Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 

• SHORT RATIO(OR SHORT INTEREST RATIO) - Number of shares of a security that investors have sold short di...
  
  
• SHORT SALE - The sale of security that is not owned by the seller. The seller borrows the security, sel...
  
  
• SHORT SALE (SELLING) - Sale of an asset that the investor does not own or any sale that is completed by...
  
  
• SHORT SELLING - Is the act by which a speculator or risk manager sells an instrument at a high price wi...
  
  
• SHORT SETTLEMENT - Trade settlement made prior to the standard five-day period due to customer request.
  
  
• SHORT SQUEEZE - When a lack of supply tends to force prices upward. In particular, when prices of a sto...
  
  
• SHORT STRADDLE - A straddle involves both purchase and sale. In short straddle one put and one call are...
  
  
• SHORT TAX YEAR - A tax period less than 12 months long, resulting from a business start-up or the trans...
  
  
• SHORT TENDER - Practice prohibited by SEC that involves the use of borrowed stock to respond to a tende...
  
  
• SHORT TERM - Bonds or notes sold on an interim basis with tax-exempt securities for a period of from on...