Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• DOWNSIDE RISK - The risk that a security will decline in value including the implications of risk.
  
  
• DOWNSIZING - A company's reduction in the number of employees, number of bureaucratic levels, and overa...
  
  
• DOWNSTREAM - An industry term referring to commercial oil and gas operations beyond the production phas...
  
  
• DOWNSTREAM / UPSTREAM SALES - see UPSTREAM / DOWNSTREAM SALES.
  
  
• DOWNSTREAM FUNDING - The practice of borrowing funds at the bank holding company level. The funds are t...
  
  
• DOWNSTREAM GUARANTY - A guaranty of a loan to a borrowing entity when the guarantor is a parent company...
  
  
• DOWNTICK - When a security sells at a lower price than its previous sale price, the drop in value is ca...
  
  
• DOWNTIME - period when equipment isn't available to perform
  
  
• DOWNTURN - The transition point between a rising, expanding economy to a falling, contracting one.
  
  
• DOWNWARD SLOPING YIELD CURVE - A yield curve depicting a situation in which yields for shorter-term mat...