Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• SHOOTOUT - Venture capital jargon. Refers to two or more venture capital firms fighting for the startup...
  
  
• SHOP - Wall Street slang for a firm.
  
  
• SHOPPED STOCK - Sell inquiry that has been seen by or shown to other dealers before coming to an invest...
  
  
• SHOPPING - Seeking to obtain the best bid or offer available by calling a number of dealers and/or brok...
  
  
• SHOPPING SITE - A type of multi-lender web site that offers borrowers the capacity to shop among multip...
  
  
• SHORT - 1) The market position of a futures contract seller whose sale obligates him to deliver the com...
  
  
• SHORT AGAINST THE BOX - A short sale of a stock is where the seller actually owns the stock, but does n...
  
  
• SHORT BIAS - In the context of hedge funds, a style of management where part or all of the fund consist...
  
  
• SHORT BONDS - Bonds with short (not much time to maturity) current maturities.
  
  
• SHORT BOOK - See: Unmatched book.