Money market mutual funds own a well-diversified pool of high quality, short-dated, interest-paying securities, and pass along the income earned on those securities (after fees) to the funds’ shareholders. When the yields on the securities in which money market mutual funds invest are quite ...
“Net 30” is a pretty standard payment term for many industries that is often used on invoices. It means that businesses should expect payment within 30 days after the invoice date. For example, if an invoice is dated January 1st, then it would be due on January 31st. discounts ...
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Seoul to commemorate 75 years of diplomatic relations between Pinas and Korea, was launched yesterday. (The Filipinodáyo, oriminjain Korean, means migrant.) A short article of mine, titled “From Nightfall Jitters to Morning Calm,” is one of 40 contributions, with its owntranslation in ...
Short A mixture of bran and coarse flour. Sort (informal) A person evaluated in a certain way (bad, good, strange, etc.). Short Short-circuit or cause to short-circuit The electrical circuit had shorted out If the contact terminals are shorted, the battery quickly overheats Sort (dated)...
(dated) underpants. After a scare like that, you might need to change your shorts. Shorts (uncountable) Remnants, clippings, trimmings of production processes. Shorts The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran; pollard. Shorts Short, inferior hemp. Shorts Trousers ...
Investors seeking safe investments in an economic downturn tend to choose longer-dated bonds over short-dated bonds, bidding up the price of longer bonds and driving down their yield. Image by Julie Bang © Investopedia 2019 Important Aninverted yield curveis rare. It's historically been a war...
Taxes affect economic growth through their impact on demand, at least in the short term. A tax cut increases demand by raising personal disposable income and encouraging businesses to hire and invest. The size of the effect is dependent on the strength of the economy, however. The effect is ...
A long-dated forward is a category of forward contract with asettlement datelonger than one year away and as far away as 10 years. Companies use these contracts tohedgecertain ongoing risks such as currency or interest rate exposures. This can be contrasted with ashort-datedforward, which has...
Calendar spreads can also be used to gain vega neutrality. This would involve selling near-term options and buying longer-term options in a ratio offsetting the vega exposure. The key is to balance the higher vega of long-dated options against the lower vega of short-dated options. ...