Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• PUBLIC UTILITY HOLDING COMPANY ACT OF 1935 - Legislation intended to eliminate many holding company abu...
  
  
• PUBLIC WAREHOUSE - A central warehouse that accepts, stores, and delivers goods for multiple businesses...
  
  
• PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM - A system that provides piped water for human consumption to at least 15 service c...
  
  
• PUBLIC-PURPOSE BOND - A specific type of municipal bond used to finance public projects such as roads o...
  
  
• PUBLICLY HELD - Describes a company whose stock is held by the public, whether individuals or business ...
  
  
• PUBLICLY TRADED ASSETS - Assets that can be traded in a public market, such as the stock market.
  
  
• PUD - see planned unit development.
  
  
• PUFFING - Exaggerated or superlative comments or opinions not made as representations of fact and thus ...
  
  
• PUKE - Slang for a trader selling a position, usually a losing position, as in, "When in doubt, puke it...
  
  
• PULL - Used in the context of general equities. See: Cancel.