shunt

shunt (third-person singular simple present shunts, present participle shunting, simple past and past participle shunted)

shunts (present singular third-person)
shunting (participle present)
shunted (participle past)
shunted (past)

From Middle English shunten, schunten, schonten, schounten, shont, shonte, shount, shounten, shunte (“to move rapidly or suddenly, jerk; to swerve, turn away; to avoid, dodge, escape, evade”), either:
* possibly a back-formation from Middle English shǒnen (“to decline to do, refuse; to abandon, forsake; to disdain, dislike, hate; to avoid, escape; to be afraid, fear; to be wary of”), from Old English sċunian, sċyniġan; see shun. Or
* an alteration of Middle English shunden, *schunden, *schinden, from Old English sċyndan, sċendan (“to hasten, hurry”) (as in āsċyndan (“to remove, take away”), from Proto-West Germanic *skundijan, from Proto-Germanic *skundijaną (“to compel, drive, push; to accelerate, rush, speed up”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kew(n)t- (“to rattle, shake”).
* from unrecorded Old English *sċunettan, a derivative of sċunian (“to shun, avoid”).
The English word is cognate with Danish skynde (“to hasten, hurry, speed”), Icelandic skynda, skunda (“to hasten”), Middle High German schünden (“to compel; to urge; to irritate”), Norwegian skynde (“to hurry, rush”), Swedish skynda (“to hasten, hurry; to scuttle, scurry”). Outside Germanic, compare Sanskrit स्कन्दति (skándati, “to dart, leap, spring, spurt or burst forth, ejaculate, assail, drop, split”), Albanian shkund (“to shake; to swig”).
As regards the noun sense, compare Middle English shunt (“swerve; sudden jerk”), derived from the verb.

cog

(finance, UK, historical) To carry on arbitrage between the London stock exchange and provincial stock exchanges.


depreciation

en-noun

depreciation (countable and uncountable, plural depreciations)

/dɪˌpɹiːʃɪˈeɪʃən/

(accounting) The measurement of the decline in value of assets. Not to be confused with impairment, which is the measurement of the unplanned, extraordinary decline in value of assets.

обезценка

the measurement of the decline in value of assets


divest

en-verb

divest (third-person singular simple present divests, present participle divesting, simple past and past participle divested)

divests (present singular third-person)
divesting (participle present)
divested (participle past)
divested (past)

Alteration of devest, from Middle French devester (“strip of possessions”), from Old French desvestir, from des- (“dis-”) + vestir (“to clothe”).

der

In 2011, the company divested an 81% majority stake in its foreign subsidiary.

Glasgow will become the first university in Europe to divest from fossil fuels.

It is argued that from a fiscal point of view, governments should divest only if this leads to an improvement in the intertemporal budget constraint. However, it is shown that policymakers are instead inclined to divest public assets as a means of […]

2011, Alfred Schipke, Why Do Governments Divest?: The Macroeconomics of Privatization, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 6:

Building from this argument, we can now turn to arguing the moral case why individuals should divest from fossil fuels. We can flesh out what is wrong with continuing investments in the fossil fuel industry in terms of the role that an agent […]

2018, Ravi Kanbur, Henry Shue, Climate Justice: Integrating Economics and Philosophy, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 146:

(transitive, finance) To sell off or be rid of through sale, especially of a subsidiary.


equalization

en-noun

equalization (countable and uncountable, plural equalizations)

(finance) Repayment to an investor in a unit trust or OEIC of an increase in the unit price to cover the seller’s entitlement to income received from the underlying investments but not yet distributed to unit holders, repaid as part of the first distribution of income to that investor.


compensation

compensation (countable and uncountable, plural compensations)

From Middle English compensacioun, from Old French compensacion, from Latin compensātiōnem, accusative singular of compensātiō.

(finance) The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount.


elimination

elimination (countable and uncountable, plural eliminations)

(accounting) The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.

eliminointi

act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of intercompany transactions


diversification

diversification (countable and uncountable, plural diversifications)

/dɪˌvɝsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

/daɪˌvɜːsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

From Medieval Latin diversificatiō, from diversificātus, past participle of diversificō (“diversify”), from Latin diversus (“turned in different ways”) + faciō (“make, do”). By surface analysis, diverse + -ification.

surf

(finance) An investment strategy involving investing in a range of assets with differing features in order to reduce specific risk.


discount

German: Discount

Alteration of French descompte, décompte, from Old French disconter, desconter (“reckon off, account back, discount”), from Medieval Latin discomputō (“I deduct, discount”), from Latin dis- (“away”) + computō (“I reckon, count”). By surface analysis, dis- + count.

der

(finance) A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.


incur

en-verb

incur (third-person singular simple present incurs, present participle incurring, simple past and past participle incurred)

incurs (present singular third-person)
incurring (participle present)
incurred (participle past)
incurred (past)

From Middle English incurren, from Anglo-Norman encurir, Middle French encourir, from Old French encorre, from Latin incurrere.

كَبَّدَ

to expose oneself to something inconvenient

Near-synonyms: entail, invoke

The least neglect of duty will incur[...] the penalty of thirty-nine well laid on in the morning.

1861, Francis Colburn Adams, “Chapter VII”, in An Outcast:

Lest you incur me much more damage in my fame than you have done me pleasure in preserving my life.

1605 August (first performance), Geo[rge] Chapman, Ben Ionson, Ioh[n] Marston, Eastward Hoe. […], London: […] [George Eld] for William Aspley, published September 1605, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

(transitive) To bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to.

(chiefly law, accounting) To render (somebody, or oneself) liable or subject to.

كَبَّدَ

to render liable or subject to; to occasion


extension

en-noun

extension (countable and uncountable, plural extensions)

From Middle English extensioun, from Old French estension, from Latin extensiō, extensiōnem.

(banking, finance) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.

отсрочка

finance: written engagement on the part of a creditor


ratchet

From French rochet (“bobbin, spindle, ratchet”), from Italian rocchetto (“spool, ratchet”).

cadell

pawl, click or detent for a ratchet wheel


hedge

From Middle English hegge, from Old English heċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *haggju, from Proto-Germanic *hagjō, from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰyóm (“enclosure”). Cognate with Dutch heg, German Hecke. Doublet of hey (a choreographic figure) and quay. More at haw.

doublet

look as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards

Coordinate term: diversification

The asset class acts as a hedge.

A hedge is an investment position intended to offset potential losses/gains that may be incurred by a companion investment. In simple language, a hedge is used to reduce any substantial losses/gains suffered by an individual or an organization.

(finance) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).

pokrytí rizik

finance: contract or arrangement reducing exposure to risk


hedge

en-verb

hedge (third-person singular simple present hedges, present participle hedging, simple past and past participle hedged)

hedges (present singular third-person)
hedging (participle present)
hedged (participle past)
hedged (past)

From Middle English heggen, from the noun (see above).

(transitive, finance) To offset the risk associated with.

zajistit rizika

finance: to offset the risk associated with

თავის დაზღვევა ფინანსური რისკებისგან

Coordinate term: diversify

(intransitive, finance) To reduce one's exposure to risk.


payer

(finance) A swaption which gives its holder the option to enter into a swap in which they pay the fixed leg and receive the floating leg.


secondary

From Middle English secundarie, from Latin secundārius (“of the second class or quality”), from secundus (whence the English second) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary), equivalent to second + -ary; compare the French secondaire, the Italian secondario, the Occitan secundari, the Portuguese secundario, and the Spanish secundario.

der

English numerals#Ordinal numbers
secondary

(finance) An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.


stag

en-noun

stag (countable and uncountable, plural stags)

From Middle English stagge, steg, from Old English stagga, stacga (“a stag”) and Old Norse steggi, steggr (“a male animal”), both from Proto-Germanic *staggijô, *staggijaz (“male, male deer, porcupine”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *stegʰ-, *stengʰ- (“to sting; rod, blade; sharp, stiff”). Cognate with Icelandic steggi, steggur (“tomcat, male fox”). Related to staggard, staggon.

(countable, finance) An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.

(countable, finance) One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.

pörssikeinottelija

one who applies for shares with a view to sell immediately at a premium


tracker

追踪器

computer program that monitors something


subscribe

en-verb

subscribe (third-person singular simple present subscribes, present participle subscribing, simple past and past participle subscribed)

subscribes (present singular third-person)
subscribing (participle present)
subscribed (participle past)
subscribed (past)

From Middle English subscriben, subskryben, from Latin subscrībere. Compare its native English equivalent underwrite.

The capital which had been subscribed to this bank, at two different subscriptions, amounted to one hundred and sixty thousand pounds, of which eighty per cent only was paid up.

1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations:

(business and finance) To agree to buy shares in a company.


taint

taint (third-person singular simple present taints, present participle tainting, simple past and past participle tainted)

taints (present singular third-person)
tainting (participle present)
tainted (participle past)
tainted (past)

From Middle French teint, from Old French teint (past participle of teindre (“to dye, to tinge”)), from Latin tinctum (past participle of tingere); compare tint.

(transitive, Australia, finance) To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.


rally

From Middle French rallier (French rallier), from Old French ralier, from Latin prefix re- + ad + ligare (“to bind; to ally”).

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-rally.wav

(business, trading) A recovery after a decline in prices (said of the market, stocks, etc.)


rally

rally (third-person singular simple present rallies, present participle rallying, simple past and past participle rallied)

rallies (present singular third-person)
rallying (participle present)
rallied (participle past)
rallied (past)

Bitcoin has still plunged in value by almost two-thirds this year, it should be said. But it has also rallied by about 10% since the downwards lurch when FTX filed for bankruptcy in mid-November, which is extraordinary.

2022 December 14, Nils Pratley, “Bitcoin has rallied. What are crypto’s true believers still smoking?”, in The Guardian:

(business, trading, of the market, stocks etc., intransitive) To recover strength after a decline in prices.

покачвам се

to recover strength after a decline in prices


retracement

en-noun

retracement (countable and uncountable, plural retracements)

(finance) A reversal in the trend of the price of a stock or commodity.


reserve

reserve (countable and uncountable, plural reserves)

From Old French reserver, from Latin reservō (“to reserve, retain”).

اِحْتِيَاط

that which is reserved or kept back, as for future use

рэзерва́цыя

tract of land reserved for Aboriginal people

That which is reserved or kept back, as for future use.

