The declaration date is when a company announces its next dividend payment; it's also an option's expiration date. Once a dividend is declared, it becomes the company's legal responsibility to ...

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YTD measures stock performance from the start of the current year. YTD is used for clear, consistent start points in ongoing market activity. Using YTD alone can skew stock performance insights; ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Every investor enters the stock market with different goals. One may be a salaried person with a goal of multiplying a portion of the savings; one may be a person who just wants to invest for the long ...

Jennifer Simonson is a business journalist with a decade of experience covering entrepreneurship and small business. Drawing on her background as a founder of multiple startups, she writes for Forbes ...