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  • Advance monthly sales
    The U.S. Census Bureau conducts the Advance Monthly Retail Trade and Food Services Survey (MARTS) to provide an early estimate of monthly sales by kind of business for retail and food service firms located in the United States. Each month, questionnaires are mailed to a probability sample of approximately 5,000 employer firms selected from the larger Monthly Retail Trade Survey (MRTS). Firms respo
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  • Affiliate
    means with respect to any entity, an entity that is controlled by a other company although the other company owns less than a majority of the other entity.
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  • Agents and Brokers
    Persons or organizations that act as a representative for others in negotiating contracts, purchases, or sales. Agents and brokers typically earn a commission or fee for their services and do not take possession of, or title to, any goods.
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  • ARPU
    Average revenue per user
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  • Balance of payments
    Record of transactions between U.S. residents and foreign residents during a given time period. Includes transactions in goods, services, income, assets, and liabilities. It is broken down into the current accounts (international), capital accounts (international), and financial accounts (international).
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  • Balance on current account
    Current receipts from the rest of the world less current payments to the rest of the world, formerly called "net foreign investment." Current receipts equal exports of goods and services plus income receipts from the rest of the world; current payments are the sum of imports of goods and services, income payments to the rest of the world, and current taxes and transfer payments to the rest of the
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  • Balance on goods and services
    Record of the difference between exports of goods and services and imports of goods and services. In the broad sense, this balance is conceptually equal to net exports of goods and services, which is a component of gross domestic product (GDP).
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  • Bonded Warehouses Manufacturing
    Warehouses that are authorized by the United States Customs for storage or manufacturing of goods on which payment of duties is deferred until the goods are removed into Customs Territory. These goods are not subject to duties if reshipped to foreign points.
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  • Brokers
    Persons or organizations that act as a representative for others in negotiating contracts, purchases, or sales. Agents and brokers typically earn a commission or fee for their services and do not take possession of, or title to, any goods.
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  • Business sector
    All corporate and noncorporate private entities organized for profit and certain other entities that are treated as businesses in the national income and product accounts (NIPAs), including mutual financial institutions, private noninsured pension funds, cooperatives, nonprofit organizations that primarily serve businesses, Federal Reserve banks, federally sponsored credit agencies, and government
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  • CE-marked
    A compliance symbol indicating that a product meets the requirements of the European Union (EU) directives that apply to that product. CE stands for Conformit?e Europ?enne, which means European Conformity.
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  • CFTC Commodity Futures Trading Commission
    Commodity Futures Trading Commission, an independent agency with the mandate to regulate commodity futures and option markets in the United States.
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  • Civilian labor force
    is the sum of employed and unemployed persons.
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  • Constant Currency
    Represents comparison eliminating the effects of foreign exchange rate fluctuations between periods.
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  • Consumer Price Index CPI
    The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the average change in prices over time of goods and services purchased by households. The CPIs are based on prices of food, clothing, shelter, and fuels, transportation fares, charges for doctors and dentists services, drugs, and other goods and services that people buy for day-to-day living. Prices are collected each month in 87 urban areas across th
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  • Corporate Integrity Agreement
    An agreement with the federal government whereby the Companys actions with respect to promotion and sales practices are reviewed and reported to the federal government for a period of time.
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  • Deflation
    What is Deflation? Deflation is constant decline in general level of prices, usually attributed to contraction of available money and credit. When the volume of money declines but quantity of products and services remain unchanged or decline on the lower level, results are higher lower prices (Deflation). Deflation is measured with CPI on the retail level and with PPI on the Wholesale level The Co
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  • Direct investment
    Investment in which a resident of one country obtains a lasting interest in, and a degree of influence over, the management of a business enterprise in another country. In the United States, the criterion used to distinguish direct investment from other types of investment is ownership of at least 10 percent of the voting securities of an incorporated business enterprise or an equivalent ownership
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  • Dividends
    Payments in cash, made by corporations to stockholders.
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  • Drop Ship Retail
    When a manufacturer drops a shipment off at a customers site, although a retailer makes the sale.
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  • Durable Goods
    Tangible products that can be stored or inventoried and that have an average life of at least three years.
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  • E-Commerce
    The sale of goods and services where the buyer places an order, or the price and terms of the sale are negotiated over an Electronic Data Interchange, the Internet, or any other online system (extranet, e-mail, instant messaging). Payment may or may not be made online.
