W-cubed: Whatever, wherever and whenever you want it; a mantra managers use to ...
W-type bottom: A double bottom where the price or indicator chart has the appearance ...
Waiting period: Time during which the SEC studies a firm's registration statement. Dur ...
Wall Street: Generic term for firms that buy, sell, and underwrite securities.
Wallflower: Stock that has fallen out of favor with investors. These stocks tends ...
Wanted for cash: A statement displayed on market tickers signaling that a bidder will p ...
Warehousing: The interim holding period from the time of the closing of a loan to i ...
Warrant: A certificate issued by a company giving the holder the right to purch ...
Wash: Gains equal losses.
Washout: When investors get heavily diluted by a susbsequent round of investmen ...
Wasting asset: An asset which has a limited life and thus, decreases in value (deprec ...
Watch list: A list of securities selected for special surveillance by a brokerage, ...
Waybill: A document (that looks like a bill of lading) issued by a carrier that ...
Weak form efficiency: According to the Efficient Markets Hypothesis (EMH) the weak form is a ...
Weak hands: The intention of futures contract holders to not receive delivery of t ...
Wealth: All resources owned by an individual, including all assets.
Weather derivatives: Weather derivatives gives payoffs dependant on the weather. Usually th ...
WEBS: World Equity Benchmark Shares (WEBS) represent a recent development in ...
Weekend effect: The common recurrent low or negative average return from Friday to Mon ...
Weighted average cost of capital: The weighted average cost of capital (WACC) is the expected return on ...
Weighted average coupon: The weighted average of the gross interest rate of the mortgages under ...
Weighted average life: For amortizing securities, investors do not talk in terms of a bond’s ...
Weighted average maturity: The Weighted average maturity (WAM) of a MBS is the weighted average o ...
Weighted average portfolio yield: The weighted average of the yield of all the bonds in a portfolio.
Weighted average remaining maturity: The average remaining term of the mortgages underlying a MBS.
Welfare state: A state whose government devotes a very large proportion of its activi ...
Well diversified portfolio: A portfolio spread out over many securities in such a way that the wei ...
White knight: A friendly potential acquirer of a firm sought out by a target firm th ...
White-collar worker: White-collar workers perform tasks which are less "laborious" yet ofte ...
Whole life insurance: A contract with both insurance and investment components: (a) It pays ...
Wholesale mortgage banking: The purchasing of loans originated by others, with the servicing right ...
Whose ox gets gored: ...who will be harmed by this plan
Wi: When issued.
Wi Wi: Treasury bills trade on a wi basis between the day they are auctioned ...
Wiener Process: The wiener process is a stochastic process used in option value calcul ...
Wild card option: The right of the seller of a Treasury Bond futures contract to give no ...
Wild Card Play: The right, but not the obligation, to deliver on a futures contract at ...
Window contract: A guaranteed investment contract purchased with deposits over some fut ...
Winners's curse: Problem faced by uninformed bidders. For example, in an initial public ...
Winter Wheat: Wheat that is planted in the fall, lies dormant during the winter, and ...
Wire house: A firm operating a private wire to its own branch offices or to other ...
With rights: Purchase of shares in which the buyer is entitled to the rights to buy ...
Withdrawal plan: The ability to establish automatic periodic mutual fund redemptions an ...
Withholding tax: The tax payable on payments such as dividends, interest, and debt repa ...
Without: If 50 were bid in the market and there was no offer, the quote would b ...
Without recourse: Without the lender having any right to seek payment or seize assets in ...
Woody: Sexual slang for a market moving strongly upward, as in, "This market ...
Working capital: Defined as the difference in current assets and current liabilities (e ...
Working capital management: The management of current assets and current liabilities to maximize s ...
Working capital ratio: Working capital expressed as a percentage of sales.
Workout: Informal arrangement between borrowers and creditors.
Workout period: Realignment period of a temporary misaligned yield relationship that s ...
World Bank: A multilateral development finance agency created by the 1944 Bretton ...
World investible wealth: The part of world wealth that is traded and is therefore accessible to ...
Write-down: Decreasing the book value of an asset if its book value is overstated ...
Writer: The term used for the individual or institution selling an option and ...
