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Business buzzwords: Listed for destruction

1 With the approval of the SEC, the DTCC will be taking

the first steps of a multi-year initiative to eliminate

non-transferable certificates and help lower expenses for

holding such certificates in custody; once an issue is listed

for destruction, DTC said it would all activity on that

issue

cease

chill

freeze

gel

2 stripping is a type of predatory lending brought on

by the housing boom: as housing prices and property

taxes skyrocket, many homeowners are forced into

default; the stripper, in one way or another, satisfies the

loan and usually takes the title

Equity

Mortgage

Property

Wallet

3 The Minister of Finance pays the Royal Canadian Mint

to produce and distribute all coins; it costs the Mint about

12 cents to produce and distribute a dollar coin, which

generates for the government approximately 88 cents in

on each $1 coin sold to financial institutions at face

value

emoluments

numismatics

remuneration

seigniorage

4 Reminiscent of the 'Asian ' triggered by Thailand

in 1997, which became a full-blown financial crisis, other

Asian stock indices reacted to the Thai news with sharp

falls on Tuesday: the Bombay Stock Exchange's Sensitive

Index dropped 2.5% and Indonesia's Jakarta Composite

Index lost 2.9%

contagion

domino

epidemic

plague

5 Yoshiaki Murakami flouted convention once again by

launching a hostile takeover bid against Shoei Co., a

little-known electronics and real estate company; this

Knight, who heads his own M&A consulting firm, MAC

Corp., lambasted Shoei's managers for the company's

sluggish stock price

Black

Grey

White

Yellow

6 These organizations may award capital for

especially promising projects that meet their guidelines:

this money can be used for initial investment in a project

or startup company, for proof-of-concept, market research

or initial product development

birth

egg

growth

seed

7 For a company, being ' ' means that it is of high

enough quality to have the respect of the financial district;

although individuals are the ones who come to eventually

own companies, a company must first impress the

investment bankers and those on Wall Street to make it to

the market

marketable

stockable

streetable

wallable

8 A is a situation in which two events or actions

have the effect of nullifying each other; in terms of

investment, this could be when the gains in a portfolio

equal the losses

deadend

stalemate

tie

wash

9 companies build and sell or lease commercial

real-estate, software, or applications for wide-scale

commercial use; they are also referred to as

business-to-business (B2B) companies

Biz-con

Com-dev

Con-biz

Dev-com

10 Joe invests in XYZ Corp because the stock is

undervalued; it doubles in price in two months, but Joe

holds on to the whole investment, hoping it will double

again in the next two months, instead of selling a portion

to realize a gain — Joe is a investor because he is

greedy for huge gains and allows his greed to supersede

his original investment strategy

bullish

piggish

sheepish

swinish