Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• VAR - an acronym for Value-Added Reseller (usually of technology products); or, in finance, Value at Ri...
  
  
• VARIABLE - An element in a model. For example, in the model RS&Pt+1 = a + b Tbill t + et, where RS&Pt+1...
  
  
• VARIABLE ANNUITIES - Investment contracts whose issuer pays a periodic amount linked to the investment ...
  
  
• VARIABLE ANNUITY - Unlike the guaranteed rate of return you receive with a fixed annuity, the return on...
  
  
• VARIABLE COMMON RIGHT - Viacom issued VCRs in connection with its takeover of Blockbuster. (Source: Fal...
  
  
• VARIABLE COST - A cost that is directly proportional to the volume of output produced. When production ...
  
  
• VARIABLE COSTS - those costs associated with production that changes directly with the amount of produc...
  
  
• VARIABLE EXPENSES - Operating costs of a property which are not fixed, which change as a result of cert...
  
  
• VARIABLE INTEREST RATE - In a variable interest loan, the interest rate changes periodically. Loan Inte...
  
  
• VARIABLE INTEREST RATE LOAN - A loan in which the interest rate fluctuates in relation to changes in th...