Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• CAPITAL GAINS
  
  a tax classification of investment earnings resulting from the purchase and sale of assets. Typically, an investor prefers that investment earnings be classified as long term capital gains (held for a year or longer), which are taxed at a lower rate than ordinary income.
  
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