The Federal Reserve is the central bank of the United States of America. The main responsibilities of the Fed are:Ensuring stability in the financial systemRegulation of the banking industryProtecting...
The FDIC, or Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, is a quasi-governmental corporation created in 1933 alongside the Glass-Steagall act with the purpose of protecting deposits in financial institutio...
Fallen Angel is a term used to describe a firm that was once extremely popular, but has declined greatly in value. This can be due to difficulties within the firm, a lack of growth, market saturation,...
An exit multiple is one of the most commonly used terms in finance and it refers to the terminal multiple at which any given project will be exited. The most commonly used multiple is E...
Exercise date is part of an options contract and states the time by which the option must either be exercised or is disregarded. For European options, the option can only be exercised on the exercise ...
Execution is the term used for when any trade has been fully completed. If the order is going through a broker, the broker has the ability to determine (but also the legal obligation to obtain) the be...
An Exchange Traded Fund, or ETF, is a synthetic asset which is designed to track the price of an index or commodity. ETFs can be bought and sold on a stock market like any other asset, even thoug...
Exchange rate risk is the risk any investor takes on when investing in an asset that is priced in a currency other than their domestic one. The risk is that the exchange rate moves against them, eithe...
An exchange rate is simply the price of one currency denominated in another. It is always expressed as a currency pair. For example, the price of 1 Euro in US Dollars would be written as EUR/USD and w...
EV / Revenue is another one of the most important valuation ratios used in investment banking and private equity, used alongside EV / EBITDA and P/E. It is an altern...