Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• BIG BATH - a business strategy in which a company manipulates its income statement to make poor results...
  
  
• BIG BOARD - A nickname for the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Also known as The Exchange. More than 2,...
  
  
• BIG DOGS - Traders who do large volume. As in "You can't pee like a puppy if you want to run with the b...
  
  
• BIG PICTURE - To highlight trading interest due to the size of the trade.
  
  
• BIG PRODUCER - A successful broker who generates a large volume of commission. See Rainmaker.
  
  
• BIG UGLIES - Unpopular stocks.
  
  
• BILATERAL AID - Bilateral aid is provided to developing countries and countries in transition on the De...
  
  
• BILATERAL CONTRACT - A legal agreement in which both parties promise to give each other something. A pu...
  
  
• BILATERAL CONTRACT/AGREEMENT - A contract in which each party promises to perform an act in exchange fo...
  
  
• BILATERAL LOANS - Loans between governments via their official banks or via the commercial banking sect...