Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• SPENDING LEVEL - the true expenditure or cash outlay of any entity in a given category or budgetary are...
  
  
• SPENDTHRIFT PROVISION - conditions written into a trust instrument that are designed to prevent the ben...
  
  
• SPIDER - See: SPDRs
  
  
• SPIDERS - Essentially, shares in a trust that owns shares of stock in the same proportion as the S&P 50...
  
  
• SPIDERS (SPDRS) - Are securities which are based on the S&P 500. They are a product traded on the Ameri...
  
  
• SPIKE - Order ticket that shows the stock, price, number of shares, type, and account of the order. Ori...
  
  
• SPILLOVER EFFECTS - Occurs when conditions or behaviors in some markets or sectors pour over into other...
  
  
• SPIN OFF - the separation of a subsidiary or division of a corporation from its parent by making it a n...
  
  
• SPIN OUT - a division of an established company that becomes an independent entity.
  
  
• SPIN-OFF - In a spin-off, a company sets up one of its existing subsidiaries or divisions as a separate...