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Gearing

Economy; Economics

A company's debt expressed as a percentage of its equity; also known as leverage. (See also capital structure and leveraged buy-out. )

Money that is held in one currency but is liable to switch to another currency at a moment's notice in search of the highest available returns, thereby causing the first currency's exchange rate to ...

Horizontal integration

Economy; Economics

Merging with another firm just like yours, for example, two biscuit makers becoming one. Contrast with vertical integration, which is merging with a firm at a different stage in the supply chain. ...

Horizontal equity

Economy; Economics

One way to keep taxation fair. Horizontal equity means that people with a similar ability to pay taxes should pay the same amount. (See equity and vertical equity. )

Hernando De Soto

Economy; Economics

A Peruvian economist who advocates establishing formal property rights for the poor to help them rapidly escape from poverty. In books such as The Other Path and The Mystery of Capital, he argued ...

Hedge funds

Economy; Economics

These bogey-men of the financial markets are often blamed, usually unfairly, when things go wrong. There is no simple definition of a hedge fund (few of them actually hedge). But they all aim to ...

Hedge

Economy; Economics

Reducing your risks. Hedging involves deliberately taking on a new risk that offsets an existing one, such as your exposure to an adverse change in an exchange rate, interest rate or commodity price. ...