TSC Markets

Investing Basics : TSC Glossary

	General Markets				American Stock Exchange Arbitrage Ask Bid Big Board Blue-chips Buy side Capital Asset Capital Expenditure Capitulation Commodities Converts Delisted Disintermediation Distressed securities Dogs of the Dow Dow Jones Industrial Average Forex AlanGreenspan IPO January effect LBO Long Money supply Nasdaq New York Stock Exchange/Big Board Nifty Fifty OEM Russell 2000 S&P 500 S&P 500 futures Sell side Short selling Special situations Spiders Step-out/Step-in Trade Target Price VIX Volume
	Bonds				Accrued interest Agency securities Asset-backed securities Basis points Bid-to-cover Buyback Callable Convexity Corporate bonds Credit risk Credit spread Duration Eurodollar GovPX High-yield bonds Interest-rate risk Investment grade Junk bonds (See High-yield bonds ) Libor MOB spread Moody's Investors Service Mortgage-backed securities Municipal bonds Off-the-run On-the-run Primary dealers Quarterly refunding Ratings Rating agencies Reopening Repo Roll Speculative grade Spread Spread product Standard & Poor's Swaps & swap spreads TAG spread Tips Treasury bills Treasury bond Treasury futures Treasury notes Treasury securities Treasury strips When-issued Yield Yield curve Zero-coupon bonds
	Economic Indicators				APICS Business Outlook Index Atlanta Fed Index Beige Book BTM-UBSW Weekly Chain Store Sales Index Business inventories Chicago Fed Index Chicago Purchasing Managers' Index Construction spending Consumer Comfort Index Consumer Confidence Index Consumer credit Consumer Price Index Consumer Sentiment Index Durable goods orders Employment Cost Index Employment report Existing home sales Factory orders Federal budget Federal Reserve Future Inflation Gauge Gross domestic product Help-Wanted Index Housing Market Index Housing starts Import and export prices Industrial production and capacity utilization Initial jobless claims International trade Kansas City Fed Index Leading economic indicators Mortgage Applications Survey New home sales New York Business Conditions Index Personal income and consumption Philadelphia Fed Index Producer Price Index Productivity and unit labor costs Purchasing Managers' Index Purchasing Managers' Non-Manufacturing Index Real earnings Redbook Retail Average Recession Retail sales Richmond Fed surveys Wholesale trade
	Federal Reserve				Alan Greenspan Beige Book Coupon pass Discount rate District Feds Fed funds futures Fed funds rate Federal Open Market Committee FOMC (See Federal Open Market Committee ) FOMC policy statement Governors Humphrey-Hawkins Monetarism Money supply Open market operations
	International				Brady bonds Devaluation Emerging markets International Monetary Fund