Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• BARRIER OPTIONS - Option contracts that remain dormant until a trigger point (the barrier price) is rea...
  
  
• BARRIERS TO ENTRY - are obstacles to the entry of new firms into a market. Barriers to entry may take v...
  
  
• BARRON'S CONFIDENCE INDEX - Index measuring the ratio of the average yield on 10 top-grade bonds to the...
  
  
• BARS - an acronym for Base Accounts Receivable System.
  
  
• BARTER - Is a process between counterparties who exchange goods or services for other goods and service...
  
  
• BARTER SYSTEM - see TRADE EXCHANGE.
  
  
• BASE - A technical analysis tool. A chart pattern depicting the period when the supply and demand of a ...
  
  
• BASE AMOUNT - the fundamental numerical assumption from which something is begun or developed or calcul...
  
  
• BASE BUDGET - An estimate of the funding available to carry on existing programs as established by the ...
  
  
• BASE CAPITAL - includes (1) shares that (a) are non-cumulative, non-retractable, non-redeemable and, if...