Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• UPSWING - An upward turn in a security's price after a period of falling prices.
  
  
• UPTHRUST - Occurs when price moves above a pivot top and a widespread reversal ensues as follows: a) tw...
  
  
• UPTICK - An uptick is the smallest possible incremental increase in a security's price, which, for stoc...
  
  
• UPTICK RULE - SEC rule that selling short is allowed only on an up tick.
  
  
• UPTICK TRADE - A transaction that takes place at a higher price than the preceding transaction involvin...
  
  
• UPWARD SLOPING YIELD CURVE - A yield curve depicting a situation in which yields for shorter-term matur...
  
  
• UPZONING - The process, often controversial, of changing the zoning in an area, usually to allow greate...
  
  
• URBAN - Pertaining to a city or town, closely settled property.
  
  
• URBAN AREA - according to the U. S. Bureau of the Census, any community with a population of 2,500 or m...
  
  
• URBAN DEVELOPMENT ACTION GRANT (UDAG) - A program of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (H...