That's an excellent question, especially looking into factors that affect the return-generating process in the stock market-in other words, factors that affect the stock prices in a conventional sense: Market liquidity, length of the daily fasting period, especially contrasting summer months with winter months when Ramadan coincides with one versus the other, with the length of day being really longer during summer months.

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It was granted a monopoly on joint stock banking by Parliament in return for giving war loans to the government.

作为向政府给予战争贷款的交换,英格兰银行被英国国会授予,成为股份制银行的垄断者。

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I want to put down on this axis the return on the stock market and on this axis I want to put the return on one company, let's say Microsoft.

我把这个轴作为股票市场的收益,这个轴作为某个公司的收益,比如说微软

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A managed portfolio, you find somebody you think is really smart and you pay them a fair amount of money and in return they assert that they will pick winners for you, and in fact, you will outperform the stock market.

而代管投资组合就是说，你找一个你觉得很聪明的人,给他们一些钱,然后他们会说一定会帮你选出,赚钱的股票，实际上你会比股市整体表现要好。

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The other thing that I mentioned last time was that there seems to be a really big difference between the expected return on the stock market and the expected return on short-term debt.

上节课提到的另一条内容是,股票市场的预期收益,与短期债券的预期收益,存在着巨大差异

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