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An expense that a taxpayer is allowed to deduct from taxable income.
Industry:Financial services
Payments from a government to its citizens, such as welfare and other government benefits.
Industry:Financial services
Used in the context of general equities. Process by which the exercise of stop orders in a declining or advancing market causes further downward or upward pressure on prices, thus triggering more stop orders and more price pressure, and so on.
Industry:Financial services
Often used in risk arbitrage. Piece of equity security left over from a major cash or security distribution from a recapitalization.
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In non-linear dynamics, an attractor where all orbits in phase space are drawn to one point, or value. Essentially, any system which tends to a stable, single valued equilibrium will have a point attractor. A pendulum which is damped by friction will always stop, so its phase space will always be drawn to the point where velocity and position are equal to zero. See: Attractor, Phase Space.
Industry:Financial services
A limited partnership with an unlimited number of partners that is registered with the SEC and is available for public trading by broker/dealers.
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Dividends, interest, and unrealized capital gains on investments in an account such as a qualified retirement plan, where income is not subject to taxation until a withdrawal is made.
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The price at which one unit of a firm sells goods or services to another unit of the same firm.
Industry:Financial services
Investment of certain proportions of a portfolio in certain sectors. See: Industry allocation.
Industry:Financial services
