Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• AVERAGE DIRECTIONAL MOVEMENT INDEX (ADX) - Indicator developed by J. Welles Wilder to measure market tr...
  
  
• AVERAGE DISCOUNT RATE - Purchasers tender their competitive bids on a discount rate basis. The weighted...
  
  
• AVERAGE DOWN - A strategy used by investors to reduce the average cost of shares, in which the investor...
  
  
• AVERAGE DOWNTIME - Expressed in months, the amount of time expected between the expiration of a lease a...
  
  
• AVERAGE EQUITY - A customer's average daily balance in a trading account at a brokerage firm.
  
  
• AVERAGE FREE RENT - Expressed in months, the rent abatement concession expected to be granted to a tena...
  
  
• AVERAGE INTEREST RATE - The actual average interest rate for a combination of debts based upon a total ...
  
  
• AVERAGE LEDGER BALANCE - the accumulation of each day's ledger balance divided by the number of days in...
  
  
• AVERAGE LIFE - Also referred to as the weighted-average life (WAL). The average number of years that ea...
  
  
• AVERAGE MATURITY - For a bond fund, the average number of years until all negotiable instruments held b...