A Glossary Of Common Words "Financial English"

Big Macs, big/large-cap stock, mega-issue large cap stocks

Offering, list listing

Bourse Stock Exchange

Corporate champion leading enterprises

Shanghai Exchange Shanghai Stock Exchange

Pension fund pension fund

Mutual fund mutual fund

Hedge mutual fund hedge mutual fund

Share stock

Valuation share price

Underwriter underwriters

Government bond government bonds

Saving account savings account

Equity market stock market

Shareholder shareholders

Delist delisting

Mongey-loser loss making enterprises

Inventory inventory

Traded company, trading enterprise listed company

Stakeholder stakeholders

Transparency pparency

Market fundamentalist basic rules of market economy

Damage-contral machinery security advisor

Efficient market effective market

Intellectual property intellectual property rights

Opportunistic practice speculation

Entrepreneur entrepreneurs

Cook the book making false accounts

Regulatory system regulatory system

Portfolio portfolio

Money-market short term capital market

Capital-market long term capital market

Volatility fluctuation

Diversification diversification

Real estate real estate

Option options

Call option call option

Put option put option

Merger mergers and acquisitions

Arbitrage arbitrage

Securities and Exchange Commission, securities and Exchange Commission

Dollar standard dollar standard system

Budget budget

Deficit deficit

Bad debt bad debts

Macroeconomic macro economy

Fiscal stimulus fiscal stimulus

A store of value value preservation

Transaction currency settlement currency

Forward exchange futures trading

Intervention currency intervening currency

Treasury bond treasury bonds

Current-account current account

Pickup in rice rising prices

Federal Reserve Federal Reserve

Inflation inflation

Deflation deflation

Tighter credit tightening credit

Monetary policy monetary policy

Foreigh exchange foreign exchange

Spot paction spot trading

Forward paction forward trading

Option forward paction selective Trading

Swap paction swap paction

Quote quote

Settlment and delivery delivery

Buying rate buying price

Selling rate selling price

Spread amplitude difference

Contract contract

At par parity

Premium premium

Discount premium

Direct quoation method direct quotation method

Indirect quoation method indirect quotation method

Dividend dividend

Domestic currency currency

Floating rate floating rate

Parent company parent company

Credit swap reciprocal loan

Venture capital venture capital

Book value book value

Physical capital real capital

IPO (initial public offering) initial public offering; initial public offering

Job machine job market

Welfare capitalism Welfare Capitalism

Collective market cap Market Capitalization

Golbal Corporation Multinational Corporation

Transnational status pnational advantage

Transfer price pfer price

Consolidation merger

Leverage lever

Federal Reserve Federal Reserve

Financial turmoil/meltdown financial crisis

File for bankruptcy filed for bankruptcy

Bailout rescue

Take over acquisition

Buy out purchase of property or goods of (a person)

Go under bankruptcy

Take a nosedive (stock market) plunged

Tumble down

Falter crumbling

On the hook is caught.

Shore up confidence boosted market confidence

Stave off get out of the way, avoid it.

Liquidate assets asset liquidation

At fire sale prices super low price

The fall in sell-off securities