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Bullion
Definition: Bars or ingots of precious metals, usually cast in standardized sizes.
Bullion Coins
Definition: Metal coins consisting of gold, silver, platinum, or palladium that are actively traded. Some examples include the American eagle and the Canadian maple leaf. Their price is directly connected to the underlying price of their metal.
Bullish
Definition: Word used to describe an investor's attitude. Bullish refers to an optimistic outlook, while bearish means a pessimistic outlook.
Bump-up CD
Definition: A certificate of deposit granting the owner the right to increase its yield one time for the remaining term of the CD. The power is exercised by the owner in the event of an interest rate hike.
Bunched Order
Definition: A discretionary order entered on behalf of multiple customers.
Bunching
Definition: Describes the act of traders combining round-lot orders for execution at the same time. Bunching can also be used to combine odd-lot orders to save the odd-lot differential for customers. Also used to refer to the pattern on the ticker tape when a series of trades for a security appear consecutively.
Bundling, Unbundling
Definition: Creation of securities either by combining primitive and derivative securities into one composite hybrid or by separating returns on an asset into classes.
Buoyant
Definition: A market in which prices have a tendency to rise easily with a considerable show of strength.
Bureau Of Labor Statistics (BLS)
Definition: A research agency of the U.S. Department of Labor; it compiles statistics on hours of work, average hourly earnings, employment and unemployment, consumer prices and many other variables.
Burn Rate
Definition: Used in venture capital financing to refer to the rate at which a startup company expends capital to finance overhead costs prior to the generation of positive cash flow.
Burnout
Definition: Depletion of a tax shelter's benefits. In the context of mortgage backed securities it refers to the percentage of the pool that has prepaid their mortgage.
Business
Definition: A continuous and regular activity that has income or profit as its primary purpose.
Business Combination Laws
Definition: These laws impose a moratorium on certain kinds of transactions (e.g., asset sales, mergers) between a large shareholder and the firm for a period usually ranging between three and five years after the shareholder's stake passes a pre-specified (minority) threshold. These laws are in place in more than half the U.S. states.
Business Cycle
Definition: Repetitive cycles of economic expansion and contractions. The official peaks and troughs of the US cycle are determined by the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA.
Business Day
Definition: A day in which financial markets are open for trading.
Business Failure
Definition: A business that has terminated operations with a loss to creditors.
Business Risk
Definition: The risk that the cash flow of an issuer will be impaired because of adverse economic conditions, making it difficult for the issuer to meet its operating expenses.
Business Segment Reporting
Definition: Reporting the results of the separate divisions or subsidiaries of a business.
Bust-up Takeover
Definition: A leveraged buyout in which the buyer sells off the assets of the target company to repay the debt that financed the takeover.
Busted Convertible
Definition: Related: Fixed income equivalent. Mainly applies to convertible securities. Convertible bond selling essentially as a straight bond. Assuming the issuer is "money good," or will continue to meet credit obligations, such issues can be highly attractive since the price makes virtually no allowance for the bond's call on the common stock, when most such issues usually carry premiums.
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