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daily high: The highest price achieved by a tradable security or commodity during a given day.,
daily low: The lowest price achieved by a tradable security or commodity during a given day.,
daily trading limit: "The highest and lowest prices that a commodity or security is allowed to reach...
daisy chaining: Daisy Chaining is an illegal form of price manipulation where brokers create...
damages: The financial compensation that is given to a plaintiff in response to injuries sustained or property damaged by another.,
Danish Krone: The currency of Denmark. ISO international currency code: DKK. Learn...
date draft: "A draft that matures a certain number of days after it is issued, regardless of the date it was accepted.",
date of issue: Equities - the date on which a new stock is issues and started publicly trading,...
date of maturity: The date at which a debt is due for repayment. With notes, drafts, acceptance...
date of payment: This is the scheduled date for a mutual fund distributions or a bond interest...
date of record: The date set by the issuer of a security in order to determine the holder.s...
dated date: The effective date of a new securities issuance. This date is determined by...
dating: Granting more generous credit terms to a customer. An example of this is extending...
dawn raid: This term describes a .raider's. instruction to one or more brokers to purchase...
DAX 100: This is the price-weighted index of the one-hundred most heavily traded stocks in the German exchange.,
day loan: A loan that a broker obtains in order purchase securities whose delivery pends...
day order: An order to buy or sell a security which automatically expires if it is not executed during the same trading session.,
day trade: The purchase and sale (or the short sale and cover) of the same security on...
day trader: A very active trader who holds positions for a very short time and makes several...
day trading: "Day Trading" refers to opening and closing positions within the same day. The...
daylight trade: "This is when a trader purchases and sells a security on the same day. When...
days payable: "This figure indicates the average amount of time a company requires to pay...
days receivable: "This figure indicates the average amount of time a company's customers require...
Days Sales Outstanding: This number is an indicator of whether a technology company is attempting to...
DCF: This is a method of evaluating investments that takes the time value of money...
de facto: Something that is treated as standard or official, even if it is not explicitly specified to be so.
de jure corporation: A state chartered corporation that is legally entitled to do business. Such...
de-escalation clause: A provision of a contract which specifies a price decrease in the event of certain...
dead cat bounce: A quick upward advance in the price action following a previous overall downtrend...
deal: This is a proposal, which, if agreed to, finances a business creation or expansion.
deal flow: The rate at which funding institutions receive investment offers.
deal stock: The part of a company.s stock that is rumored to be a takeover target.
dealer: An individual or entity that acts as a principal and stands ready to buy and...
dealer bank: A financial institution that can underwrite, buy or sell debt offered by the...
dealer market: A market whose transactions occur between principals, acting as dealers by purchasing...
dealing desk: A desk where transactions for buying and selling securities occur. Trading...
death benefit: The payment that a beneficiary receives from an annuity or insurance policy...
debenture: This is a form of unsecured debt. It is backed by the integrity of the borrower,...
debenture stock: This form of stock is issued under a contract which specifies payment amounts...
debit: When used in reference to accounting, this term describes an entry which results...
debit balance: Simply put, a negative balance - where the account holder owes money to their...
debit card: A card that accesses cardholders. funds immediately, through electronic transfer....
debit note: This note indicates how much money a person or company owes. It serves a similar function to an invoice.
debit spread: A spread position where the price of the bought option is greater than the price of the sold option.
debt: An amount borrowed or owed between two parties. Debt comes with the implied...
debt capital: In terms of raising funds, debt capital refers to funds borrowed to a firm or...
debt consolidation: The process of combining a number of loans and other liabilities into one loan....
debt financing: Debt financing is the process where a firm sells bonds, bills, notes or other...
debt holder: The holder of a promise to repay. In addition to interest the amount owed,...
debt instrument: A written, or otherwise recorded promise to repay. Debt instruments enable the...
debt limit: This is the maximum amount of debt that a state, city or local government is allowed to take on without voter approval.
debt market: The market in which instruments of fixed-income debt are issued and traded....
debt ratio: This ratio shows the extent to which a company relies on debt to finance assets....
debt retirement: The repayment of a debt.
debt security: From the issuer's perspective, a debt security is a method of raising capital....
debt service: A series of periodic interest and principal payments on a debt.
debt service coverage: A measure of a company's or individual's ability to repay debt. Debt service...
debt shelf: This is a shelf registration for a bond offering.
