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Financial Buzz Words Terms

  1. A Ton Of Money

  2. Abacus

  3. Acquisition Indigestion

  4. Active Box

  5. Affluenza

  6. Air Pocket Stock

  7. Alimony Substitution Trust

  8. Alternative Investment

  9. Anatolian Tigers

  10. Angelina Jolie Stock Index

  11. Ankle Biter

  12. Anti-Fragility

  13. Asian Century

  14. Aspirin Count Theory

  15. Asset Valuation Reserve - AVR

  16. At A Premium

  17. Aunt Millie

  18. Away From The Market

  19. Baby Bells

  20. Baby Bills

  21. Baby Boomer

  22. Back Up

  23. Back Up The Truck

  24. Badwill

  25. Bag Holder

  26. Bag Man

  27. Bagel Land

  28. Baltic Tiger

  29. Baptism by Fire

  30. Baptism of Fire

  31. Barometer

  32. Bear Market Rally

  33. Bear Squeeze

  34. Bear Tack

  35. Bellwether Stock

  36. Best Of Breed

  37. Bid Whacker

  38. Big Blue

  39. Big Box Retailer

  40. Biodiesel

  41. Black Friday

  42. Black Knight

  43. Black Swan

  44. Blackberry Addiction

  45. Blind Pool

  46. Bo Derek

  47. Body Of Knowledge - BOK

  48. Boil The Ocean

  49. Boomerang

  50. Boomlet

  51. Boon

  52. Boston Snow Indicator

  53. Bottom Fisher

  54. Brazil, Russia, India, China And South Africa - BRICS

  55. Break

  56. Break Issue

  57. Buck

  58. Buck The Trend

  59. Bulldog Market

  60. Business Process Redesign - BPR

  61. Bust

  62. Buy And Homework

  63. Buzzword Bingo

  64. Capitulation

  65. Carbon Trade

  66. Cardboard Box Index

  67. Cash Cow

  68. Cash For Refrigerators

  69. Cash Is King

  70. Casino Finance

  71. Catalyst

  72. Category Killer

  73. Cats And Dogs

  74. Caveat Emptor

  75. Champagne Stock

  76. Chasing Nickels Around Dollar Bills

  77. Cherry Picking

  78. Chinese Wall

  79. Client Centric

  80. Clinton Bond

  81. Closing Price

  82. Club Deal

  83. CNN Effect

  84. Coaster

  85. Coattail Investing

  86. Cockroach Theory

  87. Coiled Market

  88. Cold Calling

  89. Commercial Year

  90. Commoditize

  91. Control Stock

  92. Cookie Jar Accounting

  93. Cool Beans

  94. Cooler

  95. Corner A Market

  96. Corporate Accountability

  97. Corporate Cannibalism

  98. Corporate Social Responsibility

  99. Corruption

  100. Corruption Perception Index - CPI

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Hot Definitions

  1. Winner's Curse

    Because of incomplete information, emotions or any other number of factors regarding the item being auctioned, bidders can have a difficult time determining the item's intrinsic value. As a result, the largest overestimation of an item's value ends up winning the auction.

  2. Glocalization

    A combination of the words "globalization" and "localization" used to describe a product or service that is developed and distributed globally, but is also fashioned to accommodate the user or consumer in a local market.

  3. Disaster Loss

    A special type of tax-deductible loss, similar to a casualty loss, where a loss has been incurred by taxpayers who reside in an area that has been designated as a federal disaster area by the President.

  4. Fool In The Shower

    The notion that changes or policies designed to alter the course of the economy should be done slowly, rather than all at once.

  5. Pattern Day Trader

    An SEC designation for traders who trade the same security four or more times per day (buys and sells) over a five-day period, and for whom same-day trades make up at least 6% of their activity for that period.

  6. Cost-Push Inflation

    A phenomenon in which the general price levels rise (inflation) due to increases in the cost of wages and raw materials.
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