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Book value

A company's book value is its total assets minus intangible assets and liabilities, such as debt. A
company's book value might be more or less than its market value.

Bulldog market

The foreign market in the United Kingdom.

CFAT

Cash flow after taxes.

Demand deposits

Checking accounts that pay no interest and can be withdrawn upon demand.

Discount window

Facility provided by the Fed enabling member banks to borrow reserves against collateral
in the form of governments or other acceptable paper.

Dutch auction

Auction in which the lowest price necessary to sell the entire offering becomes the price at
which all securities offered are sold. This technique has been used in Treasury auctions.

Fixed-annuities

Annuity contracts in which the insurance company or issuing financial institution pays a
fixed dollar amount of money per period.

Gold exchange standard

A system of fixing exchange rates adopted in the Bretton Woods agreement. It
involved the U.S. pegging the dollar to gold and other countries pegging their currencies to the dollar.

NASDAQ

National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System. An electronic quotation
system that provides price quotations to market participants about the more actively traded common stock
issues in the OTC market. About 4,000 common stock issues are included in the NASDAQ system.

yield curve

Graph of the relationship between time to maturity and yield to maturity.

Depreciation Allowances

Tax deductions that businesses can claim when they spend money on investment goods.

Dividends

Profits paid out to shareholders by a corporation.

Potential Output or Potential GDP

Output produced when the economy is operating at its natural rate of unemployment.

Printing Money

Sale of bonds by the government to the central bank.

Term

See term to maturity.

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