The Dictionary of Financial Terms

      S

Safety cushion
Safety-net return
Sales Charge
Samurai market
Savings deposits
Scalp
Search costs
SEC
Secondary Market
Securities & Exchange Commission
Securities analysts
Securitization
Security
Security deposit (initial)
Security deposit (maintenance
Sell hedge
Sell limit order
Selling Short
Sell-side analyst
Semistrong form efficiency
Serial bonds
Series
Settlement Date
Settlement Price
Settlement rate
Share Repurchase
Shareholders' equity
Shareholders' letter
Shares
Sharpe benchmark
Sharpe Index
Short
Short hedge
Short interest
Short Position
Short Sale
Short selling
Short squeeze
Short straddle
Shortfall risk
Short-term solvency ratios
SIC
Simple linear regression
Simple linear trend model
Simple moving average
Single-index model
Single-premium deferred annuity
Sinking fund requirement
Slippage
Small-firm effect
Specialist
Speculator
Speed
Spinoff
Split
Spot markets
Spot month
Spot price
Spot rate
Spot rate curve
Spread
Spread income
Spread strategy
Standard deviation
Standardized value
Stated conversion price
Statutory surplus
Steepening of the yield curve
Step-up bond
Stochastic models
Stock
Stock Dividend
Stock exchanges
Stockholder Equity
Stock index option
Stock market
Stock option
Stock replacement strategy
Stock ticker
Stop (-Loss) Order
Stop order (or stop)
Stop-limit order
Straddle
Straight value
Stratified equity indexing
Stratified sampling approach to indexing
Stratified sampling bond indexing
Strike index
Strike Price
Strong form efficiency
Structured portfolio strategy
Structured settlement
Subject to opinion
Subordinated debenture bond
Subperiod return
Substitution swap
Surplus management
Swap assignment
Swap buy-back
Swap option
Swap reversal
Swap sale
Swaptions
Switching
Synchronous data
Systematic risk