Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• KICKER - Additional compensation for a lender or investor, the right to share in the income from the pr...
  
  
• KIDDIE TAX - A popular name for the Tax for Children Under Age 14 Who Have Investment Income of More Th...
  
  
• KIKIN - in Japan, is a capital foundation fund.
  
  
• KILLER BEES - Those who aid a company in fending off a takeover bid, usually investment bankers who dev...
  
  
• KILOWATT (KW) - One thousand watts.
  
  
• KILOWATT HOUR (KWH) - Amount of electricity needed to light 10, 100-watt light bulbs for a one-hour per...
  
  
• KIOSK - Any small structure that stands alone, usually for the purpose of supplying a product or servic...
  
  
• KITCHEN SINK BOND OR MBS - A bond or CMO into which issuers have dumped "everything but the kitchen sin...
  
  
• KITCHEN SINK BONDS - 1. An informal name for some re-REMICs created when tranches of existing CMO REMIC...
  
  
• KITING - when used in the context of banking, refers to the practice of depositing and drawing checks a...