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  • Employer Identification Number
    A nine-digit number used by the Internal Revenue Service for any legal entity that is required to file a federal tax return.
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  • Employment population ratio
    is the employed as a percent of the population.
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  • EU - European Union
    The economic and political union of 27 member states, located primarily in Europe. Member states of the EU (year of entry) Austria (1995) Belgium (1952) Bulgaria (2007) Croatia (2013) Cyprus (2004) Czech Republic (2004) Denmark (1973) Estonia (2004) Finland (1995) France (1952) Germany (1952) Greece (1981) Hungary (2004) Ireland (1973) Italy (1952) Latvia (2004) Lithuania (2004) Luxembourg (1952)
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  • Euro Zone
    means the region comprised of participating member states of the European Union that have adopted the euro as its legal currency in accordance with the Treaty of Rome of March 25, 1957, as amended by the Single European Act of 1986 and the Treaty on European Union, signed in Maastricht, the Netherlands, on February 1, 1992.
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  • European Monetary Union
    the Union formed by the 11 participating member states which introduced the single European currency known as the euro on January 1, 1999.
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  • Executive Management
    Chairman of the board of directors, chief executive officer, president, and chief financial officer.
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  • Exports of goods and services
    Exports of goods and services minus imports of goods and services.
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  • Factory Inventories
    inventories represent the value of the end-of-month stocks regardless of stage of fabrication (whether in the form of purchased materials and supplies, work in process, or finished goods). These inventories are valued at cost using any valuation method other than LIFO. Inventories associated with the non-manufacturing activities of your company are excluded.
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  • Factory New Orders
    A new order is a communication of an intention to buy for immediate or future delivery. Orders data are not collected from industries that have mostly immediate deliveries.
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  • Factory Shipments
    Manufacturers? shipments measure the dollar value of products sold by manufacturing establishments and are based on net selling values, f.o.b. (free on board) plant, after discounts and allowances are excluded. Freight charges and excise taxes are excluded. Where the products of an industry are customarily delivered to distributors or consumers by the manufacturing establishment (such as in certai
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  • Factory Unfilled Orders
    Generally, unfilled orders at the end of an accounting period are equal to unfilled orders at the beginning of the period, plus new orders net of cancellations received during the period, less net sales. This includes orders that have not yet passed through the sales account and funded orders (or portions of orders) for which the value of work done has not been reported as sales.
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  • FHA Federal Housing Administration
    The Federal Housing Administration of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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  • FIFO
    FIFO (first in, first out) is a method of valuing inventory where the first items of merchandise added to the inventory are the first ones taken out.
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  • Final Order
    means the final order of the Court approving the Arrangement, as that order may be amended by the Court at any time prior to the Closing Date or, if appealed (unless such appeal is withdrawn or denied), as affirmed or amended on appeal.
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  • Firm
    A business organization or entity consisting of one or more domestic establishment locations under common ownership or control.
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  • FOB Free on Board
    which means that the seller fulfils his obligation to deliver when the goods have passed over the ships rail at the named port of shipment. This means that the buyer has to bear all costs and risks of loss or damage to the goods from that point.
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  • Force Majeure
    An event that may prevent the company from conducting its operations as a result of in whole or in part by: Acts of God, wars, riots, fires, explosions, breakdowns or accidents; strikes, lockouts or other labor difficulties; lack or shortages of labor, materials, utilities, energy sources, compliance with governmental rules, regulations or other governmental requirements; any other like causes.
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  • Foreign Trade Zones
    Enclosed areas, operated as public utilities, under control of United States Customs with facilities for handling, storing, manipulating, manufacturing, and exhibiting goods. The merchandise may be exported, destroyed, or sent into Customs Territory from the zone in the original package or otherwise. It is subject to Customs duties if sent into Customs Territory, but not if reshipped to foreign po
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  • Frame Contract
    A non-legally binding agreement between two parties setting out their intention to agree on the precise delivery schedule and pricing terms in the future with respect to the supply and delivery of specified goods.
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  • G20
    The G-20 is an informal forum that promotes open and constructive discussion between industrial and emerging-market countries on key issues related to global economic stability. By contributing to the strengthening of the international financial architecture and providing opportunities for dialogue on national policies, international co-operation, and international financial institutions, the G-20
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  • G7
    A group of seven industrialized nations including Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, and the United States.
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  • G8
    The finance ministers and central bank governors of the group of eight countries consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, U.S. and U.K.
