to speculate in stocks and shares
11Economic consequences of the 2006 Thai coup d'état — The 2006 Thailand coup d état took place on Tuesday 19 September, 2006, when the Royal Thai Army staged a coup against the government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The short term economic consequences have been relatively minor, resulting …
12Gold as an investment — Reserves of SDR, forex and gold in 2006 …
13NASDAQ futures — are investment instruments which allow an investor to hedge with or speculate on the future value of various components of the NASDAQ market index. Contents 1 In General 2 NASDAQ derived futures 3 Trading strategies …
14Monopoly (game) — Monopoly The Monopoly Logo Designer(s) Elizabeth Magie Louis Fred Thun[1] Charles Darrow Publisher(s) …
15Late-2000s financial crisis — The TED spread (in red) increased significantly during the financial crisis, reflecting an increase in perceived credit risk …
16property law — Introduction principles, policies, and rules by which disputes over property are to be resolved and by which property transactions may be structured. What distinguishes property law from other kinds of law is that property law deals with… …
17Open outcry — Until 2009[1], trades on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange always involved a face to face interaction. There is one podium/desk on the trading floor for each of the exchange s three thousand or so stocks …
18Mark Twain effect — In some stock markets, the Mark Twain effect is the phenomenon of stock returns in October being lower than in other months. The name comes from the following quotation in Mark Twain s Pudd nhead Wilson: October. This is one of the peculiarly… …
19Subprime mortgage crisis — Part of a series on: Late 2000s financial crisis Major dimensions …
20Bucket shop (stock market) — Bucket shop is a brokerage firm that “books (i.e., takes the opposite side of) retail customer orders without actually having them executed on an exchange. [http://www.cftc.gov/opa/glossary/opaglossary b.htm Glossary, US Commodity Futures Trading …
