Business Buzzwords from New England to Michigan
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The tendency of stocks newly added to the S&P composite index to rise in price due to a large number of buy orders as funds add the stock to their portfolios is called the S&P ......
As demand for metals lurched lower and layoffs swelled, the once pulsing industrial belt that stretches from Illinois across to western New England took on the grim, ground-down demeanor of a half-century earlier, acquiring the glumly descriptive epithet of ..... Bowl.
Once a firm's stock becomes substantially ....., managers who wish to eliminate this are faced with disappointing the capital markets.
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.
IT managers often must promise a higher rate of return to justify technology investments than other corporate departments; in some organizations, the ..... rate for a project to pass the funding threshold may exceed 30% to 50%.
Fannie Mae's 15-year mortgage-backed securities and Bilbo Baggins's friends are called ......
The settlement price for a weather futures contract is calculated by summing ..... Degree Day values for a month and multiplying that sum by $20.
An ..... stock is one whose price suddenly plunges; the fall is usually caused by panicked shareholders rushing to sell after hearing unexpected bad news.
The ..... defense is used in a hostile takeover situation: the target firm turns around and tries to take over the company that has made the hostile bid.
I can imagine why that Ford manager in Michigan recently announced that they would eat their own ..... food (only Ford- or subsidiary-built vehicles are allowed to park on the plant premises); it must be discouraging to see the place swarmed every day by Daihatsus, Suzukis and Toyotas.
