Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• CONSUMER REPORTING AGENCY (OR BUREAU) - An organization that prepares reports that are used by lenders ...
  
  
• CONSUMER REPORTING/CREDIT AGENCIES/CREDIT BUREAUS - Organizations that collect individual consumer cred...
  
  
• CONSUMER STOCK - The stock of a company that produces consumer-oriented products like food, beverages, ...
  
  
• CONSUMMATE - is to bring to completion or fruition; conclude, e.g., consummate a business transaction.
  
  
• CONSUMPTION SMOOTHING - is aimed at protecting consumption patterns from the impact of shocks, and can ...
  
  
• CONSUMPTION TAX - See: Value-added tax
  
  
• CONTAGION - Excess correlation of delivering or bond returns. For example, under usual conditions we mi...
  
  
• CONTANGO - The price of a futures contract tends to reflect the cost of storage, insurance, financing, ...
  
  
• CONTEMPORANEOUS RESERVE ACCOUNTING - An accounting method that allows member banks of the Federal Reser...
  
  
• CONTEST OF A WILL - Legal proceedings to prevent or alter distribution of estate assets as described in...