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Financial assets: Resources such as cash or loans that are needed to acquire real assets.

Financial leverage: Ratio of debt to equity or ratio of fixed financial charges to operating profit before fixed charges. Financial leverage is a financing technique that uses borrowed funds or preferred stock to improve the return on an equity investment.

Flag:A continuation price pattern generally lasting less than three weeks which resembles a parallelogram that slopes against the prevailing trend.

Free float: The percentage of stock that can be held by the public.