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  1. Demographic Dividend

    The freeing up of resources for a country's economic development and the future prosperity of its populace as it switches from an agrarian to an industrial economy. In the initial stages ...
  2. Hot Hand

    The notion that because one has had a string of successes, he or she is more likely to have continued success. For example, if one flipped a (fair) coin and guessed correctly that it ...
  3. House Money Effect

    The tendency for investors to take more and greater risks when investing with profits. The house money effect gets its name from the casino phrase "playing with the house's money." The ...
  4. Environmental Tariff

    A tax placed on products being imported to or exported from countries with unsatisfactory environmental pollution controls. An environmental tariff is, in effect, a sin tax, designed ...

  5. Corporate Undertaker

    An informal term for liquidator. As the name implies, a corporate undertaker oversees the liquidation of an insolvent company. In other, more descriptive words, he or she is the ...

  6. Blue-Chip Index

    A stock index that tracks the shares of the top-performing publicly traded companies. Blue-chip stocks represent companies that are financially stable, well established and provide ...

  7. Sticky Wage Theory

    An economic hypothesis that the pay of employed workers tends to respond slowly to the changes in a company's or the broader economy's performance. When unemployment rises, the ...

  8. Trading Rut

    A period of investing during which a trader fails to earn profits and instead experiences a string of losses. In the long run, it is common for investors to fall into occasional ...

  9. Portfolio Investment

    The provision of capital to a company in exchange for the possibility of earning a return on that capital if the company is profitable. Someone who makes a portfolio investment does ...

  10. Death Knell Stocks

    The shares of a publicly traded company that is on the verge of insolvency or bankruptcy. A death knell stock typically trades for less than $1. Death knell stocks are considered a ...

  11. Special Administrative Region - SAR

    Unique geographical areas with a high degree of autonomy set up by the People's Republic of China. The Special Administrative Regions (SAR) of Hong Kong and Macau, which were formerly ...
  12. Domestic Box Office Receipt (DBOR) Futures Contracts

    Futures contracts based on movie receipts at the box-office. Domestic Box Office Receipt (DBOR) Contract Futures received approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on June ...
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