Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• 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.
  
  
• BREEDEN, DOUGLAS T - Inventor of one of the foundational asset pricing models in finance, the consumpti...
  
  
• BRETTON WOODS - Township in New Hampshire where the "Bretton Woods Agreement" was finalized after World...
  
  
• BRETTON WOODS AGREEMENT - An agreement signed by the original United Nations members in 1944 that estab...
  
  
• BRICK - slang used to describe a package of currency that is banded with steel straps.