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  • GAFO Retail
    GAFO represents sales at stores that sell merchandise normally sold in department stores. GAFO includes the following kinds of retail businesses: General merchandise stores. Clothing and clothing accessories stores. Furniture and home furnishings stores. Electronics and appliance stores. Sporting goods, hobby, book, and music stores. Office supplies, stationery, and gift stores.
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  • Government consumption expenditures
    Expenditures consisting of compensation of general government employees, consumption of fixed capital (CFC), and intermediate purchases of goods and services less sales to other sectors and own-account production of structures and software. It excludes current transactions of government enterprises, interest paid or received by government, and subsidies. Related terms: Government consumption expen
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  • Government enterprises
    Government agencies that cover a substantial portion of their operating costs by selling goods and services to the public and that maintain their own separate accounts.
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  • Government gross investment
    Expenditures consisting of government purchases of structures, equipment, and own-account production of structures and software. It includes investment expenditures by both general government agencies and government enterprises.
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  • Governmental Entity
    means (a) any multinational, federal, provincial, state, regional, municipal, local or other government, governmental or public department, ministry, central bank, court, tribunal, arbitral body, commission, commissioner, board, bureau or agency, domestic or foreign, (b) any subdivision, agent or authority of any of the foregoing or (c) any quasi-governmental or private body, including any tribuna
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  • Greenfield
    New development project on previously undeveloped land that is built from scratch.
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  • Gross domestic income GDI
    The costs incurred and the incomes earned in the production of gross domestic product (GDP).
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  • Gross domestic investment
    The sum of gross private domestic fixed investment, the change in private inventories, and government gross investment.
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  • Gross domestic product GDP
    What is the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the market value of goods and services produced by labor and property within one country, regardless of nationality. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the standard measurement of the Economic Activity within one country. If the U.S. Economy has advanced by 2.8 percent in a year, it means the U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ha
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  • Gross national product GNP
    The market value of goods and services produced by labor and property supplied by residents, regardless of where they are located.
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  • Gross private domestic investment
    Private fixed investment and change in private inventories. It is measured without a deduction for consumption of fixed capital (CFC), includes replacements and additions to the capital stock, and excludes investment by U.S. residents in other countries.
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  • Hourly Compensation
    The measure includes accrued wages and salaries, supplements, employer contributions to employee benefit plans, and taxes. Productivity
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  • Hours Worked
    Hours data for the labor productivity and cost measures include hours for all persons working in the sector?wage and salary workers, the self-employed and unpaid family workers. Productivity
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  • HUD
    The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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  • Imports
    merchandise of foreign origin or domestically produced goods that are returned to the United States with no change in condition or after having been processed and/or assembled in other countries.
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  • In-license
    Acquiring the rights to a technology and the related know-how from an unrelated company or institution in order to further develop, commercialize or otherwise exploit the technology
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  • Inflation
    What is Infaltion? Inflation is constant and above average increase in general level of prices, usually attributed to rise in the volume of money. When the volume of money rises but quantity of products and services remain unchanged or increase on the lower level, results are higher prices (Inflation) and the loss of value of currency. Inflation is measured with CPI on the retail level and with PP
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  • Initial Public Offering IPO
    The initial sale of stock by a private company to the public. Initial Public Offering IPOs are used by the private companies to raise capital.
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  • Inventories Retail
    Merchandise inventories are the value of stocks of goods held for sale. The inventories estimates represent the value, at cost, of the merchandise available for sale as of the last day of the report period. Methods of valuation may vary according to the accounting practices of each firm. The estimates provided in this report are valued on a non-LIFO (last in, first out) basis. LIFO is a method of
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  • Inventories to Sales Ratios Retail
    The inventories / sales ratios show the relationship of the end-of-month values of inventory to the monthly sales. These ratios can be looked at as indications of the number of months of inventory that are on hand in relation to the sales for a month. For example, a ratio of 2.5 would indicate that the retail stores have enough merchandise on hand to cover two and a half months of sales.
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  • ISO
    International Organization for Standardization.
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  • ISO 14001
    An international standard for environmental management systems published by the International Standards Organisation in 1996.
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  • ISO 9000
    A family of standards and guidelines for quality in the manufacturing and service industries from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ISO 9000 certification does not guarantee product quality, it ensures that the processes that develop the product are documented and performed in a quality manner.
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  • Joint Bond
    An obligation guaranteed by a party (parent company, ... ) other than the issuer.
