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clause, the best indication of value has been given — an insider has declared his price, and we're ready to respond quickly: we can close transactions in less than 5 days of first making

English Language Tests-Intermediate level's archive

Business buzzwords: The best valuator

1 We believe that owner/managers are the best valuators

of their business, so when one is willing to trigger a

clause, the best indication of value has been given — an

insider has declared his price, and we're ready to respond

quickly: we can close transactions in less than 5 days of

first making contact

beartrap

buyout

shotgun

suicide

2 Moral is the risk that the presence of a contract

will affect on the behavior of one or more parties; the

classic example is in the insurance industry, where

coverage against a loss might increase the risk-taking

behavior of the insured

endangerment

hazard

jeopardy

peril

3 Processing (STP), a solution that automates the

end-to-end processing of transactions for all financial

instruments from initiation to resolution, is set to

revolutionize the financial industry; it will streamline back

office activities, leading to reduced failures, lower risks,

and significantly lower costs per transaction

Safe Tape

Short Transfer

Single Time

Straight Through

4 To complain about abusive callers, write down

the name of the caller, the name of the firm, the date and

time of the call or calls, what the caller said to you, and

what you said to the caller; you can send your complaint to

either the SEC or your state's securities regulator

cold

crank

joke

junk

5 A market dominated by program trading offers lots of

sharp, short-term volatility but not much in the way of

long-term direction, and the short is well-suited to this

kind of volatility, resting as it does on reading the bets that

short sellers are making that specific stocks will fall and

then buying the very stocks that the shorts are selling

squeak

squeeze

squelch

squint

6 The two greatest traders that ever lived, Bertram J

Seligman and Jesse Livermore, taught that a successful

manipulation must always be in the direction that the

market wants to take; any other manipulation not only

fails, but will also create a market that goes further

in the direction of its intention than it would have gone in

the first place

coiled

rebound

sprung

wound

7 When a market order arrives, the NYSE specialist can

offer a price one tick better than the limit orders on the

book and trade for his own account; alternatively, the

specialist can ' ' the market order, which means he

guarantees execution at the current quote but provides the

possibility of price improvement

mark

match

stall

stop

8 Commodity markets are beginning to show early signs

of inflationary trends: the Producer Price Index for October

showed the largest gain in 22 months, and in addition to

the in producer prices, the Commodity Research

Bureau Index (CRB) has surged 11% since July

balloon

bloat

bubble

bulge

9 Prudential's new chief executive Mark Tucker is to

receive a hello of almost 500,000; Tucker, who was

poached from his position as finance director at retail bank

HBOS earlier this year, will be paid a special guaranteed

bonus of 475,000, which the Prudential declared is a

'one-off'

golden

hearty

hefty

mellow

10 The three traders were accused of the long-forbidden

practice of ' ', where a broker takes a customer's

order to buy or sell soybeans or other commodities but,

instead of making the transaction on the open market, the

trader arranges a private rigged deal that can bring him an

illegal profit

backstabbing

barricading

browbeating

bucketing