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HARD PEG: Establishing a fixed exchange rate between one national currency (usually that of a small country) and another national currency (usually that of an industrial power). One country, in other words, "pegs" the value of its currency to the value of another currency. This is commonly done by countries with a history of monetary instability is used as a means of restoring and maintaining order. This U.S. dollar is frequently used for a hard peg by other smaller nations. The result of a hard peg is to eliminate control by the pegging nation and relying on the actions of the targeting nation.
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HERFINDAHL INDEX A measure of concentration of the production in an industry calculated as the sum of the squares of market shares for each firm. This is one method of summarizing the degree to which an industry is oligopolistic and the concentration of market control held by the largest firms in the industry. Two other measures of industry concentration are the four-firm concentration ratio and the eight-firm concentration ratio.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a crowded estate auction trying to buy either a small palm tree that will fit on your coffee table or several magazines on fashion design. Be on the lookout for broken fingernail clippers.
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General Electric is the only stock from the original 1896 Dow Jones Industrial Average remaining in the current index.
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MGF
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