Letâs say you buy an investment for $100, sell it for $10 and lose $90. That lost $90 is called your capital losses. Whatâs interesting about capital losses, however, is that you can actually use capital losses to help offset capital gains â past, present and future, and thereby pay less income tax.
syn: junction, juncture refer to a place, line, or point at which two or more things join. A junction is also a place where things come together: the junction of two rivers. A juncture is a line or point at which two bodies are joined, or a point of exigency or crisis in time: the juncture of the head and neck; a critical juncture in a struggle.
A nexus is a central link or connection. If you happen to be at the nexus of something, you are right in the middle of it, like standing in the middle of an intersection. Nexus entered English during the seventeenth century from the Latin word nectere, meaning to bind or tie.. People tend to use this word to describe the point where different things or ideas come together or intersect.