(finance, insurance) Funds kept on hand to meet planned or unplanned financial requirements.


commute

en-verb

commute (third-person singular simple present commutes, present participle commuting, simple past and past participle commuted)

commutes (present singular third-person)
commuting (participle present)
commuted (participle past)
commuted (past)

заменям

to put or substitute something else in place of

to commute the daily toll for a year's pass

To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen

(transitive, finance, law) To pay, or arrange to pay, in advance, in a lump sum instead of part by part.


hedge fund

Hedge funds date to 1949, when Alfred Winslow Jones, a writer at Fortune, opened a private investment firm using sixty thousand dollars he had raised from friends and forty thousand he had saved. To boost his returns, Jones borrowed heavily and bought stocks he liked “on margin”—a practice that had been discredited in the late nineteen-twenties.

2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:

(finance) Any unregistered investment fund, often characterised by unconventional strategies (i.e., strategies other than investing long only in bonds, equities or money markets).


FTSE

A joint venture between the Financial Times of London and the London Stock Exchange.

(stock market, by extension) The main stock market index code for the British stock market.


FT

Example stock market indices: FT 30.

(stock market, by extension) A stock market index code for the British stock market.


IRA

These were the liquefiable assets at hand: a drawerful of family jewelry, a 401(k), an IRA, and a one-bedroom condo purchased with inheritance money after her parents' passing.

2022, Ling Ma, “Tomorrow”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:

individual retirement account
individual retirement account#English

(US, finance) Initialism of individual retirement account.


pension

→ Irish: pinsean

From Middle English pencioun, pensioun, from Anglo-Norman pencione, Old French pencion, and their source, Latin pēnsiō (“payment, weight, rent, compensation”), from the participle stem of pendō (“to weigh”).

der

Many old people depend on their pension to pay the bills.

(finance) An annuity paid regularly as benefit due to a retired employee, serviceman etc. in consideration of past services, originally and chiefly by a government but also by various private pension schemes.

مَعَاش

regular payment due to a person in consideration of past services


RSI

en-noun

RSI (countable and uncountable, plural RSIs)

relative strength index
relative strength index#English

(finance, cryptocurrencies) Initialism of relative strength index.


commercial

From commerce + -ial. From French commercial (“of, or pertaining to commerce”), from Late Latin commercialis, from Latin commercium.

bor

(finance) A commercial trader, as opposed to an individual speculator.


boomlet

This is the twentysomething generation, those 48 million young Americans ages 18 through 29 who fall between the famous baby boomers and the boomlet of children the baby boomers are producing.

1990 July 16, David M. Gross, Sophfronia Scott, “Proceeding With Caution”, in Time:

There was a boomlet in fitness centers as corporations sweetened their programs to pay for part of their employees' gym memberships […].

2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties:

(chiefly finance) A small period of rapid growth.


multiple expansion

en-noun

multiple expansion (countable and uncountable, plural multiple expansions)

The recent rise in the market is due more to multiple expansion than any increase in earnings.

price-earnings ratio
price-earnings ratio

(finance) An increase in the price-earnings ratio, or multiple, of a stock or group of stocks.


fundamentalist

From fundamental + -ist, after a book series called “The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth“ (1910).

(finance) A trader who trades on the financial fundamentals of the companies involved, as opposed to a chartist or technician.


fundamentalism

fundamentalism (countable and uncountable, plural fundamentalisms)

From fundamental + -ism. Started being used in the 1910s by American Christians.
:* Colin Woodard (2011) chapter 24, in American nations:
"Christian fundamentalism appeared in North America in reaction to the liberal theologies that were becoming dominant in the northern nations. It took its name from The Fundamentals, a twelve-volume attack on liberal theology, evolution, atheism, socialism, Mormons, Catholics, Christian Scientists, and Jehovah’s Witnesses written by Appalachian Baptist preacher A. C. Dixon.”

financial instrument
financial instrument

(finance) The belief that fundamental financial quantities are the best predictor of the price of a financial instrument.


speculator

From Latin speculātor (“spy, explorer, investigator”), from speculor (“to watch, to observe”) + -tor (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from specula (“watchtower”), from speciō (“to watch, to observe”), q.v. In some senses, an agent noun formed within English from speculate. Doublet of spectator.

suffix

(business, finance) One who speculates; as in investing, one who is willing to take volatile risks upon invested principal for the potential of substantial returns.


attestation

en-noun

attestation (countable and uncountable, plural attestations)

/ˌætɛˈsteɪʃən/

/ˌætɛˈsteɪʃən/

From Middle French attestation, from Latin attestātiō; by surface analysis, attest + -ation.

(business, finance) The process, performed by accountants or auditors, of providing independent opinion on published financial and other business information of a business, public agency, or other organization.

атестация

providing an independent opinion, on published information of an organization, by accountants or auditors


prompt

en-adj

prompt (comparative more prompt, superlative most prompt)

more prompt (comparative)
most prompt (superlative)

From French prompt, from Latin prōmptus (“visible, apparent, evident”), past participle of prōmō (“to take or bring out or forth, produce, bring to light”), from prō (“forth, forward”) + emō (“to take, acquire, buy”).

der

When physical crude oil transactions are priced, they are usually marked to the prompt month futures contract. The prompt month futures contract is the next futures contract to settle.

2013 July 5, Davis W. Edwards, Energy Investing DeMystified: A Self-Teaching Guide, McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 19:

The settlement ratio is determined as follows: i) If the prompt futures price of coal at maturity is less than or equal to the floor price, the ratio will be one.

2021 May 11, Neil C. Schofield, Commodity Derivatives: Markets and Applications, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 448:

(finance) Front: closest or nearest, in futures trading.


tranche

Unadapted borrowing from French tranche, form of trancher (“to cut, to slice”), from Old French trenchier (“cut, make a cut”), possibly from Vulgar Latin *trinicāre (“cut in three parts”). Doublet of traunch and trench.

(finance) One of a set of classes or risk maturities that compose a multiple-class security, such as a CMO or REMIC; a class of bonds. Collateralized mortgage obligations are structured with several tranches of bonds that have various maturities.


tranche

en-verb

tranche (third-person singular simple present tranches, present participle tranching, simple past and past participle tranched)

tranches (present singular third-person)
tranching (participle present)
tranched (participle past)
tranched (past)

(finance, transitive) To divide into tranches.


scalp

scalp (third-person singular simple present scalps, present participle scalping, simple past and past participle scalped)

scalps (present singular third-person)
scalping (participle present)
scalped (participle past)
scalped (past)

From Middle English scalp, skalp, scalpe (“crown of the head; skull”). Originally a northern word, and therefore probably from a North Germanic source, although the sense-development is unclear; compare Sylt North Frisian Skolp (“dandruff”), Old Norse skálpr (“sheath”), Old Swedish skalp, Dutch schelp (“shell”).

(finance) On an open outcry exchange trading floor, to buy and sell rapidly for one's own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).


contagion

en-noun

contagion (countable and uncountable, plural contagions)

From Middle English (late 14th century), from Old French, from Latin contāgiō (“a touching, contact, contagion”) related to contingō (“touch closely”).

der

And it was German procrastination that aggravated the Greek crisis and caused the contagion that turned it into an existential crisis for Europe.

2011, George Soros, Project Syndicate, Germany Must Defend the Euro:

(figuratively, by extension) The spread of anything likened to a contagious disease.

(finance) The spread of (initially small) shocks, which initially affect only a few financial institutions or a particular region of an economy, to other financial sectors and other countries whose economies were previously healthy.

leviäminen

finance: situation in which a shock spreads

(finance) A recession or crisis developed in such manner.


seller's market

en-noun

seller's market (plural seller's markets or sellers' markets)

seller's markets (plural)
sellers' markets (plural)

Coordinate term: buyer's market

Pay any price you have to. We're in a seller's market right now.

(economics, finance, idiomatic) An excess of demand over supply, leading to abnormally high prices; a market condition favoring the seller.


hickey

take a hickey

Farmer Jones took a hickey on his soybean crop when the flood washed the seeds away.

(US, slang, business, finance) An unintended negative outcome or loss in regards to a deal or action.


warrant

warrant (countable and uncountable, plural warrants)

→ Cantonese: 窩輪 /窝轮 (wo¹ leon⁴⁻²), 花令

→ Italian: warrant

The noun is derived from Middle English warant (“protector; guard, shield, protection”), from Anglo-Norman warrant, Old Northern French warant, warand, a variant of Old French guarant, garant, garand (“assurance, guarantee; authorization, permission; protector; protection, safety”) (modern French garant), from Frankish *warand, present participle of *warjan (“to fend off; to stop, thwart”). The word is cognate with Old High German werento (“guarantor”).
The verb is derived from Middle English warrant, waranten (“to give protection; to protect, shield; to assure, pledge, promise; to guarantee”), from Anglo-Norman warantir, warandir, warentir, and Old Northern French warandir, warantir, variant forms of Old French guarantir (“to protect”) (modern French garantir), a Romance formation from the noun guarant: see above.

inh

But they [police juries] have no power to [...] issue promissory notes or warrants to cover funds which may be set aside for this purpose in future taxation without express authority from the supreme political power of the state.

1896, William A. Reid, “General Power to Incur Pecuniary Liability—Public Corporations”, in A Treatise on the Law Pertaining to Corporate Finance […] In Two Volumes, volume I, Albany, N.Y.: H. B. Parsons, law publisher, →OCLC, § 12, page 18:

The first Eurobond offering was for Crédit National who issued $50m 13.75% five-year notes with six-month warrants to purchase the same principal amount of 13.75% ten-year bonds. The cum-warrant price of the note quickly rose to 105.5% in a rising market, yet the warrants alone were quoted at $15.

2015, Chris O’Malley, “Masters of the Market: 1979–1984”, in Bonds without Borders: A History of the Eurobond Market, Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 76:

(finance, countable) An option, usually issued together with another security and with a term at issue greater than a year, to buy other securities of the issuer.


MIT

(finance) Initialism of market if touched.


bond

en-noun

bond (countable and uncountable, plural bonds)

From Middle English bond, a variant of band, from Old English beand, bænd, bend (“bond, chain, fetter, band, ribbon, ornament, chaplet, crown”), from Proto-Germanic *bandaz, *bandiz (“band, fetter”). Cognate with Dutch band, German Band, Swedish band. Doublet of Bund. Related to bind.

Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.

Many say that government and corporate bonds are a good investment to balance against a portfolio consisting primarily of stocks.

