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Stocks Basics: Introduction

Stocks Basics: Introduction
Turn on the TV news or open a newspaper, surf the internet or listen to the radio, and you will probably come across some information about the stock market: “The Dow Jones closed at record highs”; “The S&P 500 is trading down two-tenths of one percent”; “The stock market is reacting to news from Washington.” The stock market seems to be everywhere in our daily lives, but what exactly is the stock market? And, what are stocks that are bought and sold on this market? What does it mean for you, for your employer, or for your country’s economy when the stock market had “a good day”? The answers to these questions are not always obvious once we begin to think about what stocks are. For example, you may have heard that owning stock means that you become an owner of that company. In this tutorial, we will answer these questions and more, often going into some depth to explain core concepts. Speculation, on the other hand, is akin to gambling. Stocks Basics: What Are Stocks?

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What Do You Mean, Investment? The word "investment" has become muddled with overuse. Referring to a stock or a bond as an investment is still in regular use, but now people make "investments" in their education, their cars and even their flat screen TVs. In this article, we will look at the three basic types of investment as well as some of the things that are definitely not investments - no matter what the commercial says. The Three Types of InvestmentInvestment, as the dictionary defines it, is something that is purchased with money that is expected to produce income or profit. Ownership InvestmentsOwnership investments are what comes to mind for most people when the word "investment" is batted around. StocksStocks are literally certificates that say you own a portion of a company. Your expectation of profit is realized (or not) by how the market values the asset you own the rights to. BusinessThe money put into starting and running a business is an investment.

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Théorème de Cox-Jaynes - Wikipédia Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Le théorème de Cox-Jaynes (1946) codifie et quantifie la démarche d'apprentissage en se fondant sur cinq postulats (desiderata) simples. Cette codification coïncide en fait avec celle de probabilité, historiquement d'origine toute différente. Le théorème doit son nom au physicien :en:Richard Threlkeld Cox (en) qui en a formulé la version originale. Cox formalise la notion intuitive de plausibilité sous une forme numérique. Les résultats de Cox n'avaient touché qu'une audience estreinte avant qu'Edwin Thompson Jaynes ne redécouvrît ce théorème et n'en défrichât une série d'implications pour les méthodes bayésiennes[2][réf. insuffisante]. Problèmes de validité de la démarche inductive avant Cox[modifier | modifier le code] Réserves de Bertrand Russell[modifier | modifier le code] Au nom de quoi affirmer, même de façon provisoire, que ce qui a été vérifié dans un nombre limité de cas se vérifiera aussi dans les cas qui n'ont pas été testés ? 1.

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