Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• BEAR RAID - In the context of general equities, attempt by investors to move the price of a stock oppor...
  
  
• BEAR SPREAD - Applies to derivative products. Strategy in the options or futures markets designed to ta...
  
  
• BEAR TRAP - The predicament facing short sellers when a bear market reverses its trend and becomes bull...
  
  
• BEARER - a party that has physical possession of a financial instrument
  
  
• BEARER BOND - A bond that has no identification of the owner of the security. It is presumed to be owne...
  
  
• BEARER BONDS OR STOCKS - Securities owned by and payable to whomever holds the physical certificate. Se...
  
  
• BEARER CHECK - a check payable to "cash" or to "the bearer" rather than to a specific party.
  
  
• BEARER FORM - Describes issue form of security not registered on the issuing corporation's books, and t...
  
  
• BEARER INSTRUMENT - A valuable document (a bond or other security) which does not bear the name of its ...
  
  
• BEARER SHARE - Security not registered on the books of the issuing corporation and thus payable to poss...