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Above par
Above the line
Absorption
Absorption capacity
Accelerated depreciation
Acceleration clause
Acceptance
Acceptance credit
Account day
Account payee only
Account statement
Accounting ratios
Accounts payable
Accounts receivable
Accrued interests
Accumulated depreciation
Accumulation
Accumulation area
Acquired stocks
Acting agent
Active balance of trade
Active investor
Active market
Active partner
Adjustment
Adjustment bonds
Ad-valorem duties
(Advance (1
(Advance (2
Advance decline index
Advance in current account
Advance payment
Advance payment guarantee
Adverse balance
Adviser
Advising bank
African Development Bank
After market
After sight bill
After-date bill
After-hours trading
Agency fee
Agent
Aggregate demand
Aggregate risk
Aggressive
Aggressive growth fund
All Or None
Allotment /
Alpha indicator " "
Alternative order
Amalgamation
American Depository Receipts
American option
American Stock Exchange
Amortisation of a loan
Andean Pact
Annuity
Anti-dilution protection
Applicant
Approved securities
Approximate limit order
Arab Currency Related Unit
Arab Fund for Economic and
Social Development
Arab Monetary Fund
Arbitrage
Arbitrageur
Around
Arrangement fees
Articles of association
Asian Currency Unit
Asian Development Bank
Asian dollar
Asian option
Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation
Asked
Asociacin Latino-Americana de Integracin
/ Asset allocation
/ Asset backed securities
/
Asset management
Asset manager
Asset stripping
Assets
Assignee
Assignment
Assignor
Association of South East Asian Nations
Association of Coffee Producing Countries
At a backwardation
At a contango
At a discount
At a premium
At best
At call deposit
At or better
At par
At sight bill
At the close
At the market
At the money
At the opening
At your risk
Auction
Audit
Aussie
Authorized capital
Automated teller machine
Automatic reinvestment
Average
Average balance
Average stock
Averaging down
Averaging up
Away
Baby bang
Back end load
Back office
Back to back credit
Back up lines
Backing support
(Backwardation (1
(Backwardation (2
Bad debt
Balance
Balance of payment
Balance of trade
Balance sheet
Balance sheet analysis
Balance sheet ratios
Balanced fund
Balloon credit
Band
Bank bill
Bank draft
Bank float
Bank for International Settlement
Bank of England
Bank of Japan
Bank rate
Bankers acceptance
Banking secrecy
Bankruptcy
Bar
Barometer
Barter
Base currency
Base price
Base rate
Base year
Basic balance
Basic value investing
Basis point
(Bear (1
(Bear (2
/ Bear sale
Bearer security
Bearish market
Bed and breakfast deal
Beige book
Bellwether values
Below par
Below the line
Benchmark price
Best effort
Beta coefficient
/ Bid and asked
/ Bid bond
/ Bid price
Big Bang
- Big Board
Big four
Big market
Bill auction
Bill of exchange
Bill of lading
Black economy
Black friday
Black market
Black monday
Black Sea Economic Cooperation
Organization
Black thursday
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Blank check
Blank endorsement
Blanket credit line
Block
Blocked currency
Blotter
/ Blue chips
Blue-Sky Laws
Board lot
Board order
Bona fide clause
Bond
Bond calendar
Bond certificate
Bond dealer
Bond fund
Bond issue
Bond rating
Bond room
Bond transfer
Bond warrant
Bond yield
Bonds with put
Bons Taux Annuel Normalis
Bons Taux Fixe
Bons du Trsor
Bonus issue
Book runner
Book squaring
Book value
Booking abroad
Boom
Borrow short and lend long
Borrowing power
Borrowing requirements
Bottom line
Bottom out
Bottom up
Bought deal
Bounced cheque
Bourse
(Bracket (1
(Bracket (2
Break
Break out
Breakeven point
Bretton Woods Era
Bretton-Woods Agreement
Bridging loan
Broad market
Broadcast
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Broker
Broker loan rate
Brokerage fees
Brokerage house
Buba
Budget
