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Doji
A doji is a candlestick pattern with opening and closing prices nearly identical, forming a line shape, signaling a balanced market with equal buying and selling pressures.
Dominican Peso (DOP)
The Dominican Peso is the official currency of the Dominican Republic, one of the largest and most visited economies in the Caribbean. It is strongly dependent on tourism, remittances, and exports of goods such as gold, cigars, and agricultural products. All of that commerce is conducted largely in US dollars; the exchange rate between the DOP and the USD is a daily economic concern for most Dominicans.
The peso trades on a managed float, not a rigid peg, with the central bank, the Banco Central de la República Dominicana, running monetary policy and stepping in from time to time to temper dramatic currency movements.
Over the decades, the DOP has steadily depreciated against the dollar, keeping Dominican exports competitive while discreetly eroding the purchasing power of ordinary residents.
Example: A Dominican household receiving remittances from a relative working in the United States regularly monitors the DOP exchange rate. When the peso declines, those dollar remittances stretch much further locally – a modest silver lining of currency depreciation that hits straight into the pockets of millions of households across the country.
Double Spending
Double-spending refers to the risk that one unit of digital currency can be spent more than once, effectively creating a duplicate and recycling the same money. It’s an issue that’s exclusive to digital materials. With a tangible banknote, if you give it to someone, it disappears.
Since digital information is trivially easy to copy, without the correct precautions, there’s nothing to stop someone from sending the same digital coin to two distinct recipients at the same time. Before Bitcoin, cryptocurrency was hard to construct. The main technical challenge was solving double-spending.
Satoshi Nakamoto’s breakthrough was the use of a decentralized blockchain with distributed consensus, ensuring that once a currency is spent and recorded in the ledger, all participants in the network can see it and reject any attempt to spend it again.
Example: Before blockchain, early attempts at digital cash struggled with this exact problem. A user could broadcast two conflicting transactions simultaneously, hoping one would slip through undetected.
Bitcoin’s proof-of-work made this extremely expensive; altering the transaction history requires controlling the majority of the network’s computing power, which, at scale, is nearly impossible.
Dove
Dove refers to a central banker, or any policymaker, who keeps interest rates low and tolerates a little more inflation in exchange for stronger growth and lower unemployment. Doves are more concerned about the actual economy, jobs, output, and credit conditions than about the price stability part of the mandate of a central bank—the reverse of a hawk.
Practically, the designations are slippery. The same individual may well sound dovish in recession and sound significantly more hawkish when inflation is beginning to get out of control.
The actual direction of movement is what actually matters to the markets, whether the committee in general is becoming more dovish or more hawkish, because this direction of movement drives expectations about future rate decisions, which in turn drives bond yields, currencies, and risk assets.
Example: In the years after the 2008 financial crisis, Janet Yellen was widely regarded as one of the more dovish voices on the Federal Reserve’s rate-setting committee. She continued to stress the amount of slack still in the labor market and that one should not take a leap by increasing rates.
Such positioning informed market expectations regarding the pace of any eventual tightening, with direct implications for bond markets and overall risk appetite.
Dow Jones Industrial Average
Dow Jones Industrial Average is the most quoted stock market figure in the world, as well as one of the most misconstrued. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is an index of 30 large American companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, names like Apple, Goldman Sachs, Boeing, and Coca-Cola.
It has been operating in one form or another since 1896, and that is one of the main reasons it receives as much airtime as it does. The methodology, however, is odd by modern standards.
The Dow, unlike most major indices, is price-weighted rather than market-cap weighted. Thus, a company with a higher share price has more influence on the index, even if it is much smaller.
That is an artifact of how indices were computed before the advent of computers. No serious analyst relies on the Dow as his main gauge of the market; the S&P 500 is much more indicative of what is going on in the market, but it remains the number that displays on the television screens when the markets are having a big day.
Example: When the Dow goes down 800 points in a session, the headline writes itself. What that number actually represents in percentage terms, normally something between 2% and 3%, is what most broadcasts omit, but it is what actually counts.
Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA)
One of the oldest indices that monitors the performance of 30 blue-chip companies in the US. It is a price-weighted index, commonly referred to as “the Dow”.
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