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Breakout
In technical analysis , the movement of a stock's market value above resistance level or below support level

Tax Breaks
Tax Breaks or "incentives" are advocated by the high tech industry - especially on stock options - as one way to help stem the brain drain. Another form of break is an investment tax credit to encourage investment or an R&D credit to encourage companies to undertake more R&D. It is a means for governments to stimulate growth in certain economic activities.

Break-even analysis
An analysis of the level of sales at which a project would make zero profit.

Break-even lease payment
The lease payment at which a party to a prospective lease is indifferent between entering and not entering into the lease arrangement.

Break-even payment rate
The prepayment rate of a MBS coupon that will produce the same CFY as that of a predetermined benchmark MBS coupon. Used to identify for coupons higher than the benchmark coupon the prepayment rate that will produce the same CFY as that of the benchmark coupon; and for coupons lower than the benchmark coupon the lowest prepayment rate that will do so.

Break-even tax rate
The tax rate at which a party to a prospective transaction is indifferent between entering into and not entering into the transaction.

Cash-flow break-even point
The point below which the firm will need either to obtain additional financing or to liquidate some of its assets to meet its fixed costs.

Circuit Breakers
A system of trading halts and price limits on equities and derivative markets designed to provide a cooling-off period during large, intraday market movements. The first known use of the term circuit breaker in this context was in the Report of the Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms (January 1988), which recommended that circuit breakers be adopted following the market break of October 1987.