(finance) A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture.

պարտատոմս

finance: documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract


notch

Recorded since 1577, probably a rebracketing of an + otch, which noun stems from Middle French oche (“notch”), itself from the Old French verb ochier (“to notch”), of uncertain origin, but possibly related to French hocher and English nick (“small cut, notch”).

(finance) A discontinuous change in a taxation schedule.


tax return

Stealing people's mail / On a Friday night / Drivin' in the mountains / Winding 'round and 'round / Rummage through your mailboxes / Take your mail back to town / And we got license plates, wedding gifts, tax returns / Checks to politicians from real estate firms / Money, bills, and canceled checks / Pretty funny pictures of your kids / Gonna steal your mail

1980, “Stealing People's Mail”, performed by Dead Kennedys:

(finance) A declaration of income etc. for tax purposes: a report of income, deductions, contributions, and related financial information filed by a taxpayer with a national or local tax authority, used by the authority to determine the amount of taxation, usually consisting of forms completed by the taxpayer

declaració de la renda

declaration of income to the tax authority


speculation

speculation (countable and uncountable, plural speculations)

Etymology tree
Middle English speculation
English speculation
From Middle English speculacioun, speculation, from Old French speculation (compare French spéculation), from Late Latin speculātiō, speculātiōnem, from Latin speculor.
Morphologically speculate + -ion

etymon

Creating a work with the hope of selling it

(business, finance) An investment involving higher-than-normal risk in order to obtain a higher-than-normal return.

спекулация

business, finance: investment involving higher-than-normal risk


unfreeze

en-verb

unfreeze (third-person singular simple present unfreezes, present participle unfreezing, simple past unfroze, past participle unfrozen)

unfreezes (present singular third-person)
unfreezing (participle present)
unfroze (past)
unfrozen (participle past)

The indictment said that after Mr. Bankman-Fried received confirmation that the accounts were unfrozen, the rest of the bribe money was paid.

2023 March 28, Matthew Goldstein, “Sam Bankman-Fried Is Charged With Foreign Bribery”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(transitive, finance) To release previously suspended financial assets.


premium

(finance) The amount by which a security's value exceeds its face value.


Big Bang

Coined by English astronomer Fred Hoyle on the BBC Third Programme, broadcast at 18:30 GMT on 28 March 1949. It is a popular but misinformed belief that this was intended as a derogatory term, Hoyle being a proponent of the opposing steady state theory, but Hoyle himself has rejected that notion.

(UK, finance, historical) The sudden deregulation of financial markets effected by prime minister Margaret Thatcher in 1986.


tax accounting

(finance) Those accounting activities related to tax.


SEC

“Anyway, Kaspersky took her story to the SEC. I’m sorry, it’s rude to throw obscure acronyms around. I mean the Securities and Exchange Commission. They’re the people who look after my industry.” Vincent knew what the SEC was, because she made an effort to follow the financial news, but she only nodded.

2020, Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel, Picador (2021), page 71:

Securities and Exchange Commission
w:Securities and Exchange Commission

(US, government, finance) Initialism of Securities and Exchange Commission.


refined

We're still purchasing copper ore, but the market for refined is weaker.

(finance) The refined form of a commodity, as opposed to its raw or generic form.


mutual

Borrowed from Middle French mutuel, from Latin mūtuus.

(business, finance, insurance) A mutual organization.


issue

From Middle English issue, from Old French issue (“an exit, a way out”), feminine past participle of issir (“to exit”), from Latin exeō (“go out, exit”), from prefix ex- (“out”) + eō (“go”).

drain

small incision etc. to drain excess bodily fluid

The company's issues have included bonds, stocks, and other securities.

Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly:

(finance) Any financial instrument issued by a company.

The company's stock issue diluted his ownership.

The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly:

(finance) The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities.


transaction

Borrowed from Middle French transaction, from Old French transaccion, from Late Latin transactio.

(finance) The transfer of funds into, out of, or from an account.

مُعَامَلَة

finance: transfer of funds into, out of, or from an account

транза́кцыя

finance: economic transaction: a valid currency transfer


preferred

Naturally, closed-end funds’ common shareholders love the juice that auction-rate preferreds provide.

2008 March 30, Gretchen Morgenson, “If You Can’t Sell, Good Luck”, in New York Times:


indication

en-noun

indication (countable and uncountable, plural indications)

From Old French indication, from Latin indicātiō (“a showing, indicating the value of something; valuation”), from indicō (“point out, indicate, show; value”); see indicate; compare French indication, Spanish indicación, Italian indicazione.
Morphologically indicate + -ion

der

(finance) An declared approximation of the price at which a traded security is likely to commence trading.


dip

en-noun

dip (countable and uncountable, plural dips)

From Middle English dippen, from Old English dyppan, from Proto-West Germanic *duppjan, from Proto-Germanic *dupjaną; see *daupijaną (“to dip”). Related to deep.

buy the dips

(finance, informal) A financial asset in decline, seen as an investment opportunity.


LP

LP (countable and uncountable, plural LPs)

liquidity provider
liquidity provider#English

(finance) Abbreviation of liquidity provider.


runway

→ Czech: runway

So, if you have $1.8M in the bank and monthly burn rate of $150,000, you have a runway of 12 months.

2014, Paul Paetz, “End Game”, in Disruption by Design: How to Create Products that Disrupt and Dominate Markets, Berkeley, Calif.: Apress, →ISBN, part III (The Last Mile), page 235:

There was so much investment—as much capital as twice the GDP of Tuvalu—which meant we must have enough runway, right?

2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN:

(finance, informal) Hence, the number of months that a startup company can operate by using up its cash reserves.

autonomia

number of months that a startup company can operate on its cash reserves


makeup

makeup (usually uncountable, plural makeups)

⇒ Portuguese: make

(finance) In a NIMCRUT, an amount distributed from the trust's income in subsequent years to make up for a present shortfall.


nominal

→ Afrikaans: nominaal

From the Middle English nominalle (“of nouns”), borrowed from Latin nōminālis (“of names”), from nōmen (“name”).

(finance) Of, relating to, or being the amount or face value of a sum of money or a stock certificate, for example, and not the purchasing power or market value.

(finance) Of, relating to, or being the rate of interest or return without adjustment for compounding or inflation.


strip

Brill Publishers
en:strip (disambiguation)

From alteration of stripe or from Middle Low German strippe, of uncertain ultimate origin, perhaps derived from a lost strong verb Proto-Germanic *strīpaną, with no clear cognates outside of Germanic except for Irish sríab (“line, stripe”).

(finance) An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one call and two put options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bearish than a straddle.


clearing

clearing (countable and uncountable, plural clearings)

(banking, finance) A process of exchanging transaction information and authorisation through a central institution or system to complete and settle those transactions.

клиринг

process of completing and settling transactions centrally


corner

→ German: Corner

→ Japanese: コーナー (kōnā)

From Middle English corner, from Anglo-Norman cornere (compare Old French cornier, corniere (“corner”)), from Old French corne (“corner, angle”, literally “a horn, projecting point”), from Vulgar Latin *corna (“horn”), from Latin cornua, plural of cornū (“projecting point, end, horn”). The sense of "angle, corner" in Old French is not found in Latin or other Romance languages. It was possibly calqued from Frankish *hurnijā (“corner, angle”), which is similar to, and derived from *hurn, the Frankish word for "horn". Displaced native cognate Middle English hirn, herne, from Old English hyrne, from Proto-Germanic *hurnijǭ (“little horn, hook, angle, corner”), whence modern English hirn (“nook, corner”), itself related to horn.

nurkka

business: interest that is sufficient for price manipulation

In the 1970s, private investors tried to get a corner on the silver market, but were ultimately unsuccessful.

(business, finance) A sufficient interest in a salable security or commodity to allow the cornering party to influence prices.

It's not my oppression, it's not your oppression but rather our oppression. No one of us has a corner on oppression.

1974 April 6, Sheri, “Women's Oppression and Separatism vs. Gay Liberation for All”, in Gay Community News, page 4:

(figuratively) Complete control or ownership of something.


corner

en-verb

corner (third-person singular simple present corners, present participle cornering, simple past and past participle cornered)

corners (present singular third-person)
cornering (participle present)
cornered (participle past)
cornered (past)

The buyers attempted to corner the shares of the railroad stock, so as to facilitate their buyout.

It's extremely hard to corner the petroleum market because there are so many players.

(finance, business, transitive) To get sufficient command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to manipulate its price.

akapari

business: to get sufficient command of a stock or commodity to be able to manipulate prices


post

post (third-person singular simple present posts, present participle posting, simple past and past participle posted)

posts (present singular third-person)
posting (participle present)
posted (participle past)
posted (past)

Chinese: po

Inherited from Old English post (“pillar, door-post”) and Latin postis (“a post, a door-post”) through Old French. .

inh+

You have not poſted your Books theſe Ten years; hovv is it poſſible for a Man of Buſineſs to keep his Affairs even in the VVorld at this rate?

1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “Of John Bull’s Second Wife, and the Good Advice that She Gave Him”, in Law is a Bottomless-Pit. […], London: […] John Morphew, […], →OCLC, page 18:

(accounting) To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.


yield

en-noun

yield (countable and uncountable, plural yields)

Verb from Middle English yielden, yelden, ȝelden (“to yield, pay”), from Old English ġieldan (“to pay”), from Proto-West Germanic *geldan, from Proto-Germanic *geldaną (“to pay”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots yield (“to yield”), North Frisian jilden (“to pay”), Saterland Frisian Saterland Frisian jäilde (“to be valid; matter; count; be worth”), West Frisian jilde (“to pay”), Low German Low German gellen, Dutch gelden (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), German gelten (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Icelandic gjalda (“to pay, yield, give”), Danish gælde (“to apply, count, be valued, be regarded”), Norwegian Bokmål gjelde.
Noun from Middle English ȝeld, from Old English ġield, from Proto-West Germanic *geld, from Proto-Germanic *geldą (“reward, gift, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”).
Cognates
Compare West Frisian jild, Dutch geld, Low German and German Geld, Danish gæld, Swedish gäld, Icelandic gjald. See also geld.

inh

return on investment
return on investment

(finance) Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.


upside down

Alteration of earlier up so down, from Middle English up-so-doun, upsedowne, upsadowne (“upside down”), equivalent to up + so + down ("up as down").

He's upside down on his mortgage.

