Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• BD FORM - An SEC document required of brokerage houses that outlines the firm's finances and officers.
  
  
• BDI - see BASIC DEFENSE INTERVAL.
  
  
• BDS STATISTIC - A statistic based upon the correlation integral which examines the probability that a p...
  
  
• BDT - The ISO 4217 currency code for Bangladeshi Taka currency.
  
  
• BE - The two-character ISO 3166 country code for BELGIUM.
  
  
• BEACON - See: Boston Exchange Automated Communication Order-Routing Network
  
  
• BEAR - An investor who believes a stock or the overall market will decline. A bear market is a prolonge...
  
  
• BEAR CD - A bear CD pays the holder a fraction of any fall in a given market index.
  
  
• BEAR HUG - Often used in risk arbitrage. Hostile takeover attempt in which the acquirer offers an excep...
  
  
• BEAR MARKET - A bear market is sometimes described as a period of falling securities prices and sometim...