Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• LIFTED - Refers to over-the-counter trading. Having an offer taken in a stock, followed by the market m...
  
  
• LIFTING - Refers to tankers and barges loading cargoes of petroleum at a terminal or transshipment poin...
  
  
• LIFTING & OPERATING EXPENSE(LOE) - in the oil/energy industry, within any accounting period, it is all ...
  
  
• LIFTING A LEG - Closing out one side of a long-short arbitrage before the other is closed.
  
  
• LIFTING CLAUSE - A provision in a junior mortgage that allows the underlying senior loan to be replaced...
  
  
• LIGATION BOND - A written promise made by a borrower for a sum of money in excess of the principal amou...
  
  
• LIGHT CRUDE - Crude oil with a low specific gravity and high API gravity due to the presence of a high ...
  
  
• LIGHT CRUDE OIL - Is petroleum with a low specific gravity and a high API gravity. It has a relatively ...
  
  
• LIGHT ENDS - The more volatile products of petroleum refining, such as butane, propane, and ethane.
  
  
• LIGHTEN UP - Selling some part of a stock or bond position in a portfolio to realize capital gains or t...