摘要: The side of Wall Street comprising the investing institutions such as mutual funds, pension funds and insurance firms that tend to buy large portions of securities for money-management purposes. The b[阅读全文:]
摘要: A mortgage-financing technique with which the buyer attempts to obtain a lower interest rate for at least the first few years of the mortgage, but possibly its entire life. The builder or seller or th[阅读全文:]
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A form of bingo played by audiences where the bingo card is made up of business buzzwords instead of numbers. The players check off the buzzwords uttered by the speaker and quietly say "Bingo!" w[阅读全文:]
摘要: Compensation that is granted to upper echelon employees, directors, consultants and related parties that is not fully disclosed in mandatory company filings. In some cases of camouflage compensation, [阅读全文:]
摘要: A regulatory system that is meant to reduce certain kinds of emissions and pollution and to provide companies with a profit incentive to reduce their pollution levels faster than their peers. Under a [阅读全文:]
摘要: An investor who thinks the market, a specific security or an industry will rise.
Bulls are optimistic investors who are presently predicting good things for the market, and are attemptin[阅读全文:]
摘要: The combining of odd-lot or round-lot orders for the same security so that they may be executed at the same time.
Brokers cannot bunch orders together unless all the affected investors h[阅读全文:]
摘要: The rate at which a new company uses up its venture capital to finance overhead before generating positive cash flow from operations. In other words, it's a measure of negative cash flow.
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摘要: The complete overhaul of a key business process with the objective of achieving a quantum jump in performance measures such as return on investment, cost reduction and quality of service. Business pro[阅读全文:]