Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• SHARK REPELLENTS - Legal anti-takeover mechanisms devised by management to deter potential takeovers.
  
  
• SHARK WATCHER - Often used in risk arbitrage. Firm specializing in the early detection of takeover acti...
  
  
• SHARPE BENCHMARK - A statistically created benchmark that adjusts for a manager's index-like tendencies...
  
  
• SHARPE RATIO - A measure of investment performance, namely, the investment's average excess rate of ret...
  
  
• SHAVE - (1) to cut a price by a small margin. (2) reducing the amount a seller receives by raising the ...
  
  
• SHAVED CANDLESTICK - In candlestick charting, when the shadows of a candle which mark the area between ...
  
  
• SHEATHING - Boards or sheets of wallboard used to cover walls, roof, or decks.
  
  
• SHELF OFFERING - Offering of registered securities covered by a prospectus whose distribution is not un...
  
  
• SHELF REGISTRATION - A procedure that allows firms to file one registration statement covering several ...
  
  
• SHELL CORPORATION - An incorporated company with no significant assets or operations, often formed to o...