ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ A actively managed funds adapter cards ADSL agency securities Alan Greenspan alpha American Stock Exchange annuity API APICS arbitrage ask assets asset-backed securities Atlanta Fed survey Back to top B baccarat back-end load backlog bandwidth bandwidth speed barrels basic earnings basis points Beige Book beta bid bid-to-cover ratio bill pass biotech vs. big pharmas Black-Scholes model blue-chips bond book-to-bill ratio bottom line bottom-up investing Brady bonds breakout broker BTM/UBSW chain store data bucket shop business inventories butterfly spread buyback buy side Back to top C callable capital asset capital expenditures capital gains distribution capitulation car and truck sales cash flow CASM CDMA CPU/central processing unit chain-store sales charge to earnings Chicago Fed Index Chicago purchasing managers' index chip closed-end funds code sharing commercial bank commodities common stock community bank comparable-store sales congestion construction spending Consumer Comfort Index Consumer Confidence Index consumer credit Consumer Price Index Consumer Sentiment Index converts convexity corporate bonds coupon pass covered call credit risk credit spread code sharing crude oil cubic foot current account balance Back to top D day rates delisted derivatives Detroit purchasing managers' index devaluation diluted earnings discount broker discount rate distressed securities district Fed banks diversification DJIA/Dow dogs of the Dow dollar-cost averaging downstream DRAM drilling fleet drop durable goods orders duration DWDM Back to top E earnings estimates earnings growth rate EBITDA economic indicators efficiency ratio emerging markets employment cost index employment report semiconductor-equipment makers ESOP/employee stock options ethernet eurodollar ex-dividend existing home sales expiration Back to top F fab factory orders FDA approval federal budget Federal Reserve Federal Open Market Committee fed funds futures fed funds rate First Call float FOMC policy statement forex front-end load full service broker fundamentals funds from operations Back to top G GARP geometric mean Glass-Steagall Act global funds governors GovPX gross domestic product growth funds Back to top H head and shoulders hedge funds help-wanted index high-yield bonds house edge housing market index housing starts hub Humphrey-Hawkins Back to top I IMF import and export prices incentive independent exploration industrial production and capacity initial jobless claims integrated circuit international fund international trade Internet telephony interest rate risk in-the-money intrinsic value investment bank investment grade bonds IPO ISI index ISP Back to top J jackup rigs January effect Back to top K Kansas City Fed manufacturing survey Back to top L LAN land rigs large-cap LBO leading economic indicators LEAPS level load liabilities Libor licensing limit order Lipper fund categories load load factor long Back to top M majors management fee market capitalization married put microprocessor mid-cap miscellany MOB spread momentum momentum funds monetarism money-center bank money supply Moore's Law Moody's Investors Service Morningstar risk rating mortgage application survey mortgage-backed securities moving average municipal bonds Back to top N naked put/call NASD Nasdaq/Comp natural gas negative surprise net asset value net fund flows new-home sales New York business conditions index Nifty Fifty no-load nonqualified NYSE/Big Board Back to top O OEM online broker on-shore/off-shore open-end funds open-market operations operator option outer continental shelf out-of-the-money Back to top P paired share passively managed funds peg personal income and consumption Philadelphia Fed index preferred stock premium price-to-book price-to-earnings price-to-sales primary dealers proved & probable reserves Producer Price Index productivity and unit labor costs purchasing managers' index purchasing managers' nonmanufacturing index puts Back to top Q quarterly refunding Back to top R RASM rating agency ratings real earnings receivership recession Redbook Retail Average regional bank regional jets reinvested dividends REITS reopening remote access repo resistance retail futures retailers vs. suppliers/manufacturers retail sales retracement return on assets return on equity revenue passenger miles Richmond Fed surveys risk measures roll router Russell 2000 Back to top S S&P 500 S&P 500 futures same-store sales securities sell side semiconductors semisubmersibles share classes shareholder rights plan Sharpe ratio shorting slot machines small-cap SMS SOX specialist special situations speculative grade spiders spread spread product SRAM stacking stage length standard deviation standard deviation returns step-out/step-in trades stop order straddle strike price the Strip super-regional bank support swaps & swap spreads switch Back to top T tag spread target price top-down investing top line total return trader trailing stop transfer agent Treasury bills Treasury futures Treasury notes Treasury securities Treasury bond triple-witching turnover ratio Back to top U upside surprise upstream Back to top V value value funds VIX volatility volume Back to top W WAN when-issued trading whisper number wholesale trade write Back to top X Back to top Y Y2K problem yield yield curve Back to top Z zero coupon bonds Back to top