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10 stock trader terms

This glossary is for the people intresting in the meaning of the field of stock market and is interest in knowing more about certain terms of this field

Capital
Noun
Wealth in the form of money or other assets owned by a person or organization or available or contributed for a particular purpose such as starting a company or investing.
Example: In the past twenty years there has been a new wave of global interest in project finance as a tool for financing CAPITAL- intensive projects all around the world.
en: Capital
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Dividends
Noun
A sum of money paid regularly (typically quarterly) by a company to its shareholders out of its profits (or reserves).
Example: Once a company decides whether to pay DIVIDENDS, they may establish a somewhat stable dividend policy, which might in turn the impact on investors and the perceptions of the company in the financial market.
en: Dividendes
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Equity research analyst
Phrase
Equity research analysts research public companies and come up with recommendations for investors about whether to buy, sell, or continue holding certain stock.
Example: Equity researchers analyze stocks to help portfolio managers make better-informed investment decisions. Equity researchers employ problem-solving skills, data interpretation, and various other tools to understand and predict a given security's behavioral outlook.
en: Analyste de recherche actions
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Financial market
Noun
Financial markets refer broadly to any marketplace where the trading of securities occurs, including the stock market, bond market, forex market, and derivatives market, among others. Financial markets are vital to the smooth operation of capitalist economies.
Example: Inspired by emerging theoretical developments on mobile interaction and motivated by the researcher’s self-interest in social, technological and economic issues concerning the FINANCIAL MARKET, the research aims to make sense of the distinct mobility of foreign exchange traders.
en: marché financier
financial market online
Income
adjective
Money received, especially on a regular basis, for work or through investments.
Example: Pearson's correlation As an additional and final point it should be added, that for the whole investigated sample, the factors most strongly and positively correlated with the spending on organic foods were household size, annual INCOME and customer's age.
en: Revenu
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Investment
Noun
The action or process of investing money for profit or material result.
Example: The strategic capital programming process aims to enable the owner agency to base INVESTMENT decisions on prior agency performance, long-term agency goals, and realistic analyses of market trends.
en: Investissement
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Ownership
Noun
The act, state, or right of possessing something.
Example: Ownership advantages include proprietary information and various ownership rights of a company. Brand, copyright, trademark or patent rights, and the use and skills internally available are factors that offer a company this advantage.
en: La possession
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shareholder
noun
an owner of shares in a company.
Example: Two classic models of corporate governance are the SHAREHOLDER model and the stakeholder one. The former is linked to external market control exercised by SHAREHOLDER and the latter refers to the internal control exercised by various stakeholders such as banks, employees and public institutions and so on.
en: Actionnaire
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Stock
Noun
The capital raised by a business or corporation through the issue and subscription of shares.
Example: The stock market refers to public markets that exist for issuing, buying, and selling stocks that trade on a stock exchange or over-the-counter. Stocks, also known as equities, represent fractional ownership in a company, and the stock market is a place where investors can buy and sell ownership of such investible assets.
en: Action
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Trades
adjective
The action of buying and selling goods and services.
Example: The term trade or business generally includes any activity carried on for the production of income from selling goods or performing services. It is not limited to integrated aggregates of assets, activities, and goodwill that comprise businesses for purposes of certain other provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.
en: Échange
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