Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• LEGISLATIVE RISK - The risk that new or changed legislation will have a large positive or negative effe...
  
  
• LEGITIMACY THEORY - posits that businesses are bound by the social contract in which the firms agree to...
  
  
• LEGITIMATE - Used in the context of general equities. Real interest in trading as compared to a profile...
  
  
• LEGS - Refers to a security or a market which has the capacity to continue an underlying trend.
  
  
• LEHMAN BROTHERS ADJUSTABLE-RATE MORTGAGE INDEX - A benchmark index that includes all agency-guaranteed ...
  
  
• LEHMAN BROTHERS AGGREGATE BOND INDEX - A benchmark index made up of the Lehman Brothers Government/Corp...
  
  
• LEHMAN BROTHERS CALIFORNIA MUNICIPAL BOND INDEX - A benchmark index that includes investment-grade, tax...
  
  
• LEHMAN BROTHERS CORPORATE BOND INDEX - A benchmark index that includes all publicly issued, fixed-rate,...
  
  
• LEHMAN BROTHERS GOVERNMENT BOND INDEX - A benchmark index made up of the Treasury Bond Index and the Ag...
  
  
• LEHMAN BROTHERS GOVERNMENT/CORPORATE BOND INDEX - A benchmark index made up of the Lehman Brothers® Gov...