Business buzzwords

The cost of mortgage payments, property taxes, insurance and maintenance on ..... property is greater than the income it brings in, and if this situation is not corrected, it will eat up all of the owner's profit, leaving him or her with negative cash flow.

Market ..... are nursing a bad case of whiplash: most of the 42 strategists surveyed by 'Business Week' a year ago saw their yearend forecasts surpassed in the first few months of 1996 - the consensus view then was for the Dow Jones to rise 5% and end the year at 5430, but the Dow passed 5430 in early February.

Bache & Co. offers only a 25% reduction to ..... traders who are willing to make at least two transactions-one buy and one sell-in any 35-day period, and the cut applies only to the second trade, while most brokerage houses still charge about the same fees as before on small trades on a take-it-or-leave-it basis.

The ..... strategy places bonds only in very short and very long maturities, making it easy to shift the average maturity of the portfolio.

The new law will do away with employers who have abused the independent contractor provision in South Africa's existing labour laws, but NMG-Levy labour consultant Brian Allen says 'legislative .....' could affect genuine supplier relationships while wiping out this form of evasion.

A ..... stock is a perfect stock for investment - named after the gorgeous star of the movie '10'.

The five largest music companies and music retailers agreed to pay $67.4 million to settle a lawsuit over alleged price-..... in the late 1990s; prosecutors said that the industry kept consumer CD prices artificially high between 1995 and 2000 with a practice known as 'minimum-advertised pricing'.

Nicknamed "The Junk Bond King", Michael ..... is credited with founding the high-yield debt market but was banned for life from the securities industry.

Trend followers know the trick of letting their profits ..... is key to trading: once you learn that to maximize your profits you must be willing to give up some part of your accumulated profits, you are on your way to sustained success, and refusing to give up a part of that accumulated income due to fear is a big mistake.

The eagerness for quick riches is hard to squelch; indeed, after an investing bubble, ..... bubble where investors rush in to buy all over again isn't uncommon.