Back Months
What is 'Back Months' The available futures contracts for a particular commodity that possess expirations or delivery dates furthest into the future....
Bad Debt
What is bad debt and how does it affect your credit score
Most people are familiar with the term "bad debt." Generally, bad debt is...
Bailment
What is 'Bailment' The contractual transfer of possession of assets or property for a specific objective. In bailment, the deliverer of the...
Backspread
A backspread is a type of options spread in which the trader holds more long positions than short positions. This strategy can be used...
Back-to-Back Commitment
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...
Balance Of Payments (BOP)
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...
Back Month Contract
What is 'Back Month Contract' A type of futures contract that expires in any month past the front month futures contract. The...
Stock Bag Holder
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...
Back Door Listings
When a company fails to meet the listing requirements of a stock exchange, it may turn to a back door listing as a way...
Standard Deviation
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...