Questions relating to money and economics.
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Dollar Value of a Trade (finance)
When you trade stocks on the market, what best describes the product of shares × price?
My candidates are Capital, Amount, Value, ...?
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Is there any difference between Loan and Credit
We are drafting a formal document. I saw somebody replaced all occurrences of the word credit to loan. There is no specific meaning assigned neither of these words within the document.
Is there any ...
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Commision on stock market
Is it correct to use word commision as a synonym to order on stock market? In meaning: an instruction from customers to brokers to buy or sell on the exchange.
I know that commision is a fee or ...
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Can “lend” and “borrow” refer to money?
I'm not sure how to use the following words correctly in finance.
Until now, I've used lend and borrow to represent acts that are relative to loans. Today, one of my friends told me that lend or ...
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What is it called when you “refill” a debit card?
How it is called (in the US) when you go to the bank or an ATM to add cash to your VISA/MasterCard debit card? That is, when you add cash to the bank account which is tied to that card.
Is it ...
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Meaning and acceptability of “One fifty” when speaking of dollars
I was watching Errol Morris' ‘11 Excellent Reasons Not to Vote?’. At some point, the dialog goes this way:
― If I could sell my vote, I probably would.
― How much?
― How much? Psssh... ...
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Etymology of “avalising” (guaranteeing)
An avalising bank is a "bank that ensures payment on a note, bond, or other debt instrument in the event of default. ... the avalising bank is not a party to the transaction in any other way".
What ...
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“Bear market” / “Bull market” : what relationship those animals have with economy?
I know that a bull market is a upward trend and a bear market a downward trend, but how those animals ended in the financial terminology?
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What is the origin of using the term “lease” to signify a financing agreement with option to buy out an asset, as opposed to simple rent?
A formal definition of the word "lease" makes a lease out to be very similar to "rent" in meaning:
noun \ˈlēs\
Definition of LEASE
a contract by which one conveys real estate, ...
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“By” vs “Per”. Which one should I use on expressions like “P&L/Geography” or “VaR/Asset”?
In the finance field, it is quite common to express some measures in relation to some grouping criteria. Some groupings can be temporal (year, month, etc.) and others like greography, asset class ...
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Meaning of “triple witching hour”
What does the phrase triple witching hour mean?
I have seen it in the financial news relating to stock markets. I sense it has to do with the convergence of three events, deadlines or periods that ...
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Is there a hypernym for debit/credit?
I’m looking for a generic word that means “debit or credit”.
Say I have a transaction, and I don’t know whether it’s a debit on the account or a credit on the account, and I want to ask about it, is ...
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Difference between accounting, finance and budget [closed]
What's the difference between accounting, finance and budget? Are some of them included in the others?
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Informal terms for money amounts
What informal terms are used in English as money amounts? I know the following US terms and I'm curious about the rest:
a grand: 1000 dollars
a buck: 1 dollar
