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| Mature market | A market that has reached a plateau this is charecterized by lack of large growth and innovation. |
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| MERs | Management Expense Ratio. The amount of money expressed as a percentage that you pay your broker annually for managing your mutual funds. You pay this fee whether or not you make money, and it is not uncommon for MERs to be upwards of 2.2%. |
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| Monetizing debt | The government pays off its debt by printing more money. This leads to inflation. |
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| Mortgage-backed security | Is an investment that is backed by a collection of mortgages. |
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| NAFTA | Abbrev. North American Free Trade agreement. |
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| Naked Option | is when an option writer sells/writes an option for a stock which he/she does not own. |
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| Narrowing the Spread | When the gap between the bid and ask price of a security is narrowing. |
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| National Debt | A nations debt to both residents and non residents. It can come from issuing investment products such as t-bills, Canada Savings Bonds etc... A popular belief is that a large national debt arising from issuing these products can lead to inflation. |
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| Natural Hedge | this is best described with an example. A Canadian-based company with operations in the US would have a natural hedge against its US dollar borrowings since all of its operations and sales in the US would be performed with local currency. Essentially it is protected against currency fluctuations by doing all of its US business with US dollars.
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| Net Asset Value Per Share | The market value of a share or unit of a mutual fund. It is the total assets of a fund minus its liabilities, and divided by the number of units outstanding. So the dollar value represents the value of one share of a given fund |
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