摘要: A buy-sell provision used by related parties in a business venture which gives an investor within the partnership the right to offer his/her portion to a partner at a specified price. If the partner d[阅读全文:]
摘要: A term coined by renowned investor Warren Buffett referring to a situation in which high-ranking insiders use their own money to buy stock in the company they are running.
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摘要: The amount by which inventory on hand is shorter than the amount of inventory recorded.
The missing inventory could be due to theft, damage, or book keeping errors.
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摘要: The idea that insiders have information not available to the market. Moves made by insiders can signal information to outsiders and change the stock price.
The thinking goes that if a hi[阅读全文:]
摘要: A self-help alert is a notification issued by a trading exchange, such as the NYSE or Nasdaq, that a glitch has occurred on one of the exchanges and that exchange, therefore, should be temporarily byp[阅读全文:]
摘要: A situation in which many investors exit their positions, often at a loss, because of uncertainty or recent bad news circulating around a particular security or industry.
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摘要: A series of events and processes that a company's management team facilitates in order to change and/or reorganize itself in an attempt to improve its current situation. Shakeups can occur when a bus[阅读全文:]
摘要: A firm specializing in the early detection of takeovers. The firm's primary business is usually the solicitation of proxies for client corporations.
A shark watcher monitors trading pat[阅读全文:]
摘要: A suitability doctrine first introduced by the Securities and Exchange Commission in the 1930s. The idea is that a broker who hangs out a shingle will represent his or her customers fairly and respons[阅读全文:]
摘要: A temporary restriction placed on the trading of index futures because of substantial intraday decreases in the underlying indexes.
Shock absorbers are very similar to circuit breakers. However,[阅读全文:]