What Is a Bid?
A bid is an offer made by a buyer to purchase an asset at a specified price and quantity. It represents the highest price a buyer is willing to pay at a given time.
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What Is a Benchmark Index?
A benchmark index is a standardized group of securities used to compare and evaluate the performance of a portfolio, fund, or investment strategy.
What Is a Bar Chart?
A bar chart is a price chart that displays the open, high, low, and close of an asset for a specific time period using individual price bars.
What Is an Asset Class?
An asset class is a group of investments with similar characteristics, risk profiles, and regulatory treatment that tend to behave similarly under market conditions.
What Is the Ask?
The ask, also called the offer price, is the price at which a seller is willing to sell a security, along with the quantity available at that price.
What Is Appreciation?
Appreciation is the increase in an asset’s value over time due to factors such as demand, supply changes, inflation, or interest rates. It is the opposite of depreciation.
What Is the Advance-Decline Ratio (ADR)?
The advance-decline ratio (ADR) is a market breadth indicator that compares the number of securities that closed higher to those that closed lower over a given period.
What Is an Acquisition?
An acquisition occurs when one company purchases a majority or all of another company’s shares to gain control of its business and assets, allowing the acquiring company to make decisions without approval from other shareholders.