Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• BACKED CURRENCY - A currency whose value is guaranteed by a direct correspondence with a product or ser...
  
  
• BACKED IN - In the context of general equities, to describe the result of unanticipated events that all...
  
  
• BACKING AWAY - Occurs when a market maker does not honor its requirement buy or sell the minimum amount...
  
  
• BACKLOG - value of unfilled orders placed with a manufacturing company. Whether a firm's backlog is ris...
  
  
• BACKTESTING - In general, the process of comparing predictions from a forecasting model to observable d...
  
  
• BACKUP CONTRACT - An Agreement of Purchase and Sale for a particular property which is conditional (bec...
  
  
• BACKUP LINE - A commercial paper issuer's bank line of credit covering maturing notes if, for some reas...
  
  
• BACKUP LINE OF CREDIT - A bank assurance of funds obtained by an issuer of commercial paper to protect ...
  
  
• BACKUP OFFER - An offer to buy, submitted to a seller, with the understanding that the seller has alrea...
  
  
• BACKUP WITHHOLDING - Tax withheld from investment income, such as interest and dividends, to ensure tha...