Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• LEHMAN BROTHERS MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES INDEX - A benchmark index that includes 15- and 30-year fixe...
  
  
• LEHMAN BROTHERS MUNICIPAL BOND INDEX - A benchmark index that includes investment-grade, tax-exempt, an...
  
  
• LEHMAN BROTHERS NEW YORK MUNICIPAL BOND INDEX - A benchmark index that includes investment-grade, tax-e...
  
  
• LEHMAN FORMULA - a compensation formula originally developed by investment bankers Lehman Brothers for ...
  
  
• LEMON - An investment with poor results.
  
  
• LEMON LAW - A blanket term used to refer to various state laws that protect consumers against the purch...
  
  
• LEMONS PROBLEM - Named after 2001 Nobel Laureate George Akerlof's 1970 paper "The Market for Lemons". H...
  
  
• LEND - To provide money temporarily on the condition that it or its equivalent will be returned, often ...
  
  
• LENDABLE FUNDS - The pool of funds available to borrows; typically categorized by currency and maturity...
  
  
• LENDER - A bank, building society, credit union, lending the money received from deposits, or a special...