Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• ARE YOU OPEN? - Used in context of general equities. "Can a new customer still participate on opposing ...
  
  
• AREA AGENCY ON AGING (AAA) - a local or regional nonprofit organization that provides information on se...
  
  
• ARGO - A J.P. Morgan SPV (q.v.), originated in 1994. It hedges the swap leg with puts. (Source: http://...
  
  
• ARGUMENT IN ACCOUNTING - usually revolves around the premise that characterizes fair values of assets a...
  
  
• ARIMA - See AutoRegressive Integrated Moving Average
  
  
• ARITHMETIC AVERAGE (MEAN) RATE OF RETURN - Arithmetic mean return.
  
  
• ARITHMETIC INDEX - An arithmetic index gives equal weight to the percentage price change of each stock ...
  
  
• ARITHMETIC MEAN RETURN - An average of the subperiod returns, calculated by summing the subperiod retur...
  
  
• ARIZONA STOCK EXCHANGE - A single price auction exchange for equity trading that allows anonymous buyer...
  
  
• ARM - See Adjustable Rate Mortgage (ARM)