Kilo bar

Similar financial terms

Zabara
The zabara applies mainly to international equities. Japanese securities transactions conducted on the principal of auction, i.e., (a) price priority in which the selling (buying) order with the lowest (highest) price takes precedence over other orders, and (b) time priority in that an earlier order takes precedence over other orders at the same price.

Embargo
An embargo is a temporary action, generally by one country, to halt shipment of goods into or out of another country.

Coastal Barrier Resource Act (CBRA)
The Coastal Barrier Resources Act (CBRA) restricts Federal expenditures and financial assistance that encourage development of coastal barriers so that damage to the property, fish, wildlife, and other natural resources associated with the coastal barrier is minimized.

Coastal Barrier Resources System (CBRS)
Designed to save Federal funds, protect human lives, and conserve coastal natural resources.

Bar
Slang for one million dollars.

Barbell strategy
A strategy in which the maturities of the securities included in the portfolio are concentrated at two extremes.

Bargain-purchase-price option
Gives the lessee the option to purchase the asset at a price below fair market value when the lease expires.

BARRA's performance analysis (PERFAN)
A method developed by BARRA, a consulting firm in Berkeley, California. It is commonly used by institutional investors applying performance attribution analysis to evaluate their money managers' performances.

Barrier options
Contracts with trigger points that, when crossed, automatically generate buying or selling of other options. These are very exotic options.

Barter economy
Trading of goods or services directly for other goods or services, without using money or any other similar unit of account or medium of exchange. Although barter represents the earliest form of trade discovered by primitive man that made possible a more extensive division of labor beyond the limited bounds of a family or small clan grouping, it quickly encounters some practical limits to its efficiency as the division of labor becomes still more extensive and more specialized. Bartering require ...