Budget financing
Buffer stock
Build Operate Transfer
Building permits
(Bull (1
(Bull (2
Bulldog bonds
Bullet
Bullion market
Bullish market
Bundesbank
Bunds
Business cycle
Business inventories
Buy a call
Buy and hold
(Buy back (1
(Buy back (2
/ Buy on margin
Buy on reaction
Buyers credit
Buyers market
Buyers over
Buying signal
Cable
CAC 40 40
Cairns group
Call feature
Call loan
Call money
Call of capital
Call option
Call or more
Call premium
Call protection
Call rate
Callable bonds
Callable capital
Callable loan
Called up capital
Cambist
Cap
Capacity utilization
Capital adequacy ratio
Capital employed
Capital evasion
Capital expenditure
Capital formation
Capital gains
Capital goods
Capital increase
Capital inflow
Capital intensive
Capital investment
Capital market
Capital outflow
Capitalisation of interest
Capitalization
Capitalization fund
Carry a position /
Carry over
Carrying costs
Cartagena group
Carter bond
Cash against documents
Cash card
Cash dispenser
Cash equivalents
Cash flow
Cash flow squeeze
Cash management
Cash margin /
Cash market
Cash ratio
Cash settlement
Central bank .
Central rate
Central reserve system
Central risk
Cedel
Certificate of deposits
Certificate of origin
Certified check
CFA franc
CFP franc
Charter - party .
Charter - party bill of lading
Chartism
Charts
Cheap money
Check the market
Check to bearer
Check to order
Chicago Board of Trade
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Chicago school
Choice price
Circuit breaker
Circulating assets
City ""
Claim to money
Claused bill of lading
Clean bill of lading
Clean draft
Clearing house
Clearing House Automated Payment System
Clearing House Interbank Payment System
Cliquet option
Close a position /
Closed company
Closed economy
Closed-end investment company
Closing day
Closing price
Closing range
Club loan
Co-financing
Coincident indicators
Co-lead manager
Collar
Collateral /
Collection charges
Co-manager
COB
Commercial paper
Commitment fee / /
Commodities
Commodity broker
Commodity futures
Commodity futures market
Commodity option
Commodity Stabilization Agreement
Common Agricultural Policy
Common law -
Common market
Common stocks
Commonwealth of Independent States /
Concerted intervention
Conditionality
Conditions precedent
Confidence index
Confirmation
Cost-push inflation
Council of Arab Economic Unity
Counter check
Counter cyclical stocks
Counter trade
Counterparty
Counterparty risk
Countervailing duties
Country limit
Country risk
- Coupon
Covenants
Cover
/ / Credit
Credit ceiling
Credit crunch
Credit facility
Credit line
Credit outstanding
Credit overdrawing
- Credit rating
Credit reins
Credit risk
Credit scoring
Credit squeeze
Credit standing
Credit watch
- - Credit worthiness
Creditor nation
Creeping inflation
Cross default clause
Cross on the board
Cross rate
Crossed check
Cum coupon
Cum dividend
Cumulative preference stocks
Currency availability clause
Currency band
Currency clause
Currency option clause
/ Currency swap
Current account
/ Current assets
/ Current liabilities
Current maturities
Current ratio
Current yield
/ / Custodian
/ / / Custodian fees
Customs union
Cyclical stocks
Damyo
Dated security
Dawn raid
Dax 30 30
Day order
Day to day money
Day trader
Days of grace
Dead account
Dead loans
- Dealer
Dear money
Debentures
Debit ratio
Debt buy- back
Debt commodity swap
Debt equity swap
Debt financing
Debt instrument
Debt rescheduling
Debt security
Debt servicing
Debt servicing ratio
Debt to equity ratio
Debtor nation
Declaration date
Declaration date
Decline
Declining balance depreciation
Deed of transfer
Deed of arrangement
Deed of trust
Deep discount
Default of payment
Defeasance
Defense Packman
Defensive stocks
Deferred payment credit
Deferred sales charges
Deferred shares
Deficit
Deficit Financing
Deflation /
Deflator
Delisting