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  • Joint Venture JV
    A partnership between two or more parties with an agreement to share risk, profit and control, in a specific enterprise.
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  • Key Employee Executive Officer
    Employees with decision-making role within a company (Executive Officers, ...). Key Employees
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  • Labor force participation rate
    is the labor force as a percent of the population.
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  • Laws
    means all federal, state, provincial, regional, territorial, local and other laws, statutes, ordinances, regulations, rules, executive orders, and other official releases of or by any government, or any authority, department or agency thereof, in any jurisdiction in which the Services are provided or received, including the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and the Public Company Ac
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  • Leased Department Retail
    Leased departments are broadly defined as operations of one company conducted within the establishment of another company. Typical examples may include jewelry counters or optical centers within department stores.
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  • LIFO
    LIFO (last in, first out) is a method of valuing inventory where the latest items of merchandise added to the inventory are the first ones taken out.
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  • M1 Money Supply
    M1 consists of (1) currency outside the U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve Banks, and the vaults of depository institutions; (2) travelers checks of nonbank issuers; (3) demand deposits at commercial banks (excluding those amounts held by depository institutions, the U.S. government, and foreign banks and official institutions) less cash items in the process of collection and Federal Reserve float; an
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  • M2 Money Supply
    M2 consists of M1 plus (1) savings deposits (including money market deposit accounts); (2) small-denomination time deposits (time deposits in amounts of less than $100,000), less individual retirement account (IRA) and Keogh balances at depository institutions; and (3) balances in retail money market mutual funds, less IRA and Keogh balances at money market mutual funds.
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  • National income NI
    The sum of all incomes, net of consumption of fixed capital (CFC), earned in production. Includes both factor incomes and nonfactor charges. It formerly excluded nonfactor charges.
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  • Net domestic product NDP
    The market value of the goods and services produced by labor and property in the United States less the value of the fixed capital used up in production; equal to gross domestic product (GDP) less consumption of fixed capital (CFC). NDP may be viewed as an estimate of sustainable product, which is a rough measure of the level of consumption that can be maintained while leaving capital assets intac
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  • Net exports of goods and services
    Exports of goods and services minus imports of goods and services.
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  • Net government saving
    The difference between government current receipts and government current expenditures, national income and product accounts.
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  • Net national product NNP
    The market value of goods and services produced by labor and property supplied by U.S. residents, less the value of the fixed capital used up in production; equal to gross national product (GNP) less consumption of fixed capital (CFC).
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  • Nondurable goods
    Tangible products that can be stored or inventoried and that have an average life of less than three years.
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  • OSHA Recordable Rate
    The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration index that tracks the number of recordable work-related health and safety injuries and illnesses per 200,000 hours worked.
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  • OTC
    Over-the-Counter.
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  • Out-License
    Granting the rights to a technology and the related know-how to an unrelated company or institution in order to further develop, commercialize or otherwise exploit the technology
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  • Personal Consumption Expenditures PCE
    The goods and services purchased by persons.
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  • Personal Current Taxes
    Includes taxes paid by persons on income, including realized net capital gains, and on personal property.
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  • Personal current transfer payments
    Payments consisting of transfer payments by persons to government and to the rest of the world. Payments to government include donations, fees, and fines paid to Federal, state, and local governments.
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  • Personal current transfer receipts
    Consists of income payments to persons for which no current services are performed and net insurance settlements. It is the sum of government social benefits and net current transfer receipts from business.
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  • Personal Income
    Income received by persons from all sources. It includes income received from participation in production as well as from government and business transfer payments. It is the sum of compensation of employees (received), supplements to wages and salaries, proprietors income with inventory valuation adjustment and capital consumption adjustment, rental income of persons with capital consumption adju
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  • Personal income receipts on assets
    Interest income received by persons from all sources; includes both monetary and imputed interest.
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  • Personal outlays
    The sum of personal consumption expenditures (PCE), personal interest payments, and personal current transfer payments.
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  • Personal saving
    Personal income less the sum of personal outlays and personal current taxes.
