Financial Terms

This glossary has only a few terms and is mainly for supplementing articles, but it will be continually expanded.

Absolute-Return Funds

Accounts Receivable Turnover

Asset Turnover

Backwardation

Capital Allocation Line (CAL)

Catastrophe Bonds

Clearstream

Commercial Paper Funding Facility (CPFF)

Confidence Index

Contango

Current Ratio

Custodian Banks

Depositary Bank

Depositary Receipt (DR)

Depositary Receipt Certificate

Depositary Receipt Ratio (DR Ratio)

Depositary Share (DS)

Discounted Cash Flow Formula

Dividend Payout Ratio

Dividend Yield

Dogs Of The Dow Stock Strategy

Double-Entry Accounting

Dow Jones STOXX IPO Indexes

Earnings Yield (aka Earnings-Price Ratio, E/P Ratio)

Economic Value Added (EVA)

Gift Cards

Global Dow

Goodwill

Flight to Quality

Insider Trading

Institutional Investor

Intermarket Trading System (ITS)

Inventory Turnover Ratio

London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR)

LIBOR-OIS Spread

Market Indicators

Microhouses

Net Capital Requirement (aka Net Capital Rule, Net Capital Ratio)

Net Profit Margin

Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS)

OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB)

Overnight Index Swaps (OIS)

Quant Funds

Pink Sheets

Price to Rent Ratio

Private Offerings, Resales, And Trading Through Automated Linkages (aka PORTAL)

Price-to-Rent Ratio

Real Estate Owned (REO)

Regular Way Of Delivery And Settlement

Sale-Leasebacks

SEC Rule 12g3-2(b)

Settlement and Clearing

Sharpe Ratio

Target-Date Mutual Funds

Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF)

Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program (TLGP)

TED Spread

Trade Information Warehouse

VantageScore

Vault Cash

Virtual Trading

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