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Capital flow
Capital flow is the movement of money across borders for investment, measured gross or net, with direct investment (10 percent or more ownership) more stable than volatile portfolio flows.
Capital Fund Management
Capital Fund Management (CFM) is a French quantitative asset management firm founded in Paris in 1991 by Jean-Pierre Aguilar, running automated systematic trading across futures and equities.
Capital gain
A capital gain, also called a chargeable gain, is the profit from selling a capital asset for more than its adjusted basis, usually taxed on sale.
Capital gains tax
Capital gains tax, also called capital income tax, is a tax on profit from selling assets like stock or real estate, charged when the gain is realized.
Capital gains tax in the United States
United States federal capital gains tax: tax on profit from selling capital assets. Long-term gains (held over one year) taxed at 0%, 15%, or 20%; short-term gains at ordinary income rates; $3,000 loss limit; 3.8% NIIT.
Capital Group Companies
Capital Group Companies is a privately held, Los Angeles-based active investment manager and parent of the American Funds, managing roughly $3.6 trillion through its multi-manager system.
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Capital in the Twenty-First Century, also known as Le Capital au XXIe siècle, is a 2014 book by French economist Thomas Piketty arguing that wealth grows faster than the economy.
Capital International Private Equity
Capital International Private Equity (CIPEF) is the emerging-markets private equity program of Capital International, launched in 1992 and led by founders Koenraad Foulon and Lam Nguyen-Phuong.
Capital market
A capital market, also known as securities markets, is a financial market channeling savings to governments and companies through bonds and equity, with investors bearing the risk.
Capital market line
The capital market line is the line from the risk-free rate through the market portfolio that forms the efficient frontier when risk-free borrowing and lending exist.
Capital Medical University
Capital Medical University (首都医科大学), founded 1960 in Beijing as Beijing Second Medical College, is a key municipal medical university jointly run with the National Health Commission and Ministry of Education, with 22 affiliated hospitals, about 16,763 students, and #2 among Chinese medical universities in ShanghaiRanking 2026.
Capital mobility
Capital mobility is the degree to which financial capital can move across national borders, measured through saving-investment correlations, interest parity, and the volume of cross-border flows.
Capital murder
Capital murder: murder made death-eligible by statute in 27 US states and under federal law, defined via aggravating circumstances, tried in bifurcated guilt and sentencing phases under Furman-Gregg-Ring doctrine.
Capital of the Netherlands
The capital of the Netherlands is Amsterdam, a status required for monarch inaugurations since 1983. Despite this, the national government and parliament function in The Hague.
Capital on Tap
Capital on Tap is a London fintech company founded in 2012 that provides business credit cards and spend management to small businesses in the UK and US.
Capital One
Capital One Financial Corporation is a McLean, Virginia-based bank holding company founded in 1994, the largest US credit card issuer, which acquired Discover Financial Services in 2025.
Capital punishment
Capital punishment (death penalty): state execution of a person as punishment for a crime. 113 countries fully abolitionist by 2025; recorded executions rose to 2,707 in 17 countries in 2025, led by Iran, Saudi Arabia, and China.
Capital punishment by country
Capital punishment by country: legal status and use of the death penalty worldwide. 113 countries fully abolitionist by end 2025; 2,707 executions recorded in 2025, mostly Iran and Saudi Arabia; China data secret.
Capital punishment by the United States federal government
Capital punishment by the United States federal government is the execution of death sentences for federal crimes. It saw 13 executions in 2020 and 2021, and is being restored under the Trump administration starting in 2025.
Capital punishment by the United States military
Capital punishment by the United States military: death sentences under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. 15 capital offenses, presidential approval required, death row at Fort Leavenworth; last execution 1961 (John Bennett); Nidal Hasan's firing-squad execution pending.
Capital punishment for homosexuality
Capital punishment for homosexuality: execution for consensual same-sex conduct, once a capital crime in all thirteen American colonies and now imposed or possible in about 12 jurisdictions including Iran, northern Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Uganda, and Yemen.
Capital punishment for juveniles in the United States
Capital punishment for juveniles in the United States, the execution of offenders under 18 at the time of the crime, was barred by Roper v. Simmons (2005) under the Eighth Amendment, after Thompson, Stanford, and international treaty criticism.
Capital punishment in California
Capital punishment in California: legal penalty under the 1978 Proposition 7 statute; only 13 executions since 1978, last in 2006, under Governor Newsom's 2019 moratorium; largest US death row; documented racial disparities.
Capital punishment in Canada
Capital punishment in Canada: legal history from 230 British-era capital offences to abolition. Last executions 1962 (Turpin, Lucas, Don Jail); Bill C-84 abolished civilian death penalty 1976 by 130–124; military 1998.
Capital punishment in China
Capital punishment in China: legal death penalty for extremely serious crimes; thousands executed yearly per Amnesty estimates, figures a state secret; Supreme People's Court review since 2007; two-tier sentence with two-year reprieve.
Capital punishment in Europe
Capital punishment in Europe: Belarus is the only European country that retains and carries out the death penalty; all EU and Council of Europe states abolished it under ECHR Protocols 6 and 13, with no 2025 executions recorded.
Capital punishment in Florida
Capital punishment in Florida: lethal injection or electrocution at Florida State Prison. First state to reinstate after Furman (1972); 8-of-12 jury threshold, record 19 executions in 2025 under DeSantis, 30 death-row exonerations, no clemency since 1983.
Capital punishment in France
Capital punishment in France, ended by the loi Badinter (Law 81-908) of 9 October 1981 under Robert Badinter and Mitterrand; constitutionally banned since 2007 (article 66-1), with France campaigning for universal abolition.
Capital punishment in India
Capital punishment in India: legal death penalty under the IPC/BNS and 17+ other statutes, restricted by the Bachan Singh 'rarest of rare' doctrine; hanging is the sole method; 1,279 death sentences 2016–2025, 564 on death row end-2024, last executions March 2020.
Capital punishment in Iran
Capital punishment in Iran is applied by hanging under the Islamic Penal Code's hudud, qesas (retribution), and ta'zir categories, covering murder, drug offenses, apostasy, adultery, and security charges; at least 2,159 executions were recorded in 2025.