Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• BAILING OUT - In the context of securities, refers to selling a security or commodity quickly, regardle...
  
  
• BAILMENT FOR HIRE - A safekeeping agreement between a safekeeping institution and its customer. A contr...
  
  
• BAILOUT - Is an action taken by others to help a company, organization or country with its finances. It...
  
  
• BAILOUT BOND - A bond issued by the Resolution Funding Corporation (Refcorp) to save the failing saving...
  
  
• BAKER PLAN - A plan by former U.S. Treasury Secretary James Baker under which 15 principal middle-incom...
  
  
• BALANCE - the remaining amount credited to a customer's account, representing the amount the customer i...
  
  
• BALANCE OF PAYMENTS - An accounting statement of the money value of international transactions between ...
  
  
• BALANCE OF PAYMENTS / BALANCE OF TRADE - the difference between a country's total export dollar value a...
  
  
• BALANCE OF TRADE - The difference between the value of a country's imports and exports during a specifi...
  
  
• BALANCE ON GOODS AND SERVICES - Netting of transaction balances, including the net amount of payments o...