Dictionary
- Beta
- A measure of the systematic risk associated with any given security in the market. A ratio of an individual's stock historical returns to the historical returns of the stock market.
- Bid
- The highest price an investor is willing to pay to buy a security.
- Bid-Asked Spread
- The difference between the bid and asked prices.
- Bid-Offer Spread
- The difference between the buy (bid) and sell (offer) price of a currency or financial instrument.
- Big Figure
- Dealer expression referring to the first few digits of an exchange rate.