Demand deposits
Demand-pull inflation
Dematerialisation
Deposit account
(Depreciation (assets ( )
(Depreciation (value ( )
Depreciation fund
Depressed market
Depression
Depth of the market
Deregulation /
Derivatives
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Devaluation
Developing countries
Development Assistance Committee
Differential tariff
Dilution
Direct costs
Direct placement
Direct quotation
Direct taxation
Dirty money
Discount /
Discount bond
Discount broker /
Discount rate
Discount window
Discounted cash-flow
Discounted value
Discretionary account /
/
Discretionary portfolio
Disintermediation
Distributed profits
Distribution
Distribution policy
Diversification
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Dividend
Documentary bill
Documentary collection
Documentary credit
Documentation
Documents
Documents against Acceptance
Documents against Payment
Dollar block
Dollar cost averaging
Dollar gap
Domestic bond
Domiciliation
Dormant account
Dormant partner
Double bottom
Double call
Double premium
Double taxation agreement
Double top
Dow Jones Composite Average
Dow Jones Industrial Average
Dow Jones Transportation Average
Dow Jones Utility Average
Dow Theory " "
Downgrading
Drop lock bonds
Dual currency bonds
Due date
Due diligence review
Dull market
Dumping
Durable goods orders
Dutch auction /
Early redemption
Earning power
Earnings per share
Easy money
Economic and Monetary Union
Economic and Social Commission
for Western Asia
Economic Community of West
African States
Economic Cooperation Organization
Economic growth
Economic indicators
Effective rate
Efficient portfolio
Either way
Elasticity
Electronic Fund Transfer Systems
Eligible papers
Emerging markets
Employment
Endorsee
Endorsement
Endorser
Entry cost /
Entry fees
Equalisation tax
Equilibrium
Equipment trust certificates
Equity capital
Equity financing
Equity fund
Equity warrant
Erratic market
Escalator clause
Escrow
Euro
Eurobonds
Euro-Certificate of Deposit
Eurocheque system
Euroclear
Eurocredit
Eurocurrency
Eurodollar
Euro-issue
Eurolist
Euromarkets
Euronotes
European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development
European Community
European Currency Unit
European Economic Area
European Economic Community
European Free Trade Association
European Investment Bank
European Monetary Cooperation Fund
European Monetary Institute
European Monetary System
European option
European Union
EURO-TOP 100 100
EURO-TRACK 100 100
Events of default
Ex quay
Ex-ante
Excess liquidity
Excess reserves
Exchange control
Exchange rate
Exchange Rate Mechanism
Exchequer bills
Exchequer bonds
Ex-coupon /
Ex-dividend
Execution by outcry
Exercise
/ Exercise price
Ex-factory
Exit bonds
Exit fees
Exotic currencies
Expiring contract
Expiry date
Date de liquidation
Export credit
Export price index
Export quota
(Exposure (1
(Exposure (2
Ex-rights
Ex-ship
Extendable security
Extended Fund Facility
Extensible
External accounts
External audit
Extra-dividends
Extremes
Economic Commission for
Latin America and the Caribbean
Face value
Facilities
Facilities of payment
Facility fee
Factoring
Factory good orders
Family of funds
Fannie mae
Feasibility study
FED funds rate
FED watcher
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Firm market
Firm offer
Firm order
Firm quote
Firm underwriting
Fiscal agent
Fiscal policy /
Fiscal year
Fixed assets
Fixed capital
Fixed deposit
Fixed exchange rate
Fixed income
Fixed rate
Flat commission
Flat income bond
Flat market
Flight to quality
Float
Float a currency
Float an issue
Floater
Floating debt
Floating exchange rates
Floating rate
Floating Rate Notes
(Floor (1
(Floor (2
Floor trader
Floor-broker
Fluctuation
Food and Agricultural Organization
For deposit only
For indication only
Foreclosure
Foreign assets
Foreign bill
Foreign bond
