Company Profiles

What Is a Bullish Harami? A bullish harami is a basic candlestick chart pattern indicating that a bearish trend in an asset or market may be reversing. Key Takeaways A bullish harami is a candlestick chart indicator used for spotting reversals in a bear trend. It is generally indicated by a small increase in price…

What Is a Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC)? A Chartered Financial Consultant is a professional designation representing the completion of a comprehensive course consisting of financial educationexaminations, and practical experience. Chartered Financial Consultant designations are granted by the American College upon completion of seven required courses and two elective courses. Those who earn the designation are…

What Is Elastic? Elastic is a term used in economics to describe a change in the behavior of buyers and sellers in response to a change in price for a good or service. In other words, demand elasticity or inelasticity for a product or good is determined by how much demand for the product changes as the price…

Summary Senior Compliance Manager for Investopedia Over 7 years experience in financial products compliance Juris Doctorate (J.D.) from Northern Illinois University College of Law Jeremy has spent his career working on regulatory compliance initiatives related to the financial products that you use every day. He has worked with dozens of brands like Nerdwallet, Credit Sesame, The Points Guy,…

Walmart, Inc. (WMT) is the largest brick-and-mortar retailer in the world with about 11,500 locations in 27 countries worldwide. That’s a dramatic change from nearly six decades ago, when Sam Walton opened a single discount store in Rogers, Arkansas. Eight years later, the company went public and rapidly expanded. Today, the company operates an empire…

Hurdle Rate vs. Internal Rate of Return (IRR): What’s the Difference? When a company decides whether a project is worth the costs that will be incurred in undertaking it, it may evaluate it by comparing the internal rate of return (IRR) on the project to the hurdle rate, or the minimum acceptable rate of return…