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Cage is a slang term which is used in broker companies to describe the offices of the employees who receive and distribute physical securities. The name comes from the fact that such people hold the said securities in a cage in their office in order to ensure their safety.

Currency symbol is a graphical representation of the name of a specific currency that is used internationally and in the markets. The best representation of the currency symbols are $, €, £ and ¥.

Constant dollar is a calculation that is used to measure a performance of the dollar in one year to its performance another year. Due to inflation the purchasing power of the currency is getting weaker and in order to have a proper calculation and properly compare dollar values from different years a calculation for the constant dollar has to be made.

Circuitism is a term that can explain how the banks deal with and produce the money as well as how the firms hold their production and how their workers are contributing to the production and consumption and how that money, produced by the bank end up back in the bank as the result of the process.

Calgary dollar is local equity that was developed by the city of Calgary in Alberta province, Canada. It is an extremely interesting phenomenon as this financial system is fully integrated into the national financial system of Canada. The currency was initially introduced to improve economic relations and increase self-regulations of the city.

Consumer confidence is an economic tool that helps measure the strength of the economy through the eyes of its consumers. The index helps understanding the level of economy, using the level of optimism and the level of spending that is implemented by the buyers.