Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• COMBINED SUB/UNSUB STAFFORD - A long-term, low-interest loan designed to provide students with addition...
  
  
• COMBUSTION GASES - The gasses that are emitted from a flame upon the combustion of a flammable material...
  
  
• COME IN - In the context of general equities, a fall in price.
  
  
• COME OUT OF THE TRADE - In the context of general equities, trader's position in a security that result...
  
  
• COMEOUT - In the context of general equities, the opening. Antithesis of the close.
  
  
• COMEX - A division of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX). Formerly known as the Commodity Exchang...
  
  
• COMFORT LETTER - A letter from an independent auditor included in a preliminary prospectus stating that...
  
  
• COMFORT LETTER OR COLD COMFORT LETTER - A letter delivered by the auditors for an issuer at the time of...
  
  
• COMMENT LETTER - (USA) A letter prepared by an examiner at the SEC setting forth the Sec's questions an...
  
  
• COMMERCIAL - Refers to a firm in the actual business of growing, mining, processing or otherwise bona f...