Foreign Exchange
Foreign exchange market
Foreign exchange mismatching /
Foreign exchange risk
Foreign liabilities
Forex dealer
Forfaiting
Forfeited share
Forward cover
Forward exchange
Greenmail
Grey market
Gross Domestic Product
Gross yield
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Ground floor
Group of 10 : G-10
Group of 15 : G-15 15
Group of 77 : G-77 77
Group of five : G-5
Group of seven : G-7
(Group of ten (G-10
Growth fund
] Growth stocks
Grupo de Paises
Latinoamericanos y del Caribe Exportadores de Azcar
- Guarantee
Guarantee credit
(Guarantee fund (1
(Guarantee fund (2
Guarantee stocks
Guarantor
Gulf Cooperation Council
Gyration
Hammered
Hard currency
Hard landing
Hard terms
Heavy stocks
/ Hedge fund
/ Hedged position
/ /
/ Hedging
/ Hedging instrument
Heritable bond
Hesitant market
Hiccup
Hidden reserves
High flyers
High yield bond fund
High- tech stocks
Historic cost
Hoarding
Hold a position /
Holding company
Home banking
Hostile take over bid
Hot issues
Hot stocks
Housing starts
Hyperinflation
Idle saving
Illiquid
Imbalance of order
Immediate order
Import deposits
Import duty
Import licence /
Import price index
In and out
In the black
In the money
In the red
In the tank
Inactive account
Inactive market
Income bond
Income bond fund
Income equity fund
Income statement
Income stocks
Incomes policy
Inconvertible
Indebtedness
Indenture
Index fund
Indexation /
Indexes
Industrial capacity utilization
Industrial production
Ineligible bills
International Labour Organization
Inflation
Inflation
Initial Public Offering
Insider
Insider offence
Insolvency
Insolvent
Instalment loan
Institutional investors
Instrument of payment
Intangible assets /
Inter-bank market
Inter-bank rates
Interest arbitrage
Interest cover
Interest coverage ratio
Interest linked
Interest rate differentials
Interest rate risk
Interest rate swap
Interim Committee
Interim dividend
International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development
International debt issue
Intervention
Intraday limit
Inverted saucer
Inverted yield curve
Investment bank
Investment fund
Investment horizon
Investment manager
Investment mix
Investment objectives
Investment strategy
Investment trust
Invisible
Invitation
Irredeemable bonds
Irrevocable credit
Islamic Development Bank
Issue
Issue premium
Issue price
Issue syndicate
/
Issued capital
Issuer bid
J J curve
Lombard rate
Lome convention
London club
London Commodity Exchange
London Interbank Bid Rate
London Interbank Offered Rate
London Interbank Mean Rate
Margin trading
Mark to the market
Mark up
Market amount
Market capitalisation
Market forces
Market If Touched
Market makers
Market order
Market participant
Market risk
Market sentiment
Market trend
Market value
Marketability
Marketable
Matador
Matched book
Maturity date
Maturity strategy
Medium taps
Medium term forecasts
Mediums
Memorandum
Merchant bank
Mercosur
Mercado Comun del Sur
Merger
Mortgage-backed securities
Most favoured nation clause
MSCI
MSI
Multicurrency loan
Multi-Fibre Arrangement
Multi-Option Financing Facility
Multiple exchange rate
Multiple placing agency
Municipal bonds
Naked position -
Narcodollars
Narrowing the spread
NASDAQ Composite Index
National Association of Purchasing
Managers
Nominal price
Nominal yield
Non performing loan
Non resident account
Non sufficient funds
Non-callable bond
North American Free Trade
Agreement
North-South dialogue
Nostro account -
Note - -
Note Issuance Facilities
Note issue
Notional
Numbered account
NYSE Composite Index
Obligation Assimilable du Trsor
Odd date
Odd lot
Off- Balance Sheet
Off-budget
Offered
Offered market
Offered price
Offering circular
Offering day
Offshore bank
Offshore center
One Cancel the Other
One way market
Open interest
Open market operations
Open order
Open outcry
Open Position /
