Business buzzwords

The ..... strategy is one in which a third party poses as a white knight in a takeover bid, and then joins forces with an unfriendly bidder.

When traders attempt to time the market by identifying the end of a price trend and the beginning of a new one, but, due to greed and fear, tend to ..... their positions, this usually results in reduced gains or worse, further losses.

WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell has accused Rupert Murdoch of ..... internet companies because of falling ad revenues; he said it was intriguing to speculate why Mr Murdoch launched a multimillion-dollar internet shopping spree, and accused him of buying web operations willy-nilly.

The rule currently being considered by the SEC to prevent illegal ..... trading activities is by no means foolproof: imposing a deadline that a trade must be received by 4 p.m. EST by the mutual fund company would not prevent it from conspiring with traders to manipulate the deadline.

The Bond Market Association has long promoted greater ..... and has worked hard to provide actual price data to investors, supplying all MSRB price data free of charge on its website www.investinginbonds.com.

One reason traders are moving to the Forex is the momentum and longevity of trends: currencies tend to trend 1,000 pips or more in a direction, and thenmove back 1,000 pips or more within a 4- to 6-week period, and this type of movement gives the position trader a great opportunity for ..... the market.

In a ..... takeover, iBank was suddenly history, and its blue, white and yellow marquee will soon be replaced by the blue and white of Unionbank, following the former's multibillion buy-out of the latter's majority shareholders concluded Friday; "The speed in which it was consummated really caught us off guard," quipped an iBank executive.

An investor with a short horizon should buy stocks in ..... markets, thus chasing general trends; an investor with a long horizon should reduce her commitment to stocks in the same markets.

When a market order arrives, the NYSE specialist can offer a price one tick better than the limit orders on the book and trade for his own account; alternatively, the specialist can '.....' the market order, which means he guarantees execution at the current quote but provides the possibility of price improvement.

Insiders are an obvious target for policies designed to provide information security, because they have legitimate uses for communication channels that can also be used to breach security; by restricting the use of these channels, the organisation can create barriers to information ......