The carry of any asset is the cost or benefit of owning that asset. For example oil would have a negative carry as it requires storage, but a bond would have a positive carry as it pays inte...
Capital Structure is a term used in finance to refer to how a company is structured and financed. Basically, it details the mixture of debt and equity used to finance the company. The equity is from i...
Capital Leases are the rented ownership of any form of capital asset (machinery, equipment, factories etc.) that adds value to the company. For accounting purposes, capital leases are included in asse...
Capital Expenditure (also known as CapEx) is the amount a company spends on the acquisition or upgrade of physical, tangible assets such as:PropertyFactoriesEquipmentThe relative amount of Capital Exp...
The Capital Asset Pricing Model, or CAPM, is one of the most commonly used models for calculating the expected return on an asset and is used to price securities.The CAPM requires ...
Capital is a vague term which can refer to one of two things:Factories, machinery, equipment etc. owned by a companyThe value of financial assets such as cash, short-term securities etc.In an economic...
A candlestick is a feature of a price chart which shows the open, close, low and high for an asset over a given time period. They are usually red if the asset closed lower than it opened, and green if...
A call is an option which gives the owner the right, but not the obligation, to buy an asset at a predetermined price within a given time period.An investor would buy a call option on an asset when th...
Calenderization is the accounting process of matching the financial records of 2 companies. All companies have different start/end dates to their financial year so when attempting to compare companies...
The CAC40 is the benchmark index used in France, similar to the NASDAQ or S&P500. It is the market capitalization-weighted measure of the 40 largest stocks on the Euronext Paris exchange....