Questions tagged [finance]
Questions relating to finance and economics.
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What is the origin of “long” in finance?
This is basically a follow-up question of: What is the origin of "long" and "short" in finance?
In finance, you can be long or short a position. While the usage of the word “short” ...
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What is the technical term for people who either lends or borrow money? [closed]
For example, if i am giving people money expecting to be paid back or i borrow money from them promising to pay back without any interest. What would these people be called?
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What is the origin/meaning of the term "color" in corporate earnings calls?
What is the origin/meaning of the term "color" in corporate earnings calls?
Some examples:
ChipMOS Technologies Ltd (IMOS) Q3 2021 Earnings Call Transcript:
S. J. will chair the meeting and ...
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What word means "change in wealth over time?"
Over at https://money.stackexchange.com/q/146575/75566 we haven't come up with an English word that unambiguously means "change in wealth over time." My perhaps naïve first shot at this was &...
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What is the origin of '__ cents on the dollar'?
A question about the origin of the phrase __ cents on the dollar already exists on this site, but that question was interpreted by the answerers as a request for a relatively simple explanation of its ...
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What is the noun of "to credit something to somebody"?
I'm working with digital securities. You can think about company shares. If an investor buys those shares, it is a process with several steps. At the end, the issuer gives the shares to the investor:
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Meaning of value measure [closed]
Yet average FiCO [consumer credit] scores for the pool, percent of no-doc["Liar"] loan to value measures and other indicators were pretty static.... The point is that these measures could ...
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Why is the exercise price of an option called a "strike price"?
The exercise price of an option, the set price at which a derivative contract can be bought or sold when it is exercised, is sometimes called the "strike price."
Historically, why is it ...
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How did "-able" semantically shift to mean "requiring"?
Etymonline on "-able" doesn't expound the origin of "requiring".
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common termination and word-forming element of English adjectives (typically based on verbs) and generally ...
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Natural Collocations (Finance)
Could you please tell me what the native-like option for this case is:
He diversifies his stock portfolio
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He varies his stock portfolio.
I am talking about the stock market (finance).
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In need of accurate translations for "discount" [closed]
I’m writing a program for point of sales work. Thus, in my code, I need to
name things (in English) related to concerns like "Store", "Sales",
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I’m now ...
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How did 'whale' semantically shift to mean manipulator of stock market prices?
I couldn't find this finance meaning on OED or Merriam-Webster, probably for it's too newfangled? Recently SoftBank has been blazoned as the NASDAQ Whale.
I'm not convinced by the explanation in the ...
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I'm looking for a word that matches a financial concept
I'm looking for a word that I'm not sure exists (disclaimer: English is not my first language).
The foreign exchange market deals with currencies e.g. USD, EUR, etc.
The stock market e.g. NASDAQ deals ...
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How does backwardation semantically relate to backwardness?
What semantic notions underlie 'backward' and 'backwardness', with the meaning of 'backwardation' below? Etymonline overlooked this term. OED is too brusque and doesn't expound the etymology.
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How did 'long' semantically shift to mean 'buy the underlying asset', and 'short' to mean 'deliver the underlying asset'?
Zvi Bodie, Alex Kane, Alan J. Marcus's Investments (2018 11 edn). p 659.
A futures contract calls for delivery of an asset (or in some cases, its cash value) at a
specified delivery or maturity ...
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