debt-equity swap: A transaction where a corporation exchanges existing debt in the form of bonds...
debt/asset ratio: The debt/asset ratio shows how great a proportion of a company's assets are...
debt/equity ratio: This ratio measures a company's financial leverage. It is riskier to invest...
debtor: An individual or company that owes money to another individual or company as...
debtor in possession: A company that continues its operations while filing for and going through Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.
debtor-in-possession financing: This is when a company that is experiencing Chapter 11 bankruptcy incurs new debt.
decedent: A dead person.
decile rank: A rating system which uses a one to ten scale. In this scale, one is the best...
decimalization: This is the process of changing the recording of security prices from fractions to decimals.
declaration date: The date when a company.s directors meet to announce the details of the next...
declare: To authorize the payment of dividends to shareholders.
decline: A decrease in a price or rate.
declining balance method: This is a rapid depreciation method. A depreciation rate is applied to the book...
decreasing term life: A type of life insurance for which premiums are fixed but the benefit from the plan decreases with each successive year.
decree: A court.s decision.
deductible: An item or expense that may be subtracted from adjusted gross income in order...
deduction: An expense that is subtracted from adjusted gross income when finding taxable...
deed: A legal document that may be used to transfer ownership rights for a property.
Deed of Release: A deed that confirms the release of a property from a lien.
Deed of Surrender: A deed that transfers a property to another person.s name for a specified temporary period.
Deed of Trust: This document is used instead of a mortgage in some states. It conveys the title to the trustee rather than the borrower.
deep discount broker: A brokerage that offers lower commissions than a discount broker, but also provides...
deep in the money: An option that is so far in the money that the chances of it going out of the money prior to expiration are small.
deep market: A market so large that a great number of shares can be transacted without strong affects on the price.
deep out of the money: An option that is so far out of the money that the chances of it going in the money prior to expiration are small.
deep-discount bond: A bond that sells at a significant discount (usually 20% or more) from face...
default: A failure to make required debt payments by the time they are due. It may also...
default risk: Default risk refers to the danger either side of an agreement will not live...
defeasance: A provision in an instrument that nullifies it when certain events occur.
defendant: The person who is charged and under trial in a legal action.
defensive interval: A conservative estimate of a company's ability to meet its debts, found by calculating...
defensive investment strategy: A portfolio allocation strategy that minimizes the risk of losing principal....
defensive stock: An illiquid stock that tends to remain stable under difficult economic conditions....
defer: To postpone an action, most often a payment, until a later date.
deferred account: An account that postpones taxes to a later date (the date of withdrawal). Examples...
deferred annuity: An annuity that allows a holder to move income payments to later dates.
deferred billing: The postponed billing of a credit customer.
deferred charge: An expenditure that is considered an asset until the time when the object of...
deferred compensation: An arrangement for a portion of an employee's income to be paid out at a date...
deferred credit: Deferred Credit refers to income or income items a business receives but has...
deferred interest bond: A bond that pays interest at a later date.
deferred month: The months in which futures trading is taking place, as apposed to the nearby month.
deferred payment: An incurred debt which will is repaid at some point in the future.
deferred payment annuity: An annuity by whose terms payments are made to the annuitant only after a specified period of time has passed.
deferred revenue: Deferred Revenue refers to income or income items a business receives but has...
deferred share: A share of stock that has last priority in regards to the company.s remaining assets in the event of bankruptcy.
deferred tax: A liability stemming from income that has already been earned for accounting purposes but has not been earned for tax purposes.
deficiency: The difference between the tax charged by the IRS and the amount stated on a return.
deficiency letter: An SEC letter stating that a preliminary prospectus for an offering must to be modified.
deficit: The amount by which spending exceeds income over a period of time. This is also...
deficit net worth: On a balance sheet, this is the excess of liabilities over assets that results...
deficit spending: The amount by which spending exceeds income over a period of time. This is also...
defined benefit plan: A company retirement plan whose terms are that an employee receives a specific...
defined contribution plan: A company retirement plan, such as a 401(k) or 403(b), allowing an employee...
deflation: A decline in general price levels, often caused by a reduction in the supply...
deflator: A statistical tool that converts current dollars into inflation-adjusted dollars,...
defunct: Out of business.
del credere agency: An agency, factor or broker who sells products and services for another party....
delayed: A description for something that is not up to the minute. It may used in reference...
delayed opening: A postponement of the start of the trading. Circumstances leading to such an...
