摘要: The fraudulent act of purchasing a life insurance policy without disclosing a pre-existing terminal illness or disease. This type of fraud is often done with both the knowledge of the purchaser and th[阅读全文:]
摘要: Something that initiates or causes an important event to happen. Originally a term used in chemistry for the volatile (active) chemical in a formula.
Quite often you will hear someone sa[阅读全文:]
摘要: Large companies that put less efficient and highly specialized merchants out of business.
Category killers can attain this status by being cheaper, easier, bigger, or more popular than the com[阅读全文:]
摘要: A Latin phrase for "let the buyer beware." The term is primarily used in real property transactions. Essentially it proclaims that the buyer must perform their due diligence when purchasing an item [阅读全文:]
摘要: An option that has the ability to change its structure, should certain pre-determined terms of the contract be met.
An example of a chameleon option would be a put option that automatically chan[阅读全文:]
摘要: When investors give up any previous gains in stock price by selling equities in an effort to get out of the market and into less risky investments. True capitulation involves extremely high volume and[阅读全文:]
摘要: An idea presented in response to the Kyoto Protocol that involves the trading of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission rights between nations.
For example, if Country A exceeds its capacity of G[阅读全文:]
摘要: An index used by some investors to gauge industrial production by using the output of cardboard boxes to predict the purchases of non-durable consumer goods.
This is considered to be a r[阅读全文:]
摘要: 1. One of the four categories (quadrants) in the BCG growth-share matrix that represents the division within a company that has a large market share within a mature industry.
2. A business, pr[阅读全文:]
摘要: A federal energy efficiency program introduced in the fall of 2009. Commonly referred to as cash for refrigerators, in reference to the cash for clunkers program that operated during the summer of 200[阅读全文:]