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  • Producer Price Index PPI
    The Producer Price Index (PPI) is a family of indexes that measure the average change over time in the prices received by domestic producers of goods and services. PPIs measure price change from the perspective of the seller. This contrasts with other measures, such as the Consumer Price Index (CPI). CPIs measure price change from the purchasers perspective. Sellers and purchasers prices can diffe
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  • Productivity
    The rate of increased output for a given level of input, with both output and input measured in constant currency. These productivity measures describe the relationship between real output and the labor time involved in its production. They show the changes from period to period in the amount of goods and services produced per hour. Although these measures relate output to hours at work of all per
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  • Proprietors income
    Current-production income of sole proprietorships, partnerships, and tax-exempt cooperatives. Excludes dividends, monetary interest received by nonfinancial business, and rental income received by persons not primarily engaged in the real estate business.
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  • Recession
    In general usage, the word recession connotes a marked slippage in economic activity. While gross domestic product (GDP) is the broadest measure of economic activity. The recession is often-cited as two consecutive quarters of negative GDP.
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  • Rental income of persons with capital consumption adjustment
    Earnings from the rental of real property by persons who are not primarily engaged in the real estate business. It also includes the imputed net rental income of owner-occupants and the royalties received by persons from patents, copyrights, and rights to natural resources.
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  • Retailer Retail
    Business that sell goods in small quantities directly to consumers.
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  • Seismic Zone
    A regional designation pertaining to the anticipated frequency and strength of earthquakes based on historical information.
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  • Services
    Products that cannot be stored and are consumed at the place and time of their purchase.
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  • Short Selling
    The selling of a security in advance, that the seller does not own but expects to buy it later (cover the short selling) at a lower amount.
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  • Special drawing rights SDR
    Reserve assets created by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and periodically allocated to IMF members in proportion to their respective quotas. The IMF determines the value of SDRs daily by summing, in U.S. dollars, the values?based on market exchange rates?of a weighted basket of currencies. SDRs can be used to acquire other members currencies, to settle members financial obligations, and to
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  • Subsidies Subsidy
    The monetary grants paid by government agencies to private business or to government enterprises at another level of government.
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  • Supplements to wages and salaries
    Consists of employer contributions for employee pension and insurance funds and employer contributions for government social insurance.
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  • Tax Authority
    means any federal, state, provincial, regional, territorial, local or other fiscal, revenue, customs or excise authority, body or official competent to impose, collect or asses tax.
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  • Undistributed profits
    The portion of corporate profits that remains after taxes and dividends have been paid.
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  • Unemployment Rate
    is the number unemployed as a percent of the labor force.
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  • Unilateral Administrative Order
    A legally binding document issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) directing the parties potentially responsible to perform site cleanups or studies. Generally, EPA does not issue unilateral orders for site studies.
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  • Unit Labor Costs
    The measures of unit labor costs describe the relationship between compensation per hour and productivity, or real output per hour, and can be used as an indicator of inflationary pressure on producers. Increases in hourly compensation increase unit labor costs; labor productivity increases offset compensation increases and lower unit labor costs. Productivity
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  • United States Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
    A private-sector, non-profit corporation, created by the U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, to oversee the auditors of U.S. public companies in order to protect the interests of investors and further the public interest in the preparation of informative, fair, and independent audit reports.
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  • Wage and salary accruals and disbursements
    The monetary remuneration of employees, including the compensation of corporate officers; commissions, tips, and bonuses; voluntary employee contributions to certain deferred compensation plans, such as 401(k) plans; and receipts in kind that represent income. Accruals and disbursements differ in the treatment of retroactive payments. In the national income and product accounts (NIPAs), wage and s
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  • What is Deflation
    What is Deflation? Deflation is constant decline in general level of prices, usually attributed to contraction of available money and credit. When the volume of money declines but quantity of products and services remain unchanged or decline on the lower level, results are higher lower prices (Deflation). Deflation is measured with CPI on the retail level and with PPI on the Wholesale level The Co
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  • What is GDP
    What is the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the market value of goods and services produced by labor and property within one country, regardless of nationality. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the standard measurement of the Economic Activity within one country. If the U.S. Economy has advanced by 2.8 percent in a year, it means the U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ha
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  • What is Inflation
    What is Infaltion? Inflation is constant and above average increase in general level of prices, usually attributed to rise in the volume of money. When the volume of money rises but quantity of products and services remain unchanged or increase on the lower level, results are higher prices (Inflation) and the loss of value of currency. Inflation is measured with CPI on the retail level and with PP
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  • Wholesaler Wholesale
    A business that sells to retailers, contrators, or other types of businesses (including farms), but not to the general public (or at least not in any significant amount).
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  • Xetra
    An electronic stocks, funds, bonds, warrants and commodities markets trading system based in Germany.
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