Business buzzwords

In May 2000, Luminous had raised a $60-million round of private financing that it expected to be its last, but market conditions forced the company to put off IPO plans indefinitely; should the company go public, they hoped ..... investors would buy the offering and continue to buy the company's shares.

The critical piece of this puzzle, the element that made it all work, was a transaction called a 'price ..... derivative' between Enron and Raptor, in which Enron committed to give stock to Raptor if Raptor's assets declined in value; but the more Raptor's assets declined, the more of its own stock Enron was required to post.

The Companies Act defines '..... equity shares' as equity shares issued by the company to employees or directors at a discount or for consideration other than cash for providing know-how or making available rights in the nature of intellectual property rights or value additions.

These organizations may award ..... capital for especially promising projects that meet their guidelines: this money can be used for initial investment in a project or startup company, for proof-of-concept, market research or initial product development.

We believe that owner/managers are the best valuators of their business, so when one is willing to trigger a ..... clause, the best indication of value has been given - an insider has declared his price, and we're ready to respond quickly: we can close transactions in less than 5 days of first making contact.

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.

The retired chairman of furniture maker Herman Miller, Max has long been noted for innovative management practices; for example, he instituted a silver ..... for employees at his company so that they would be protected if they lost their jobs as a result of a hostile takeover.

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).

Under normal operation environment, the ..... price of a stock on the HKE is determined by taking the median of 5 nominal prices in the last minute of the trading hours: the system will take up 5 snapshots on the nominal prices at 15-second interval starting from 3:59:00 p.m.

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 ......