Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• 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...
  
  
• 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