Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• DIRECT EXCHANGE RATE - the currency price at home for one unit of a foreign currency
  
  
• DIRECT EXPENSE - that portion of expense that is directly expended in providing a product or service fo...
  
  
• DIRECT FINANCING - A buyer who lines up financing through an outside financial institution rather than ...
  
  
• DIRECT FINANCING LEASE - one in which the lessor's only source of revenue isinterest. The lessor (gener...
  
  
• DIRECT FOREIGN INVESTMENT (DFI) - Investment in real assets (such as land, buildings, or plants) outsid...
  
  
• DIRECT HEDGES - A form of capital markets or derivatives hedge in which the cash market instrument bein...
  
  
• DIRECT INVESTMENT - investment by thrift institutions directly in the equity of such ventures as real e...
  
  
• DIRECT LABOR UTILIZATION RATE - total payroll charged directly to job numbers in the period divided by ...
  
  
• DIRECT LEASE - A form of lease financing in which the bank acquires property from a supplier and then l...
  
  
• DIRECT LOAN - The William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan program. A loan-based financial-aid program simil...