Business buzzwords

An angel investor's ..... money is sometimes the only way a business can get off the ground; this type of financing can create growth that would be impossible through traditional financing channels.

Usually, ..... stocks experience higher-than-normal trading volume due to significant new information reaching the market and creating a strong impetus amongst investors to buy or sell the stock, resulting in heavier trading volume and often strong momentum in the stock.

Testing small before you spend lots of money on ads or mailings will keep you from losing your ..... on ineffective marketing efforts.

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.

Tight curbs on money supply, enforced by Indonesian monetary authorities for more than a year to prevent the economy from over-heating, have driven domestic interest rates up to about 28 percent; analysts said this prolonged credit ..... is straining the repayment capacity of many Indonesian businesses.

CEO Craig Barratt was very cautious in his interview with CNBC, where he went out of his way to say that this networking technology company with a big retail component could not feel confident going into Christmas; I think that he is ....., setting the bar low so the stock can advance, take the medicine now for a rally later.

Since 1975, the number of money management firms that provide research and other products and services in exchange for commissions has grown; the total value of third-party research purchased annually with ..... dollars is estimated to exceed $1 billion.

Deep-Format, who by smell could only be a Microsoft insider, is leaking about Microsoft's botch job on the Ecma spec; this kind of ..... could only be from a disgruntled employee on the Office or XML dev team.

We have analyzed connected transactions between Chinese publicly listed firms and their state-owned enterprise (SOEs) shareholders and shown how resources are ..... from minority shareholders of the firm to the state.

The good and bad of .....: Tax refunds may be welcome to most taxpayers, but technically speaking, it's not wise to give the government interest-free loans.