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  2. Art Fund - Wikipedia

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    Art Fund sponsors the Museum of the Year award (known as the Gulbenkian Prize from 2003 to 2007 and the Art Fund Prize from 2008 to 2012). This is a £100,000 prize awarded annually to the museum or gallery that had the most imaginative, innovative or popular project during the previous year. [11]

  3. The National Fund - Wikipedia

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    The National Fund is a British charity whose purpose is to pay off the United Kingdom national debt in full. [1] The value of the fund stood at £519,707,831 on 5 April 2019, [2] an increase of £20.9 million on the year before. [3] The fund was set up in 1928 with a £500,000 anonymous donation. In 2019 the Government confirmed that it "does ...

  4. Federal funds rate - Wikipedia

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    Reducing the federal funds rate makes money cheaper, allowing an influx of credit into the economy through all types of loans. The charts referenced below show the relation between S&P 500 and interest rates. July 13, 1990 – Sept 4, 1992: 8.00–3.00% (Includes 1990–1991 recession) Feb 1, 1995 – Nov 17, 1998: 6.00–4.75

  5. Open-high-low-close chart - Wikipedia

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    An open-high-low-close chart (also OHLC) is a type of chart typically used in Technical analysis to illustrate movements in the price of a financial instrument over time. Each vertical line on the chart shows the price range (the highest and lowest prices) over one unit of time, e.g., one day or one hour. Tick marks project from each side of ...

  6. Candlestick chart - Wikipedia

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    Candlestick charts are a visual aid for decision making in stock, foreign exchange, commodity, and option trading. By looking at a candlestick, one can identify an asset's opening and closing prices, highs and lows, and overall range for a specific time frame. [8] Candlestick charts serve as a cornerstone of technical analysis.

  7. Private equity fund - Wikipedia

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    Private equity fund. A private equity fund (abbreviated as PE fund) is a collective investment scheme used for making investments in various equity (and to a lesser extent debt) securities according to one of the investment strategies associated with private equity . Private equity funds are typically limited partnerships with a fixed term of ...

  8. Stock market index - Wikipedia

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    The NASDAQ spiked during the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s, a result of the large number of technology companies on that index. In finance, a stock index, or stock market index, is an index that measures the performance of a stock market, or of a subset of a stock market. It helps investors compare current stock price levels with past prices ...

  9. Index fund - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, mutual funds price their assets by their current value every business day, usually at 4:00 p.m. Eastern time, when the New York Stock Exchange closes for the day. Index ETFs, in contrast, are priced during normal trading hours, usually 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern time.