Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• VERTICAL INTEGRATION - the extent to which a firm owns its upstream suppliers and its downstream buyers...
  
  
• VERTICAL LINE CHARTING - A form of technical charting that shows the high, low, and closing prices of a...
  
  
• VERTICAL MERGER - This would give backward integration to the company to assimilate the sources of supp...
  
  
• VERTICAL SPREAD - A stock option spread based on simultaneous purchase and sale of options on the same ...
  
  
• VESSEL - A conveyance for the transport of goods by water.
  
  
• VEST - (1) to confer the right of immediate or future possession and use of property. (2) a designation...
  
  
• VESTED - Having the right to use a portion of a fund such as an individual retirement fund. For example...
  
  
• VESTED ACCUMULATED BENEFIT OBLIGATION - The portion of the accumulated benefit obligation under a defin...
  
  
• VESTED INTEREST - a fixed interest in tangible or intangible property, although the right of possession...
  
  
• VESTING - If you are part of an employer pension plan or participate in an employer-sponsored retiremen...