Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• WHISPER NUMBER - A whisper number is an unofficial earnings estimate for a particular company that a st...
  
  
• WHISPER NUMBER OR FORECAST - An unofficial earnings estimate of a company given to clients by a securit...
  
  
• WHISPER STOCK - A stock rumored to be the target of a takeover bid, drawing speculators who hope to mak...
  
  
• WHISTLE BLOWER - A person who has knowledge of fraudulent activities inside a firm or government agency...
  
  
• WHISTLING PAST THE GRAVEYARD - trying to keep up one’s courage
  
  
• WHITE ELEPHANT - slang for property or a business that is so costly to maintain or operate that it is i...
  
  
• 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.