacy Insurance What Is Cyber and Privacy Insurance? A cyber and privacy insurance coverage policy may provide companies with protection from losses resulting from a data breach or the loss of electronically-stored confidential information. Cyber and privacy insurance policies are designed to protect a comp...
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Cyber Monday
Cyber Monday What Is Cyber Monday? Cyber Monday is an e-commerce term referring to the Monday following the U.S. Thanksgiving weekend. As brick-and-mortar stores do with Black Friday, online retailers usually offer special promotions, discounts, and sales on this day. Meanwhile, traditional retailers offer exclusive, w...
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https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cybersecurity.asp
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity What Is Cybersecurity? Cybersecurity refers to the measures taken to keep electronic information private and safe from damage or theft. It is also used to make sure electronic devices and data are not misused. Cybersecurity applies to both software and hardware, as well as information on the internet, and...
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Cyberslacking
Cyberslacking What is Cyberslacking? Cyberslacking refers to an employee’s use of work computers and other resources during work hours for non-work-related purposes. When an employee is cyberslacking, they will be using the employer's devices, internet connection, or other resources for personal affairs and even entert...
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Cycle Billing
Cycle Billing What Is Cycle Billing? Cycle billing is the practice of invoicing different customers based on a schedule rather than billing all accounts at once on a single date. Statements are prepared and sent out at varying intervals, spreading out the company’s workload and making it easier for it to keep track of ...
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The Celler-Kefauver Act
The Celler-Kefauver Act What Is the Celler-Kefauver Act? The Celler-Kefauver Act was a law passed by the U.S. Congress in 1950 to prevent certain mergers and acquisitions (M&A) from creating monopolies or otherwise significantly reducing competition in the United States. Occasionally referred to as the Anti-Merger Act,...
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Cash Basis Taxpayer
Cash Basis Taxpayer What Is a Cash Basis Taxpayer? A cash basis taxpayer is a taxpayer who reports income and deductions in the year that they are actually paid or received. Cash basis taxpayers cannot report receivables as income, nor deduct promissory notes as payments. Understanding Cash Basis Taxpayer All individua...
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Check Conversion
Check Conversion Check conversion is a reformatting service offered by banking merchants. Check conversion allows banks to convert paper checks into electronic ones and then send them to the appropriate receiving bank. The electronic check is forwarded via the automated clearing house (ACH). Breaking Down Check Convers...
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Credit Repair
Credit Repair What Is Credit Repair? Credit repair is the process of fixing poor credit standing that may have deteriorated for a variety of different reasons. Repairing credit standing may be as simple as disputing mistaken information with the credit agencies. Identity theft, and they damage incurred, may require ext...
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DAGMAR
DAGMAR What Is DAGMAR? DAGMAR (defining advertising goals for measured advertising results) is a marketing model used to establish clear objectives for an advertising campaign and measure its success. The DAGMAR model was introduced by Russell Colley in a 1961 report to the Association of National Advertisers and was e...
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Dalal Street
Dalal Street What Is Dalal Street? Dalal Street is a street in downtown Mumbai, India, that houses the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), the largest stock exchange in India, and other reputable financial institutions. It received the name Dalal Street after the Bombay Stock Exchange moved there in 1874 and became the first ...
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Definition Dun & Bradstreet (D&B)
Definition Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) What Is Dun & Bradstreet (D&B)? Dun & Bradstreet is a corporation that offers information on commercial credit as well as reports on businesses. Most notably, Dun & Bradstreet is recognizable for its Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS numbers); these generate business information re...
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Dangerous Asset
Dangerous Asset What Is a Dangerous Asset? A dangerous asset is a piece of property or investment, which poses a risk of liability to its owner. Liability means that the owner of the dangerous asset could be sued or found legally liable for someone getting hurt. The term dangerous asset usually applies to a physical as...
