Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• DIFFUSION PROCESS - A conception of the way a stock's price changes that assumes that the price takes o...
  
  
• DIGITAL OPTION - A Binary Option (q.v.).
  
  
• DIGITAL WALLET - Encryption software that conducts secure transactions online in a fashion that resembl...
  
  
• DIGITS DELETED - Designation on securities exchange tape meaning that because the tape has been delayed...
  
  
• DILUTED EARNINGS - A calculation that includes stock options, warrants and convertible securities to ge...
  
  
• DILUTED EARNINGS PER SHARE - In addition to reporting earnings per share, corporations must report dilu...
  
  
• DILUTED SHARE - see DILUTED EARNINGS PER SHARE.
  
  
• DILUTION - If a company issues new stock, the earnings per share and the book value per share decline. ...
  
  
• DILUTION OF OWNERSHIP - A reduction in the fractional ownership of a shareholder's stock as a result of...
  
  
• DILUTION PROTECTION - Standard provision that changes the conversion ratio in the case of a stock divid...