(finance) Owing more money for something than it is worth; having negative equity.


journal

From Middle English journal, from Anglo-Norman jurnal (“daily”), from Old French jornel (“day”) (French journal), from Latin diurnālis, from diurnus (“of the day”). Doublet of diurnal and the journal from French.

(accounting) A chronological record of payments or receipts.

päiväkirja

accounting: chronological record of payments


gaucho

Borrowed from Spanish gaucho, of uncertain origin.

(finance, historical) A proposed currency intended to be used by Argentina and Brazil to make interregional payments.


condor

→ Welsh: condor

→ Korean: 콘도르 (kondoreu)

From Spanish cóndor, from Classical Quechua kuntur. The change /t/ to /d/ was charactersitic of the "coastal" variety of the language.

(finance) A combination of four options of the same type at four strike prices, giving limited profit and limited risk.


capitalize

en-verb

capitalize (third-person singular simple present capitalizes, present participle capitalizing, simple past and past participle capitalized)

capitalizes (present singular third-person)
capitalizing (participle present)
capitalized (participle past)
capitalized (past)

From capital + -ize, the first element ultimately from Latin capitālis (“of the head”).

Some states require proof that a new venture is properly capitalized before the state will issue a certificate of incorporation.

To have any hope of success a new venture must be properly capitalized.

1990 April 7, 9, “Irish Gay Mag To Begin Publication”, in Gay Community News, page 9:

(transitive, business, finance) To contribute or acquire capital (money or other resources) for.

rahoittaa

to have, contribute or acquire capital (money or other resources) for a business

If we obtain a loan using the business as collateral, the effect will be to capitalize our next ten years of income, giving us cash today that we can use to buy out our competitor.

(transitive, finance) To convert into capital, i.e., to get cash or similar immediately fungible resources for some less fungible property or source of future income.

(transitive, accounting, taxation) To treat as capital, not as an expense.


lame duck

Exchange Alley
London Evening Post
London Stock Exchange
lame duck (politics)

Equivalent to lame + duck. First use appears c. 1761, in the London Evening Post. Derived from the situation in which a person who had defaulted in the London Stock Exchange was said to waddle out of Exchange Alley like a lame duck. Verbal form first appears c. 1910.

(finance, slang, dated) A person who cannot fulfill their contracts.


surgery

en-noun

surgery (countable and uncountable, plural surgeries)

/ˈsɜːd͡ʒəɹi/

From Middle English surgerie, from Old French surgerie, from Latin chirurgia, from Ancient Greek χειρουργία (kheirourgía), from χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”). Doublet of chirurgy.

pre-packaged bankruptcy
pre-packaged bankruptcy

(finance, bankruptcy, slang) A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".


POV

(finance, computing) Initialism of percentage of volume, a type of securities trading algorithm.


SAR

SAR (countable and uncountable, plural SARs)

suspicious activity report
w:suspicious activity report

(finance) Acronym of suspicious activity report.


maturity

maturity (countable and uncountable, plural maturities)

/məˈt͡ʃʊəɹəti/

/məˈtʊəɹəti/

[məˈt͡ʃɝ.ɪ.ɾi]

From Middle English maturitee, maturyte, from Old French maturité, from Latin mātūritātem. By surface analysis, mature + -ity.

(countable, finance, insurance) The state of a debt obligation at the end of the term of maturation thereof, once all interest and any applicable fees have accrued to the principal.

The note was cashed at maturity.

(countable, finance, insurance) Date when payment is due.


proprietary trading

(finance) Trading activity conducted by a securities firm for its own profit rather than for its clients.


margin

→ Cantonese: 孖展 (maa¹ zin²)

→ Korean: 마진 (majin)

/ˈmɑːɹd͡ʒ(ə)n/

From Middle English margyn, from Latin marginem (possibly via Old French margin), accusative of margō (“edge, brink, border, margin”). Doublet of marge and margo.

(finance) The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production.

The purchaser then hands over this margin to the person with whom he hypothecates the Stock.

1848, William Armstrong, Stocks and Stock-Jobbing in Wall-Street:

If you borrow from your broker via trading on margin, you need to add monthly margin interest charges to your trading costs as well.

2017, Joe Duarte, Trading Options For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 140:

(finance) Collateral security deposited with a broker, to compensate the broker in the event of loss in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, commodities, etc.

Einschuss

finance: collateral security deposited with a broker


margin

en-verb

margin (third-person singular simple present margins, present participle margining, simple past and past participle margined)

margins (present singular third-person)
margining (participle present)
margined (participle past)
margined (past)

/ˈmɑːɹd͡ʒ(ə)n/

This sounds easy, but bear in mind that margined portfolios decline faster than cash portfolios in a bear market.

2011, Richard Lehman, Lawrence G. McMillan, Options for Volatile Markets, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 90:

(transitive, finance) To trade (securities etc.) on margin (collateral).


consolidate

consolidate (third-person singular simple present consolidates, present participle consolidating, simple past and past participle consolidated)

consolidates (present singular third-person)
consolidating (participle present)
consolidated (participle past)
consolidated (past)

Borrowed from Latin consolidātus, from the verb consolidō, from solidus (“solid”). By surface analysis, con- + solid + -ate.

surf

(finance) With respect to debt, to pay off several debts with a single loan.


mature

en-verb

mature (third-person singular simple present matures, present participle maturing, simple past and past participle matured)

matures (present singular third-person)
maturing (participle present)
matured (participle past)
matured (past)

From Middle English maturen, from Middle French maturer (“to mature”), from Latin mātūrō.

/məˈt͡ʃʊ(ə)ɹ/

When the bond matures, the full face value is payable to its bearer.

(intransitive, finance) To reach the date when payment is due.


multiple

From French multiple, itself from Late Latin multiplus.

Price-earnings ratio
price-earnings ratio


credit union

(finance) A financial cooperative similar to a bank but owned and controlled by its members, often restricted to a local area or sometimes to a single profession.

信用協同組合

しんようきょうどうくみあい


valuation

en-noun

valuation (countable and uncountable, plural valuations)

From Middle French valuation, noun of action from valuer, from Old French valoir.

The tax assessor put them in fourteen valuation groups ranging from one two-story brick house and two one-and-a-half-story houses to the largest groups of eighteen two-story houses and twenty-four one-story bungalows.

1993, Historic American Building Survey, Town of Clayburg: Refractories Company Town, National Park Service, page 4

Reddit's (RDDT.N) initial public offering is currently between four and five times oversubscribed, people familiar with the matter said on Sunday, making it more likely the social media platform will attain the $6.5 billion valuation it seeks.

2024 March 17, Echo Wang, “Exclusive: Reddit's IPO as much as five times oversubscribed, sources say”, in Reuters:

(finance, insurance) The process of estimating the value of a financial asset or liability.


accounting profit

accounting profit (plural accounting profits)

(accounting) The total revenue minus costs properly chargeable against goods sold.

tubo sa tuusan

the total revenue minus costs properly chargeable against goods sold


capital surplus

capital surplus (plural capital surpluses)

(accounting) A balance sheet item under shareholders' equity. Increases by the value above an original par value per share that newly issued shares are sold for.


deferred

en-adj

deferred (comparative more deferred, superlative most deferred)

more deferred (comparative)
most deferred (superlative)

(accounting) Whose value is not realized until a future date: e.g. annuities, charges, taxes, and income, either as an asset or liability.


deferred

Only some Eurobonds are Euro straights with normal fixed coupons: many have innovative coupon structures, like zeros, deferreds, or step-ups; many are dual-currency (coupon and principal currencies are not the same); […]

2005, Robert Dubil, An Arbitrage Guide to Financial Markets, page 88:


SLR

(US, finance) Initialism of supplementary leverage ratio.

(India, finance) Initialism of statutory liquidity ratio.


mining

en-noun

mining (countable and uncountable, plural minings)

→ Russian: ма́йнинг (májning)

Kazakhstan became last year the world’s second-largest centre for bitcoin mining after the United States, according to the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, after China clamped down on crypto mining activity.

2022 January 6, “Kazakhstan internet shutdown deals blow to global bitcoin mining operation”, in The Guardian:

(cryptocurrencies) Creation of new units of cryptocurrency by validating transactions and demonstrating proof of work.


reconcile

en-verb

reconcile (third-person singular simple present reconciles, present participle reconciling, simple past and past participle reconciled)

reconciles (present singular third-person)
reconciling (participle present)
reconciled (participle past)
reconciled (past)

(accounting, transitive) To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.

изравнявам

to make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance


cost centre

(UK, accounting, management) Alternative form of cost center


drawdown

en-noun

drawdown (countable and uncountable, plural drawdowns)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-drawdown.wav

The final lap in the drawdown of an approved loan or credit facility is the issue of an official instruction by the borrower to the lending bank.

2016, Kenny Tay, Corporate and Business Lending: Setting the Standards:

The financier exercises control over drawdown of the loan against presentation of stipulated documentation evidencing fulfilment of the pre-specified event or condition

2020, Stephen A. Jones, editor, The Trade and Receivables Finance Companion, page 200:

The agreement may provide for drawdown of the loan within the contract period as and when funds are required by the borrower, which part of the contract period till the last instalment is drawn is also referred to as the 'commitment period'.

1982, State Bank of India. Economic and Statistical Research Department, State Bank of India Monthly Review, volumes 21-22, page 432:

(finance) The borrowing of funds from a financial institution, under the terms of a credit agreement.


burning

(cryptocurrencies) purposefully remove certain number of coins in circulation, by sending it to a public address where the private keys cannot be obtained (called burn address, eater address or black hole), usually should be available on the blockchain for anyone to review such a transaction. It’s a one-way address with no ability to reverse the transaction or withdraw the coins. For all practical purposes, the asset no longer exists (it has been “burned”). The act of burning effectively removes tokens from the available supply.


DJ

(stock ticker symbol) Dow Jones & Company


alt

liquid alts

alternative investment
alternative investment

(finance) An alternative investment or alternative fund.


falsify

en-verb

falsify (third-person singular simple present falsifies, present participle falsifying, simple past and past participle falsified)

falsifies (present singular third-person)
falsifying (participle present)
falsified (participle past)
falsified (past)

From French falsifier, from Late Latin falsificāre (“make false, corrupt, counterfeit, falsify”), from Latin falsificus, from falsus (“false”), corresponding to false + -ify.

der

It will allow the account to stand, with liberty to the plaintiff to surcharge and falsify it

1833, Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States:

The chancery rules governing proceedings to surcharge and falsify accounts are applicable only where an account has been stated between the parties, or where something equivalent thereto has been done.