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Dangling Debit
Dangling Debit What Is a Dangling Debit? A dangling debit is a debit balance with no offsetting credit balance that would allow it to be written off. It occurs in financial accounting and reflects discrepancies in a company's balance sheet, and when a company purchases goodwill or services to create a debit. When addin...
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Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman Who Is Daniel Kahneman? Daniel Kahneman is a professor emeritus of psychology and public affairs at Princeton University. Despite having reportedly never taken a course in economics, he is widely regarded as a pioneer of modern behavioral economics. In 2002, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Ec...
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Dark Pool
Dark Pool What Is a Dark Pool? A dark pool is a privately organized financial forum or exchange for trading securities. Dark pools allow institutional investors to trade without exposure until after the trade has been executed and reported. Dark pools are a type of alternative trading system (ATS) that give certain inv...
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Dark Pool Liquidity
Dark Pool Liquidity What Is Dark Pool Liquidity? Dark pool liquidity is the trading volume created by institutional orders executed on private exchanges; information about these transactions is mostly unavailable to the public. The bulk of dark pool liquidity is created by block trades facilitated away from the central...
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Dark Cloud Cover
Dark Cloud Cover What Is the Dark Cloud Cover? Dark Cloud Cover is a bearish reversal candlestick pattern where a down candle (typically black or red) opens above the close of the prior up candle (typically white or green), and then closes below the midpoint of the up candle. The pattern is significant as it shows a sh...
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Darknet Market
Darknet Market What Is a Darknet Market? Darknet markets are dark web black markets that offer illicit goods for sale, often using cryptocurrencies as a method of payment. Although some products for sale are legal, illicit goods such as drugs, stolen information, and weapons are common items in these markets. The trans...
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Dash to Trash
Dash to Trash What Is Dash to Trash? Dash to trash is what happens when investors flock to a class of securities or other assets, bidding up prices to a point beyond what can be justified by valuation or other fundamental measures. The stock or asset class that has been bid up is often one that has poor fundamentals an...
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Data Loss
Data Loss What Is Data Loss? Data loss occurs when valuable or sensitive information on a computer is compromised due to theft, human error, viruses, malware, or power failure. It may also occur due to physical damage or mechanical failure or equipment of an edifice. The biggest reasons for data loss include laptop the...
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Data Science
Data Science What Is Data Science? Data science provides meaningful information based on large amounts of complex data or big data. Data science, or data-driven science, combines different fields of work in statistics and computation to interpret data for decision-making purposes. Understanding Data Science Data is dra...
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Data Mining
Data Mining What Is Data Mining? Data mining is a process used by companies to turn raw data into useful information. By using software to look for patterns in large batches of data, businesses can learn more about their customers to develop more effective marketing strategies, increase sales and decrease costs. Data m...
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David Einhorn
David Einhorn Who Is David Einhorn? David Einhorn is the president and co-founder of Greenlight Capital Inc. He was born on No. 20, 1968, in Demarest, New Jersey, and earned a BA from Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences in 1991. Einhorn has long been considered one of the most successful and closely follo...
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David Tepper
David Tepper Who is David Tepper? David Tepper is a legendary investor who specializes in distressed debt and manages one of the most successful hedge fund firms of all time. David Tepper’s worth is approximately $13 billion, according to Forbes 2020 The World’s Billionaires List. Understanding David Tepper David Tep...
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Dawn Raid
Dawn Raid What Is a Dawn Raid? During a dawn raid, an investor acquires a substantial number of shares in a company first thing in the morning, just as the stock market is opening for business. Because the bidding company builds a substantial stake in its target at the prevailing stock market price, any takeover costs ...
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Day Rate (Oil Drilling) Definition
Day Rate (Oil Drilling) Definition What Is the Day Rate (Oil Drilling)? Day rate refers to all in daily costs of renting a drilling rig. The operator of a drilling project pays a day rate to the drilling contractor who provides the rig, the drilling personnel and other incidentals. The oil companies and the drilling co...
