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  2. Doomsday Clock - Wikipedia

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    Doomsday Clock. The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents the likelihood of a human-made global catastrophe, in the opinion of the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. [1] Maintained since 1947, the Clock is a metaphor, not a prediction, for threats to humanity from unchecked scientific and technological advances.

  3. There's a 12% correction looming for the stock market by the ...

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    Stifel warns of a sharp stock market correction by year-end, with the S&P 500 potentially dropping 12%. Chief equity strategist Barry Bannister said high valuations and speculative investor ...

  4. Ex-dividend date - Wikipedia

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    The ex-dividend date (coinciding with the reinvestment date for shares held subject to a dividend reinvestment plan) is an investment term involving the timing of payment of dividends on stocks of corporations, income trusts, and other financial holdings, both publicly and privately held. The ex-date or ex-dividend date represents the date on ...

  5. End of day - Wikipedia

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    Note the discarded papers on the floor. End of day (EOD), end of business (EOB), close of business (COB), close of play (COP), or end of play (EOP) is the end of the trading day in financial markets, the point when trading ceases. In some markets it is actually defined as the point in time a few minutes prior to the actual cessation of trading ...

  6. Foreign exchange date conventions - Wikipedia

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    If the spot date falls on the last business day of the month in the currency pair then the delivery date is defined by convention to be the last business day of the target month e.g. assuming all days are business days: if spot is at 30 April, a one-month time to expiry will make the delivery date 31 May. This is described as trading "end-end".

  7. ISO week date - Wikipedia

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    1981W begins three days before the end of 1980. 1981W has 53 weeks and ends three days into 1982. A precise date is specified by the ISO week-numbering year in the format YYYY , a week number in the format ww prefixed by the letter 'W', and the weekday number , a digit d from 1 through 7, beginning with Monday and ending with Sunday.

  8. Public holidays in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    In the United Kingdom, public holidays are days on which most businesses and non-essential services are closed. Many retail businesses (especially the larger ones) do open on some of the public holidays. There are restrictions on trading on Sundays, Easter and Christmas Day in England and Wales and on New Year's Day and Christmas Day in Scotland.

  9. Wall Street Crash of 1929 - Wikipedia

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    The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, Crash of '29, or Black Tuesday, [1] was a major American stock market crash that occurred in the autumn of 1929. It began in September, when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) collapsed, and ended in mid-November. The pivotal role of the 1920s' high-flying bull market ...