1912, Peyton Boyle, The Federal Reporter: Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit District Courts of the United States:

(accounting) To show (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.


give up

en-verb

give up (third-person singular simple present gives up, present participle giving up, simple past gave up, past participle given up)

gives up (present singular third-person)
giving up (participle present)
gave up (past)
given up (participle past)

(transitive, finance) To execute a trade on behalf of another broker.


revolver

→ Catalan: revòlver

→ Chuvash: ляворвăр (ljavorvăr)

→ Crimean Tatar: revolver

→ Danish: revolver

→ Dutch: revolver

→ Esperanto: revolvero

→ Finnish: revolveri

→ French: revolver

→ Gagauz: livorver

→ Galician: revólver

→ German: Revolver

→ Hungarian: revolver

→ Italian: revolver

→ Japanese: リボルバー (riborubā)

Norwegian:

→ Norwegian Bokmål: revolver

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: revolver

→ Polish: rewolwer

→ Portuguese: revólver

→ Russian: револьвер (revolʹver)

Serbo-Croatian:

→ Cyrillic script: револвер

→ Latin script: revolver

→ Spanish: revólver

→ Swedish: revolver

→ Urum: levorver

→ Yiddish: רעוואָלווער (revolver)

From revolve + er, coined by American inventor Samuel Colt in 1835.

coin

The debt is split between $6.5bn of term loans, as well as $6bn of senior and junior bonds and a $500mn revolver.

2023 December 16, “Musk told lenders they would not lose money on Twitter deal”, in FT Weekend, Companies & Markets, page 10:

(finance) Synonym of revolving line of credit, a form of credit permitting the holder to repeatedly borrow money.


underlying

(finance) The entity from whose performance a derivative derives its value.


oracle

From Middle English oracle, from Old French oracle m, from Latin ōrāculum n.

For example, an oracle may send temperature data reported by the National Weather Service or report the daily LIBOR rate to a smart contract.

2020, Daniel T. Stabile, Kimberly A. Prior, Andrew M. Hinkes, “Smart Contracts”, in Digital Assets and Blockchain Technology, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 223:

(cryptocurrencies) A third-party service that provides smart contracts with information from the outside world.


washing

en-noun

washing (countable and uncountable, plural washings)

From Middle English waschynge, weschynge, from Old English *weasċing, *wæsċing (attested in weasċingweġ), from Proto-West Germanic *waskingu, equivalent to wash + -ing. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Waaskenge (“washing”), West Frisian wasking (“washing”), Dutch wassing (“washing”), German Waschung (“washing”).

(stock exchange) A fraudulent transaction in which the same stock is simultaneously bought and sold for the purpose of manipulating the market.


wallet

From Middle English walet (“bag, knapsack”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from an assumed Old Northern French *walet (“roll; bag; knapsack”), from Proto-Germanic *wal- (“to roll”). More at walk, well, wallow.

der

(computing, finance) An e-wallet or digital wallet.


settlement

en-noun

settlement (countable and uncountable, plural settlements)

(finance) The delivery of goods by the seller and payment for them by the buyer, under a previously agreed trade or transaction or contract entered into.


dilute

en-verb

dilute (third-person singular simple present dilutes, present participle diluting, simple past and past participle diluted)

dilutes (present singular third-person)
diluting (participle present)
diluted (participle past)
diluted (past)

From Latin dīlūtus, from dīluere (“to wash away, dissolve, cause to melt, dilute”), from dī-, dis- (“away, apart”) + luere (“to wash”). See lave, and compare deluge.

(transitive, stock market) To cause the value of individual shares or the stake of a shareholder to decrease by increasing the total number of shares.

dilutoida

stock market: to decrease the value of individual shares by increasing the total number of shares


PCV

en-noun

PCV (countable and uncountable, plural PCVs)

permanent capital vehicle
permanent capital vehicle#English

(finance) Initialism of permanent capital vehicle.


ERC

(finance) Initialism of early repayment charge.


solvent

From French solvent, from Latin solventem, accusative singular of solvens, present participle of solvō. By surface analysis, solv(e) + -ent.

Near-synonyms: above water, in the black

(finance) Able to pay all debts as they become due, and having no more liabilities than assets.


wide open

en-adj

wide open (comparative wider open or more wide open, superlative widest open or most wide open)

wider open (comparative)
more wide open (comparative)
widest open (superlative)
most wide open (superlative)

(finance) Of the situation at the beginning of trading when there is a large spread between bids and asking prices.


municipal

Borrowed from French municipal, from Latin mūnicipālis (“of or belonging to a citizen or a free town”), from mūniceps (“a citizen, an inhabitant of a free town”), from mūnus (“duty”) + capiō (“to take”).

der

“This might be the last great opportunity for preretirement baby boomers to buy municipals at such attractive levels,” said Janet Fiorenza, head of municipal fixed income at Lehman Brothers Asset Management.

2008 April 21, Julie Connelly, “Muni Bonds, Safe With High Yields”, in New York Times:

(finance) A financial instrument issued by a municipality.


NYSE

New York Stock Exchange
w:New York Stock Exchange

(trading) Initialism of New York Stock Exchange.


write-off

(accounting) The cancellation of an item; the amount cancelled or lost.


write down

en-verb

write down (third-person singular simple present writes down, present participle writing down, simple past wrote down, past participle written down)

writes down (present singular third-person)
writing down (participle present)
wrote down (past)
written down (participle past)

(transitive, accounting) To make a downward adjustment in the value of an asset.

afskrive

to make a downward adjustment in the value of an asset


subordinate

subordinate (third-person singular simple present subordinates, present participle subordinating, simple past and past participle subordinated)

subordinates (present singular third-person)
subordinating (participle present)
subordinated (participle past)
subordinated (past)

From Middle English subordinat, from Medieval Latin subōrdinātus, past participle of subōrdināre, from sub- + ōrdināre (“to order”).

(transitive) To make subservient or secondary.

(transitive, finance) To make of lower priority in order of payment in bankruptcy.


flip

flip (third-person singular simple present flips, present participle flipping, simple past and past participle flipped)

flips (present singular third-person)
flipping (participle present)
flipped (participle past)
flipped (past)

Alteration of earlier fillip, from Middle English filippen (“to make a signal or sound with thumb and right forefinger, snap the fingers”), an attenuated variation of flappen (“to flap, clap, slap, strike”). Cognate with Dutch flappen (“to flap”), German flappen (“to flap”).

inh

Those companies have been flipping houses in the real estate market for years.

After the formal part of dealer interviews, often later over a glass of wine, tales would be told of how the dealer does cope with pricing decisions, how other dealers are thought to set prices, and the pricing problems that result when evil collectors flip new paintings at auction.

2010, Don Thompson, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark, Aurum Press Limited, →ISBN:

Quick cash, flip that, now I got big cash. Sit back, sip yak with a next piff yat.

2018 November 30, “Bits” (track 10), in Original Sounds, performed by Bru-C and Window Kid:

Typically, the art world disdains “flipping” — when a collector buys a work and then immediately resells it at a profit.

2021 March 11, Scott Reyburn, “JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as ‘NFT Mania’ Gathers Pace”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(transitive, finance, slang) To purchase and resell assets (often real estate or artworks) for immediate short-term profit.

The bill makes it illegal to encourage borrowers to repeatedly refinance, or "flip," a loan primarily to collect more fees.

2002, BNA's Banking Report, volume 78, page 747:

Some of our consumer protection offices are all too familiar with the abusive practice of "flipping" loans.

2002, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Predatory Mortgage Lending, page 70:

(transitive, finance, slang) To refinance (a loan), accruing additional fees.


facility

en-noun

facility (countable and uncountable, plural facilities)

From Middle French facilité, and its source, Latin facilitās. Doublet of faculty. Also see facile.

(finance, banking) Clipping of credit facility.


UHF

(finance) Initialism of ultra-high-frequency.


unbalanced

en-adj

unbalanced (comparative more unbalanced, superlative most unbalanced)

more unbalanced (comparative)
most unbalanced (superlative)

(accounting) not adjusted such that debit and credit correspond


provision

en-noun

provision (countable and uncountable, plural provisions)

/pɹəˈvɪʒ.ən/

From Middle English provisioun, from Old French provisïon, from Latin prōvīsiō (“preparation, foresight”), from prōvidēre (“provide”).

der

We increased our provision for bad debts on credit sales going into the recession.

(accounting) A liability or contra account to recognise likely future adverse events associated with current transactions.


yo-yo

→ Italian: yo-yo

Genericized trademark. Most likely from Ilocano yóyo, or another Philippine cognate.

(finance) A volatile market that moves up and down.


asking price

(finance) The list price or sticker price of an item; the price without any discounts or incentives.


PDA

en-noun

PDA (countable and uncountable, plural PDAs)

(cryptocurrencies, Solana) Initialism of program derived address.


side chain

The Blockstream developers, meanwhile, were accused of working for the interests of their company, Blockstream, rather than the good of Bitcoin as a whole. Their company, after all, proposed breaking many smaller transactions off onto so called sidechains that would occasionally link back up with the main Bitcoin blockchain, […]

2015, Nathaniel Popper, “Epilogue”, in Digital Gold, 1st edition, New York: Harper, →ISBN, →OCLC:

A sidechain does not have a native token but rather creates a two-way peg or a 1:1 peg between bitcoin (tokens) and the “pegged bitcoin” on the sidechain.

2021, H. Kent Baker, Ehsan Nikbakht, Sean Stein Smith, The Emerald Handbook of Blockchain for Business, Emerald Group Publishing, →ISBN, page 179:

(cryptocurrencies) A separate blockchain attached to a parent blockchain (mainchain) to extend its functionalities.


leverage

leverage (usually uncountable, plural leverages)

/ˈlɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/

Leverage is great until something goes wrong with your investments and you still have to pay your debts.

Online margin trading is usually based on leverage, where the brokerage effectively lets you borrow more money than you have deposited as collateral.

2011, Brian Dolan, Currency Trading For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 55:

Both exchanges offer crypto derivatives, which are bets on future fluctuations in cryptocurrency prices. They also offer extreme leverage — up to 125 times on Binance. That means a $1,000 down payment can be turned into a $125,000 gamble.

