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COMPLETE LIST:
Accredited Investors
Accretion
Accrued interest
Accumulation account
Acid test ratio
ACRS - accelerated cost recovery system
Active Box
Ad valorem tax
Additional bonds test
Additional take down
Administrator
ADR - American Depository Receipt
Advanced refunding
Affidavit of domicile
All or none
Alpha
Alternate minimum tax
American depository receipts (ADR)
AMEX
Amortization
Annual report
Annuity Accumulation unit
Arbitration
Arrearage
Asked
Assessed valuation
Assignment
Assumed interest rate
At the close order
At the money
At the opening order
Auction market
Auditor's report
Authorized shares
AUTO EX
Automated order entry system
Average life
Averages
Baby bonds
Backing away
Balance program
Balance sheet
Balanced fund
Balloon maturity
Bank guarantee letter
Bankers acceptances
Bankruptcy
Bond Basis
Futures Basis
Basis point
Tax Basis
Bear market
Bear spread
Bearer bond
Beneficial owner
Best efforts
Beta
Bid
Bid form
Blind pool
Block
Blotter
Blue sky laws
Bond anticipation note
Bond counsel
Bond equivalent yield
Bond interest coverage
Bond ratio
Bonds
Book entry
Book value per common share
Box
Break point sales
Breakout
Broker
Broker's broker
Brokers' loans
Bull spread
Bunching orders
Business cycle
Buy stop order
Buying power
Calendar spread
Call
Call credit spread
Call debit spread
Call loan rate
Call price
Call risk
Capital market
Capital stock
Capital surplus
Capitalize
Cash account
Cash asset ratio
Cash flow
Cash sale
CD
Certificate
Chartist
Churning
Class of options
Clearing corporations
Clearinghouse funds
Close out
Closed end indenture
Closing transaction
COD transaction
Collateral
Collateral trust bond
Combinations
Commercial paper
Commission broker
CUSIP
Common stock
Competitive issue
Competitive tender
Competitive trader
Concession
Conduit theory
Consolidated balance sheet
Consolidation tape
Constant yield method
Contra broker
Contractual plan
Control person
Control relationship
Control stock
Conversion ratio
Convertible
Cooling off period
Corporate charter
Corporate resolution
Correspondent
Covenant
Coverage
CPI
Credit spread
Credit union shares
Crossed market
Crowding out
Cum-rights
Cumulative voting
Cumulative preferred shares
Current assets
Current liabilities
Current ratio
Current yield of bonds
Current yield of common stocks
Custodial account
Custodian bank
Cyclical stocks
Dated date
Day order
Dealer
Debenture
Debit balance
Debit limit
Debit spread
Debt service
Debt to equity ratio
Declaration date
Deep discount
Defeased bonds
Defensive stock
Deficiency letter
Delayed opening
Delivery
Delta
Demand deposit
Depository trust company
Designated order
Designated order turnaround (DOT)
Diagonal spread
Direct participation program
Director
Discount
Discount rate
Discount window
Discount yield
Discretionary account
Disintermediation
Dissolution
District business conduct committee
Diversified mutual fund
Dividend
Dividend pay out ratio
Dividend reinvestment
Dividend yield
DK notice (don't know)
DNR - do not reduce
Dollar bond
Dollar cost averaging
Dollar price
Double barreled bond
Dow Theory
DPP
Dual listings
Dual purpose fund
Due bill
Due diligence
Dutch auction
Earned income
Earnings per share (EPS)
Earnings report
Eastern account
Easy money
EBIT
EE
Effective date
Engineering report
Equity in a margin account
ERISA
Erroneous report rule
Escrow
Escrow receipt
ESOP
EX
Ex dividend
Ex rights
Exchange rate
Exempt securities
Exempt transaction
Exercise price
Ex-legal
Export-import bank
Extra
Face value
Fannie Mae
Feasibility study
Fed funds
Federal farm credit system
Federal financing bank
Federal home loan banks
Federal housing administration
Federal intermediate credit banks
Federal land bank
Federal open market committee
Federal reserve board FRB
Fidelity bond
Fiduciary
FIFO
Final (stat) prospectus
Financial futures
Finder
Firm commitment
Fiscal policy
Fiscal year
Fixed annuity
Fixed asset
Fixed charges
Flat
Float
Floor broker
Flower bond
Formula investing
Forward pricing
Fourth market
Freddie mac
Free and open market
Free riding
Frozen account
Fully diluted earnings per share
Functional allocation
Fundamental research
Funded debt
Futures
General mortgage bond
General Obligation bond
General partner
Gilt-edged
Ginnie mae
Give up
GNP
Gold fix
Good faith deposit
Goodwill
Group Order
Guaranteed
Hedging
Holding company
Holding period
Horizontal spread
Hot issue
Hypothecation
Immediate or cancel order
In the money
Income bond
Indenture
Independent broker
Indication of interest
Industrial development bond
Insider
Institutional investor
Insured bonds
Intangible assets
Interbank market
Inter-market trading system
Intermediation
Intra state offering
Inventory turnover
Inverted yield curve
Investment advisor of fund's expense ratio
Investment banker
Investment company
Investment grade
Investment letter
IRA
Jawboning
Joint tenants in common
Junk Bonds
Keoghs
Key Indicators
LBO - leveraged buy out
Legal list
Legal opinion
