Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• DEVOLVED BUDGETING - follows from devolving managerial responsibility, and assumes that those who are c...
  
  
• DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUPS - Also known as DRGs. A system used for classification and reimbursement of in...
  
  
• DIAGONAL SPREAD - Is the purchase and sale of puts or calls for the same instrument but for different s...
  
  
• DIALING AND SMILING - See: Cold calling
  
  
• DIALING FOR DOLLARS - A term used to describe the practice of cold calling, but which has negative impl...
  
  
• DIAMONDS - A DIAMOND is an index-based unit investment trust (UIT) that holds the 30 stocks in the Dow ...
  
  
• DIDC - see Depository Institutions Deregulation Committee.
  
  
• DIDRA - Depository Institutions Disaster Relief Act of 1992
  
  
• DIESEL FUEL - Distillate fuel oil used in compression-ignition engines. It is similar to home heating o...
  
  
• DIFF - Short version of Euro rate differential, which is a Chicago Mercantile Exchange Futures contract...