A fancy term that means a country is self sufficient on the economic front. They do not need international trade to get everything they need...their domestic production does the job.
The term can refer to economy as a whole, or it can relate to a particular sector. Take food production as an example. A country like Israel might strive to be autarky as it relates to food because it is difficult to import into the country.
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Finance: What is a Sector Fund?5 Views
Finance allah shmoop What is a sect or fund All
right Well star wars and star trek captains are all
these barking about setting coordinates for sector for stat or
whatever they say That means urgent in the future right
We'll hear space here's sector four and it's Ah well
kind of a slice of space Ok now come back
to earth gently And as it applies to mutual funds
it's kind of the same notion that is A sector
comprises a particular discipline of investing Like think of it
like a slice of the s and p five hundred
Like one sector of the economy is banking Another is
tech Another is telecommunications And then there's oil and transport
And consumer durables in each of these areas has hundreds
of ways in which investors can invest in that particular
sector That is there are index funds that invest in
it Yeah Mutual funds hedge funds private equity funds Even
venture capital funds Each of whom has a particular discipline
or focus on lee in one sector More less so
why would you want to sector fund Well if you
believe that oil was about tohave an explosion in demand
the good kind of explosion Then you'd want to beam
or exposed to it financially at least to its upside
Then say you would technology which you feel has gotten
too expensive in the markets And its best days are
behind it It's A little like putting several of your
eggs into one particular basket because you really like that 00:01:30.519 --> [endTime] basket
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