Blocked Currency

Blocked Currency Any currency not freely exchangeable to other currencies because of restrictions or controls. … [Read more...]

Blow Off Top

Blow Off Top Sharp, quick price rise succeeded by sharp, quick price drop. This indicator is a technical analysis tool for predicting market trends and price of stock. … [Read more...]

Blue Book

Blue Book Officially called as Kelley Blue Book, a compilation of prices for new and used automobiles and other vehicles encompassing all models and types. … [Read more...]

Blue Chip Company

Blue Chip Company Well established, significantly sized company that is considered creditworthy. … [Read more...]

Blue Sky Laws

Blue Sky Laws Laws in force in states covering securities issue and trading. … [Read more...]

Bogey

Bogey Comparison return that is used as a basis for evaluating the performance of an investment manager. … [Read more...]

Boilerplate

Boilerplate Terms and conditions used conventionally as a standard. … [Read more...]

Bond

Bond Debt instruments that are issued for periods greater than one year. Many institutions in U.S sell bonds, such as government, water districts, companies and other institutions. An investor purchasing bonds makes a loan to the issuer, who commits to repay principal on a given … [Read more...]

Bond Agreement

Bond Agreement Debt agreement on those debts that are privately placed. … [Read more...]

Bond Covenant

Bond Covenant Stipulation contained in a bond indenture. Positive covenant demand certain actions while specified actions are prevented by negative covenants. … [Read more...]

Bond Equivalent Basis

Bond Equivalent Basis A computing method for determining bond-equivalent yield. … [Read more...]

Bond Indenture

Bond Indenture A contract containing a commitment of the issuer of corporate bond and outlining investor rights in this issue. … [Read more...]

Bond Indexing

Bond Indexing Creating and structuring a portfolio to duplicate any bond index performance. … [Read more...]

Bond Insurance

Bond Insurance Insurance policy purchased by bond issuer that guarantees the principal repayment and also payment of all associated interest to the bondholders in case of default. … [Read more...]

Bond Points

Bond Points Measure unit used conventionally to evaluate bond prices established at $10 and equaling 1% of $100 face value on the bond. Thus a price of 50 denotes the bond price is 50% of face value. … [Read more...]

Bond Value

Bond Value In convertible bonds, the value of the security if it was non convertible. … [Read more...]

BONDPAR

BONDPAR Monitoring and evaluating system for fixed-income portfolio encompassing performance of the individual securities within. BONDPAR splits the return into components that cannot be controlled by the manager (for example, interest rate environment) and components that can be … [Read more...]

Boning

Boning Excessively charging for an asset so that the expected price is over the actual value. … [Read more...]

Bonus Issue

Bonus Issue Also termed scrip issue, capitalization issue. Offer of additional shares at no charge to existing shareholders. Used as an alternative to increasing the dividend paid. … [Read more...]

Book

Book Positions maintained by banker or trader. … [Read more...]