Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• HUNG UP - Used to describe the position of an investor whose stocks or bonds have dropped in value belo...
  
  
• HUNKERING DOWN - A term used to describe a trader selling off a big position in a stock.
  
  
• HURDLE RATE - a term used in the budgeting of capital expenditures meaning the REQUIRED RATE OF RETURN ...
  
  
• HURRICANE BOND - A form of Catastrophe Bond (q.v.), where the catastrophe is a hurricane. (Source: Soph...
  
  
• HURRICANE BONDS - Are also Catastrophe Bonds issued to pass on unacceptably high risks to speculators. ...
  
  
• HURST EXPONENT(H) - A measure of the bias in fractional Brownian motion. H=0.50 for Brownian motion. 0....
  
  
• HVAC - The acronym for Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning.
  
  
• HYBRID - Is a security which has mixed characteristics. One example is a convertible bond. It can have ...
  
  
• HYBRID ANNUITY - A type of insurance company investment that combines the benefits of both a fixed annu...
  
  
• HYBRID ARM - An ARM on which the initial rate holds for some period, during which it is "fixed-rate", a...