WST: Tala from Samoa.
W-type bottom: A double bottom where the price or indicator chart has the appearance ...
Waiting period: Time during which the SEC studies a firm's registration statement. Dur ...
Wall Street: Generic term for firms that buy, sell, and underwrite securities.
Wallflower: Stock that has fallen out of favor with investors. These stocks tends ...
Wanted for cash: A statement displayed on market tickers signaling that a bidder will p ...
Warehousing: The interim holding period from the time of the closing of a loan to i ...
Warrant: A certificate issued by a company giving the holder the right to purch ...
Wash: Gains equal losses.
Washout: When investors get heavily diluted by a susbsequent round of investmen ...
Wasting asset: An asset which has a limited life and thus, decreases in value (deprec ...
Watch list: A list of securities selected for special surveillance by a brokerage, ...
Waybill: A document (that looks like a bill of lading) issued by a carrier that ...
Weak form efficiency: According to the Efficient Markets Hypothesis (EMH) the weak form is a ...
Weak hands: The intention of futures contract holders to not receive delivery of t ...
Wealth: All resources owned by an individual, including all assets.
Weather derivatives: Weather derivatives gives payoffs dependant on the weather. Usually th ...
WEBS: World Equity Benchmark Shares (WEBS) represent a recent development in ...
Weekend effect: The common recurrent low or negative average return from Friday to Mon ...
Weighted average cost of capital: The weighted average cost of capital (WACC) is the expected return on ...
Weighted average coupon: The weighted average of the gross interest rate of the mortgages under ...
Weighted average life: For amortizing securities, investors do not talk in terms of a bond’s ...
Weighted average maturity: The Weighted average maturity (WAM) of a MBS is the weighted average o ...
Weighted average portfolio yield: The weighted average of the yield of all the bonds in a portfolio.
Weighted average remaining maturity: The average remaining term of the mortgages underlying a MBS.
Welfare state: A state whose government devotes a very large proportion of its activi ...
Well diversified portfolio: A portfolio spread out over many securities in such a way that the wei ...
White knight: A friendly potential acquirer of a firm sought out by a target firm th ...
White-collar worker: White-collar workers perform tasks which are less "laborious" yet ofte ...
Whole life insurance: A contract with both insurance and investment components: (a) It pays ...
Wholesale mortgage banking: The purchasing of loans originated by others, with the servicing right ...
Whose ox gets gored: ...who will be harmed by this plan
Wi: When issued.
Wi Wi: Treasury bills trade on a wi basis between the day they are auctioned ...
Wiener Process: The wiener process is a stochastic process used in option value calcul ...
Wild card option: The right of the seller of a Treasury Bond futures contract to give no ...
Wild Card Play: The right, but not the obligation, to deliver on a futures contract at ...
Window contract: A guaranteed investment contract purchased with deposits over some fut ...
Winners's curse: Problem faced by uninformed bidders. For example, in an initial public ...
Winter Wheat: Wheat that is planted in the fall, lies dormant during the winter, and ...
Wire house: A firm operating a private wire to its own branch offices or to other ...
With rights: Purchase of shares in which the buyer is entitled to the rights to buy ...
Withdrawal plan: The ability to establish automatic periodic mutual fund redemptions an ...
Withholding tax: The tax payable on payments such as dividends, interest, and debt repa ...
Without: If 50 were bid in the market and there was no offer, the quote would b ...
Without recourse: Without the lender having any right to seek payment or seize assets in ...
Woody: Sexual slang for a market moving strongly upward, as in, "This market ...
Working capital: Defined as the difference in current assets and current liabilities (e ...
Working capital management: The management of current assets and current liabilities to maximize s ...
Working capital ratio: Working capital expressed as a percentage of sales.
Workout: Informal arrangement between borrowers and creditors.
Workout period: Realignment period of a temporary misaligned yield relationship that s ...
World Bank: A multilateral development finance agency created by the 1944 Bretton ...
World investible wealth: The part of world wealth that is traded and is therefore accessible to ...
Write-down: Decreasing the book value of an asset if its book value is overstated ...
Writer: The term used for the individual or institution selling an option and ...
WST: Tala from Samoa.
