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Weight
Definition: Either Gross Weight, Net Weight, or Tare Weight.
Weighted Average Cost Of Capital (WACC)
Definition: Expected return on a portfolio of all a firm's securities. Used as a hurdle rate for capital investment. Often the weighted average of the cost of equity and the cost of debt The weights are determined by the relative proportions of equity and debt in a firm's capital structure.
Weighted Average Coupon
Definition: The weighted average of the gross interest rates of mortgages underlying a pool as of the pool issue date; the balance of each mortgage is used as the weighting factor.
Weighted Average Life
Definition: See: Average life
Weighted Average Maturity
Definition: The weighted average maturity of an MBS is the weighted average of the remaining terms to maturity of the mortgages underlying the collateral pool at the date issue, using as the weighting factor the balance of each of the mortgages as of the issue date.
Weighted Average Portfolio Yield
Definition: The weighted average of the yield of all the bonds in a portfolio.
Weighted Average Remaining Maturity
Definition: The average remaining term of the mortgages underlying a MBS.
Well-diversified Portfolio
Definition: A portfolio that includes a variety of securities so that the weight of any security is small. The risk of a well-diversified portfolio closely approximates the systematic risk of the overall market, and the unsystematic risk of each security has been diversified out of the portfolio.
WF
Definition: The two-character ISO 3166 country code for WALLIS AND FUTUNA.
When Distributed
Definition: When issued.
When Issued (W.I.)
Definition: Refers to a transaction made conditionally, because a security, although authorized, has not yet been issued. Treasury securities, new issues of stocks and bonds, stocks that have split, and in-merger situations after the time the proxy has become effective but before completion are all traded on a when-issued basis. With ice.
Whipsawed
Definition: Buying stocks just before prices fall and selling stocks just before prices rise in a volatile market, often as the result of misleading signals.
Whisper Number Or Forecast
Definition: An unofficial earnings estimate of a company given to clients by a security analyst if there is more optimism or pessimism about earnings than shown in the published number. These are often found on the Internet.
Whisper Stock
Definition: A stock rumored to be the target of a takeover bid, drawing speculators who hope to make a profit after the takeover is completed.
Whistle Blower
Definition: A person who has knowledge of fraudulent activities inside a firm or government agency, who is protected from the employer's retribution by federal law.
White Knight
Definition: A friendly potential acquirer sought out by a target firm that is threatened by a less welcome suitor.
White Noise
Definition: The audio equivalent of Brownian motion. Sounds that are unrelated and sound like a hiss. The video equivalent of white noise is "snow" in television reception.
White Sheets
Definition: Lists of prices published by the National Quotation Bureau for Market Makers.
White Squire
Definition: White knight who buys less than a majority interest.
White's Rating
Definition: A rating of municipal securities, that uses market factors rather than credit considerations to find appropriate yields.
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