Glossary of Economic Terms
Arbitrage: If someone takes advantage of different prices of the same security traded in two or more stock exchanges (by buying in one and selling in the other), it is called arbitrage.
Actuary: A statistician who calculates insurance risk and premiums.
Annual...
Accounting, is the production of financial records about an organization. Accountancy generally produces financial statements that show in money terms the economic resources under the control of management; selecting information that is relevant and representing it faithfully. The principles of...
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Data a collection of unprocessed items, including text, numbers, images, audio and video.
Program a series of related instructions that tells...
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1 Net Asset Value (NAV)
Net Asset Value is the market value of the assets of the scheme minus its liabilities. The per unit NAV is the net asset value of the scheme divided by the number of units outstanding on the Valuation Date.
2 Sale Price
Is the price you pay when you invest in a scheme...
EXERCISE PRICE
The exercise price (also called the strike price)is the price at which the buyer of a call option can purchase the stock during the life of the option, or the buyer of the put option can sell during the life of the option.
Exercise price is that price at which the writer has to...
Some Important Terms
1. Fixed Exchange Rate System
In a fixed exchange rate system foreign central banks stand ready to buy and sell their currencies at a fixed price in terms of dollars.
2. Intervention
Intervention is the buying or selling of foreign exchange by the central bank...
Earlier, salary of bosses were 20times higher than those of employees.
Currently, Their salaries are 400times higher than the employees.
Do you think the salary rates of bosses v/s employees are more fair now or were they earlier?? why?
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The stock market is a very difficult domain to invest in. For beginners or those with little time, it has proven to be extremely difficult and these individuals have ended up asking for professional help. For others, they found it difficult at the beginning but have adapted well...
Contract Size - The value of the contract at a specific level of Index. It is
Index level * Multiplier.
Multiplier - It is a pre-determined value, used to arrive at the contract size.
It is the price per index point.
Tick Size - It is the minimum price difference between two quotes of...
Prudent in pricing – rural consumers:
The Indian consumer is very price sensitive. In the personal care sector, branding allows companies to partially pass on the cost increases to the customers. Most players have introduced products with mass-market pricing, so as to build volumes. The...
1. Bid rate: The bid rate denotes the number of units of a currency a bank is willing to pay when it buys another currency.
2. Offer rate: The offer rate denotes the number of units of a currency a bank will want to be paid when it sells a currency
3. Bid offer spread: The difference...
Important Terms
Devaluation
Revaluation
Depreciation
Appreciation
Two Way Quote
Bid Rate
Rate at which the trader will buy the currency
Ask Rate
Rate at which the trader will sell the currency
Methods of Quoting
Direct Quotes
1 USD = 48.30 INR
Indirect Quotes
2.3 USD = 100 INR...