Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• PRECIOUS METALS - Gold, silver, platinum, and palladium, which are used for their intrinsic value or fo...
  
  
• PRECIOUS METALS LEASE - Is a vehicle or technique used to finance precious metals inventories. It is re...
  
  
• PRECLOSING - A meeting of the parties to a transaction prior to the scheduled closing date to allow som...
  
  
• PRECLOSING LIEN SEARCH - An investigation of the appropriate public records, conducted shortly before t...
  
  
• PRECOMPUTE - Method of charging interest in which the annual interest is either deducted from the face ...
  
  
• PREDATORY LENDING - Abusive lending practices that include making a mortgage loan to an individual who ...
  
  
• PREDICTIVE VARIABLES - The items that are part of the formula or factors comprising elements of a credi...
  
  
• PREDICTOR RATIOS - Most ratios are descriptive in nature; that is, they describe the firm as it is now....
  
  
• PREEMPTIVE RIGHT - The privilege of shareholders to maintain their proportional company ownership by pu...
  
  
• PREEMPTIVE RIGHTS - These give an existing shareholder the opportunity to purchase or subscribe for a p...