Letter of credit
Letter of intent
Letter of notification
Letter of testamentary
Letter of transmittal
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level debt service
LIFO
Limit order
Limited partnership
Limited tax bond
Liquidation rights
Liquidity
Loan consent
Loan value
Locked in
Long coupon
Long straddle
M1
M2
Maloney act of 1938
Management company
Manipulation
Margin
Mark to market
Member order
Member organization
Mill
Monetarist economics
Money market instruments
Moral obligation bond
Moral suasion
MSRB
Municipal bonds
Mutual fund
NASD
NASDAQ
National market system
NAV
Negotiable
Negotiated issues
Net bonded debt
Net profit margin
Net working capital
Net yield
No approval clause
Nominal quote
Nominal yield
Non Competitive tender
Non cumulative
Non qualified payments
Non recourse loan
Non-accredited
Non-exempt securities
Not held order
Notice of sale
NYFE
NYSE
Options Clearing Corporation
Off bond
Offer
Official statement
Open end indenture
Open interest
Opening transaction
Operating income
Operating profit margin
Option
Option combination
Option Cycle
Option Intrinsic value
Option married put
Option writing uncovered puts
Options - buying calls
Options Disclosure document
Order book official
Order support system
Orders - Fill or kill
Orders entered above the market
Orders entered below the market
Original issue discount
OTC
Out of the money
Over-bought
Overlapping debt
Packaged securities
Paper dealer
Paper profit
Parity
Participating preferred
Passed dividend
Passive income
PE ratio
Penalty bid
Placement ratio
Plan completion insurance
Point
Portfolio income
Position limit
Positive yield curve
Pre sale order
Pre-emptive right
Preferred dividend coverage
Preferred stock
Pre-sale order
Premium bonds
Price spread
Primary dealer
Prime rate
Priority of orders
Private activities bonds
Production
Profit taking
Progressive tax
Prospectus
Proxy
Public housing authority
Public information office
Purchase and sales department
Put bond
Put credit spread
Put debit spread
Put option buyer
Pyramiding
Qualified legal option
Quick asset ratio
Quote
Random walk
Rate covenant
Reallowance
Real GNP
Recapture
Receivership
Reclamation
Record date
Recourse loan
Red herring
Refunded bond
Registered competitive market maker
Registered option principal
Registrar
Registration procedures
Registration statement
Regressive
Regular way delivery
Regulated mutual fund
Regulation A (SEA 1933)
Regulation D (SA 1933)
Regulation G
Regulation T
Regulation U
REIT
Related portfolio order
Reoffering yields
Repurchase agreement
Reserve requirement
Resistance level
Restricted account
Restricted stock
Return on common equity
Revenue anticipation note
Revenue bond index
Revenue bonds
Reverse split
Rights
Rights of preferred stock
Rights of common stock
Round lot
Rule 144
Rule 144A
Rule 147(SA 1933)
Rule 15c3-1
Rule 15c3-3
Rules of fair practice
Sales charge
Sales within a family
Sallie Mae
Same side of the market
Scale
Scrip certificate
Securities Act of 1933
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Seasonal stock
Seat
SEC
Secondary distribution
Secondary market
Section 8 program
Secured bond
Securities Industry Automation Corporation
Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC)
Self-regulatory organization
Sell at the bid price
Sell puts and be covered
Sell stop limit order
Sellers option transaction
Selling group
SEP
Separate account
Serial issue
Series of option
Settlement
Sharing arrangement
Shelf registration
Short against the box
Short coupon
Short covering
Short interest
Short selling power
Short straddle
Short swing profits
Sinking fund
Skip day
Small business administration (SBA)
Small order execution system
SOREX
Special assessment bond
Special memorandum account
Special offer
Special tax bond
Specialist sale
Specialized fund
Splits
Spot price
Stabilization
Standby underwriting
State registration
Statutory disqualification
Statutory voting
Stock ahead
Stock dividend
Stockholders equity
Stop limit order
Stop order
Stopping stock
Straddle
Street name
Strip
Structure
Subordinated debenture
Subscription
Subscription agreement
Supply side economics
Support level
Swapping
Syndicate letter
Take down
Tax anticipation note
Tax exempt commercial paper
Tax preference item
T-bills
Technical research
Tender offer
Term bond
Third market
Time deposits
Tombstone ad
Trading authorization
Trading posts
Transfer agent
Treasury bills
Treasury bonds
Treasury notes
Treasury stock
Triple net lease
True interest cost
Trust indenture act of 1939
UGMA
UIT
Underwriter
Undivided account
Unfunded pension liabilities
UPC
US Government bond quotes
US government securities settle
US terms quote
Vertical spread
Vest
Veterans Administration mortgage
Visible supply
VS purchase
Warrants
Wash sale
Western account
When issued
Wire house
Working capital
Working control
Writing call options
Writing put options
X
Yields for a premium bond
YTM
Zero coupon bonds
Zero plus tick
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