Tag: stock

Baltic Dry Index

DefinitionThe Baltic Dry Index, is issued daily by the London-based Baltic Exchange. The BDI is a composite of the Capesize, Panamax and Supramax Timecharter...

Bailout Bond

What is 'Bailout Bond' A debt security issued by the Resolution Funding Corporation to bail out the savings and loan associations during...
Back up the truck

Back Up The Truck

What is "backing up the truck?" Backing up the truck refers to the purchase of a large position in a stock or other financial asset...

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...

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...

Baidu

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

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 Fee

What is 'Back Fee' A payment made to the writer of a compound option in the case that the call option is...

Bailout

What is a 'Bailout' A bailout is a situation in which a business, an individual or a government offers money to a...

Binary Option

DefinitionA binary option is a financial option in which the payoff is either some fixed monetary amount or nothing at all. The two main...