Bear Market – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets

What is a Bear Market?A bear market refers to a market situation wherein there is a steep fall in the prices of securities, resulting in an overall sentiment of negativity in the stock market. Such an internally-motivated decline of the market instigates a sense of...

Cap and Trade – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets

What is Cap and Trade or Emissions Trading?Emissions trading is also known as allowance trading, or cap and trade refer to the approach that is used to reduce pollution and has been confirmed to protect the environment and human health successfully. An emission...

Capital Markets – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets

What are Capital Markets?A capital market refers to the financial market where individuals or institutions buy or sell securities. This is the place to trade stocks, bonds and debt securities. Capital markets allow companies to sell their stocks to many investors to...

Buy-Side (Market Trading) – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets

What is Buy Side Trading? Buy-side is the face of the Wall Street constructed by institutional investors like mutual funds, pension funds in addition to insurance firms that tenders in purchasing a high volume of securities for purposes of financial management....

Brent Crude – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets

What is Brent Crude?Brent Crude refers to sweet light crude oil whose value is used as a benchmark for the price of oil worldwide. This oil has relatively low density and has low sulphur content thus the description sweet light. It is extracted from the North Sea with...

Buy Stop Order – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets

What is a Buy Stop Order?A buy stop order directs a broker to buy a security immediately when the strike price is higher than its current spot price. When the price reaches that point, the buy stop order turns to a market order, and can be employed at the bid price....