Open-end investment company
Operating ratios
Opportunity Cost
Option
Optional bond
Ordinary stocks/shares
Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development
Organization of Arab Petroleum
Exporting Countries
Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Countries
Organized market
Origination fee
Out of line
Out of the money
Out-of-pocket expenses
Outright
Overbought
Overdraft account
Overdraw
Overdue
Overextended
Oversold
Oversubscription
Over-The-Counter
Overvalued
Paid-up capital
Paper
Paper loss
Paper profit
Par value
Parent company
Pari Passu clause
Paris
Paris club
Paris donor club
Parity
Participating bonds
Participation fee
Partnership
Pass-book deposit
Passing dividends
Passive trade balance
(Pay off (a debt
(Pay off (of an investment
Pay up
Payable in advance
Payable in arrears
Payback period
Payee
Paying agent
Payment agreement
Payment under reserve
Payout ratio
Payroll employment
Pegging the exchanges
Penalty
Penny stocks
Percentage earnings
Percentage order
Performance allocation
Performance bond /
Period money
Perpetuals
Personal guarantee
Personal income
Personal loan
Personal saving
Personal spending
Petrodollars
Petrodollars recycling
Pink sheets
Pips
Place an issue
Place an order
Placing memorandum
Placing power
Placing syndicate ./ //
Plain vanilla financing
Planned economy
Plaza agreement
Pledge
Plus tick
Point
Poison pill
Pool
Portfolio
Portfolio arbitrage
Portfolio balancing
Portfolio basis
Portfolio diversification
Portfolio hedging //
Portfolio management
Portfolio switching
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Position
Positive yield
Positive yield curve
Postdated cheque
Power of attorney
Praecipium
Preemptive right
Preferential debts
Preferential Trade Area
Preferred creditor
Preferred stocks
Premium
Premium bond
Premium on bond
Prepayment
Present value /
Price /Earnings ratio
Price difference
Price limit
Price nursing
Pricing day
Primary market
Prime paper
Prime rate
Principal
Private banking
Private placement
Privatization /
Pro rata temporis
Producer Price Index
Profit and loss account
Program trading
Project finance
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Promissory note
Prospectus
Protectionism
Protective covenants
Protest /
Proxy
Psychological level
Public debt
Public issue
Public offering
Public Sector Borrowing Requirement
Purchase agreement
Purchase fund
Purchasing power
Put back
Put Option
Put or more
Pyramid scheme
Quality stocks
Quantitative management
/ Quick assets
Quotation
Raid
Raider
Rally in prices
Random walk
Range
Rate of portfolio rotation
Rating
Rating agency
Rating change
Ratios
Reaction
Real GDP
Real guarantee
Real rate
Realize an asset
Receivables
Recession
Reciprocal shareholding
Recovery
Red chips
Red herring documentation
/ Redemption
Redemption fees
Redemption table
Redemption value
Rediscounted bills
Refer to drawer
Reference bank
Refinancing
Reflation
Refunding
Registered company
Registered securities
Registered trader
Regular delivery
Regular members
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Regulation Q
Regulation U " "
Relationship yield
Renewal bond
Reproduce the index
Repurchase agreement
Required reserves
Rescheduling of debt
Reserve
Reserve currency
Resistance level
Resistant market
Resting order
Restore the balance sheet
Retail Price Index
Retail sales
Retained profits
Retention money guarantee
Retractable bonds
Retrocession
Return On Assets
Return On Equity
Return On Investment
Revaluation
Revenue notes or bonds
Reverse take over
Revocable documentary credit
Revolving credit
Risk aversion
Risk free
Risk yield
Rollover credit
Round lot
Round-tour
Rule of 72 72
Samurai
Saucer
Saving bonds
Saving book
Saving certificate
Scale down
Scale up
Scalp
Scoring
Scortched earth policy
Scrip
Scrip dividend
Scrip issue
Seat .
