The payback period is how long it will take to recover money invested in a project, and the so-called straight-payback-period calculation is the simplest way of determining the project's investment ...

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Successful investing requires the ability to distinguish long-term trends from the short-term noise that moves stock prices on a minute-to-minute basis. One way to tune out the random oscillations and ...