2021 July 23, Eric Lipton, Ephrat Livni, “‘I Feel Conflicted’: Crypto’s Offshore Trading Moguls Talk Shop”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(finance) The use of borrowed funds with a contractually determined return to increase the ability to invest and earn an expected higher return, but usually at high risk.

In such cases where there is a multiple capital structure the factor known as leverage comes into play.

1933 June 4, “Trusts Heartened by Security Rally”, in New York Times:


year to date

(management, accounting) The period from the beginning of a fiscal year to the end of a reporting period.


hypo

hypo (countable and uncountable, plural hypos)

Clipping of various terms beginning with hypo-, from Ancient Greek ὑπό (hupó, “under”).

(slang, finance, British) Hypothecation.


creditworthy

en-adj

creditworthy (comparative more creditworthy, superlative most creditworthy)

more creditworthy (comparative)
most creditworthy (superlative)

(finance) Having an acceptable credit rating.


vol

Sell on both clarity on the president's health, and if "gold vols are still in the 19-20 range,” said the US bank’s analysts in the 5 October ‘Weekly Gold Monitor’ note. […] “The sustained elevated vols indicate that the market is still pricing a small possibility of any further unfavourable health reports, which would likely bring another spike in gold spot.”

2020 October 6, Bérengère Sim, “JPMorgan says sell gold volatility on ‘non-conflicting’ Trump health reports”, in Financial News:


roundtrip

en-verb

roundtrip (third-person singular simple present roundtrips, present participle roundtripping, simple past and past participle roundtripped)

roundtrips (present singular third-person)
roundtripping (participle present)
roundtripped (participle past)
roundtripped (past)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-roundtrip.wav

(finance) To engage in the form of barter called a round trip.


convertible

en-adj

convertible (comparative more convertible, superlative most convertible)

more convertible (comparative)
most convertible (superlative)

From Old French convertible, from Late Latin convertibilis (“interchangeable”), from Latin convertere (“to turn back, to turn over, to turn around, to turn upside down”), from con- (“with, together”) + vertere (“to turn”), + -ibilis (“-ible: able to”). Equivalent to convert + -ible.

der

Able to be exchanged, one for the other, especially

(finance) Able to be exchanged for a different class of security (usually common stock) under certain set terms.


convertible

(finance) A convertible security: a stock, bond, etc. that can be turned into another (usually common stock) under certain set terms.


round trip

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-round trip.wav

From round (“complete, entire"; "forming a circle or cycle”) + trip (“journey”).

compound

(finance) A form of barter that involves the sale of an unused asset and the purchase of the same asset back again, or a similar one, typically used in accounting fraud.

(finance) The investment of a borrowed overdraft in order to make a profit in the same market.


receiver

From Anglo-Norman receverre, receivour et al., later also reformed as receive + -er. Compare recevor, rescaivour.

curator

person appointed to settle financial affairs

прыёмнік

electronic device that receives and converts signal

(finance) A swaption which gives its holder the option to enter into a swap in which they pay the floating leg and receive the fixed leg.


conduit

From Middle English conduyt, condit, from Old French conduit, from Latin conductus. Doublet of conduct.

(finance) An investment vehicle that issues short-term commercial paper to finance long-term off-balance sheet bank assets.


privilege

en-noun

privilege (countable and uncountable, plural privileges)

From Middle English privilege, from Anglo-Norman privilege and Old French privilege, from Latin prīvilēgium (“ordinance or law against or in favor of an individual”), from prīvus (“private”) + lēx, lēg- (“law”).

der

(countable, US, finance, now rare) A stock market option.


retrace

en-verb

retrace (third-person singular simple present retraces, present participle retracing, simple past and past participle retraced)

retraces (present singular third-person)
retracing (participle present)
retraced (participle past)
retraced (past)

From French retracer, from Middle French retracier.

(intransitive, finance) To undergo retracement.


FPO

follow-on public offering
follow-on public offering#English

(business, finance) Initialism of follow-on public offering.


reminder

/ɹɪˈmaɪndəɹ/

/ɹɪˈmɑɪndə(ɹ)/

She ignored first the reminder of 80 cents. At the end, she was sentenced to pay 200 euros!

(finance) Writing that reminds of open payments.

催繳單 /催缴单

(finance) writing that reminds of open payments


call premium

(finance) The amount over par value an issuer must pay to redeem a callable bond on a call date.


head and shoulders

(finance) A characteristic formation on a technical analysis chart where two lower peaks appear around a central higher peak.


rotation

en-noun

rotation (countable and uncountable, plural rotations)

/ɹoʊˈteɪʃən/

Borrowed from Latin rotatiō. By surface analysis, rotate + -ion.

Sector rotation attempts to capitalize on the tendency of certain sectors to outperform others during specific economic phases, while style rotation involves shifting investments between different investment styles, such as moving from growth stocks to value stocks.

(finance), the movement of investments between different sectors of an economy, or styles of investing, based on anticipated changes in the economic or market cycle.


in the black

From the standard accounting practice of using black ink, as opposed to red ink, to denote positive values, especially a net income.

(accounting, idiomatic) Having positive net income; having greater income than expenses; making a profit.

(accounting, idiomatic) Having positive net worth.


SOA

SOA (countable and uncountable, plural SOAs)

statement of account
w:statement of account

(business, accounting, banking) Initialism of statement of account.


deduction

deduction (countable and uncountable, plural deductions)

From Middle French déduction, from Latin deductio.
Equivalent to deduct + -ion or deduce + -tion.

That which is deducted; that which is subtracted or removed

(law, finance) A sum withheld from an employee's pay for the purpose of paying tax.

verovähennys

sum withheld from pay for the purpose of paying tax


ROE

(accounting) Initialism of return on equity. — A measure of how well a company used reinvested earnings to generate additional earnings.


subfund

(finance) A fund making up part of a larger fund.


vesting schedule

(finance) The schedule setting forth when and to what extent options become exercisable (for example, 20% per year over five years); could apply to restricted or deferred stocks also.


vest date

(finance) The date on which stock award restrictions lapse and the stock becomes available for transfer to buyer. Also the date on which stock options become available for exercise.


jump the gun

en-verb

jump the gun (third-person singular simple present jumps the gun, present participle jumping the gun, simple past and past participle jumped the gun)

jumps the gun (present singular third-person)
jumping the gun (participle present)
jumped the gun (participle past)
jumped the gun (past)

(idiomatic, finance, investing) To trade securities based on information that is not yet public; to trade on inside information.

ottaa varaslähtö

to trade securities based on yet undisclosed information


ultima

en-noun

ultima (countable and uncountable, plural ultimas)

From the Latin feminine of ultimus (“last”).

(finance, uncountable) A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of vomma with respect to changes in the volatility of the underlying asset.


CTR

(finance) Initialism of cash transaction report.

currency transaction report
w:currency transaction report

(finance) Initialism of currency transaction report.


realize

en-verb

realize (third-person singular simple present realizes, present participle realizing, simple past and past participle realized)

realizes (present singular third-person)
realizing (participle present)
realized (participle past)
realized (past)
realize (infinitive)

desc

→ Portuguese: realizar (“to realize, become aware of”) (semantic loan)

PIE word
 *reh₁ís
From real (adjective) + -ize (suffix denoting the making of what is indicated by the word it is attached to), possibly modelled after French réaliser, Middle French réaliser (“to make real; to convert (something) into assets or cash”), from real (“actual, real”) + -iser (suffix denoting the making of what is indicated by the word it is attached to). Real is derived from Old French reel, from Latin reālis (“actual, real”), from rēs (“deed; event; matter; thing”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁ís (“goods; wealth”)) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship).

أَدْرَكَ

(transitive) to become aware of or understand (a fact or situation); (intransitive) to become aware of or understand a fact or situation

tehdä todeksi

(transitive) to cause (something) to seem real; to present (something) clearly to the mind, a person, etc., so that it seems real; (intransitive) to cause to seem real

بَاعَ

(transitive) to convert (an asset or property) into a more easily usable form such as money, especially by selling the asset or property; (intransitive) to convert an asset or property into a more easily usable form such as money

By realizing the company’s assets, the liquidator was able to return most of the shareholders’ investments.

Profits from the investment can be realized at any time by selling the shares.

A dealer doing a large amount of business, and turning over his capital rapidly, has but a small portion of it in ready money at any one time. […] [W]hen he retires from business it is into money that he converts the whole, and not until then does he deem himself to have realized his gains: […]

1848, John Stuart Mill, “Preliminary Remarks”, in Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy. […], volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], →OCLC, book I (Production), page 5:

[H]is client was willing to realize most of his assets in order to provide for his wife and eldest daughter.

1988 October, Maeve Binchy, “Maureen”, in Silver Wedding, London: Guild Publishing, published 1988, →OCLC, page 150:

To convert (an asset or property, especially investments such as bonds, shares, etc.) into a more easily usable form such as money, especially by selling the asset or property.

to realize large profits from a speculation

The tvvo Perſons here mentioned vvere of Quality, each of vvhom in the time of the Miſſiſipi deſpis'd to realize above three hundred thouſand pounds.

1735, Alexander Pope, “Notes. Epistle to Lord Bathurst, Ver. 20.”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume II, London: […] J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver […], →OCLC, page 211:

Knighthood was not beyond the reach of any man who could by diligent thrift realise a good estate.

1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter I, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume I, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 38:

Rodney explained that he knew I cared about the things, and was proud of them, but he'd always supposed I meant to "realize" on them, just as he did, and that it would come to money in the end.

1925, Willa Cather, chapter VI, in The Professor’s House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC, book II (Tom Outland’s Story), page 244:

To acquire (money, a profit, etc.) by selling an asset or property, through trade, etc.; also (followed by on), to make (money or a profit) on an investment, a venture, etc.

realisoida

(transitive) to acquire (money, a profit, etc.) by selling an asset or property, through trade, etc.; to make (money or a profit) on an investment, a venture, etc.; (intransitive) to acquire money or a profit from the sale of an asset or property

Of an asset or property: to generate (a specific amount of money or interest) when invested or sold.

realisoitua

of an asset or property: to generate (a specific amount of money or interest) when invested or sold

A lucky purchase which he had made of shares in a copper-mine added very considerably to his wealth, and he realised with great prudence while this mine was still at its full vogue.

