Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• PURE COST - any direct readily verifiable cost assignable to the subject or item, e.g., the direct cost...
  
  
• PURE DISCOUNT BOND - A bond that will make only one payment of principal and interest. Also called a ze...
  
  
• PURE EXPECTATIONS THEORY - A theory that asserts that forward rates exclusively represent the expected ...
  
  
• PURE INDEX FUND - A portfolio that is managed so as to perfectly replicate the performance of the marke...
  
  
• PURE MONOPOLY - A market in which only one firm has total control over the entire market for a product ...
  
  
• PURE PLAY - An investment concentrated in one line of business. The extreme opposite of a pure play wou...
  
  
• PURE RESEARCH - motivated exclusively by the search for knowledge for its own sake.
  
  
• PURE YIELD PICKUP SWAP - Moving to higher yield-bonds.
  
  
• PURLIN - Large beams running the length of the roof over which pine paneling is applied.
  
  
• PURPOSE CREDIT - Credit used for the purpose of buying, carrying, or trading in securities.