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  1. Voodoo Accounting

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  3. Financial Shenanigans

    Acts or actions designed to mask or misrepresent the ...
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    A buzzword used to describe the economic philosophies ...
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  1. Law Of Diminishing Marginal Productivity

    An economic principle that states that while increasing one input and keeping other inputs at the same level may initially increase output, further increases in that input will have a limited ...
  2. Closing Cross

    A price discovery mechanism on the Nasdaq that crosses buy and sell orders at a single price at the end of the regular market session. The closing cross sets the Nasdaq Official Closing Price ...
  3. Current Account

    The difference between a nation’s savings and its investment. The current account is defined as the sum of goods and services exports less imports, net income from abroad and net current transfers.
  4. Floor Broker (FB)

    An independent member of an exchange who is authorized to execute trades on the exchange floor on behalf of clients. Also known as a "pit broker."
  5. Delinquent Mortgage

    A mortgage for which the borrower has failed to make payments as required in the loan documents. If the borrower can't bring the payments current within a certain time period, the lender may ...
  6. Indenture

    A legal and binding contract between a bond issuer and the bondholders.
  7. Voodoo Accounting

    Creative rather than conservative accounting practices. Voodoo accounting employs numerous accounting gimmicks to artificially boost the bottom line by inflating revenue or concealing expenses ...
  8. Red Herring

    A preliminary prospectus filed by a company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), usually in connection with the company’s initial public offering.
  9. Customer To Customer (C2C)

    A business model that facilitates an environment where customers can trade with each other. Two implementations of customer-to-customer markets are auctions and classifieds.
  10. Indicative Match Price

    The price at which the maximum volume of orders can be executed at the time of an auction.
  11. Market-On-Open Order (MOO)

    An order to buy or sell shares that specifically requests execution at the opening price. Market-On-Open (MOO) orders can only be executed when the market opens, and at no other time during the ...
  12. Sticky-Down

    A figure that can move higher relatively easily, but only will go down with pronounced effort. The existence of sticky-down prices has been proved by numerous modern-day economic studies, and ...
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  1. Racketeering

    Racketeering refers to criminal activity that is performed to benefit an organization such as a crime syndicate. Examples of racketeering activity include...
  2. Lawful Money

    Any form of currency issued by the United States Treasury and not the Federal Reserve System, including gold and silver coins, Treasury notes, and Treasury bonds. Lawful money stands in contrast to fiat money, to which the government assigns value although it has no intrinsic value of its own and is not backed by reserves.
  3. Fast Market Rule

    A rule in the United Kingdom that permits market makers to trade outside quoted ranges, when an exchange determines that market movements are so sharp that quotes cannot be kept current.
  4. Absorption Rate

    The rate at which available homes are sold in a specific real estate market during a given time period.
  5. Yellow Sheets

    A United States bulletin that provides updated bid and ask prices as well as other information on over-the-counter (OTC) corporate bonds...
  6. Bailment

    The contractual transfer of possession of assets or property for a specific objective.
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