Secondary distribution
Secondary market
Sector fund
Secured
Secured bond
/ Securities
/ Securitization
Security Exchange Commission
Security
Security agreement
Security provisions
Seed money
Self-financing
Sell a call
Sell a put
Sell short
Sell-down
Sellers market
Selling group
Sell-off
Senior debts
Serial bonds
Set-off
Set-off accounts
Settlement date
Settlement risk
/Shareholder
Stockholder
Shareholders equity
Shark repellent
Shibosai bonds
Short
Short dates
Short sale
Short seller
Short term loan
Shorts
Sight credit
Sight deposit
Sight draft
Signature
Sinking fund
Skip day settlement
Slack money
Slash
Sleeping /silent partner
Slump
Small caps
SMI . .
Smooth
Society of Worldwide Interbank Financial
Telecommunication
Soft currency
Soft goods
Soft landing
Soft loans
Soft market
/ Soft terms
Sole placing agent
Solvency
Sovereign risk
SP 500 500
Spare capacity
Special crossing
Special deposits
Special Drawing Rights
Special situation
Specialists
Speculation
Speculative bubble
Speculative interests
Speculative stock
Spin off
Split opening
Split order
/ Spot delivery
/ Spot exchange rate
/ Spot market
/ Spot price
/ Spot rate
/ Square
Squeeze-out
Stag
Stagflation
& Standard & Poors
Standby credit
Standby letter of credit
Standby loan
Statement of account
Statutory reserves
Stock /share
Stock certificate
Stock dividend
Stock exchange /
Stock index option
Stock market capitalisation
Stock market orders
Stock of record
Stock option plan
Stock picking
Stock split
Stocky
Stop loss
Stop payment
Stop-go
Straight bill of lading
Straight bond
Straight debt
Straight line depreciation
Strategic allocation
Strike price
Stripped bonds
Structural Adjustment
Structural unemployment
Subject bid
Subject to collection
Subordinated debt
Subscribed capital
Subscription
Subscription agreement
Subscription commission
Subscription privilege or right
Subsidiary
Supply-side theory
Support level
Support point
Swap
Swap agreement
Swap order
Sweeteners
Swing
Swing credit
Swings and roundabouts
Swissy
Switch
Switching
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Syndicate
Syndicated loan
Syndication
Systematic risk
Systematic Transformation Facility
Take out
Take Over Bid
Take profit
Tangible assets
Tap
Tap issue
Target range
Tariff
Tax haven
Tax shelter
Technical analysis
Technical correction
Technical decline
Technical diagram
Technical support
/ (Tender (1
(Tender (2
Tender panel
Tenor
Term bonds
Term deposit
Term loan
Terms of the credit
Terms of trade
Test a level of resistance
Test the market
/ The Commonwealth
Thin market
Third market
Third window
Tick
Ticker
Tied loan
Tight market
Tight money
Tilted fund
Time deposit
Time draft
Time order
To the order of
Tombstone
Top down
Top heavy market
Top out
Top up clause
Trade balance
Trade block
Trade credit
Trading limit
Trading on the equity
Trading post
Transaction date
Transfer agent
Unit of account
Unit of trading
Unit price
Unit trust
United Nations Conference on Trade
and Development
Unlisted securities
Unsecured
Uruguay round
Value added tax
Value date
Variable costs
Velocity of money
Venture capital /
Visible supplies
Visible trade
Volatile market
Volatility
Voting stocks/shares
Wall Street
Warrant
Wash sale
Wasting assets
Watered stocks
Weighted Price
When issued
White chips
White knight
Wholesale banking
Wholesales sales
Wildshire 5000 equity index 5000
Windfall profits
Winding up
Window dressing
With limited recourse financing
Withholding tax
Without recourse
Without recourse financing
Working capital
Working control
World Bank