Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• BREAK-EVEN TIME (FOR CONVERTIBLE SECURITIES) - The amount of time before the higher yield on the conver...
  
  
• BREAKAWAY GAP - When a tradable exits a trading range by trading at price levels that leaves a price ar...
  
  
• BREAKER - A switch-like device in electrical panel boxes used to keep the electrical current from excee...
  
  
• BREAKER PANEL - A large rectangular shaped electrical box used to distribute electricity throughout a h...
  
  
• BREAKEVEN POINT - Is the level whereby an investor neither profits or loses. It is often used in option...
  
  
• BREAKING THE SYNDICATE - Terminating an agreement among underwriters, specifically the investment banki...
  
  
• BREAKOUT - Stock prices fluctuate constantly, but each stock typically moves within a fairly narrow ran...
  
  
• BREAKPOINT - Mutual funds that charge a percentage of the amount you invest as a front-end load, or sal...
  
  
• BREAKPOINT SALE - For mutual funds, this refers to the practice of soliciting mutual fund purchases jus...
  
  
• BREAKUP VALUE - See: Private market value.