Tag: market
Participation Mortgage
DefinitionA participation mortgage or participating mortgage is a mortgage loan, or sometimes a group of them, in which two or more persons have fractional...
Passbook Loan
What is 'Passbook Loan' A personal loan extended to a savings-account holder by the custodial bank. Passbook loans use the balance of...
Patent Cliff
DefinitionThe term patent cliff refers to the phenomenon of patent expiration dates and an abrupt drop in sales that follows for a group of...
Palisades Water Index
DefinitionThe Palisades Water Index is a modified equal-dollar weighted stock market index. It is designed to track the performance of companies engaged in the...
Par Yield Curve
What is a 'Par Yield Curve' A par yield curve is a graph of the yields on hypothetical Treasury securities with prices...
Paris Hilton Stock Index
What is 'Paris Hilton Stock Index' A stock index comprised of companies associated with the socialite Paris Hilton. Some investors conceive her...
Panic Selling
DefinitionPanic selling is a wide-scale selling of an investment which causes a sharp decline in prices. Specifically, an investor wants to get out of...
Price Earnings to Growth
Price/Earnings to Growth also known as the PEG, is a type of financial ratio that is used to determine the value of a stock...
Parity
What is 'Parity' Parity refers to two things being equal to each other. The term "par value" for a bond is similar...
Parabolic Indicator
What is the 'Parabolic Indicator' The parabolic indicator is a technical analysis strategy that uses a trailing stop and reverse method called...