Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• WHITE KNIGHT - A firm that comes to the rescue of a corporation that is being taken over. Enters the fr...
  
  
• WHITE NOISE - The audio equivalent of Brownian motion. Sounds that are unrelated and sound like a hiss....
  
  
• WHITE PAPER - 1. in a technological industry, is an informational brief offering an overview of a techn...
  
  
• WHITE SHEETS - Lists of prices published by the National Quotation Bureau for Market Makers.
  
  
• WHITE SQUIRE - White knight who buys less than a majority interest.
  
  
• WHITE'S RATING - A rating of municipal securities, that uses market factors rather than credit consider...
  
  
• WHITE-SHOE FIRM - Broker-dealer firms that disdain practices such as hostile takeovers.
  
  
• WHITEMAIL - Sale of a large amount of stock by a company that is the target of a takeover bid to a frie...
  
  
• WHOLE LIFE INSURANCE - Whole life insurance, sometimes called straight life, is the most widely purchas...
  
  
• WHOLE LOAN - a mortgage loan sold in its entirety. When a whole loan is sold by the original lender to ...