Financial information (bank account numbers and credit card numbers) Classified information What is Personal Data? Personal data (or personal information) is information that can identify an individual. GDPR defines personal data as anything that directly identifies an individual such as a person's nam...
An ETF is a tradeable fund, containing many investments, generally organized around a strategy, theme, or exposure. That approach could be tracking a sector of the stock market, like technology or energy; investing in a specific type of bond, like high-yield or municipal; or tracking a mark...
(As interest rates rise, bond prices usually fall, and vice versa. This effect is usually more pronounced for longer-term securities.) Fixed income securities also carry inflation risk, liquidity risk, call risk, and credit and default risks for both issuers and counterparties. Unlike individual ...
For those hesitant to get the vaccine due to limited cases of serious adverse effects such as heart issues or blood clots – and even rare deaths – she notes that "there's not zero risk with the vaccines, but the risk is negligible." Ultimately, she says the dan...
It might seem almost churlish to wonder what would happen if Spain were to leave the euro. The official European position is that the battle of the euro has been pretty much won, and anyone who argues otherwise will be accused of being a euro hater, an A
In this section we are concerned with probability expressions of target outcomes that can be conceived as categorical: a patient is infected by the flu (or not infected), we will have rain tomorrow (or no rain). Such outcomes can be assigned numeric probabilities between 0 and 100% or be ...
This post is the third in a series on early childhood education that includes articles from Norway and India. What does life look like for children in rural China? Even many people living in China’s rapidly expanding urban centers at the turn of the 21st Century had relatively little direct...
There is a substantial and growing evidence base linking high levels of consumption of UPFs with adverse population health outcomes, including all-cause mortality, overweight and obesity, chronic diseases (e.g., heart disease, type-2 diabetes, cancer, dementia and depression), and poor pregnancy ...
An adverse credit history is a track record of poorrepaymenthistory on one or more loans or credit cards. Adverse credit history will be reflected in a consumer’s credit report. It will lower their credit score and make it more difficult to get a loan or credit card with the best terms ...
While green technologies have the shared goal of preserving biodiversity and conserving the earth's resources, there are few ways to do so without affecting the environment in other ways. In some cases, reducing environmental costs in one area means causing adverse impacts in another. For example,...