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Making Home Affordable

DefinitionThe Making Home Affordable program of the United States Treasury was launched in 2009 as part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program. The main...

Mandatory Redemption Schedule

What is 'Mandatory Redemption Schedule' Specified dates when a bond issuer is required to redeem all or a portion of the outstanding...

Asset Allocation

DefinitionAsset allocation is the rigorous implementation of an investment strategy that attempts to balance risk versus reward by adjusting the percentage of each asset...

Annuity

An annuity can be best defined as a financial product which is exclusively designed and offered by insurance companies to help individuals grow funds....

Absolute Frequency

What is 'Absolute Frequency' A statistical term describing the total number of trials or observations within a given interval or frequency bin....

Real Time

What is 'Real Time' When a system relays information to a user at a speed that is near instantaneous or has a...

Sampling Error

DefinitionIn statistics, sampling error is incurred when the statistical characteristics of a population are estimated from a subset, or sample, of that population. Since...

Salomon Brothers

DefinitionSalomon Brothers was an investment bank founded in 1910 by three Jewish-American brothers along with a clerk named Ben Levy, it remained a partnership...

Simple Moving Average

Simple Moving Average (SMA) is a technical analysis tool that denotes average price of an asset during a specific time period. The figure is...

Savings Bond Plan

What is 'Savings Bond Plan' A program that allows employees to purchase U.S. savings bonds, such as the Series EE and Series...

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