Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• FORMULA - a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems.
  
  
• FORMULA BASIS - A method of selling a new issue of common stock in which the SEC declares the registrat...
  
  
• FORMULA INVESTING - When you invest on a schedule-as you might with dollar cost averaging-or make inves...
  
  
• FORTUNE 500 - Fortune magazine's listing of the top 500 US corporations determined by an index of 12 va...
  
  
• FORWARD - Is a market similar to futures in terms of deferred deliveries. However, notable differences ...
  
  
• FORWARD AVERAGING - A method of calculating taxes on a lump sum distribution from a qualified retiremen...
  
  
• FORWARD CASH EXPOSURE (FCE) - A term sometimes used to describe the quantity of a financial institution...
  
  
• FORWARD COMMITMENT - a pledge made by a lender to make a loan to a homebuyer, purchase a loan from anot...
  
  
• FORWARD COMMITMENTS - Contractual obligations to perform certain financing activities upon the satisfac...
  
  
• FORWARD CONTRACT - A contract to exchange (buy or sell) an underlying instrument for a fixed forward pr...