Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• LINTNER'S OBSERVATIONS - John Lintner's work (1956) suggests that dividend policy is related both a tar...
  
  
• LION'S SHARE - largest portion
  
  
• LIP ACCOUNT - see LOAN-IN-PROCESS ACCOUNT.
  
  
• LIPPER INC - Lipper Inc. provides financial data and performance analysis for more than 30,000 open- an...
  
  
• LIPPER MUTUAL FUND INDUSTRY AVERAGE - The average level of performance for all mutual funds, as reporte...
  
  
• LIPS AND TRIPS - Indexed Principal Swaps, i.e., Amortizing Swaps, where amortization depends on the cha...
  
  
• LIQUEFACTION - A phenomenon which occurs during an earthquake whereby the ground/soil turns into a high...
  
  
• LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS (LNG) - Natural gas which has been made liquid by reducing its temperature to min...
  
  
• LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS (LPG) - Propane, butane, or propane-butane mixtures derived from crude oil refi...
  
  
• LIQUID - to be in a state of liquidity, i.e., maintain sufficient assets in the form of cash or assets ...