Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• BTU OR BTUS - Refer to British Thermal Units. It measures the heating quality of different fuels agains...
  
  
• BUBA - Is the Bundesbank.
  
  
• BUBBLE THEORY - A theory under which security prices sometimes move wildly above their true values, or ...
  
  
• BUBBLES - See Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH)
  
  
• BUCK - The 2"x6" outside, unfinished frame of a door or window.
  
  
• BUCKET SHOP - An illegal brokerage firm that accepts customer orders but does not attain immediate exec...
  
  
• BUCKETING OR TO BUCKET TRADES - Refers to several illegal activities. Most common is the holding of cus...
  
  
• BUCKETS - In gap reports, the predefined time interval groups are often called buckets. The buckets can...
  
  
• BUDAPEST STOCK EXCHANGE - Established in 1864, the major securities market of Hungary.
  
  
• BUDGET - In a financial planning context the word 'budget' (as a noun) strictly speaking means an amoun...