Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• INDEX AMORTIZING SWAP - A swap whose Notional Amount (q.v.) amortizes (declines) each period by an amou...
  
  
• INDEX AMORTIZING SWAP (IAS) - A type of amortizing interest rate swap in which the notional amount decl...
  
  
• INDEX ANALYSIS - An analysis of percentage financial statements where all balance sheet or income state...
  
  
• INDEX AND OPTION MARKET (IOM) - A division of the CME established in 1982 for trading stock index produ...
  
  
• INDEX ARBITRAGE - An investment trading strategy that exploits divergences between actual and theoretic...
  
  
• INDEX FUND - An index mutual fund is designed to mirror the performance of one of the major stock or bo...
  
  
• INDEX FUNDS - Mutual funds that strive to invest in companies that comprise a market index in an effort...
  
  
• INDEX FUTURES - A futures contract on an index (such as a foreign stock index) in the futures market.
  
  
• INDEX LEASE - A lease containing an escalation clause that is tied to an index. (See lease)
  
  
• INDEX METHOD - The appraisal method of estimating building costs by multiplying the original cost of th...