Net Present Value (NPV) is a financial accounting term used to determine the value of money in the future at a value today. Money at some point in the future is usually worth less than money in the pr...
A Net Operating Loss or NOL is a period of time during which the tax-deductible expenses of a company are greater than the total income of the company. This means that the company is essentially opera...
Net Income refers to post-tax profit and is also known as net profit. The basic formula for net income is:Revenue - All Costs + Interest Income - Interest Expense - TaxationThis video below will teach...
The NASDAQ is one of the main indices used in the United States. It is a fully electronic stock trading market which comprises mainly technology firms (i.e. Apple, Microsoft, Dell, Intel)....
A mutual fund is one which is made up of money from lots of different individual investors, and then managed by a professional portfolio manager. Mutual funds invest in all the usual assets such as:Bo...
The MACD - Moving Average Convergence Divergence - is an indicator used in technical analysis for showing trends and momentum. It shows the relationship between two moving averages (i.e. whe...
Moving Average is a statistical term used to show the average value of something over a changing period of time. This is frequently used in technical analysis by comparing different moving averages (2...
A mortgage-backed security or MBS is an asset that is secured by a group of mortgages. This process is made possible through securitization. Mortgage-backed securities are split in...
A monopoly refers to the situation where one firm controls either all or the vast majority of a market, allowing it to pursue strategies and pricing which may be unfair on consumers and would not be p...
The money market is the market in which wholesale funding is bought and sold. The assets traded in the money market are extremely liquid and have very short maturities. Typically, the money market is ...