A

Abandonment
Absorbing cost
Abusive tax shelter
Abusive trust
Accelerated amortization
Acceleration clause
Acceleration principle
Acceptance ratio
Accommodative monetary policy
Account aggregator
Accounts payable
Accounts receivable
Accounts receivable factor
Accounts receivable turnover
Accrued interest
Accrued market discount
Accumulated dividend
Acquired surplus
Acquisition
Across the board
Active market
Active stock
Actuary
Adjustable rate mortgage
Adjustable rate preferred stock
Adjusted gross income
Adjustment bonds
Admitted assets
Advance refunding
Affinity investment scheme
After-tax income
Agency security
Aggregate option excercise price
Airpocket stock
Alien corporation
Alpha stocks
Alternative investment
Alternative investment market
Alternative minimum tax
Amateur or outsider investor
American arbitration association
American warrants
Amortization
Anchoring
Andean pact
Angel fund
Annuitant
Annuitize
Annuity
Antidilution provision
Antitakeover strategy
Antitrust immunity
Antitrust laws
Apocalypse stocks
Applied science stocks
Appraisal rights
A priori
Arbitrage
Arbitration
Arithmetic mean
Armslength transaction
Arrearage
Articles of incorporation
Asian dragons
Assessable security
Asset
Asset allocation
Asset backed securities
Asset management account
Asset play
Asset protection trust
Asset value per share
At a discount
At a premium
Auction contest
Auction market
Audit trail
Aunt Millie
Authority bond
Automatic investment plan
Available short stock
Average cost
Average yield to maturity


B

B shares
Baby Berkshire
Baby bonds
Backing and filling
Balance of payments
Balance of trade
Balance sheet
Balanced fund
Balanced investing
Balloon
Balloon interest
Balloon maturity
Ballpark figure
Bang for the buck
Bank Holding Company Act of 1956
Banker's acceptance
Bankruptcy
Barbell strategy
Bargain hunter
Bargain stock
Barron's confidence index
Basic earnings per share
Bean counter
Bear market
Bear raid
Bear trap
Bearing interest
Behavioral finance
Beneficial owner
Bermuda tax shelter
Beta value
Beyond the box business
Bid wanted
Bidding block
Big bang
Big five
Big three
Big ticket items
Bill and hold
Bingo
Black chip
Black friday
Black glasses
Black monday
Black-Scholes model
Blacked out "quiet period"
Blanked out
Blind pool
Blind trust
Block of stock
Blue sky laws
Board
Board marker
Board of directors

C

Cabinet crowd
CAC 40
Cafeteria employee retirement plan
Cafeteria office policy
Call bond
Call loan
Call of bonds
Call options
Call price of bonds
Call protection
Callable bonds
Called
Capital budget
Capital controls
Capital expenditure
Capital formation
Capital gain
Capital gain dividend
Capital gains tax
Capital goods industries
Capital growth
Capital loss
Capital market
Capital stock
Capital structure
Capital surplus
Capital surplus statement
Capital turnover
Capitalism
Capitalization
Capitalize an expenditure

D

Daily trading limit
Daisy chain
Data mining
Dawn raid
Day loan
Day order
Day trader
Day trading firm
Dead cat bounce
Deal
Dealer
Dealer concession
"Dear John" memo
Death future
Death tax
Debenture
Debit balance
Debt
Debt capacity
Debt ceiling
Debt financing
Debt service requirements
Decimal pricing
Declare a dividend
Deductible IRA
Deep discount bond
Deep discount brokerage
Deep pockets
Defensive stock
Deferred annuity
Deferred charges
Deficit


E

E-commerce
EAFE index
Early withdrawal penalty
Earned surplus
Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization
Earnings report
Earnings yield
EASDAQ
Easy money
Easy money policy
EBITDA
EBITDAM
EBITDAX
Econometrics
Economic growth and tax relief reconciliation act of 2001
Economic indicators
Economic profit
Economic value added
Economics
Economies of scale


F

Face value
Fair rate of return
Fallen angels
Fannie Mae
Fast pay
Favorable trade balance
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Employees Retirement System
Federal funds
Federal funds rate
Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999
Financial statements
Financial structure
Financials
Financier
Financing
Firewall
Firm bid and offer
Firm commitment
Firm market
First and refunding mortgage bonds
Freddie Mac

G

G-37 rule
Gap
Game theory
Gee whiz factor
General obligation bonds
Geometric mean
Gift tax
Gilt-edged investment
Give out
Give up
Glamour stocks
Glass-Steagall act
Global investment market
Global investment performance standards
Globex alliance
GM
Going concern statement