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, “A Pedigree and Other Family Matters”, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849, →OCLC, page 10:

Wary men took the alarm, and began to realize, a word now first brought into use to express the conversion of ideal property into something real.

1855, Washington Irving, “[A Time of Unexampled Prosperity.] The Great Mississippi Bubble.”, in Wolfert’s Roost and Other Papers, […], New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam & Co., […], →OCLC, page 174:

To convert an asset or property into a more easily usable form such as money.

Followed by on or upon: to acquire money or a profit from the sale of an asset or property.

The estate is expected to realize well as it comprises many valuable assets.

(obsolete) With an adverb like badly or well: of an asset or property being sold: to generate little or a lot of money.


indirect

/ˌɪndɪˈɹɛkt/

/ˌɪndəˈɹɛkt/

From Middle French indirect, from Late Latin indirectus.

In the case of a piece of equipment such as a pump, the supplier's costs may be broken down into the directs of labour, material, and component costs on the one hand, and the indirects of customized engineering, sales, factory overheads, and order management costs on the other.

2002, Peter Watermeyer, Handbook for Process Plant Project Engineers:

2010, Anna M. Gil-Lafuente and José M. Merigó (editos), Computational Intelligence in Business and Economics
Gradually analytical thinking was taking a greater awareness of the importance it took for all the investigation system of the possible identification or traceability of fixed costs and, in general, of the indirects of other times.


credit default option

en-noun

credit default option (plural credit default options)

(finance) A put option that makes a payoff in the event the issuer of a specified reference asset defaults.


articulation

articulation (countable and uncountable, plural articulations)

From Middle English articulacioun, from Old French articulacion, from Medieval Latin articulatio. Equivalent to articulate + -ion.

At the time the outstanding distinction that could be seen between Copeland-Fed on the one hand and Goldsmith-Friend on the other was that the flow-of-funds system explicitly included nonfinancial transactions in the statistical structure in direct articulation with financial flows and stocks.

1991, Stephen P. Taylor, “From Moneyflows Accounts to Flow-of-Funds Accounts”, printed in John C. Dawson (editor), Flow-of-Funds Analysis: A Handbook for Practitioners, M.E. Sharpe (1996), page 103

Particular income statement accounts (revenues and expenses) are linked to particular balance sheet accounts (assets and liabilities); that is, there is articulation between the income statement and the balance sheet.

2005, David T. Collins, “Accounting and Financial Reporting Issues”, Chapter 6 of Robert L. Brown and Alan S. Gutterman (editors), Emerging Companies Guide: A Resource for Professionals and Entrepreneurs, American Bar Association, page 169

The emphasis on articulated information about environmental liabilities in the management accounts is not stressed. Articulation between stock and flow information in physical environment terms receives less attention.

2005, Roger L. Burritt, “Challenges for Environmental Management Accounting”, Chapter 2 of Pall M. Rikhardsson et al. (editors), Implementing Environmental Management Accounting: Status and Challenges, Springer, page 28

(accounting) The interrelation and congruence of the flow of data between financial statements of an entity, especially between the income statement and balance sheet.

yhteys

accounting: interrelation of financial statements


collections

We have sent your account to collections.

(accounting, of an account) A state being beyond merely past due.

Sorry, but you'll have to talk with collections.

(accounting) A department that attempts to collect on accounts that are beyond merely past due.


overhead

overhead (countable and uncountable, plural overheads)

From Middle English owerheved, over-hed, over hede (adverb), from Old English oferhēafod (adverb), equivalent to over- + head. Compare German Low German overhoopt, överhoopt, German überhaupt.

computational overhead| digital overhead

(uncountable, business, accounting) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.

間接費用 /间接费用

(countable, business, accounting) The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.


witching hour

/ˈwɪt͡ʃɪŋ ˌaʊə/

/ˈwɪt͡ʃɪŋ ˌaʊ(ə)ɹ/

From witching (“of or pertaining to witchcraft or sorcery, or to witches or sorcerers”, adjective) + hour. Sense 1 (“midnight”) was popularized by the reference to the “witching time of night” in the play Hamlet (written c. 1599–1602; published 1603) by the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564–1616): see the quotation.

compound

(originally and chiefly US, stock market) The final hour of trading each month during which certain stock options expire, leading to a higher trading volume and greater price volatility.


red ink

GCN has gleefully swum against the political mainstream. Less comfortable has been the financial torrent that now washes the paper in red ink. Being out of step politically has meant not having access to lucrative advertisers.

1991 December 1, Gordon Gottlieb, “The Struggle Continues”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 20, page 11:

(idiomatic, business, management, accounting, euphemistic) Financial loss.


Dow

en-proper noun

Dow (countable and uncountable, plural Dows)

Variant of Daw from David or daw, and of Duff from Scottish Gaelic.


Doge

(informal, cryptocurrencies) Clipping of Dogecoin (“a unit of the cyptocurrency”).


Ether

Coordinate term: gas

After more than 30 bids, the auction ended at 12:32 p.m. Eastern time, with a winning bid of 350 Ether, or about $560,000.

2021 March 26, Kevin Roose, “Why Did Someone Pay $560,000 for a Picture of My Column?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(cryptocurrencies) A unit of the Ethereum digital currency, ETH.


ISO

(finance) Initialism of incentive stock option.


Swift

(finance) Alternative letter-case form of SWIFT (“Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication”)


refresher

(finance) An equity grant given by a company to an existing employee, as opposed to an initial grant given to new employees.


ticker tape

en-noun

ticker tape (usually uncountable, plural ticker tapes)

(trading, finance) Paper tape on which a stock ticker, news ticker or similar device would print incoming information.


fight the tape

en-verb

fight the tape (third-person singular simple present fights the tape, present participle fighting the tape, simple past and past participle fought the tape)

fights the tape (present singular third-person)
fighting the tape (participle present)
fought the tape (participle past)
fought the tape (past)

From the early 20th-century practice of printing stock prices on ticker tape.

I kept buying hoping the price would go up, but I eventually decided I was fighting the tape.

(trading) To make a trade contrary to the overall tendency of prices, i.e., to buy when prices are generally falling or sell when prices are generally rising.


catch a falling knife

catch a falling knife (third-person singular simple present catches a falling knife, present participle catching a falling knife, simple past and past participle caught a falling knife)

catches a falling knife (present singular third-person)
catching a falling knife (participle present)
caught a falling knife (participle past)
caught a falling knife (past)

Buying that stock now would be catching a falling knife. Wait until you see capitulation.

(trading) To buy an instrument whose price is falling rapidly.

fånga en fallande kniv

(trading) To buy an instrument with the unconfirmed assumption that price will reverse.


dead cat bounce

en-noun

dead cat bounce (plural dead cat bounces)

From the idea that a cat dropped from a height might bounce without this indicating any actual life after hitting the ground.

Now, if you look at the chart of a stock that has suffered a collapse, you will see that at the bottom of each drop there is a small uptick, a rise in the price. This uptick, representing the smart money getting out because it knows what is coming, and fools getting in because they don't, is known as the dead cat bounce, so-called because if you drop a dead cat off a skyscraper the cat will bounce, too, but the movement doesn't mean the cat is alive.

1988, Sarah Graves [pseudonym; Mary Squibb], The Dead Cat Bounce (Home Repair is Homicide Series; 1), New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN:

There's this thing called the Dead Cat Bounce. It's a stock market term, I believe. What it's talking about is the fact that even a stock that is essentially worthless and really going nowhere but down for ever can register a slight upward movement, just for a bit, because there is generally a floor for almost everything. The comparison rests on the fact that even when a cat hits the pavement from forty stories high and dies instantly, it'll still bounce back up a little.

2002, Iain Banks, “Dead Cat Bounce”, in Dead Air, London: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:

Avoid taking a position in stocks that show dead-cat bounces. Those stocks see their price drop at least 15 percent in one session. A stock showing a dead-cat bounce tends to bounce higher and then decline, sometimes suffering additional dead-cat bounces three and six months later (if earnings related[…]).

2013, Thomas N. Bulkowski, “Swinging Tools and Setups”, in Swing and Day Trading: Evolution of a Trader, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 163:

(trading, idiomatic) A temporary recovery in the price of a financial instrument which has fallen rapidly and is expected to fall further in the long run.

Library of Congress
New York Stock Exchange
U.S. News & World Report

Dead-Cat-Bounce

temporary recovery in the price of an instrument


death futures

(finance, slang) Trading life assurance policies of terminally ill people, bought by a third party as an investment.


capital stock

capital stock (usually uncountable, plural capital stocks)

(law, accounting, US) The total amount of common and preferred stock (shares) that a company can issue.


cost center

Coordinate term: profit center

(accounting, management) A division or project of an organization to which costs can be specifically allocated.


F

Abbreviation.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of full, fully.
# (stenoscript) suffixes -full, -fully.

ng

<i class="Latn mention" lang="en">fully</i>.

(stock ticker symbol) Ford Motor Company


C

The programming language is so named because it followed on from an earlier language called B.

(stock ticker symbol) Symbol for the company Citigroup Inc on the NYSE


dividend

From Middle French dividende, from Latin dividendum (“thing to be divided”), future passive participle of divido (“to divide”), by surface analysis, divide + -end.

uder

On all dividends which do not exceed six per centum per annum, eight per centum; on dividends exceeding six per centum and not exceeding seven per centum, a tax of nine per centum...

1861, Laws of Pennsylvania of the Session of 1861, page 511:

(finance) A cash payment of money by a company to its shareholders, usually made periodically (e.g., quarterly or annually).

حِصَّة

finance: a payment of money by a company to its shareholders


decapitalize

en-verb

decapitalize (third-person singular simple present decapitalizes, present participle decapitalizing, simple past and past participle decapitalized)

decapitalizes (present singular third-person)
decapitalizing (participle present)
decapitalized (participle past)
decapitalized (past)

(transitive, finance) To convert a capital value, typically into a rental


amortize

amortize (third-person singular simple present amortizes, present participle amortizing, simple past and past participle amortized)

amortizes (present singular third-person)
amortizing (participle present)
amortized (participle past)
amortized (past)

From Middle English amortisen, from Old French amortir (via the stem amortiss-), from Vulgar Latin *admortīre, derived from Latin mortuus (“dead”).

extraordinary borrowing had been so extensive, Joly de Fleury reckoned, that even if it were amortized over the following decade, the state would still be running an annual deficit of over 50 million livres.

