Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• CASUALTY LOSS - Any loss of an asset due to fire storm act of nature causing asset damage from unexpect...
  
  
• CASUALTY-INSURANCE - Insurance protecting a firm or homeowner against loss of property, damage, and oth...
  
  
• CATASTROPHE BOND - Definition: A Bond that promises a coupon (and principal, in some cases) that starts...
  
  
• CATASTROPHE CALL - Early redemption of a municipal revenue bond because a catastrophe has destroyed the...
  
  
• CATASTROPHE FUTURES - The ill-fated futures contract that the CBOT introduced in 1993. The underlying r...
  
  
• CATASTROPHE OPTIONS - The CBOT's option contracts on several regional indexes of losses. The option on ...
  
  
• CATASTROPHE SWAPS - Contracts similar to standard reinsurance contracts and traded on New York's Catast...
  
  
• CATASTROPHIC ILLNESS INSURANCE - Most health insurance policies cap, or limit, the amount they will pay...
  
  
• CATASTROPHIC POLICY - A policy that typically has high deductibles and high coverage limits. Also calle...
  
  
• CATCH 22 - what ever you do, it won't work (Joseph Heller book)