by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets
[cite] Back to:INVESTMENTS TRADING & FINANCIAL MARKETS What is Dry Powder? Dry powder is an informal term used for describing highly-liquid marketable securities, cash reserves, or any other securities that can be utilized for investment opportunities, future...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets
[cite] Back to:INVESTMENTS TRADING & FINANCIAL MARKETS Earnings Per Share (EPS) – Defined Earnings per share (EPS) is an accounting measure. It is calculated by deducting preferred dividends from net income and then dividing that number of outstanding common...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets
What is a Balanced Investment Strategy?A balanced investment strategy seeks to balance the risk and return of a portfolio by investing an equal amount of money on high-risk and low-risk securities. The ideology behind this portfolio allocation strategy is that while...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets
What is a Credit Spread?In finance, a credit spread refers to the difference in the yields (returns) of two investment or financial instruments with the same maturity but different credit quality. Credit or yield spread often occurs as a result of the difference in...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets
What is Hedonic Pricing?Hedonic pricing is a pricing model that gives consideration to non-market characteristics and external factors with respect to how they affect market prices. Hedonic pricing recognizes that the market prices of goods are determined by both...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets
What is a Full-Service Broker?A licensed broker-dealer or brokerage firm that provides a large number of services for clients and offers a wide range of products is a full-service broker. This broker executes large trades for clients and offers services such as tax...
