Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• SHORT-TERM GAIN (OR LOSS) - A profit or loss realized from the sale of securities held for less than a ...
  
  
• SHORT-TERM GOVERNMENT BOND - A government bond that matures within one to five years.
  
  
• SHORT-TERM INTEREST RATES - Interest rates on loan contracts--or debt instruments such as Treasury bill...
  
  
• SHORT-TERM INVESTMENT SERVICES - Services that assist firms in making short-term investments.
  
  
• SHORT-TERM LIABILITIES - Money that you have to pay in less than 12 months, including wages, short-term...
  
  
• SHORT-TERM REDEMPTION FEE - A fee assessed when a shareholder sells mutual fund shares within a specifi...
  
  
• SHORT-TERM RESERVES - Investments in interest-bearing bank deposits, money market instruments, U.S. Tre...
  
  
• SHORT-TERM SOLVENCY RATIOS - Ratios used to judge the adequacy of liquid assets for meeting short-term ...
  
  
• SHORT-TERM TAX EXEMPTS - Short-term securities issued by states, municipalities, and quesi-government e...
  
  
• SHORT-TERM TREND - Erratic price movements that last less than three weeks.