Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). In securities trading, the letter R has a special meaning when added to the end ...

Investors’ demand for safe assets tends to increase when there’s more uncertainty, as in recessions. Consistent with this idea, short-term movements in the natural rate of interest, or r-star, are ...

R 0, pronounced “R naught” or “R zero,” is a mathematical term that indicates how contagious an infectious disease is. It’s also referred to as the reproduction number. R 0 of 1 means an infection in ...