What is 'Bailment' The contractual transfer of possession of assets or property for a specific objective. In bailment, the deliverer of the...
A backspread is a type of options spread in which the trader holds more long positions than short positions. This strategy can be used...
What is 'Back-to-Back Commitment' A commitment to make a second take-out loan that piggybacks another loan. With a back-to-back commitment, once the...
What is the Balance of Payments (BOP)?
The balance of payments (BOP) is an accounting record of all monetary transactions between a country and the...
What is 'Back Month Contract' A type of futures contract that expires in any month past the front month futures contract. The...
Definition
In U.S. financial slang, a bagholder is a shareholder left holding shares of worthless stocks.
What is a 'Stock Bag Holder'
An informal investing word used...
When a company fails to meet the listing requirements of a stock exchange, it may turn to a back door listing as a way...
In mathematics, standard deviation is the degree of the dispersion from a set of data’s mean. The SD is higher when the data is...
What is a 'Lapse' A lapse is the cessation of a privilege, right or policy due to time or inaction, so a...
What is 'Canadian Income Trust' A type of corporate structure as designated by the Canada Revenue Agency that operates as a profit-seeking...