2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 318:

(business, finance, transitive) To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments.


kicker

(finance) An enticement for investors, e.g. warranty added to the investment contract.


FOP

(finance) Initialism of free of payment, delivery of securities with no corresponding payment of funds


ADR

en-noun

ADR (countable and uncountable, plural ADRs)

/eɪ diː ˈɑː/

american depositary receipt
w:american depositary receipt

(finance) Initialism of american depositary receipt.


tie up

en-verb

tie up (third-person singular simple present ties up, present participle tying up, simple past and past participle tied up)

ties up (present singular third-person)
tying up (participle present)
tied up (participle past)
tied up (past)

Don't tie up your capital in aging accounts.

(finance) To immobilize a capital: make a capital investment that makes that capital unavailable.


HELOC

(finance) Acronym of home equity line of credit.


kaffir

en-noun

kaffir (countable and uncountable, plural kaffirs)

Ultimately from Arabic كَفَّار (kaffār, “infidel”) or كَافِر (kāfir, “unbeliever”), both from كَفَرَ (kafara, “to cover, to hide”); in some (especially early) uses, via Spanish cafre, Dutch kaffer or other European languages. Doublet of kafir.

Kaffirs bouyant most of last week

(finance, slang, historical) South African mining shares


CTO

Audio (US)

(finance) Initialism of confidential treatment order.


LOC

LOC (countable and uncountable, plural LOCs)

(finance, banking) Initialism of line of credit; also LoC.


PST

provincial sales tax
w:Provincial Sales Tax

(finance, Canada) Initialism of provincial sales tax.


PV

PV (countable and uncountable, plural PVs)

Abbreviation.
* Sense "promotional video" is a borrowing from Japanese PV (PV, “promotional video”), from English promotional + video.

(countable, finance) Initialism of present value.


contra

a contra position; a contra entry

The sum for each contra account is shown in the last column.

(accounting, often attributive) An entry (or account) that cancels another entry (or account).

contrarekening

(accounting) an entry (or account) that cancels another entry


contra

en-verb

contra (third-person singular simple present contras, no present participle, no simple past or past participle)

to contra a position (an entry)


underwriter

They were the underwriters of the company's shares, but only on a "best efforts" basis.

(finance) An entity undertaking to market newly issued securities.


SSA

en-noun

SSA (countable and uncountable, plural SSAs)

This segment of issuers is known as the supranationals, or supras. Together with regional and agency borrowers, the bonds issued by supranationals form a bond market segment known as SSA (supras, sub-sovereigns and agencies).

2021, Alexander During, Fixed Income Trading and Risk Management: The Complete Guide, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 147:

(finance) Initialism of supranationals, sub-sovereigns and agencies (“bond market segment”).


NOW

(US, finance) Acronym of negotiable order of withdrawal (“an instrument similar to a check”).


IRS

interest rate swap
interest rate swap#English

(finance) Initialism of interest rate swap.


PSA

PSA (countable and uncountable, plural PSAs)

purchase and sale agreement
w:purchase and sale agreement

(finance) Initialism of purchase and sale agreement.


jeet

Clipping of pajeet (“an Indian”), the second part of which is derived from Hindi जीत (jīt, “victory, win”). Sense 2 likely stems from the fact Indian posters tended to shill low circulation crypto coins (or "shitcoins") in order to get anons on 4chan's /biz/ board to buy into them, only for the scammer to sell off at the first hint the coin was going for a downturn.

As the coin dropped by 1%, all of the jeets started panic-selling simultaneously.

This project has the potential to fly. The whitepaper and team sold me. This is not a project for the jeets though. Jeets will need to find a low mc launch to through there .2 bean at

2022 January 30, u/SpecificSalamander19, “🐺 We are proud to announce that Coyote Coin is launching soon! 🔥 A Dual Chain coin created to change the way you think about crypto! 🐺”, in Reddit, r/AllCryptoBets, archived from the original on 2023-12-23:

thats ok, your wife will cheer me up in the back of my porsche truck, which dumb jeets like yourself paid for by shorting and swing trading in the negative

2022 September 28, “If your looking for a 'REALTIME' education on what FOMO is...look no further”, in Reddit, r/WallStreetBetsCrypto, archived from the original on 2023-12-23:

NFT "jeets" are Olympic champions when it comes to losing money. Somehow, they always get the best whitelists for every release. As soon as they mint something, they start to drop price by 10% every 2 hrs. In just a day or two, these jeets will sell 40% or less under mint price on OpenSea.

2023 May 16, u/MaximumStudent1839, “Ubisoft wants to sell Assassin's Creed's Ezio's 'digital soul' as an NFT”, in Reddit, r/CryptoCurrency, archived from the original on 2023-12-23:

this is why the jeets are running scared, but if you are well diversified on BTC and ETH you should brush it off. There´s always that risk.

2023 August 1, u/MWCyrus, “Richard Heart is being sued by the SEC for securities fraud!”, in Reddit, r/Pulsechain, archived from the original on 2023-12-23:

(Internet slang, 4chan, cryptocurrencies, derogatory) An investor who is extremely risk-averse and will sell off their holdings at the slightest hint of a downturn.


AMD

Advanced Micro Devices
w:Advanced Micro Devices

(stock ticker symbol) Initialism of Advanced Micro Devices.


CPA

CPA (countable and uncountable, plural CPAs)

certified public accountant
certified public accountant#English

(US, Philippines, accounting) Initialism of certified public accountant.

(Canada, accounting) Initialism of chartered professional accountant.

(accounting) Abbreviation of collaboration protocol agreement in ebXML.


AON

(finance) Initialism of all-or-none order.


CR

Probably from Latin crēdēre; compare DR.


ATO

ATO (countable and uncountable, plural ATOs)

Interestingly, the nature of the available stolen data means the typical victim of an ATO attack varies slightly depending on whether a bank or a retailer is under attack.

2022, Gilit Saporta, Shoshana Maraney, Practical Fraud Prevention, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN:

(computer security, finance) Initialism of account take over.


EPS

(finance) Initialism of earnings per share.


LIFFE

w:London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange

(finance) Initialism of London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange.


FIFO

FIFO (countable and uncountable, plural FIFOs)

first in first out
first in first out#English

(accounting, operations, computing) Acronym of first in first out.


BLS

usage New York Stock Exchange

BellSouth Corporation
w:BellSouth Corporation

(stock ticker symbol) Abbreviation of BellSouth Corporation.


CMIR

(finance) Initialism of certified manager of investment recovery.


ETD

ETD (countable and uncountable, plural ETDs)

(finance) Initialism of exchange-traded derivative.


EBIT

(accounting, finance) Acronym of earnings before interest and taxes.


CBA

CBA (countable and uncountable, plural CBAs)

(finance) Initialism of currency board arrangement.


marzipan layer

by analogy with the layer of marzipan below the icing on a Christmas cake

(British, slang, finance) stockbroking executives immediately below the partners in a firm


ATP

ATP (countable and uncountable, plural ATPs)

Industry planners and analysts are closely parsing July’s numbers to try to divine what’s ahead for the industry. One worrisome sign was the decline in the average transaction price, or ATP, paid by the typical buyer in July.

2020 August 4, Paul A. Eisenstein, “Consumers shopping for a new car are still wary, adding to problems for automakers”, in NBC News:

(finance) Initialism of average transaction price.


DMA

DMA (countable and uncountable, plural DMAs)

direct market access
w:direct market access

(finance) Initialism of direct market access.


Premium Bond

(UK, finance) A method of financial investment available to British citizens where, instead of interest payments, investors have the chance to win tax-free prizes, or get their money back.


LIFO

last in first out
last in first out#English

(computing, accounting, business) Acronym of last in first out.


reconciliation

reconciliation (countable and uncountable, plural reconciliations)

From Middle English reconciliacioun (“act of reconciling; state of accord or harmony;”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman reconciliaciun, reconsiliacion, reconsiliaciun, and Middle French reconciliation, reconsiliacion, reconsiliation (“act of reconciling; result of this act; act of bringing about agreement or harmony; reconsecration of a desecrated place”) (modern French réconciliation), and from their Latin etymon reconciliātiō (“reinstatement, renewal, restoration; reconciliation”), from reconciliāre + -tiō.

nb...

reconcyliacyoun, reconsiliation, reconsiliacion, reconsiliacioun, reconsyliacion, reconsylyacion,

(accounting) The process of comparing and resolving apparent differences between sets of accounting records, or between accounting records and bank statements, receipts, etc.

täsmäyttäminen

process of comparing and resolving apparent differences between accounting records


talon

From Middle English talon, taloun, from Old French talon (“heel, spur”), from Medieval Latin tālōnem, from Vulgar Latin *tālōnis, from Latin tālus (“ankle”).

(finance, historical) A document that could be detached and presented in exchange for a block of further coupons on a bond, when the original block had been used up.


EDA

en-noun

EDA (countable and uncountable, plural EDAs)

(finance) Initialism of electronic debit account.


APR

APR (countable and uncountable, plural APRs)

(finance) Initialism of annual percentage rate.


liability

liability (countable and uncountable, plural liabilities)

задължение

responsibility, obligation — see also responsibility, obligation

taakka

handicap, drawback, or burden — see also burden, drawback

An obligation, debt or responsibility owed to someone.

(accounting) Any item recorded on the right-hand side of a balance sheet.

velka

(accounting) any item recorded on the right-hand side of a balance sheet


IRB

(finance) Initialism of internal ratings-based approach


Cr.

(accounting, banking) Abbreviation of credit.


TCA

TCA (countable and uncountable, plural TCAs)

true cost accounting
w:true cost accounting

(accounting) Initialism of true cost accounting.


NR

(finance, entertainment) Initialism of not rated.


repo

repo (countable and uncountable, plural repos)

(countable, finance, informal) A repurchase agreement: a type of derivative which allows a borrower to use a financial security as collateral for a cash loan at a fixed interest rate.


chip and PIN

(banking, finance) A system for verifying that the bearer of a debit card or credit card is its owner by checking a PIN supplied by the bearer against a PIN stored on a silicon chip within the card.


impairment

impairment (countable and uncountable, plural impairments)

(accounting) A downward revaluation, a write-down.


floater

From float + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).

kelluja

person who physically floats in a gas or liquid

paikanvaihtaja

person without a fixed or lasting affiliation, position, or role

kelluva esine

thing which physically floats in a gas or liquid

leijuri

(figurative) A thing which moves from place to place, as if floating.