The Dictionary of Financial Terms

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Back Office
Back-end loan fund
Backwardation
Balanced fund
Balanced mutual fund
Balloon maturity
Bank discount basis
Banker's Acceptance
Barbell strategy
BARRA's performance analysis (PERFAN) factor model
Base interest rate
Base probability of loss
Basis
Basis point
Basis risk
Basket trades
Bear
Bear Market
Bear Raid
Before-tax profit margin
Bellwether issues
Benchmark
Benchmark interest rate
Benchmark issues
Beta (Mutual Funds)
Beta Equation (Mutual Funds)
Beta Equation (Stocks)
Biased expectations theories
Bid
Big Board
Black-Scholes option-pricing model
Block trade
Blow-Off Top
Bond
Bond indenture
Bond indexing
Bond-equivalent basis
Bond-equivalent yield
BONDPAR
Book value
Book value per share
Bootstrapping
Bottom-up equity management style
Break
Break-even time
Breakout
Broker
Broker loan rate
Bull
Bull Market
Bull Spread
Bulldog market
Bullet contract
Bullet strategy
Business risk
Busted convertible
Butterfly shift
Buy in
Buy limit order
Buy on close
Buy on margin
Buy on opening
Buy-and-hold strategy
Buyout
Buy-side analyst