delinquent: This a description for a payment that is not made on time.
delist: To remove a stock from an exchange due to a violation or a failure to meet certain requirements.
deliverable grades: The standard grades of commodities or instruments as determined by the government...
delivery: The transfer and receipt of ownership.
delivery month: The month of expiration for a futures contract. Delivery may take place during...
delivery notice: A formal notification of the delivery of products on a specified date.
delivery point: A location designated by a futures exchange for tendering and accepting the...
delivery price: The price at which deliveries on futures contracts are invoiced. This price is determined by the clearinghouse.
delivery vs. payment: The delivery of securities in exchange for an asset, such as money. The other...
delivery vs. receipt: The delivery of securities in exchange for an asset, such as money. The other...
delivery vs. repayment: The delivery of securities in exchange for an asset, such as money. The other...
delta: The change in the price of a call option for every one-point move in the price...
delta hedging: An options strategy designed to reduce the risk associated with price movements...
delta spread: A spread designed to create a delta equal to zero; this means that a small price...
DEM: The former currency of German. ISO international currency code: DEM and...
demand: Defined in economics as an individual's willingness to consume a good or service...
demand curve: A graph showing the different quantities of a product that consumers are willing to buy at different prices.
demand deposit: An account balance capable of being drawn upon on demand or without prior notice.
demand elasticity: The percentage change in quantity demanded per a one percent change in price.
Demand Index: Demand Index, DI, incorporates price and volume to give a ratio of buying pressure...
demand inflation: Price increases resulting from excess of demand over supply in the economy....
demand loan: A loan which is repayable on demand rather than on a specific date. This allows...
demand rights: A contract that gives a shareholder the right to force a company to register his shares for later sale to the public.
demand-pull inflation: The price for goods and services increases due to excessive demand meeting inadequate...
Democratic Republic Congo Franc: The currency of The Democratic Republic of Congo. ISO international currency...
demographics: Socioeconomic groups that may be divided by age, income, sex, education, occupation,...
demonetization: Demonetization is the withdrawal from circulation of a particular form of currency....
demutualization: A process that converts a mutually owned company into a shareholder-owned company;...
denationalization: The government conversion of a nationalized industry or business to a privately...
denomination: The face value of a security or currency.
Department of Housing and Urban Development: This is a federal agency that encourages housing development. It is sometimes plainly referred to as HUD.
Department Store Sales - Japan: The total value of goods sold by major department store outlets. As the first...
dependency ratio: A measure of the portion of the population that is composed of dependents, people...
dependent: A person who depends on the financial support of another individual.
depletion: The exhaustion of a resource.
deposit: Transaction involving the transfer of funds from one party to another for a...
deposit in transit: A deposit that has been made but is yet to be posted by the bank and is therefore not reflected in the bank account balance.
deposit multiplier: A value that expresses the ratio of bank reserves to bank deposits. If bank...
deposit slip: This is a written notification that accompanies a bank deposit. It specifies...
depositary receipt: This is often called an ADR. It is a negotiable certificate issued by a U.S....
depository: A bank or company holding security and funds deposited by others. Exchanges...
Depository Trust Company: A central repository through which members electronically transfer stock and...
depreciated cost: The original cost of an asset minus its accumulated depreciation. This is also called net book value or written-down value.
depreciation: A noncash expense that reduces the value of an asset as a result of wear and...
depressed market: A market containing more sellers than buyers. Low prices result from this excess...
depression: A sustained period of economic decline. Specific definitions will vary, but...
depth of market: The quantity of shares of a security that can be bought or sold without causing a noticable change in price.
deregulation: The removal of government controls from an industry or sector to allow for free...
derivative: A financial instrument whose characteristics and value depend upon the characteristics...
derivative security: A financial security whose characteristics and value are dependent on the characteristics and value of an underlying security.
descending bottoms: This is a technical analysis term referring to a chart pattern in which each...
descending tops: This is a technical analysis term referring to a chart pattern in which each...
Descending Triangle Chart Pattern: With descending triangles, trend lines converge with a horizontal trend line...
Designated Order Turnaround: This is often called DOT - the NYSE electronic system for order handling, permitting...
Desk (the): This term refers to the securities department at the New York Federal Reserve...
desktop ticker: A tool for providing real time or delayed quotes on a computer screen.
