Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• PUBLIC-PURPOSE BOND - A specific type of municipal bond used to finance public projects such as roads o...
  
  
• PUBLICLY HELD - Describes a company whose stock is held by the public, whether individuals or business ...
  
  
• PUBLICLY TRADED ASSETS - Assets that can be traded in a public market, such as the stock market.
  
  
• PUD - see planned unit development.
  
  
• PUFFING - Exaggerated or superlative comments or opinions not made as representations of fact and thus ...
  
  
• PUKE - Slang for a trader selling a position, usually a losing position, as in, "When in doubt, puke it...
  
  
• PULL - Used in the context of general equities. See: Cancel.
  
  
• PULL TO PAR - Is the phenomenon that as time passes, the price of a credit instrument in good standing ...
  
  
• PULLBACK - The downward reversal of a prolonged upward price trend.
  
  
• PULLING IN THEIR HORNS - Investors selling off positions after a stock or bond market has increased sha...