Business buzzwords: English villages

That formidable fighting force, the English village, flexed its muscles yesterday to ..... a Scientology plan to open a drug rehabilitation centre next to a primary school; residents raised over 175,000 in three days to outbid the proposed centre at a former inn.

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

On April 12th, 2002, the Toronto Stock Exchange will introduce the ..... order feature to the trading system: market participants will be able to place orders larger than typically displayed in the TSE market, without paying an informational price for revealing the entire order size.

Similar to other restrictive provisions contained in bond indentures, a net revenue ..... serves to make the bond issue less risky for bondholders: since it forces the government to use revenue from its debt-financed projects to pay debt service costs first, bondholders enjoy a reduced risk of default.

Four years ago, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hovered in the range of 10,500 points, nearly the same place it is now; its path has traced what stock traders call a '..... market' always on the move, but not going anywhere.

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.

Most pyramid ..... take advantage of confusion between genuine businesses and complicated but convincing moneymaking scams; the idea behind them is that the individual makes only one payment, but is promised to receive exponential benefits from other people as a reward.

Using the ..... Defense, a company issues a large number of bonds with the condition that they must be redeemed at a high price if the company is taken over.

Quadruple ..... days occur four times a year, on the third Friday of the quarter-ending month (March, June, September, December), when three different types of derivatives related to stocks expire: options on individual stocks, options on Stock Index Futures, and Stock Index Futures.

..... look for companies with undervalued assets and then attempt the hostile takeover by purchasing enough shares to have a controlling interest.