Determination Letter: This is a notice given by the IRS in order to communicate that a retirement account meets the requirements for qualification.
detrend: The use of regressions and other statistical techniques in order to factor out the influence of time on a trend.
devaluation: A large drop in the value of a currency in relation to gold or the currencies of other countries.
DEWR Skilled Vacancies - Australia: Measures the monthly change in skilled job vacancies across Australia . Expressed...
diagonal spread: An option strategy with two possible actions, a put and a call, with different expiration dates and strike prices.
Diamonds: These are shares in a trust representing all thirty stocks in the Dow Jones...
differential: A minor additional charge that is imposed by some brokers on odd-lot trades.
digested security: A security that is purchased by an investor who is likely to hold it for an extended period of time.
digital money: A form of electronic money that may be used to purchase goods and services over...
diluted earnings per share: Earnings per share for common stock, preferred stock, unexercised stock options,...
diluted share: Earnings per share for common stock, preferred stock, unexercised stock options,...
dilution: The change in earnings per share or book value per share that occurs if all...
dilution of ownership: A reduction in every current shareholder's fractional ownership that occurs...
dilutive: Something having the impact of reducing earnings per share.
diminishing marginal returns: An economic theory that states as additional inputs are put into production,...
diminishing return: This is when the allocation of resources results in a less than proportional in output.
dip: A small, short-term decline in price.
direct cost: A cost that can be directly attributed to the manufacturing of a product. This is the opposite of an indirect cost.
direct deposit: The deposit of funds directly into a bank account. Direct deposit is used when making payments such paychecks and tax refunds.
direct financing: Financing that does not require underwriting.
direct investment: An investment that is great enough to affect a company's subsequent decisions....
direct issuer: This is a company that sells commercial paper directly to retail investors, rather than going through brokers.
direct lease: This is a contractual financing arrangement involving a lessor (often a bank)...
direct marketing: The deliverance of promotional messages to potential customers on an individual basis as opposed to through a mass medium.
direct paper: Commercial paper distributed by an issuer rather than by an underwriter.
direct participation program: A program that provides direct cash flow and tax benefits to investors, often through a limited partnership.
direct placement: An offering that is performed without the services of an underwriter and is usually exempt from SEC filing.
direct profit: Sales revenues less direct costs.
Direct Public Offering (DPO): This is an initial offering in which IPO shares of stock are sold directly to investors, without the services of an underwriter.
direct purchase program: This is an SEC-regulated program that enables a company to sell shares of stock...
direct rollover: A distribution from a qualified pension plan such as a 401(k) plan or 403(b)...
direct sends: This is when a bank sends a check directly to the drawee bank in order to speed up the clearing process.
Direct Stock Purchase Plan: DSP is a commonly used acronym for this term. A DSP is an SEC-regulated program...
direct transfer: This is the movement of tax-deferred retirement funds from one plan or custodian...
directed share program: DSP is an acronym for direct share program. This program is a plan designed...
director: One of several individuals who are elected by a corporation's shareholders to...
directorate: Shareholder elected individuals who oversee the management of the corporation....
directors' indemnities: Pledges of a company's creditors to protect the board of directors against liabilities.
dirty stock: A stock that does not have all necessary endorsements, and does not meet all...
disability: A person.s inability to perform all or part of his occupational responsibilities due to an accident or illness.
disability insurance: This is an Insurance policy that provides benefits in the event that a policyholder becomes incapable of working.
disbursement: A payment in the discharge of a debt or expense.
disbursing agent: This is an individual or institution that is responsible for handling dividend and interest payments for a corporation.
discharge: To satisfy or dismiss the obligations of a previously incurred debt.
discharge of bankruptcy: This is a court order that terminates bankruptcy proceedings and usually relieves the debtor of his obligation.
discharge of lien: This is the removal of a lien on real property after the satisfaction of the claim.
disclaimer: A statement that announces any risk associated with a product and relieves a...
disclaimer of opinion: This is an auditor's statement disclaiming his opinion regarding a company's...
disclosure: The admission of relevant information.
discontinued: This term describes something that has been stopped or is no longer in affect....
discount: The amount by which a bond's market price is less than its par value.
discount bond: Outside of the traditional, rather obvious laymen definition - Discount also...
discount broker: A brokerage that executes buy and sell orders at lower commission rates than...
discount loan: A loan whose interest and financing charges are subtracted from its face amount when the loan is issued.
discount rate: The interest rate charged to borrow directly from the Federal Reserve Bank...
discount yield: The yield on a security that is acquired at a discount.
discounted: This is when expected upcoming news affects a security's value.
discounted bond: Outside of the traditional, rather obvious laymen definition - Discount also...
