Business buzzwords

While the big money trade over the past two years has been to buy both sheer optimism and extreme pessimism, now the hedge funds are back in the green for the year, they'll try to lay low and preserve capital - only the nimble ..... are likely to coin money in this tape.

The NHS in England will be 750m in the ..... by the end of the financial year on 31 March, a BBC survey suggests: twenty predicted deficits total 799m, while a handful of surpluses brought the net deficit to 750m.

On one side, double-..... offer fund-of-fund vehicles for hedge fund investors and on the flip side they offer contract marketing agreements on the hedge fund side, so it is possible for them to not only make money from their own investors but also clip a marketing fee for putting their fund-of-funds investment with a manager in any given strategy.

IRC has agreed to pay $37.4 million to acquire a sliding-scale NSR royalty on the Pascua Lama gold project, expected to become Barrick's third largest gold operation; the acquisition is expected to provide significant growth in cash flow, and by having the world's largest gold producer as its operator, long life and low cash costs, this is truly a ..... asset.

Style ..... is a serious problem for clients because it distorts asset allocation and undermines performance when styles rotate; value managers who have slowly changed over the past three years toward more favored growth stocks are regretting those moves, but not as much as their clients.

This $1,000 compromise undermines the principle of campaign finance reform and is awkward to implement: it leads to a situation using dollars to chase ....., because significant staff resources are used to try to verify that corporate subsidiaries, for example, are not being used to violate the $1,000 rule.

Securities held by a brokerage firm that meet specific qualifications are used as collateral for securing brokers' loans or customers' margin positions; they are held in safekeeping for clients of a broker/dealer or for the broker/dealer itself in a physical location known as the 'active .....'.

UBS Warburg strategist George Vasic said conversations with soccer moms are good places to gather anecdotal research; "typically, it's a lagging .....," he says, "if they're asking me about resource or tech stocks, you know the phenomenon has run its course and has already peaked."

Less than a year ago, Gary B. Pruitt, the head of the McClatchy Company, was hailed as the ..... knight of newspapers; while others saw the industry headed for the dinosaur graveyard, Mr. Pruitt rode in to buy the Knight Ridder papers, or some of them anyway.

No image better represents the United States stock markets than the .....: the little one-inch-wide strip of paper is as synonymous with following the performance of stocks and their markets as it is with heroes' welcomes and parades.