Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• ANTICIPATORY HEDGING - Refers to the placement of a hedge prior to placement of the actual position. So...
  
  
• ANTIDILUTION PROVISION - Agreement that protects an investor from a reduction in fractional ownership i...
  
  
• ANTIDILUTIVE EFFECT - Result of a transaction that increases earnings per common share (e.g., by decrea...
  
  
• ANTIGREENMAIL - Greenmail refers to the agreement between a large shareholder and a company in which th...
  
  
• ANTIMERGER CLAUSE - A clause in a mortgage or deed of trust specifying that the senior lienholder will ...
  
  
• ANTITAKEOVER DEFENSE - A device designed to prevent a hostile takeover by increasing the takeover cost ...
  
  
• ANTITHETIC FORECASTS - Two forecasts whose errors are negatively correlated.
  
  
• ANTITRUST LAWS - State and federal laws designed to maintain and preserve business competition. The She...
  
  
• ANY-INTEREST-DATE - A call provision in a municipal bond indenture that establishes the right of redemp...
  
  
• ANY-OR-ALL BID - Often used in risk arbitrage. Takeover bid in which the acquirer offers to pay a set p...