Dictionary
- Bull CD, Bear CD
- A bull CD pays its holder a specified percentage of the increase in return on a specified market index while guaranteeing a minimum rate of return. A bear CD pays the holder a fraction of any fall in a given market index.
- Bull Market
- A securities market characterized thus on rising prices.
- Bullish, Bearish
- Words used to describe investor attitudes. Bullish means optimistic; bearish means pessimistic. These terms also describe the bull market and bear market.
- Bundling, Unbundling
- A trend allowing creation of securities either by combining primitive and derivative securities into one composite hybrid or by separating returns on an asset into classes.
- Business Cycle
- The recurrent rise and fall of a country's economic fortune over time. It is characterized by fluctuating employment levels, industrial productivity, and interest rates.