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Wash-Out Round
What is 'Wash-Out Round' A common round of financing to owners of small companies that are not yet financially stable. When such...
Waiver Of Exemption
What is 'Waiver Of Exemption' A provision in a consumer credit contract or loan agreement that permitted creditors to seize or threaten...
Weak Form Efficiency
What is Weak Form Efficiency
In finance, weak form efficiency is the idea that prices reflect all information that is publicly available. In other words,...
Walrasian Market
What is 'Walrasian Market' An economic model of a market process in which orders are collected into batches of buys and sells...
Wasting Trust
What is 'Wasting Trust' A trust that holds plan assets when a qualified plan is frozen. A "wasting trust" derives its name...
Waiver
What is a 'Waiver' A waiver is the voluntary action of a person or party that removes that person's or party's right...
Warrant Premium
What is 'Warrant Premium' The amount that an investor must pay above the current market price for a security, when purchasing and...
Wasting Asset
What is 'Wasting Asset' An item that irreversibly declines in value, as a function of time. Wasting assets include vehicles, machinery and...
Wallflower
What is 'Wallflower' A stock that has fallen out of favor and does not get much attention from the investment community. A...
Wealth Added Index (WAI)
What is 'Wealth Added Index - WAI' A metric designed by Stern Stewart & Co consulting firm that attempts to measure wealth...