Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• SPRING - Another term for upthrust; occurs when price moves above a pivot top and a widespread reversal...
  
  
• SPRINKLING TRUST - A trust in which the trustee decides how to distribute trust income among a group of...
  
  
• SPV - see Special Purpose Vehicle.
  
  
• SPX - Applies to derivative products. Symbol for the S&P 500 index.
  
  
• SQUARE - An area of 100 square feet, in terminology referring to the size of a roof.
  
  
• SQUARE FOOTAGE - The area within a building, calculated by measuring the rooms by length and width.
  
  
• SQUARE PEG IN A ROUND HOLE - someone that doesn't fit or perform appropriately
  
  
• SQUARE-FOOT METHOD - A method of estimating a building's construction, reproduction or replacement cost...
  
  
• SQUATTER - someone who illegally occupies another's property.
  
  
• SQUEEZE - Period when stocks or commodities futures increase in price and investors who have sold short...