by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets
What is an Industry Classification Benchmark?The Financial Times Stock Exchange (FTSE) and Dow Jones in 2005 created the Industry Classification Benchmark (ICB). It is a type of market classification for stocks that allow investors to compare economic trends. The FTSE...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets
What is an Automated Bond System?The Automated Bond System (ABS) is an electronic system for bond information and bond trading. ABS is a digital platform for the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) that tracks the prices and records the bids and offers of inactive bonds...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets
What is a Junior Capital Pool?A junior capital pool (JCP) is a corporate structure that allows a company to issue its shares or stock options to the public before going into an actual business. JCP also refers to a company that engages in such an act. When a company...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets
What is the S-Score?An S-Score refers to a numerical value showing how investors and consumers feel about a given company, sector, index, or stock as expressed in social media. Those who create S-Score use data they gather from the monitoring engines of social media....
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets
What is Cushion Theory?Cushion theory is a concept in investment holding that the price of a stock with large short positions will eventually increase, as investors move to purchase it for the purpose of covering their short positions. It refers to that which many...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets
What is an Angel Bond?An Angel Bond is an investment-grade bond issued by companies with high credit ratings.How Does an Angel Bond Work?The credit ratings of angel bonds vary. They can be rated AAA, Aaa, BBB, and Baa. Angel bonds that have AAA and Aaa ratings have...
