Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• SHORT BONDS - Bonds with short (not much time to maturity) current maturities.
  
  
• SHORT BOOK - See: Unmatched book.
  
  
• SHORT COUPON - Refers to the initial coupon for a municipal security which reflects less than 6 months ...
  
  
• SHORT COVERING - the buying of stock to use as a replacement for identical stock that was previously bo...
  
  
• SHORT EXEMPT - Used for listed equity securities. A special trading situation where a short sale is all...
  
  
• SHORT HEDGE - The sale of futures contracts to eliminate or lessen the possible decline in value of an ...
  
  
• SHORT INTEREST - Total number of shares of a security that investors have sold short and that have not ...
  
  
• SHORT INTEREST RATIO - A ratio that indicates the number of trading days required to repurchase all of ...
  
  
• SHORT INTEREST THEORY - The theory that a large interest in short positions in stocks will precede a ri...
  
  
• SHORT OPTION MINIMUM CHARGE - Is the amount charged for short positions in extremely deep-out-of-the-mo...