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 ...
A minus tick (also known as a downtick) indicates a fall in the price of an asset by 1 unit. This is caused by trade at a price 1 unit lower than the previous trade. The size of a tick will vary from ...
Minority interest is an accounting concept that refers to a situation when a parent company owns over 50% of another firm. Due to the fact that the parent company has majority ownership of the subsidi...
The middle office (MO) refers to the section of a financial services firm which cannot be grouped under front office (client-facing) or back-office (operations). The middle office ...