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.

The Joint Bookrunners will endeavor to procure purchasers for the Offer Shares not subscribed for through the exercise of PARs during the exercise period by way of private placements in the Netherlands and elsewhere, at a price per ..... Share which is at least equal to the total of the Issue Price and any expenses relating to procuring such purchasers.

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said yesterday that the U.S. economy is 'going through a ..... patch,' but that it won't hold back a 'broadening' economic expansion that has gained momentum this year.

"Much of what happens in history," Nassim Taleb notes, "comes from Black ..... dynamics, very large, sudden, and totally unpredictable outliers, while much of what we usually talk about is just noise; our track record in predicting those events is dismal, yet by hindsight bias we think that we understand them."

A small group of speculators will accumulate a large number of shares in a penny stock, and once their positions are in place, they will release positive financial ..... - news so unexpected and titillating it can drastically affect people's perception of the stock; the intent is to get small time investors to start trading irrationally.

The survivorship ..... problem has increased in recent years as mutual fund families try to bury poor performance; in 1998 alone, 387 stock and bond funds were merged out of existence, an increase of 43% over the previous year.

The Minister of Finance pays the Royal Canadian Mint to produce and distribute all coins; it costs the Mint about 12 cents to produce and distribute a dollar coin, which generates for the government approximately 88 cents in ..... on each $1 coin sold to financial institutions at face value.

I do not think it premature to conclude that the entire financial industry of this country is riddled with fraud; as Newsweek observed, this is not a case of a few bad apples, it's the ..... Theory - you see one, you know there's a whole nest of the disgusting Dictyoptera.

I do have a big problem with the fact that Yahoo! has failed to articulate a clear strategy about how the company will be dominant for years to come independently; doing lots of ..... acquisitions is not a strategy (although I like and use MyBlogLog, Flickr, del.icio.us).

An important theme of research related to the industry ..... is that strategies for achieving competitive advantage differ depending on the stage: firms compete primarily on alternative product designs and positioning early in the history of an industry, whereas cost becomes a more important basis of competition in later stages.