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Shares are issued and traded on the equity maitet, either Furhiamantala are the qualitative and quantitative information through exchanges or over-the-counter markets. about a company, economy, security or currency. The euro (EIJR) is the common currency of states participating High-yield is often used as a shorthand for high-yield bonds. in the Economic and Monetary Union and is the second most important reserve currency in the world after the U.S. dollar. Initial public offering °Peg is a type of public offering in which shares of stock in a company usually are sold to institutional Periphery countries are less developed than the core countries investors that may in turn sell them to the general public, on a of a specific region. In the Eurozone, the euro per ipltei y securities exchange, for the first time. consists of the economically weaker countries such as Greece, Portugal,ltaly. Spain and Ireland. The interest-rate cycle is closely related to the economic cycle since interest rates tend to rise when economic growth and The European Central Bank tECB) is the central bank for the inflation increase and usually tall when the economy slows clown Eurozone. to boost demand and economic growth. The Eurozone, also called the euro area, is a monetary union of An investment grade (IG} rating by a rating agency such as 19 of the 2B European Union (EU) member states which have Standard & Poor's Indicates that a bond has a relatively low risk adopted the euro as their common currency. of default. Event-driven investing strategies seek to exploit pricing A knock-on-effect is the effect which an action will have on other inefficiencies that may occur before or after a corporate event, situations. such as a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition or spinoff. The potential return of an investment can be increased by using Exit markets describe the prevailing conditions the owners of a leverage in the form of various financial instruments such as company face when trying to sell their participation. options, futures, margin or borrowed capital. The Federa€ Reserve SyStem, which series as the U.S. central Liquicirty refers to the degree to which an asset or security can be bank, was established in 1913, consisting of the Federal Reserve bought or sold in the market without affecting the asset's price Board with seven members headquartered in Washington. D.L., and to the ability to convert an asset to cash quickly. and twelve Reserve Banks located in major cities throughout the United States. Lon /short equity strategies are investing strategies of taking long positions in stocks that are expected to appreciate and short The fedora! funds rate is the interest rate at which banks actively positions in stocks that are expected to decline. trade balances held at the Federal Reserve. In statistics and probability theory, a median is the number The U S. Federal Reserve Board (Fed) is the board of governors of separating the higher half of a data sample, a population, or a the Federal Reserve: it implements U.S. monetary policy. probability distribution, from the lower half. Financial crisis refers to the period of market turmoil that started Mergers and .acquisitions (M&A) are two key methods of in 2007 and worsened sharply in 2008 with the collapse of corporate consolidation. A merger is a combination of two Lehman Brothers. companies to form a new company, while an acquisition is the purchase of one company by another in which no new company Fiscal pchey describes government spending policies that is formed. influence macroeconomic conditions. Through fiscal policy, the government attempts to improve unemployment rates, control Momentum in general refers to prices continuing to trend. The inflation, stabilize business cycles and influence interest rates in momentum and ROC (rate of change) indicators show trend by an effort to control the economy. remaining positive while an uptrend is sustained, or negative while a downtrend is sustained. The Foreign Investment Promotion Board is a national agency of the Government of India, with the remit to consider and Moncton; pcilioy focuses on controlling the supply of medley with recommend foreign direct investment (EDI) which does not the ulterior motives of price stability, reducing unemployment, come under the automatic route. boosting growth etc. {depending on the central bank's mandate). eViatt ie..... 0 21 NaE, Aft'InCel eL01011IDOW.e.47 24.11S CONFIDENTIAL - PURSUANT TO FED. R. CRIM. P. 6(e) DB-SDNY-0119230 CONFIDENTIAL SDNY_GM_00265414 EFTA01459030