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What is After Hours Trading/Extended Trading? After hours trading describes any trades made after the market closes or before the market opens. Bec...
What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average? The Dow Jones Industrial Average is usually just called the Dow. It’s an average of 30 of the most well...
What do you need to retire? Retirement - think: 401k, pension fund, IRA, roth IRA, etc. All of these savings socked away while you worked hard are...
Painting the tape is an illegal way to manipulate stock prices. And yes, it’s still illegal, even if you paint it super pretty.
Investment objectives and styles vary from investor to investor. Some are in it for the long haul. Others, um... don't look at "Ponzi" as a dirty w...
What is Fitch Investors Service? Fitch Investors Service is a securities rating agency. Investors use Fitch to determine if they should or shouldnâ...
What are the differences in S&P’s and Moody’s ratings? Both S&P and Moody’s give ratings that help investors determine if they are making sma...
What is AMBAC? AMBAC stands for American Municipal Bond Assurance Corporation. It provides insurance for municipalities that sell muni bonds, such...
What are credit ratings and how are they interpreted? Credit ratings describe a borrower’s likelihood to pay back their debts; it’s a look at h...
What are bond ratings and what do they mean? Bond ratings are just credit ratings used on bonds. Just like a credit rating, they give the investor...
What is the Federal Funds Rate? The federal funds rate is the interest rate used for overnight lending between banks. The amount banks are able to...
The Federal Open Market Committee's purpose is to manage financial outcomes through monetary policy.
What is a Bucket Shop? Bucket shops are, for lack of better terms, sketchy brokerage firms. They make investors believe that crappy penny stocks th...
Who is Warren Buffett, and how do we get him to give us a loan...?
How do you judge the performance of an index fund? For index funds, they're really just a reflection of the stocks and bonds they, uh... reflect. S...
Trading volume is the number of shares trading back and forth at a given time.
What is a muni bond? Muni bonds are bonds issued by the government. They are used to raise the money required to pay for government responsibilitie...
What is Bond Amortization? Bond amortization is simply the spreading out of the cost of the bond over time. Bonds have amortization schedules and t...
What is term life insurance, and variable life insurance? Hit play to find out, and, uh...let's hope you live long enough to figure out the answers.