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Wall Street (1987): The Film That Defined a Generation
Apr 30, 2026 ·
December 11, 1987. The Dow had bottomed five weeks earlier and most of us on the desk were still half-numb, still adding up what we'd done i...
Warren Buffett: The Oracle of Omaha
Jun 13, 2024 ·
In 1965, the common stock of Berkshire Hathaway changed hands at roughly $19 per share, approximately book value for a failing New England t...
Wedge Patterns: Rising and Falling
Aug 7, 2025 ·
A wedge pattern is a chart formation where two trendlines slope in the same direction — both up or both down — while squeezing t...
What Are Commodities? Oil, Gold, and Raw Materials
Feb 14, 2026 ·
A commodity is a raw material or primary agricultural product that trades on the basis of being interchangeable with every other unit of the...
What Are Dividends?
Feb 3, 2024 ·
A dividend is a distribution of company profits paid in cash to shareholders. When a business generates more money than it needs to fund ope...
What Are ETFs? Exchange-Traded Funds Explained
Oct 24, 2024 ·
An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is an investment fund that trades on a stock exchange the same way a single stock does. Each ETF holds a baske...
What Are Options? Calls and Puts Explained
Feb 7, 2025 ·
An option is a contract whose payoff is a non-linear function of an underlying asset's price at a future date. The buyer pays a fixed amount...
What Are Stock Splits?
Dec 3, 2024 ·
A stock split is a corporate action that increases the number of a company's outstanding shares while proportionally reducing the price per ...
What Is a 401(k)? Your Employer Retirement Plan Explained
Jul 8, 2025 ·
A 401(k) is an account your employer sets up that lets you save for retirement before income tax is taken out of your paycheck. The money gr...
What Is a Bear Market?
Sep 4, 2024 ·
A bear market is a decline of 20% or more from a recent market high, sustained for at least two months. The label is most often applied to b...
What Is a Broker-Dealer?
Oct 31, 2025 ·
A broker-dealer is a firm (or, less commonly, an individual) that does two distinct jobs: it executes trades on behalf of clients (the broke...
What Is a Budget? The 50/30/20 Rule
Aug 25, 2025 ·
A budget is a written plan for what your money will do each month before you start spending it. That sentence is the whole idea. It is more ...
What Is a Bull Market?
Sep 15, 2024 ·
A bull market is a sustained rise of 20% or more from a recent market low, usually accompanied by widespread optimism, rising corporate earn...
What Is a Credit Score?
Jun 22, 2025 ·
A credit score is a three-digit number, usually on a 300-850 scale, that summarises how reliably you have repaid borrowed money. Lenders rea...
What Is a Dividend Aristocrat?
Nov 20, 2025 ·
A Dividend Aristocrat is a member of the S&P 500 that has raised its in each of the past 25 consecutive years. The criterion is more dem...
What Is a Dividend Yield?
Mar 13, 2025 ·
The dividend yield is a stock's annual payment expressed as a percentage of its current share price. If a stock trades at $50 and pays $2.00...
What Is a Hedge Fund?
Jun 12, 2025 ·
A hedge fund is a privately managed investment vehicle that pools capital from wealthy individuals and institutional investors and deploys i...
What Is a Mutual Fund?
Nov 22, 2024 ·
A mutual fund is a way for a lot of ordinary people to own a small piece of fifty, or a hundred, or five hundred companies at once, without ...
What Is a Penny Stock? The SEC Definition
Oct 11, 2025 ·
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) defines a penny stock as any equity security trading below $5 per share that is not listed on a...
What Is a Recession?
Feb 22, 2025 ·
A recession is a significant, broad-based decline in economic activity lasting more than a few months. The popular shorthand — two con...
What Is a REIT? Real Estate Investment Trusts Explained
Mar 26, 2025 ·
A Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) is a corporate structure, codified in U.S. tax law in 1960, that allows a company owning income-produc...
What Is a Stock Buyback?
Dec 15, 2025 ·
A stock buyback, also called a share repurchase, is the transaction by which a company uses corporate cash to retire its own shares from the...
What Is a Stock Index?
Sep 17, 2025 ·
A stock index is a number that summarizes how a defined group of stocks is performing as a whole. It is built by selecting a universe of nam...
What Is a Stock Screener?
Jan 27, 2026 ·
The number of common stocks listed on US exchanges is in the low thousands; the number an individual analyst can read with any seriousness i...
What Is a Stock?
Jan 1, 2024 ·
A stock is a share of ownership in a company. Buy one share and you own a small slice of that business — with a claim on its assets, a...
What Is an Emergency Fund?
Apr 28, 2025 ·
An emergency fund is a cash reserve set aside to cover unexpected expenses — job loss, medical bills, car repairs, home emergencies &m...
What Is an IPO?
Feb 24, 2024 ·
An Initial Public Offering, or IPO, is the process by which a private company sells shares to the public for the first time. It marks the mo...
What Is an IRA? Traditional and Roth Explained
Aug 3, 2025 ·
A young couple sat in my office about ten years ago. He was 29, she was 27, both schoolteachers in the western suburbs. They'd just paid off...
What Is Compound Interest? The Eighth Wonder of the World
May 7, 2025 ·
You're 32, there's $4,000 sitting in a checking account that pays you nothing, and you keep telling yourself you'll start investing “w...
What Is GDP? Gross Domestic Product Explained
Jan 20, 2025 ·
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the total monetary value of all finished goods and services produced inside a country’s borders during...
What Is Inflation?
Dec 30, 2024 ·
Inflation is the rate at which the general price level of goods and services rises over time, eroding the purchasing power of money. At a 3%...
What Is Insider Trading?
Dec 8, 2025 ·
The phrase insider trading describes two distinct activities that share almost nothing except a name, and the analyst’s first task on ...
What Is Margin Trading?
Nov 8, 2024 ·
Margin trading means borrowing money from your broker to buy stocks, with your existing portfolio posted as collateral. Instead of paying th...
What Is Market Capitalization?
Oct 16, 2024 ·
Market capitalisation (or "market cap") is the total market value of a company’s outstanding shares. The formula is simple: current sh...
What Is the P/E Ratio?
Oct 24, 2024 ·
The price-to-earnings ratio, or P/E, divides a company’s share price by its earnings per share over the most recent twelve months. It ...
What Is the US Dollar Index? (DXY)
Jan 4, 2026 ·
The US Dollar Index (DXY) measures the value of the US dollar against a basket of six major foreign currencies. It was created in March 1973...
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