Ulcers are aggravated by stress. The more you worry, the more likely you’ll start getting those searing pains in your stomach.
The appropriately named Ulcer Index attempts to quantify that situation. It's a technical indicator that tracks the level of downside risk in the market. It answers the question: how worried should you be that your investment is about to go south?
Not only does it attempt to answer this question, it tries to do so as precisely as possible. Like...with precise numbers that can be graphed and studied and plugged into algorithms.
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Finance: What are lenders?27 Views
finance a la shmoop what are lenders is that a bagel company hmm okay well maybe
it doesn't matter here lenders are the people and institutions
and countries who loan money banks are lenders they loan money for small [woman walks into bank]
business for big business and well everything in between
banks are big lenders they generally focus on large amounts for big
corporations and take their spread then you have savings and loans well they're
smaller more intimate local cousins of the banks and they focus on local loans
like your local flower shop needs 25 grand in credit but lenders also sell a [flowers in a store]
special kind of loan a mortgage for when you want to buy a home and the interest
on mortgages is distinctively tax-deductible your big brother can also
be a lender that hundred bucks he loaned you yeah is not like the hundred that [sister approaches big brother]
grandmama quote loaned you unquote ie Big Brother's long does not just get
naturally forgotten his alone carries interest in newgy penalties when it's [fist appears as sister smiles]
not paid back to lenders it's people who loan money lending loaning got in there
kind of related [sister being nuggied]
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