Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• LOOKAHEAD TIME - Is the forward-looking time interval. Usually, it refers to one day but it can be more...
  
  
• LOOKBACK - Is an option which permits the holder to effectively buy the low in the case of a call or se...
  
  
• LOOKBACK INTERVAL - The number of periods of historical data used for observation and calculation.
  
  
• LOOKBACK OPTION - An option with a payoff based on the path of some risk factor from the option's incep...
  
  
• LOOKBACK PERIODIC CAP - A Periodic Cap (q.v.) that depends not on LIBOR at the end of the previous peri...
  
  
• LOOKING FOR - In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is a...
  
  
• LOOPHOLE - A technicality in some legislation or regulation that makes it possible to avoid certain con...
  
  
• LOOPHOLE CERTIFICATE - a certificate of deposit for which part of the deposited funds have been lent by...
  
  
• LOOSE CREDIT - In order to combat a sluggish economy, the Federal Reserve Board (the Fed) sometimes ins...
  
  
• LOSER - Stocks whose market price drops the most during the trading day are described, rather bluntly, ...