Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• CAPITAL GAINS TAX - The tax levied on profits from the sale of capital assets. A long-term capital gain...
  
  
• CAPITAL GAINS YIELD - The price change portion of a stock's return.
  
  
• CAPITAL GOODS - Goods used by firms to produce other goods, e.g., office buildings, machinery, equipmen...
  
  
• CAPITAL GROWTH - The difference between the price you pay for an asset and the price you receive when y...
  
  
• CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT - in real estate, is any permanent structure or other asset added to a property tha...
  
  
• CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (CIP) - A five-year plan for financing long-term work projects that lead to...
  
  
• CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS - Expenditures that arrest deterioration of property or add new improvements and a...
  
  
• CAPITAL INFUSION - Often refers to the cross-subsidization of divisions within a firm. When one divisio...
  
  
• CAPITAL INTENSIVE - is used to describe industries or sectors of the economy that require large investm...
  
  
• CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INDEXES - Market indexes maintained by Morgan Stanley that track major stock mark...