摘要: An intercom speaker often used on brokers' trading desks in investment banks and stock brokerages. A squawk box allows a firm's analysts and traders to communicate with the firm's brokers.
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摘要: 1. In financial terms, a period of time when borrowing is difficult.
2. In general business terms, times when increasing costs cannot be passed onto consumers. The decrease in profits is said [阅读全文:]
摘要: A description of companies that have large capitalizations and provide investors with slow but steady and dependable growth prospects.
The annual gain that would be viewed as the norm for inv[阅读全文:]
摘要: The concept of consumers living beyond their means for an extended period of time. The notion of a standard of living bubble is characterized by flat inflation-adjusted earnings for members of the wor[阅读全文:]
摘要: A reference to a lack of confidence in a report's facts or general disrespect for a report's author. A soft paper report should have only one use – as toilet paper – which is how its nam[阅读全文:]
摘要: A period of economic slowdown amid a larger trend of economic growth. This buzzword is most often used in the financial media and by the U.S. Federal Reserve to describe a period of economic weakness.[阅读全文:]
摘要: The difference between the market price of electricity and its cost of production.
This measure is important because it helps utility companies determine their bottom line (profit). If t[阅读全文:]
摘要: A spike in asset values within a particular industry, commodity, or asset class. A speculative bubble is usually caused by exaggerated expectations of future growth, price appreciation, or other event[阅读全文:]
摘要: An investment that is considered socially responsible because of the nature of the business the company conducts. Common themes for socially responsible investments include avoiding investment in comp[阅读全文:]
摘要: The study of social mood and its effects of social behavior. Socionomic theory suggests that trends in social actions such as the economy, financial markets and political preferences are influenced by[阅读全文:]