Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• DEATH TAXES - A general term used to refer to taxes against property or the transfer of assets upon the...
  
  
• DEATH VALLEY CURVE - In venture capital, refers to the period before a new company starts generating re...
  
  
• DEATH-BACKED BONDS - Bonds backed by loans of a policyholder against a life insurance policy. The polic...
  
  
• DEBENTURE - A type of long-term bond or note given as evidence of debt. Unlike a mortgage note, a deben...
  
  
• DEBENTURE BOND - An unsecured bond whose holder has the claim of a general creditor on all assets of th...
  
  
• DEBENTURE STOCK - A type of stock that makes fixed payments at scheduled intervals of time. Debenture s...
  
  
• DEBENTURES - Unsecured, long-term corporate bonds. Even though debenture holders are not protected by c...
  
  
• DEBIT - A debit is the opposite of a credit. For example, a debit can be an account balance representin...
  
  
• DEBIT BALANCE - BALANCE remaining after one or a series of bookkeeping entries. This amount represents ...
  
  
• DEBIT BUREAU - A service used by banks that will eventually track account opening and closing informati...