This page gathers the 1,494 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Finance”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples. Page 2 of 15: from “bear market” to “capital surplus”.
- bear market noun A stock market where a majority of investors are selling ("bears"), causing overall stock prices to drop. Often operationally defined as a…
- bear spread noun One of a variety of strategies involving two or more options (or options combined with a position in the underlying stock) that can…
- bearer bond noun A negotiable loan instrument payable to its holder (bearer) by the issuer according to preset conditions. The owner must safeguard bearer…
- bearish adj Characterized by or expecting falling prices.
- bearposting noun A media usage practice consisting of positioning oneself in expectation of market downturns and thus magnifying disagreeable outcomes.
- bed and breakfast verb To engage in a bed-and-breakfast deal.
- bed-and-breakfast deal noun The practice of selling a position on the last trading day of the year to establish a tax loss, and then repurchasing early on the first…
- bellwether noun A stock or bond that is widely believed to be an indicator of the overall market's condition.
- Bermudan adj That can be exercised on specific dates between the issue date and the expiry date.
- Bermudan option noun An option that can be exercised at specific dates between issue date and expiry date. Sometimes known as a mid-Atlantic option.
- best efforts noun An effort to sell securities without a firm underwriting.
- bet the jockey, not the horse proverb One should invest based on the management team behind a venture, rather than on the product or service being sold.
- beta noun Average sensitivity of a security's price to overall securities market prices.
- bid down verb To bid by offering low interest rates on a lien, such that the lowest bidder will win.
- bid wanted noun An announcement by an investor holding a commodity, currency, or security, indicating their intent in selling the product, and their…
- bid-ask spread noun The difference between the prices quoted (by a market maker or an order book) for an immediate sale ("offer") and an immediate purchase…
- billback noun The process of charging the client for a portion of the cost of resources that the client has used in order to recover the capital expense.
- binary noun Ellipsis of binary option.
- bip noun Abbreviation of basis point.
- black card noun An expensive and exclusive credit card that allows its users access to various luxuries.
- bleed verb To lose money.
- blind pool noun Collective investment (such as a company or syndicate) where the investors have little or no idea what is being done.
- block time noun The average time it takes for the network to generate one extra block in the blockchain.
- block trade noun A high-volume transaction in a security that is privately negotiated and executed outside of the open market for that security.
- blowoff noun A period of rapid and usually unsustainable increase (or, sometimes, decrease) in market prices.
- blue button noun An unauthorized clerk in the stock exchange.
- blue chip noun A stock or other investment that has a high price because of its perceived reliability.
- blue chip swap noun A type of international asset trading, common in South America, in which an investor acquires a foreign asset at a cheap local rate and…
- blue list noun A daily publication that details bonds offered for sale by dealers and banks.
- blue-sky adj Involving or relating to fake stocks and bonds.
- bluebird noun An unexpectedly profitable or large deal that comes to a salesperson with minimal effort.
- bond noun A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture.
- bond premium noun The amount that the purchaser pays in buying a bond that exceeds the face value or call value of the bond.
- bondwashing noun The fraudulent purchase and sale of bonds in a way that avoids interest payments and creates a tax advantage.
- bookkeeper noun A person responsible for keeping records or documents, such as of a business.
- bookkeeping noun The skill or practice of keeping books or systematic records of financial transactions, e.g. income and expenses.
- books noun Accounting records.
- boom and bust noun A pattern of high prices in a given market or in the entire economy followed by ruinously low prices, falling production, and bankruptcies…
- borrowback noun An arrangement in which an asset is sold or given to another, and then borrowed back from the trust or person to whom it was sold or given.…
- bottom fishing noun Buying, or seeking opportunities to buy, investment securities or other valuable properties at a time when markets are depressed and prices…
- bp noun Initialism of basis point.
- bps noun Initialism of basis point, ‱.
- break verb Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- breakage noun A service which is unused by a customer, such as an unredeemed gift card, which therefore represents a pure profit to the seller.
- bridge loan noun A sum of money loaned or borrowed for a short period of time in order to cover expenses until new expected funds become available.
- bridge note noun Synonym of bridge loan; a short-term financing tool that provides immediate cash to bridge the gap between two financial events (e.g.…
- Brigitte Bardot noun A back-to-back loan.
- broker-dealer noun a person, company or other organization that engages in the business of trading securities for its own account or on behalf of its…
- buck noun One million dollars.
- bucket verb To engage in an illegal practice where a broker confirms a client's trade order without actually executing it on the free market.
- bucket shop noun A stockbroking firm which takes small orders from clients and takes them on its own account rather than actually transmitting them to the…
- bucketer noun A bucket shop operator.
