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American Municipal Bond Assurance Corporation definition explanation

What is American Municipal Bond Assurance Corporation?
The first municipal bond insurance company, formed in 1971 as a subsidiary of MGIC Investment Corp. of Milwaukee; now more commonly known as Ambac Financial Group, Inc. The American Municipal Bond Assurance Corporation insures new municipal bond offerings worldwide and is one of the leading firms in its field. A municipal bond issuer may purchase insurance coverage in order to increase investor confidence that principal and interest payments will be made in full and on time if the issuer defaults. Read more for examples and further explanation including related video clips and also comments
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Callable Certificate Of Deposit definition explanation

What is Callable Certificate Of Deposit?
An FDIC insured certificate of deposit (CD) that contains a call feature similar to other types of callable fixed-income securities. Callable CDs can be redeemed (called away) by the issuing bank prior to their stated maturity, usually within a given time frame, and at a preset call price. Read more for examples and further explanation including related video clips and also comments
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Morning Star definition explanation

What is Morning Star?
A bullish candlestick pattern that consists of three candles that have demonstrated the following characteristics:

1. The first bar is a large red candlestick located within a defined downtrend.
2. The second bar is a small-bodied candle (either red or white) that closes below the first red bar.
3. The last bar is a large white candle that opens above the middle candle and closes near the center of the first bar’s body.

As shown by the chart, this pattern is used by traders as an early indication that the downtrend is about to reverse. Read more for examples and further explanation including related video clips and also comments
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Weighted Average Rating Factor – WARF definition explanation

What is Weighted Average Rating Factor – WARF?
A measure that is used by credit rating companies to determine the credit quality of a portfolio. This measure allows rating companies to look at a portfolio as a single security, and assign it a single rating.WARFs are most often calculated by rating companies for collateralized debt obligations (CDOs). Read more for examples and further explanation including related video clips and also comments
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Inflation-Linked Certificates of Deposit definition explanation

What is Inflation-Linked Certificates of Deposit?
Federally insured debt securities that are similar to regular certificates of deposit (CDs), but provide investors with inflationary protection via annually variable interest rates that increase or decrease with changes in the consumer price index, a measure of inflation. Read more for examples and further explanation including related video clips and also comments
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Basel I definition explanation

What is Basel I?
A set of international banking regulations put forth by the Basel Committee on Bank Supervision, which set out the minimum capital requirements of financial institutions with the goal of minimizing credit risk. Banks that operate internationally are required to maintain a minimum amount (8%) of capital based on a percent of risk-weighted assets. Read more for examples and further explanation including related video clips and also comments
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Gartley Pattern definition explanation

What is Gartley Pattern?
In technical analysis, it is a complex price pattern based on Fibonacci numbers/ratios. It is used to determine buy and sell signals by measuring price retracements of a stock’s up and down movement in stock price.

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Weather Future definition explanation

What is Weather Future?
A type of weather derivative that obligates the buyer to purchase the value of the underlying weather index – measured in heating degree days (HDD) or cooling degree days (CDD) – at a future date. The settlement price of the underlying weather index is equal to the value of the relevant month’s HDD/CDD multiplied by $20. Weather futures can enable businesses to protect themselves against losses caused by unexpected shifts in weather conditions. Read more for examples and further explanation including related video clips and also comments
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