The Dictionary of Financial Terms

      P

P&S
P/E
P/E Ratio Equation
Par value
Parallel shift in the yield curve
Parity value
Participating GIC
Passive portfolio strategy
Pass-through
Pass-through coupon rate
Payment Date
Payment-in-kind (PIK) bond
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC)
Pension plan
Pension sponsors
Perfect hedge
Performance attribution analysis
Performance evaluation
Performance measurement
Perpetual warrants
Phone Switching
Pit
Pit committee
Pivot
Plan sponsors
Plowback rate
Point
Point And Figure Chart
Policy asset allocation
Portfolio
Portfolio insurance
Portfolio internal rate of return
Portfolio management
Portfolio manager
Portfolio turnover rate
Position
Positive carry
Positive convexity
Posttrade benchmarks
Preferred habitat theory
Preferred shares
Preferred Stock
Premium
Prepayment speed
Prepayments
Prerefunded bond
Pre-trade benchmarks
Price/Book Ratio
Price/Earnings Ratio
Price/Sales Ratio
Price compression
Price discovery process
Price impact costs
Price momentum
Price risk
Price value of a basis Point (PVBP)
Price-earnings (P/E) ratio
Prices
Price persistence
Price-volume relationship
Pricing efficiency
Primary Market
Private-label pass-throughs
Probability distribution
Probability function
Profit Margin
Program trades
Program Trading
Projected benefit obligation (PBO)
Prospectus
Protective put buying strategy
Provisional call feature
Proxy
Purchasing-power risk
Pure expectations theory
Pure index fund
Put
Put Option
Put swaption
Put-call parity relationship