Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• STORES - provisions and supplies in inventory that are required for running an entity.
  
  
• STORY - the part of a building included between two floors.
  
  
• STORY STOCK/BOND - A highly complex security that requires a long "story" so that investors may underst...
  
  
• STP - See Stop order.
  
  
• STP LMT - See Stop Limit order.
  
  
• STRADDLE - A straddle is an options-buying strategy that lets you profit from the potential price chang...
  
  
• STRADDLE (FUTURES) - Also known as a spread, the purchase of one futures month against the sale of anot...
  
  
• STRADDLE (OPTIONS) - The purchase or sale of both a put and a call having the same strike price and exp...
  
  
• STRAIGHT - Direct telephone line, compared to an outside line that requires a telephone number to be di...
  
  
• STRAIGHT (TERM) LOAN - A loan in which only interest is paid during the term of the loan, with the enti...