Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• BASIS RISK - The risk to a holder of financial instruments that a change in prevailing interest rates w...
  
  
• BASIS SWAP - A type of interest rate swap in which the net cash flows that the parties agree to exchang...
  
  
• BASKET - Generally an amount either above or below which claims may not be made for breaches of an agre...
  
  
• BASKET OPTIONS - Packages that involve the exchange of more than two currencies against a base currency...
  
  
• BASKET PROVISION - thrift industry slang for provisions in the law that allow savings and loan associat...
  
  
• BASKET TRADES - Large transactions made up of a number of different stocks.
  
  
• BATCH - A measured amount in which crude oil and refined product shipments are sent through a pipeline.
  
  
• BATCH COSTING - the identification and assignment of those costs incurred in completing the manufacture...
  
  
• BATCHING - in accounting, is the gathering and organizing of incoming invoices prior to processing.
  
  
• BATCHING SEQUENCE - The order in which shipments are sent through a pipeline.