by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets
What is Moody’s?Moodys is an American credit rating business company that provides practices, solutions, and tools for managing and measuring financial risks. John Moody is the founder of Moodys, and his main aim for starting the corporation in 1909 was to...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets
What is Weighted Average Market Capitalization?Weighted average market capitalization is a form that involves the formulation of stock market index on the basis of market capitalization of the stocks of index. Big organizations would hence receive a bigger chunk of an...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets
What is a Guaranteed Investment Contract?A guaranteed investment contract (GIC), also referred to as a funding agreement, is an agreement between an investor and an insurance provider whereby the investor is provided with a guaranteed repayment of the principal in...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets
What is the Absolute Rate?An absolute rate refers to the fixed portion of an interest rate swap that is expressed as a percentage without reference to the interest rate swaps premium or discount. An absolute rate is otherwise known as an absolute swap yield. An...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets
What is Absolute Return?An absolute return refers to appreciation or depreciation that an asset accrues over a given period of time. It is the evaluation of the performance of an asset in relation to how much gain or loss it has made and incurred over a period of...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets
What is a Clearing House?A clearing house refers to an establishment, usually a financial institution that facilitates the exchange of cheques, bills and other derivatives between members. A clearing house acts as an intermediary between a buyer and a seller in the...
