Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• ANTICIPATION, PRINCIPAL OF - An approach to assessing the future value of land based on possible contin...
  
  
• ANTICIPATORY BREACH - A notification that one party to a contract plans to renege, releasing the other ...
  
  
• ANTICIPATORY HEDGE - A hedge of a yet-to-be-acquired asset or liability.
  
  
• ANTICIPATORY HEDGING - Refers to the placement of a hedge prior to placement of the actual position. So...
  
  
• ANTIDILUTION PROVISION - Agreement that protects an investor from a reduction in fractional ownership i...
  
  
• ANTIDILUTIVE EFFECT - Result of a transaction that increases earnings per common share (e.g., by decrea...
  
  
• ANTIGREENMAIL - Greenmail refers to the agreement between a large shareholder and a company in which th...
  
  
• ANTIMERGER CLAUSE - A clause in a mortgage or deed of trust specifying that the senior lienholder will ...
  
  
• ANTITAKEOVER DEFENSE - A device designed to prevent a hostile takeover by increasing the takeover cost ...
  
  
• ANTITHETIC FORECASTS - Two forecasts whose errors are negatively correlated.