Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• UNDERWATER - Youre underwater when your stock options are out of the money. That means the strike price...
  
  
• UNDERWATER LOAN - a loan that, if sold, would be worth less than its current book value. Loans "sink" u...
  
  
• UNDERWEIGHT - Usually refers to recommendation that leads an investor to reduce their investment in a p...
  
  
• UNDERWITHHOLDING - When a taxpayer has withheld too little tax from salary and will therefore owe tax w...
  
  
• UNDERWRITE - (1) to sign one's name at the end of a document, thus signifying agreement or concurrence ...
  
  
• UNDERWRITER - An underwriter, typically an investment banker, buys an entire new securities issue from ...
  
  
• UNDERWRITER (INVESTMENT BANKER) - The investment banking firm that brought the company public. The prim...
  
  
• UNDERWRITER DISCOUNT - Underwriters buy the to be issued securities at a reduced (discounted) price. Th...
  
  
• UNDERWRITER'S DISCOUNT - See: Gross spread
  
  
• UNDERWRITER'S DISCOUNT ("UNDERWRITER’S SPREAD") - The differential between the price paid to the issuer...