Discounted Cash Flow Analysis: DCF is an acronym for discounted cash flow analysis. This is a method used when...
discrete compounding: This is the addition of calculated interest to existing principal and interest...
discretion: This is the right, rather than the obligation, to do something.
discretionary: This is when something is optional rather than mandatory. This term is often...
discretionary account: An account whose holder gives his broker or someone else the absolute or restricted...
discretionary expense: An expense for either non-essential or especially expensive goods. Examples...
discretionary income: This is an individual's left over income after expenditures on essential items such as food, clothing, and shelter.
discretionary order: This is an order giving the right to determine when and at what price to execute a transaction to the broker.
discretionary trust: A trust that provides an investor a wide variety of options.
dishonor: Not to make a necessary payment.
disinflation: A decrease in the rate of inflation; in other words, a reduction in the rate at which prices are increasing.
disintermediation: The extraction of an intermediary, or middleman, from a transaction or communication....
disinvestment: A decrease in capital investment.
dismal science: This is a nickname for the field of economics. The name came about as a result...
disposable income: The amount of income that an individual possesses after taxes have been assessed; this income is spent or saved.
disposition: This is the exchange, sale, or loss of property, whether intentional or unintentional.
dissolution: The conclusion of the legal life of a corporation. It may be caused by shareholder...
distress sale: This is an urgent sale; thus prices are often significantly reduced.
distress termination: A situation that comes about when a benefit plan lacks the funds necessary to...
distressed security: A security of a company that is undergoing or expected to undergo bankruptcy...
distributing syndicate: A group of investment banks which jointly underwrite and distribute a new security...
distribution: A dividend or capital gain given to an investor.
distribution capability: The ability to sell shares.
distribution date: The date when a mutual fund distribution, dividend, or bond interest payment...
distribution network: The intermediaries responsible for bringing goods to market. These intermediaries deliver goods from producers to end users.
distribution period: The period of time that begins with the declaration date and ends with the record...
distribution stock: Stock that it sold over a period of time, rather than in a single transaction....
distributor: A company that purchases open-end investment company shares directly from the fund in order to resell them to potential buyers.
divergence: Price divergence is a technical situation where indicators signal a different...
diversifiable risk: The risk of price change due to the unique circumstances of a specific security,...
diversification: An investment strategy designed to manage risk. Components of the portfolio...
diversified: An investment strategy designed to manage risk. Components of the portfolio...
diversified investment company: A mutual fund or unit trust that invests in a wide variety of securities, and...
divest: To sell off a division of the company because it is either a poor fit within...
divestiture: A disposition or sale of an asset. A company will divest an asset that is not...
dividend: "A taxable payment extracted from a company.s current or retained earnings....
dividend capture: This is when corporations buy and sell other corporations' stock to maximize...
dividend clawback: An arrangement in which the sponsors of a project agree to use prior dividends...
dividend clientele: Shareholders who want the company to follow a specific dividend policy. The desired policy is often the most tax advantageous.,,
dividend discount model: A valuation model that estimates the present value of all future dividend payments.,,
dividend in arrears: Dividends on current stock that are not paid currently but will be paid to the holder at a future date.,,
dividend notification: A requirement that companies notify Nasdaq's Uniform Practice Department a minimum...
dividend payout ratio: "Dividends paid divided by company earnings, expressed as a percentage, over...
dividend rate: The rate at which a dividend pays out.,,
Dividend Reinvestment Plan: "A type of plan that utilizes the funds gained through the accumulation of dividends, to invest in stocks.",,
dividend requirement: The amount of annual earnings a company is required to produce in order to pay...
dividend rollover plan: The strategy of buying securities immediately before their ex-dividend dates...
dividend yield: "This is the yield a company pays to its shareholders in the form of dividends....
dividends payable: The dollar amount of dividends declared by a company's board of directors. The...
dividends-received deduction: A deduction on dividends received stemming from a company's ownership in another company.,,
Division of Corporate Finance: A department within the SEC that is responsible for the review of registration...
Division of Enforcement: A department within the SEC responsible for enforcing securities legislation and investigating violations. ,,
Division of Investment Management: "A department within the SEC responsible for regulating mutual funds, investment...
division of labor: Division of labor refers to the process where individual employees and their...
