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Federal legislation that established the Federal Reserve System.
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The exchange rate available today to exchange currency at some specified date in the future.
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Author of this glossary. Finance professor at Duke University. Author of research on international finance, asset allocation, and emerging markets.
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One of the 12 member banks constituting the Federal Reserve System that is responsible for overseeing the commercial and savings banks of its region to ensure their compliance with regulation.
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In Eurocurrencies, a contract under which a deposit of fixed maturity is agreed to at a fixed price for future delivery.
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In technical analysis, a pattern that results where a stock price reaches a peak and declines; rises above its former peak and again declines; and rises a third time but not to the second peak, and then again declines. The first and third peaks are shoulders, while the second peak is the formation's head. Technical analysts generally consider a head and shoulders formation to be a very bearish indication.
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One of the twelve geographic regions served by a Federal Reserve Bank.
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Interest rate fixed today on a loan to be made at some future date.
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An equities market now dominated by sellers, or oversupply, resulting in falling prices. See: Overbought, resistance level, tired.
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The seven-member governing body of the Federal Reserve System, which is responsible for setting reserve requirements, and the discount rate, and making other key economic decisions.
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