Accordion Feature – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Banking, Lending, and Credit Industry

Update Table of Contents What is an Accordion Feature?What is an Accordion Feature?Advantages of an Accordion Feature What is an Accordion Feature?An accordion feature is a type of corporate option or a clause in a loan (or a syndicated facility) agreement that allows...

Call Rule – Explained

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

What is the Call Rule?An important rule in trading markets that achieve fairness and orderliness in trades is the call rule. The call rule is used in the stock market or trading or cash commodities. This rule holds that the official bidding or opening price for a...

Call (Options and Auctions) – Explained

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

What is a Call Auction?A call either refers to a call auction or a call option.A call option is an agreement or a contract that gives a person the right but not an obligation to purchase a portion of an underlying asset at a specified time and price. In this trading...

Calendar Spread (Investments) – Explained

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

What is a Calendar Spread?A calendar spread is an investment strategy used by investors, it entails an act of concurrently entering both long and short positions on the same underlying asset or debt instrument. Both positions are entered at the same stake price but...

Calendar Effect (Stock Market) – Explained

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

What is the Calendar Effect?The calendar effect refers to changes in the market price or market index due to how particular days, months or times of the year relate with prices of commodities in the market. There is a collection of theories that ascertain that some...

Calamity Call – Explained

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

What is a Calamity Call?A calamity call is used in collateralized mortgage obligation (CMO), it serves as a protective measure. A calamity call requires that an issuer pay off (retire) a portion of the CMO if the underlying mortgage does not generate enough cash...

Cairns Group – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Global Business, International Law & Relations

What is the Cairns Group?The Cairns Group is an interest group of 19 agriculture exporting countries.  It was established in Australia in 1986. Its major objectives include agricultural trade reform, reduction of export subsidies on agricultural products, and other...

Data Science – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Research, Quantitative Analysis, & Decision Science

What is Data Science?Data science is defined as a collection of processes, concepts, techniques and tools that is directed towards getting useful information from a variety of complex data. Data science focuses on retrieving useful or relevant information and insights...

Data Mining – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Research, Quantitative Analysis, & Decision Science

What is Data Mining?Data mining is a method used by companies to generate new and useful information from existing raw data. When a company searches through existing databases, analyzes patterns of the raw data to get useful information, this is data mining. There are...

Data Analytics – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Research, Quantitative Analysis, & Decision Science

What is Data Analytics?Data analytics is a process of extracting valuable insights from raw data that are needed to arrive at conclusions about an information. This is a holistic process that involves extracting, cleansing and inspecting raw data with the aim of...