Division of Market Regulation: The Division of Market Regulation is a department within the United States Securities...
divisor: Financial indexes are price weighted indicators calculated by dividing the...
DJF: The currency of Djibouti. ISO international currency code: DJF. Learn more...
DJIA: Short for the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The most widely used indicator of...
Djiboutian Franc: The currency of Djibouti. ISO international currency code: DJF. Learn more...
DKK: The currency of Denmark. ISO international currency code: DKK. Learn...
Do Not Reduce (DNR): "Do Not Reduce, commonly Abbreviated as DNR, is a feature of a buy or sell order...
Do Not Reduce (DNR): "Do Not Reduce, commonly Abbreviated as DNR, is a feature of a buy or sell order...
documentation: "Written information explaining the responsibilities, rights, and duties of each party of an agreement. ",,
Dogs of the Dow: "This is an investment strategy that advises buying the ten DJIA stocks with...
doing business as (DBA): "DBA is an acronym for this term; it is a formal notice that an individual,...
doing business as (DBA): "DBA is an acronym for this term; it is a formal notice that an individual,...
dollar bond: 1 A dollar bond is the common name for municipal bonds with a large signal payment...
dollar cost averaging: "An investment strategy that reduces the volatility with which securities, typically...
dollar drain: Dollar drain refers to the situation where a country's imports exceed their...
dollar price: "A bond priced at a percentage of par, rather than in terms of yield to maturity. ",,
dollar shortage: This is when a country does not have the dollars necessary to import the desired...
dollar terms: In quoting foreign exchange rates, Dollar terms refers to how much of a foreign...
dollar volume: "This is the dollar amount of shares traded in a given period, for a security or exchange.",,
dollar-weighted rate of return: "The rate of return that would make the present value of future cash flows plus...
domestic: Pertaining to within a given country. Opposite of foreign.,,
domestic bond: A bond denominated in the currency of the country where it's issued.,,
Domestic CGPI - Japan: The Domestic Corporate Goods Price Index measures prices for goods purchased...
domestic corporation: A U.S. corporation doing business in the state in which it is incorporated. Opposite of foreign corporation.,,
Domestic Demand - Germany - Euro-zone: Measure of the amount of goods and services sought by German consumers. This...
domestic market: The part of a nation's market that represents the systems of trading securities of entities located within that nation.
domicile: An individual.s place of permanent residence, for tax purposes.
Dominican Dollar: The currency of Dominica.See GoCurrency World Currencies Page & Currency Converter
Dominican Republic Peso: The currency of the Dominican Republic. ISO international currency code:...
donated stock: Capital stock given back to the issuing corporation by a shareholder, often in exchange for products or services.
donee: An individual or organization which receives a gift.
donor: An individual who gives a gift through a trust or a charitable contribution.
DOP: The currency of the Dominican Republic. ISO international currency code:...
DOT: Abbreviation for Designated Order Turnaround, which is the NYSE electronic system...
dot-com: A firm whose operations are entirely or primarily internet-based, or more specifically...
double auction market: A system in which buyers enter competitive bidders and sellers enter competitive...
double bottom: A technical analysis term used to describe a chart on which the price of a security...
double budget: An accounting system that keeps capital expenses and operating expenses separate.
double exempt: Free from both federal and state income tax liability, such as for a municipal bond.
double hedging: The hedging of a cash market position by both a futures position and an option position.
double indemnity: A life insurance policy provision that calls for an additional payment, generally...
double net lease: A lease in which the lessee pays rent to the lessor, as well as all taxes and...
double taxation: The taxation of the same earnings at two levels. One common example is taxation...
double top: A technical analysis term for two successive rises to the same price level....
double top breakout: A technical chart pattern in which a stock price moves to a high level, then...
double up: The act of adding to an existing long or short position, after a move Opposite...
double witching hour: The final hour of the stock market trading session on the third Friday of all...
double-declining balance depreciation method: A method of accelerated depreciation, in which double the straight-line depreciation...
double-entry bookkeeping: An accounting technique which records each transaction as both a credit and...
Dove: Dovish refers to an economic outlook which generally supports lower interest...
dovish: Dovish refers to an economic outlook which generally supports lower interest...
Dow: Short for the Dow Jones Industrial Average.The most widely used indicator of...
Dow dividend theory: An investment strategy that advocates purchasing the ten DJIA stocks with the...
