Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• LEVELS I, II AND III - See NASDAQ.
  
  
• LEVERAGE - Refers to the concept of increasing, multiplying, or magnifying the market impact of an inve...
  
  
• LEVERAGE CLIENTELE - A group of shareholders who, because of their personal leverage, seek to invest in...
  
  
• LEVERAGE HYPOTHESIS - the theory that managers have incentive to avoid technical default of loan covena...
  
  
• LEVERAGE RATIO - the ratio of tier 1 (core) capital to adjusted total assets.
  
  
• LEVERAGE RATIOS - Measures of the relative value of stockholders, capitalization, and creditors obligat...
  
  
• LEVERAGE REBALANCING - Making transactions to adjust (rebalance) a firm's leverage ratio to a target ra...
  
  
• LEVERAGED BETA - The beta of a leveraged required return; that is, the beta as adjusted for the degree ...
  
  
• LEVERAGED BUY OUT - Acquisition of a controlling INTEREST in a company in a transaction financed by the...
  
  
• LEVERAGED BUY-OUT (LBO) - a transaction used for taking a public corporation private, financed through ...