Business buzzwords

An ..... stock is one whose price suddenly plunges; the fall is usually caused by panicked shareholders rushing to sell after hearing unexpected bad news.

Bendigo Mining Ltd is a fully fledged 'falling .....' at this stage; IMHO I would not attempt to punt the situation, as it is conceivable that the valuation could fall back even further towards cash value.

A third of first-time home buyers may cut their offer at the last minute, forcing the seller to take less or find a new buyer; "In total, 31% would consider '.....', reflecting first-time buyers' new-found confidence in a slowing market," says a Yorkshire Bank.

The break-up of Equitable Life has moved closer following the launch yesterday of a ..... fund, Synesis, backed by some of the City's most powerful institutions, to buy out distressed annuity and pension liabilities.

The ..... card option is, for example for bond futures, the option to initiate delivery between 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. in the afternoon during the delivery month of the contract; the point here is that the futures price is settled at 2 p.m. but the trade in the underlying bonds goes on until 8 p.m.

In a number of ..... marketing cases, a company has approved an email campaign because the marketer promised that it would send only to people who opted in to receive stock announcements; then the company is surprised to learn that the so-called 'opt-in list' is just a standard bulkmailer's list of addresses scraped from Usenet and the Web.

Since 2000, Market Harmonics has been dedicated to giving traders and investors an edge through an understanding of what truly drives markets - investor psychology; in the research area, we have specialized in tracking market ..... as the key to successful and profitable trading.

Resident Market Makers would be able to vote to reduce the commission charge for the ..... (OBO) who keeps the public limit orders in the relevant class of options.

In the charges brought against RT Capital, members of that firm admitted their actions were against the public interest: those actions apparently consisted of 53 cases of causing the price of a security to end the day on an up tick - a high ......

On the negative side, the market is a stone's throw from refreshing the overvalued, overbought, overbullish, yields-rising condition we've dubbed '.....'.