Business buzzwords

"My wife knows me as a perfidious stock picker; over the years my technique has been to buy a fallen ..... at 4, then ride it to 2, panic and bail." - Rich Karlgaard, "Do As I Say," Forbes, December 20, 1999.

The seven categories of variables used in the ..... stock valuation system are momentum, quality, value, financial strength, forecasted earnings, performance, and volume.

The bigger the ....., the sweeter it tastes to investors!

It doesn't matter if demand is falsely created by a hedge fund taking the ..... (buying large amounts of a single stock to drain a market maker of its inventory, forcing them to buy it back at a higher price): demand is demand and that is what drives markets higher.

Although inventory data indicates that U.S. crude and product stocks are at above-average levels, market ..... remain over the possibility that international oil supplies could be disrupted further as a result of political problems in both Iran and Nigeria.

The ..... stalwarts have money to burn: cash generation in the UK's major listed companies is at record levels, and over the next three years, the FTSE350 will generate close to 200bn in surplus cash, according to new research by KPMG.

The director of a funds management company says that smaller companies focusing on a single service like sustainable living, alternative energy, etc. are less likely to be involved in big ..... like the defense industry and oil.

The SEC has accused the former CFO of Lantronix Inc. of engaging in a scheme to overstate financial results for personal gain through artificially boosting sales by offering distributors special terms to induce them to purchase more product than they needed, which is called channel ......

War ..... is a slang term for the stocks and bonds of corporations in the defense industry.

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.