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S&P
Standard & Poor's (S&P) is an American financial services company. It is a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies that publishes financial research and analysis on stocks and bonds. S&P is known for its stock market indices such as the U.S.-based S&P 500, the Australian S&P/ASX 200, the Canadian S&P/TSX, the Italian S&P/MIB and India's S&P CNX Nifty.
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Seasonal Adjustments
Seasonal adjustment is a statistical technique that attempts to measure and remove the influences of predictable seasonal patterns to reveal how employment and unemployment change from month to month.
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Self Employed
Any individual who has a 25% or greater ownership interest in a business is considered to be self-employed.
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Sell-off
The rapid selling of securities, such as stocks, bonds and commodities. The increase in supply leads to a decline in the value of the security.
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Sellers
Those looking to exit an investment or to open a short position.
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Senate Banking Committee
The United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (referred as the Senate Banking Committee) has jurisdiction over matters related to banks and banking, price controls, deposit insurance, export promotion and controls, federal monetary policy, financial aid to commerce and industry, issuance of redemption of notes, currency and coinage, public and private housing, urban development, mass transit and government contracts.
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Short Accounts
The aggregate of short sales on an open market, esp a stock market.
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Short Sale
A short sale is a sale of real estate in which the net proceeds from selling the property will fall short of the debts secured by liens against the property. In this case, if all lien holders agree to accept less than the amount owed on the debt, a sale of property can be accomplished.
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Sold-off
The rapid selling of securities, such as stocks, bonds and commodities. The increase in supply leads to a decline in the value of the security.
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Spanish
Refers to the country of Spain.
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Spreads
The difference between the bid and the ask price of a security or asset.
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Stanley Fischer
Stanley Fischer took office as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System on May 28, 2014, to fill an unexpired term ending January 31, 2020. He was sworn in as Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors on June 16, 2014. His term as Vice Chairman expires on June 12, 2018. Prior to his appointment to the Board, Dr. Fischer was governor of the Bank of Israel from 2005 through 2013.
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Stocks Are Up
US stock indices are increasing in price.
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Street
A street in lower Manhattan that is the original home of the New York Stock Exchange. The street is the historic headquarters of the largest U.S. brokerages and investment banks. Many have since relocated to other areas of Manhattan and the United States. Wall Street was named after the wooden wall Dutch colonists built in this area in 1653 to defend themselves from the British and Native Americans. When referring to Broker Dealers, it is common to group them together as "the Street".
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Support
The price level which, historically, a stock has had difficulty falling below. It is thought of as the level at which a lot of buyers tend to enter the stock.
Often referred to as the 'support level'.
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Support Level
Support is the yield level at which supply is not strong enough to prevent the yield to rise further.
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