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Abbrev. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
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(1908 - )leading US political economist. His major works include The Great Crash 1929, The ...
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A measure of the rate of change in delta in response to changes in the price of the underlying ...
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A hedge taken by initiating option positions to reduce the risk of change to an options portfolio's ...
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Having offsetting positive and negative gammas to reduce the variations in a portfolio's delta ...
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Taking advantage of a time difference. An example is borrowing short to lend long because ...
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To attach someone's money or property to someone else by order of a court (garnishment). If ...
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Abbrev. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
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A word that came into vogue with a buoyant real estate market, lending a new term to an ancient ...
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Abbrev. gross domestic product.
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See also: margin trading.
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The relationship between a company's shareholders' funds and some form of outside borrowing. ...
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An organisation established in 1949 under the terms of an international agreement. Its secretariat ...
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A description of the relationships among all the entities in an economy - consumers, producers ...
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Accounting rules recognised worldwide - although there are variations between countries in ...
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A conference held in 1947 which resulted in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the ...
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A yen repurchase agreement based on Japanese securities. The rates on gensaki agreements are ...
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(1872 - 1951)probably Australia's most original economist, Giblin achieved a place in the ...
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Of the highest quality. The term was applied in the nineteenth century to government securities ...
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Initially used as shorthand for UK government securities, especially the longer maturities, ...
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A US security issued by the Government National Mortgage Association, an agency of the US ...
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The discount a seller has to give to sell a security such as a bond. For example, a buyer ...
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The trendies of the market. They are stocks which are perceived to have growth potential, ...
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US legislation passed in 1933 to tighten banking practices in the wake of the Great Depression ...
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A development of the note issuance facility (NIF) which combines the ability to issue euronotes ...
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Business jargon for 'worldwide'. A business which has become globalised operates internationally.
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An international, round-the-clock, electronic futures and options trading system started in ...
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Abbrev. Government National Mortgage Association. See also: Ginnie Mae.
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Loans taken out in Swiss francs. These were popular with many Australian and New Zealand borrowers ...
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Abbrev. gross national product.
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A business which is operational and viable.
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Changing the status of a private company by offering shares to the general public, often to ...
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A measure of a company's worth, based on the assumption that the business will continue to ...
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The daily setting of the gold price in London, at 10.30am and 3pm, by five representatives ...
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See also: futures markets, Sydney Futures Exchange.
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Popular in the 1980s, gold loans enabled gold-mining companies to raise working capital by ...
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What official bodies such as Australia's Reserve Bank hold as part of their total gold and ...
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An international monetary system in which, theoretically, the values of different currencies ...
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Typically issued by gold mining companies and bought by investors who want a longer-term investment ...
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A note whose interest payment is linked to the gold price.
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A form of collusive dealing in a market such as foreign exchange, by which traders successfully ...
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Handsome remuneration made on the provision that the employee will stay with the company. ...
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A substantial gift made by a company to an employee (often of long standing) to compensate ...
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A generous upfront payment made by a company to an incoming employee. Similar to a signing-on ...
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Termination or retirement benefits provided for top executives as a reward for the responsibilities ...
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A gold bar which meets the requirements of the London Bullion Markets Association. Its gold ...
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An instruction to a share or futures broker that an order is to remain valid until the client ...
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Anything - tangible and intangible - which makes a contribution to economic wellbeing. It ...
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An indirect tax, levied as a percentage added to the prices charged for most goods and services. ...
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The value attaching to the reputation of a company, individual or product; the intangible ...
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Abbrev. GNMA. See also: Ginnie Mae.
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See also: paper.
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An agreement that situations already in existence when new legislation comes into effect are ...
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See also: indexed bond.
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A seller (in the context of option trading). See also: option.
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See also: depression.
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A colloquialism for the US dollar, derived from the colour of the ink used to print the currency. ...
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A form of corporate extortion. In Australia, the term is most often used where a small investor ...
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The principle that 'bad money drives out good'. Gresham's law held that if two coins are in ...
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Whole or total, before any deductions or offsets have been made; opposite of 'net'. See ...
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A measurement of the flow of goods and services produced in an economy in a given period, ...
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The interest on an investment before tax is deducted.
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GDP plus any income earned by residents from their investments overseas, minus any income ...
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The surplus in a business entity's accounts before deductions for tax, interest, dividends ...
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The percentage return on an investment before tax is deducted.
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See also: consolidated accounts.
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An association of accounting and finance executives representing major Australian public companies ...
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A group of finance ministers from 24 developing country members of the International Monetary ...
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Originally established to promote the views of 77 developing countries on international trade ...
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The informal name given to meetings of the finance ministers of the US, Germany, the UK, Japan ...
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A grouping of industrialised countries comprising the Group of Five plus Canada and Italy. ...
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The ten major capitalist country members of the International Monetary Fund, plus Switzerland. ...
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A private, independent, Washington-based international organisation whose charter is to raise ...
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An environment in which economic activity increases but at a rate too low to reverse rising ...
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A share in a company which is expected to increase in capital value rather than provide an ...
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A global RUF. A GRUF usually involves other borrowing options, such as US commercial paper, ...
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Abbrev. goods and services tax.
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Abbrev. good till cancelled.
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A statement (contract) to perform an obligation or discharge a liability of another person ...
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One who makes a guarantee or agrees to be answerable or responsible for another's debt. Legally, ...
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