Category | Stock Exchange

What is a Gold Bar?

Posted on 18 October 2009

A gold bar is referred to as a gold ingot which can be bought, sold, or traded as an investment. Sometimes gold bars are also used to transport gold for manufacturing, since they are designed such that they are easy to handle. Gold’s is considered as commodity that waxes and wanes with the market, but it is felt by some people that…

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What do you know about Crop Year?

Posted on 17 October 2009

The period of time it takes to go from one harvest to the next harvest is known as a crop year. If crops are only planted once per year then a crop year can approximately a calendar year in length. However, in some climates within a calendar year there can be…

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What is a Sell Order?

Posted on 15 October 2009

In finance,a brokerage order from an investor to a broker to sell a quantity of stocks, shares, bonds, or other investment assets is referred to as a sell order. In order to instruct a stock broker there are a number of different types of sell orders that…

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UK Public Sector Net Borrowings Surge In August

Posted on 18 September 2009

The British government net borrowings for August was the biggest recorded on lower tax receipts.The Office for National Statistics reported Friday that in August, the public sector net borrowing totaled GBP 16.1 billion as compared to…

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Crude Oil Pushed Higher By Forex & Equity Markets

Posted on 17 September 2009

As better than expected US Manufacturing data pushed American markets higher, crude oil has gained impetus from the equity and forex markets to rise above $72 that it has reached in yesterday’s trade. When it is combined with the continually weak dollar, the Crude Oil price was floating, shrugging off mixed inventory data from…

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Dollar touches 2009 lows as Risk Appetite Increases

Posted on 09 September 2009

On Wednesday the U.S. dollar fell, as investors moved to riskier assets like stocks and higher-yielding currencies and now it has touched new low levels for 2009 against major currencies.Hopes for economic recovery has been supported by the rally in European and U.S. stocks, and together with the fall in U.S. dollar borrowing costs, it has encouraged investors to…

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