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Day Order
Day Order What is a Day Order? A day order is a stipulation placed on an order to a broker to execute a trade at a specific price that expires at the end of the trading day if it is not completed. A day order can be a limit order to buy or sell a security, but its duration is limited to the remainder of that trading da...
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Day Rate
Day Rate What Is a Day Rate? A day rate is the billing cost for an individual's services for a single day. It is sometimes called a per diem. Some purchasing organizations prefer to receive a quoted day rate instead of an hourly rate for services. Understanding the Day Rate Day rates are common in industries in which w...
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Days to Cover
Days to Cover What Are Days to Cover? "Days to cover" measures the expected number of days to close out a company's outstanding shares that have been shorted. It measures a company's shares that are currently shorted and divides that by the average daily trading volume to give an approximation of the time required, exp...
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Day Trader
Day Trader What Is a Day Trader? A day trader is a type of trader who executes a relatively large volume of short and long trades to capitalize on intraday market price action. The goal is to profit from very short-term price movements. Day traders can also use leverage to amplify returns, which can also amplify losses...
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Discounted Cash Flow (DCF)
Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) What Is Discounted Cash Flow (DCF)? Discounted cash flow (DCF) is a valuation method used to estimate the value of an investment based on its expected future cash flows. DCF analysis attempts to figure out the value of an investment today, based on projections of how much money it will genera...
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Dead Cat Bounce
Dead Cat Bounce What Is a Dead Cat Bounce? A dead cat bounce is a temporary, short-lived recovery of asset prices from a prolonged decline or a bear market that is followed by the continuation of the downtrend. Frequently, downtrends are interrupted by brief periods of recovery—or small rallies—during which prices temp...
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Deadweight Loss
Deadweight Loss What Is Deadweight Loss? A deadweight loss is a cost to society created by market inefficiency, which occurs when supply and demand are out of equilibrium. Mainly used in economics, deadweight loss can be applied to any deficiency caused by an inefficient allocation of resources. Price ceilings, such as...
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Deal Blotter
Deal Blotter What Is a Deal Blotter? A deal blotter is a trader's record of all the transactions executed on a given day. The deal blotter contains basic information pertinent to the transactions for the day and serves as an audit trail of transactions and is helpful to review if a particular trading strategy utilized ...
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Dealer Option
Dealer Option What Is a Dealer Option? A dealer option is a contract issued on the physical inventory of a commodity. A dealer option is typically issued by companies that buy, sell, or otherwise use a commodity in conducting business. This type of option is not traded on an exchange. Rather, it is traded as an over-th...
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Death Valley Curve
Death Valley Curve What Is the Death Valley Curve? The term "death valley curve" describes the period in the life of a startup in which it has begun operations but has not yet generated revenue. It is commonly used among venture capitalists (VCs). It is derived from the shape of a startup company's cashflow burn when p...
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Death Benefit
Death Benefit What Is a Death Benefit? A death benefit is a payout to the beneficiary of a life insurance policy, annuity, or pension when the insured or annuitant dies. For life insurance policies, death benefits are not subject to income tax and named beneficiaries ordinarily receive the death benefit as a lump-sum p...
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Death Cross Definition
Death Cross Definition What Is a Death Cross? The death cross is a technical chart pattern indicating the potential for a major sell-off. The death cross appears on a chart when a stock’s short-term moving average crosses below its long-term moving average. Typically, the most common moving averages used in this patter...
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Debasement
Debasement What Is Debasement? Debasement refers to lowering the value of a currency. It is primarily associated with coins made from precious metals, such as gold and silver. A currency is debased when the coins are made with a mix of precious metals and base metals as opposed to purely precious metals. The more base ...
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Debenture
Debenture What Is a Debenture? A debenture is a type of bond or other debt instrument that is unsecured by collateral. Since debentures have no collateral backing, they must rely on the creditworthiness and reputation of the issuer for support. Both corporations and governments frequently issue debentures to raise capi...