H

H shares
Halloween indicator
Hard assets
Hard ball
Hard currency
Hart scott rodino antitrust improvement act of 1976
Head fake
Headline inflation
Healthcare providers
Heavy hitter
Heavyweight
Hedge
Hedge fund
Hemline indicator
Hidden asset
High finance
High flier

I

Illegal dividend
Implied rate analysis
Import
Import duty
Import quota
Improvement bonds
Improvement fund
Imputed interest
In and out
In favor stocks
In registration
In syndicate
In the black
In the market
In the money


J

January barometer
January effect
January indicator
JASDAQ
Jewish engineering
Joint account
Joint account agreement
Joint bond
Joint stock company
Joint tenancy with rights of survivorship
Joint tenants
Joint venture
Journaling
Jumbos
Junior issue

K

Key performance indicators
Kaffirs
Kangaroos
Keogh plan
Key man insurance
Keynesian economics
Kicker
Knock-out option
Know your customer rule
Kondratieff cycle

L

Labor intensive
Laffer curve
Laissez-faire economics
Large caps
Last sale
Laggard
Late tape
Launder
Law of large numbers
Lay off
Lay up business
Leading economic indicators index
League tables
Legal age




M

Maastricht treaty
Machine tool orders
Macro fund
Macro hedge
Magnified tape
Maintenance costs
Maintenance fund
Maintenance requirements
Major swing
Majority of issues traded
Management information system
Manipulation
Margin
Margin account
Margin agreement
Margin call

N

Naked option
Naked position
Naked shorting
Nano corp
Nano technology
Narrow prices
NASDAQ 100 index
NASDAQ 100 unit trust
NASDAQ composite index
NASDAQ Japan
NASDAQ stock market
National bank
National Quotation Bureau
Nationalization
Near money
Near term investing

O

Odd lot
Odd lot brokers
Odd lot differential
Odd lot interest
Off board
Offering
Offering circular
Office of Compliance Investigations and Examinations
Office of Management and Budget
Office of Thrift Supervision
Offshore
Old economy
Old economy stocks
Oligopoly
Omega portfolio
On average


P

Package deal
Pac-man defense
Painting the tape
Paired shares
Panic
Paper profit
Par value
Parallel imports
Parent company
Participating preferred stock
Partnership
Passed dividend
Passive interest
Pass-through security
Payable date
Payable on new shares
Payable on present shares

Q

QQQQ
Qualified endorsement
Qualified opinion
Qualified stock option plan
Quality competition
Quant
Quant shop
Quarter
Quarterly fund review
Quarterly report
Quasi-corporation
Quasi-reorganization
Quick assets
Quick ratio
Quiet period
Quote


R

Rally
Random walk theory
Rare metals
RASDAQ stock market
Rate of return
Real dollars
Real estate
Real estate investment trust
Real estate mortgages
Real income
Real wealth
Reallowance
Recapitalization
Recapture
Receiver
Recession

S

S corporations
S-3 filing
Safekeeping of securities
Safety net
Salary deferral savings plan
Sale and leaseback
Sales finance company
Sales load
Sales to fixed assets
Sales to inventories
Savings and loans
Scalability
Scale down buying
Scalp
Scared money
Schedule K-1


T

Take time
Takeover
Tangible asset value per share
Tape trading
Target corporation
Tax abatement
Tax anticipation bill
Tax bracket
Tax capitalization
Tax cost basis
Tax deferred investment
Tax exempts
Tax haven
Tax loss
Tax losses carried forward

U

Ultra ETF
Ultra vires
Unacceptable accounts
Uncovered option
Uncovered short sales
Under-margined account
Under the rule
Under water
Underlying
Underlying bonds
Underwrite
Underwriter
Underwriting agreement
Underwriting discounts and commissions
Unearned dividend
Unfavorable trade balance


V

Validation board
Valuation
Valuation reserve
Value added
Value added tax
Value at risk
Value investing
Variable annuity
Variable costs
Variable life insurance
Variable ratio write
Variance
Vega
Velocity of money
Venture capital

W

Waiting period
Wallflower
Wall street
War chest
Warehouse receipt
Warehouse securities
Warrants
Wasting asset
Watered stock
Wealth effect
WEBS


X

Xetra

Y

Yankee bonds
Year-end dividend
Year end rally
Year to date
Yen bond
Yen carry trade
Yield
Yield advantage
Yield burning
Yield curve
Yield spread

Z


Z-bond
Zaitech
Zaraba method
Zeitgeist industry
Zero base budgeting
Zero beta portfolio
Zero coupon bonds
Zero coupon convertibles
Zero coupon security
Zero coupon split bonds
Zero downtick
Zero uptick