Dow Jones Averages: The oldest and most widely used measures of the overall condition of the stock...
Dow Jones Industrial Average: Abbreviated as DJIA, which is the most widely used indicator of the overall...
down payment: The part of the purchase price paid in cash up front, reducing the amount of the loan or mortgage.
down volume: When a stock closes in negative territory on the day, the volume in that stock is c
downgrade: A negative change in ratings for a security; two common examples are an analyst's...
downside: The potential for loss for a given investment or activity.
downside deviation: A value representing the potential loss that may arise from risk as measured...
downside protection: A position that limits the potential loss that would result from a decline in...
downside risk: The likelihood that a security or other investment will decline in price, or...
downsizing: The reduction in the total number of employees at a firm through terminations, retirements, or spin-offs.
downtick: A Downtick occurs when a security's transaction occurs at a lower price than...
downtrend: Downward price movement of a security or the overall market over a period of...
downturn: A negative change in the economy, such as from expansion to recession.
draft: A document written by a person (drawer) to have an institution (drawee) to pay...
draining reserves: The actions of the Federal Reserve System, taken to decrease the money supply...
drawback: A rebate on taxes or duty paid for imported goods which are subsequently exported in the same form or a different form.
drawdown: A reduction in account equity from a trade or series of trades.
drawee: The party directed to pay the amount of a draft or check.
drawer: The party who draws the draft upon another party for payment.
drawing account: An account used to track withdrawals, such as withdrawals from a partnership or proprietorship by a partner or owner.
drawn securities: Securities called for redemption.
dressing up a portfolio: The deceptive practice of some mutual funds, in which recently weak stocks are...
DRIP: Abbreviation for Dividend Reinvestment Plan, which is an investment plan offered...
driver: An aspect of a business that effects a change on another aspect of the business....
Dronning Maudland Krone: The currency of Dronning Maudland.See GoCurrency World Currencies Page & Currency Converter
drop: A fall in a price, index, or rate.
drop shipping: The shipping of merchandise from a supplier directly to a retail store's customer,...
droplock security: A floating-rate security which becomes fixed income if the rate to which it is pegged reaches a specified level.
DSO: Abbreviation for Days Sales Outstanding. Accounts receivable divided by sales...
DSP: Abbreviation for Direct Stock Purchase Plan. A SEC-regulated program which enables...
dual currency bond: A Dual currency bond is debt which pays the principal in one currency upon redemption,...
dual life insurance: A form of insurance which pays a death benefit only upon the death of the last...
dual listing: The situation that arises when a security is registered for trading on more...
dual trading: The practice by a broker of acting as an agent (purchasing and selling for customer...
dual-purpose fund: A closed-end fund which distinguishes between common shareholders and preferred...
due bill: A printed statement serving as evidence of the transfer of a security from the...
due date: The date on which an obligation must be paid. Also known as law day.
due diligence: The process of investigation, performed by investors, into the details of a...
due process: The protocol of legal procedures.
due-on-sale clause: A provision in a mortgage enabling the lender to demand full repayment if the borrower sells the mortgaged property.
dummy CUSIP: An identification number that may be internally assigned to a security by a firm until an official CUSIP number is issued.
dumping: 1 In financial slang, dumping refers to selling securities with little regard...
durable goods: Durable Goods are manufactured goods that generally offer a long utility (lasting...
Durable Goods Orders - United States: The value of orders placed for relatively long lasting goods. Durable Goods...
Durable Power of Attorney: A legal document that enables an individual to designate another person, called...
duration: The change in the value of a fixed income security that will result from a 1%...
duration gap: A method of attempting to quantify interest rate risk involving a comparison...
Dutch auction: Also known as descending price auction, is a type of auction that uses a bidding...
dutch disease: The deindustrialization of a nation's economy that occurs when the discovery...
Dutch Guilder: The currency of the Netherlands from the 13th century until 2002, when it was...
duty: 1 Taxes on imported, exported or consumed goods. Duties serve are a source...
DVP: Abbreviation for Delivery vs. Payment.
DVR: Abbreviation for Delivery vs. Receipt.
dwarf: Pool of mortgage-backed securities with a maturity of 15 years, issued by the Federal National Mortgage Association.
Dwelling Starts - Australia: The number of construction starts on new homes in the past month. The figure,...
DZD: The currency of the Algeria. ISO international currency code: DZD. Learn...

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