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Debit Memorandum
Debit Memorandum What Is a Debit Memorandum? A debit memorandum, or "debit memo," is a document that records and notifies a customer of debit adjustments made to their individual bank account. The adjustments made to the account reduce the funds in the account but are made for specific purposes and used only for adjust...
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Debit Card
Debit Card What Is a Debit Card? A debit card is a payment card that deducts money directly from a consumer’s checking account to pay for a purchase. Debit cards eliminate the need to carry cash or physical checks to make purchases directly from your savings. In addition, debit cards, also called “check cards,” offer t...
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Debt Buyer
Debt Buyer What Is a Debt Buyer? A debt buyer is a company that purchases debt from creditors at a discount. Debt buyers, such as collection agencies or a private debt collector, buy delinquent or charged-off debt at a fraction of the debt's face value. The debt buyer then collects on the debt either on its own or thro...
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Debt Fatigue
Debt Fatigue What Is Debt Fatigue? Debt fatigue occurs when a debtor becomes overwhelmed by the amount of debt incurred and the seeming futility of the debt repayment process. Debt fatigue may result in a debtor giving up on making loan payments and overspending again. 1:24 Steps To Getting Out Of Debt Understanding...
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Debt Issue
Debt Issue What Is a Debt Issue? A debt issue refers to a financial obligation that allows the issuer to raise funds by promising to repay the lender at a certain point in the future and in accordance with the terms of the contract. A debt issue is a fixed corporate or government obligation such as a bond or debenture....
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Debt Relief
Debt Relief What Is Debt Relief? Debt relief is the reorganization of debt in any shape or form so as to provide the indebted party with a measure of respite, either fully or partially. Debt relief can take a number of forms: reducing the outstanding principal amount (again, either partially or fully), lowering the int...
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Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio (Debt/EBITDA Ratio)
Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio (Debt/EBITDA Ratio) What Is the Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio? Debt/EBITDA—earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization—is a ratio measuring the amount of income generated and available to pay down debt before covering interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization expenses. Debt/EBITDA ...
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Debt Assignment
Debt Assignment What Is Debt Assignment? The term debt assignment refers to a transfer of debt, and all the associated rights and obligations, from a creditor to a third party. The assignment is a legal transfer to the other party, who then becomes the owner of the debt. In most cases, a debt assignment is issued to a ...
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Debt Bomb
Debt Bomb What Is a Debt Bomb? A debt bomb is a situation occurring when a major financial institution, such as a multinational bank, defaults on its obligations which, in turn, causes disruption not only in the financial system of the institution's home country but also in the global financial system as a whole. Key T...
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Debt Consolidation
Debt Consolidation What Is Debt Consolidation? Debt consolidation refers to the act of taking out a new loan to pay off other liabilities and consumer debts. Multiple debts are combined into a single, larger debt, such as a loan, usually with more favorable payoff terms—a lower interest rate, lower monthly payment, or ...
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Debt-To-Equity Ratio (D/E)
Debt-To-Equity Ratio (D/E) What Is the Debt-To-Equity Ratio (D/E)? The debt-to-equity (D/E) ratio is calculated by dividing a company’s total liabilities by its shareholder equity. These numbers are available on the balance sheet of a company’s financial statements. The ratio is used to evaluate a company's financial l...
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Deceased Alert
Deceased Alert What Is a Deceased Alert? A deceased alert is a notification that makes credit card companies, credit rating agencies, and other financial institutions aware that a person has died. These notices are critical for the fight against identity theft, since would-be thieves often attempt to secure new loans u...
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Decentralized Applications – dApps
Decentralized Applications – dApps What Are Decentralized Applications? Decentralized applications (dApps) are digital applications or programs that exist and run on a blockchain or P2P network of computers instead of a single computer, and are outside the purview and control of a single authority. Decentralized Applic...