Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• DIFFERENCE FROM S&P - A mutual fund's return minus the change in the Standard & Poor's 500 index for th...
  
  
• DIFFERENCE-IN-MEANS TEST - A statistical test that indicates the likelihood of observing the difference...
  
  
• DIFFERENCING - Subtracting previous from current values to obtain a stationary (detrended) time series:...
  
  
• DIFFERENTIAL - refers to what was once the traditional difference in interest rates on savings deposits...
  
  
• DIFFERENTIAL DISCLOSURE - The practice of reporting conflicting or markedly different information in of...
  
  
• DIFFERENTIAL SWAP - Swap between two LIBOR rates of interest, e.g., yen LIBOR for dollar LIBOR Payments...
  
  
• DIFFERENTIALS - Price differences between classes, grades, and locations of different stocks of the sam...
  
  
• DIFFUSION EQUATION - A partial differential equation, used in solving a random walk problem.
  
  
• DIFFUSION INDEX - An index that measures the percentage of individual series that are positive compared...
  
  
• DIFFUSION PROCESS - A conception of the way a stock's price changes that assumes that the price takes o...