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What is the Relative Strength Index? The Relative Strength Index is a technical analysis indicator that measures trading direction trends over the course of 14 trading sessions (on average) and calculates the degree of up and down percentages to determine whether or not the asset in question may be indicating an overbought or oversold signal.

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finance a la shmoop what are lenders is that a bagel company hmm okay well maybe

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it doesn't matter here lenders are the people and institutions

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and countries who loan money banks are lenders they loan money for small [woman walks into bank]

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business for big business and well everything in between

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banks are big lenders they generally focus on large amounts for big

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corporations and take their spread then you have savings and loans well they're

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smaller more intimate local cousins of the banks and they focus on local loans

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like your local flower shop needs 25 grand in credit but lenders also sell a [flowers in a store]

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special kind of loan a mortgage for when you want to buy a home and the interest

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on mortgages is distinctively tax-deductible your big brother can also

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be a lender that hundred bucks he loaned you yeah is not like the hundred that [sister approaches big brother]

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grandmama quote loaned you unquote ie Big Brother's long does not just get

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naturally forgotten his alone carries interest in newgy penalties when it's [fist appears as sister smiles]

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not paid back to lenders it's people who loan money lending loaning got in there

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kind of related [sister being nuggied]

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