Backup Line

What is 'Backup Line' A line of credit used by a bank to cover any issue of commercial paper for which financing...

Back-to-Back Loan

DefinitionA Back-to-back loan is a loan agreement between entities in two countries in which the currencies remain separate but the maturity dates remain fixed....

Baidu

What is 'Baidu' The dominant Chinese internet search engine company. Baidu offers many of the same products and services as Google, but...

Bagging the Street

What is 'Bagging the Street' An investor's failure to avoid trading in the stocks that are part of a block and also...

Bailor

DefinitionBailment describes a legal relationship in common law where physical possession of personal property, or a chattel, is transferred from one person to another...

Blockchain

Blockchain Blockchain is a public ledger that contains all the transaction done in Bitcoin that have been executed till date. Since there are...

Bear Market

A bear market refers to a market in which the prices of securities take a dip resulting in significant losses. It is quite difficult...

Bull Market

DefinitionA market trend is a perceived tendency of financial markets to move in a particular direction over time. These trends are classified as secular...

Basis Point

DefinitionA basis point is one hundredth of a percent or equivalently one ten thousandth. The related concept of a permyriad is literally one part...

Bad Paper

What is 'Bad Paper' Unsecured short-term fixed income instrument that is issued either by a corporation, city, state or country, that has...