- buffer noun A reserve of funds set aside for use only when adverse circumstances prevail.
- builder noun Master artisan, who receives his instructions from the architect, and employs workers.
- bull adj Characterized by rising prices or belief that prices will rise.
- bull market noun A stock market where a majority of investors are buying ("bulls"), causing overall stock prices to rise.
- bull run noun A contiguous period during which a stock market is a bull market.
- bullet noun A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.
- bullet trade noun A secondary market trade involving the purchasing of an underlying asset already in the money, allowing the option buyer to capitalize on…
- bullish adj Characterized by rising value.
- burning noun The purposeful removal of certain number of coins in circulation, by sending them to a public address where the private keys cannot be…
- businessman's risk noun An investment made in the hope of long-term growth, or as a tax advantage, rather than for short-term income.
- bust verb To undo a trade, generally an error trade, that has already been executed.
- butterfly noun A combination of four options of the same type at three strike prices giving limited profit and limited risk.
- buy and hold phrase A passive investment strategy where an investor purchases an asset and retains it for many years, rather than trading it frequently.
- buy high, sell higher phrase Describing a momentum strategy where one purchases assets that are already rising strongly in price, betting that the upward trend will…
- buy in verb For the buyer of securities, whose seller fails to deliver the securities contracted for, to buy the securities from a third party and…
- buy into verb To buy stocks or shares of (a business).
- buy low, sell high phrase Commonplace investment advice, recommending that a prospective investor purchase an asset at a low cost and sell it later for a high price.
- buy order noun A request that a broker buy a quantity of a particular type of stock, bond, or other financial security.
- buy side noun The sector of the finance industry that assists investors and investing institutions in purchasing products from the sell side.
- buy the rumor verb To purchase an asset based on positive speculation or unconfirmed reports, anticipating a price rise before the positive development…
- buy the rumor, sell the fact proverb One should purchase an asset based on positive speculation before an expected positive event, and then sell it once the event occurs for a…
- buy the rumor, sell the news proverb One should purchase assets based on unconfirmed speculation or anticipation of positive developments, then sell upon official confirmation.
- buy when it snows, sell when it goes phrase Stock market securities can be expected to increase in value to a greater degree in the cold winter months from November through April than…
- buydown noun An accelerated repayment of the principal of a loan.
- buyout noun The acquisition of a controlling interest in a business or corporation by outright purchase or by purchase of a majority of issued shares…
- cable noun The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar.
- cag noun Initialism of compound annual growth.
- calendar spread noun An options strategy or position involving the simultaneous purchase and sale of options of the same class and strike price but with…
- call noun Ellipsis of call option.
- call option noun An option to buy a stated quantity of an asset or financial product, such as stock, at a stated price (the strike price), on a stated…
- callable adj That may be redeemed by its holder before it matures.
- callable bond noun A bond that can be called (redeemed) by the issuer prior to its maturity, on certain call dates, at call prices. On the call dates, the…
- callover noun The calling out of a list of securities on a stock exchange so that dealers can bid for them.
- canary adj That can be exercised on quarterly dates, a set time period (usually one year) after the issue date, and before the expiry date.
- candlestick noun A color-coded bar showing the open and closing prices of a stock on a candlestick chart.
- candlestick pattern noun A characteristic trend in prices shown graphically on a candlestick chart, sometimes thought to indicate a market movement.
- cap noun Capitalization.
- capital noun Money and wealth: the means to acquire or produce goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
- capital account noun An account in the net worth section of the balance sheet of an entity such as sole proprietorships and partnerships. In this context, the…
- capital adequacy noun Percentage ratio of a financial institution's primary capital to its assets, used as a measure of its financial strength and stability.
- capital asset noun An asset that is recorded on a balance sheet as capital - that is, property that creates more property, such as a factory that creates…
- capital control noun A measure implemented by a government or monetary authority to regulate and control the movement of capital across its borders.
- capital equipment noun Any single asset which has an acquisition cost of $5,000 or more and a useful life of more than one year, whether purchased outright…
- capital gain noun An increase in the value of a capital asset; an amount by which the value or the proceeds of the sale of a capital asset by its owner…
- capital investment noun Money that is spent on permanent assets (fixed assets) of a business, as opposed to operating expenses.
- capital loss noun A decrease in the value of a capital asset; an amount by which the proceeds of the sale of a capital asset by its owner are less than its…
- capital structure noun The way that a corporation finances its assets through some combination of equity, debt, and hybrid securities.
- capital surplus noun A balance sheet item under shareholders' equity. Increases by the value above an original par value per share that newly issued shares are…