The Clayton Act, also known as the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914, was introduced to correct some of the inadequacies of the previously passed Sherman Act of 1890. The latter legislation was intended to deal with monopolies once they were found to dominate a given market. The Clayton Act changed the dynamic by outlawing some of the practices that would enable a company to become a monopoly.
Banks are similar to any other business inasmuch as they can fail or succeed based on the actions of ownership and management. What makes a bank failure different is the fact that it can have such a negative impact on so many other institutions and individuals. It is not like a mom and pop shop where closing would negatively affect only business owners and a few employees. When a bank fails, that failure has a ripple effect that can trouble the entire economy.
Absolute poverty is an economic measurement that determines an individual’s financial ability to obtain the basic necessities of life. It is also a measurement that used to justify investing monies to help developing countries and, in some respects, even the poverty-stricken in our own country. However, absolute poverty is not always a reliable measurement of need. Why? Because of the units used to quantify poverty levels.
Government officials and economists the world over have had great difficulty, especially in developed countries, in stimulating job growth to a material degree in their respective economies, ever since the millennium crossover. Productivity has continued its steady rise up the scale, but according to most economics textbooks, these gains are supposed to lead to more jobs, higher wages, and greater wealth accumulation, but such has not been the case for a disturbingly lengthy period of time.
The returns of shares are fortune that a shareholder gains directly because of his ownership of shares. It is the immediate cause for investors to deal with shares.
Index tracker fund (also known as index funds, tracker funds, and index trackers) is defined as a collection of securities that resemble the composition of an index. The most special feature of index tracker fund is that it buys all or part of the components in an index to build portfolio and adjust its ingredients while shares are deleted or added into the index. Thus its aims at replicating the movement of an index and obtain the profit at average market level.
A ‘Blue Chip’ represents stock with good reliability and profitability. And their impacts on the stock market are far bigger than other shares of smaller companies. So the details of blue chips are worth our study.
Quoted shares are shares that have been quoted on a recognised stock exchange. And the stock exchange is a service provider for traders and brokers when they are dealing with stocks, futures, options, bonds, and other securities.
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