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fundamentals | Business English

fundamentals
noun[ plural ]
 ECONOMICS, FINANCEuk /ˌfʌndəˈmentəlz/us
basic financial facts that show whether a business and its shares, etc. or an economy and its currency, are strong and successful:
Share prices have risen across Asia as fundamentals improve.
Global uncertainty is unlikely to become more serious, as the underlying fundamentals remain solid.
strong/sound/positive fundamentals
business/economic/market fundamentals

Examples of fundamentals

fundamentals
A task of social scientists is to explain the differing outcomes in terms of economic 'fundamentals'.
In segmented markets economies, then, shocks affect the previous rates not only through their standard full participation fundamentals, but also through the segmentation rate.
Because the parties were so close on the fundamentals, the campaign was destined to be fought around images.
These constants can be found only after the differential systems for the fundamentals, adjoint, first harmonic, mean flow correction functions have been solved numerically.
The fundamentals include modularity, anticipation of change, generality and an incremental approach.
Understanding design fundamentals: how synthesis and analysis drive creativity, resulting in emergence.
These underpinning fundamentals are well explained using simple diagrams and examples.
If economic fundamentals are not changing very much from year to year, why are capital asset returns so volatile?
Changes in fundamentals, on the other hand, do not seem to be nearly so pronounced.
It is only possible to conclude that there is some relationship between the exchange rate and its fundamentals, but it is not stable over time.
This two-week camp, designed for students aged 12-17 years of age, teaches the fundamentals of technology-enhanced music composition.
An important feature of the model is that it is possible to explain large movements in prices with small movements in the fundamentals.
Yet it has long been observed that asset prices have higher volatility than the underlying fundamentals.
It is devoted to the fundamentals of the theory, rather than applications, as treated from the point of view of continuum fluid mechanics.
This latter term may be strictly positive if investors have self-fulfilling expectations that the price will rise by more than is justified by the fundamentals.
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