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Business Buzzwords: At the Bombay Stock Exchange

1 The Bombay Stock Exchange has shifted certain stocks

to the trade-for-trade segment, where you pay Rs 25,000

to take delivery of the shares you bought and the quantity

you have sold will be presented for delivery: the reason for

the shift is that the exchange wants to curb trading

circular

reciprocal

yo-yo

zero sum

2 The Effect hypothesis states that the economic

crisis that affected several South American countries in

1995 was caused by an exogenous capital flight triggered

by the loss of confidence of foreign investors after the

collapse of the Mexican peso in December 1994

Lambada

Tequila

Tortilla

Zedillo

3 The Presidential Election Theory (PECT) of stock

prices suggests that stocks decline soon after a president

is elected when harsh and unpopular measures are

necessary to bring inflation, government spending and

deficits under control for the long-term health of the

economy

Consequence

Control

Corollary

Cycle

4 Make certain you have, or if you are an entrepreneur,

make certain your existing syndicate has, dry to see

you through hard times; this means putting no more than

25-30% of your total allocation up front, and make certain

you have reserves to meet pro rata needs

flour

powder

socks

vermouth

5 Deep-Format, who by smell could only be a Microsoft

insider, is leaking about Microsoft's botch job on the Ecma

spec; this kind of could only be from a disgruntled

employee on the Office or XML dev team

blob

boob

plop

poop

6 The multitude of mergers and acquisitions has raised

issues that need to be considered before the prospect of

an acquisition arises; one is the application of the golden

rules of Sec 280G, regarding severance payments

to be made to a corporation's top employees and directors

on a change in control

arches

booty

life jacket

parachute

7 William McCormick, chairman and chief executive of

CMS Energy Corp, said the company's use of ' ' —

trades where the same amount of electricity is exchanged

at the same price between two players — was apparently

aimed at making CMS look more powerful in wholesale

power markets than it actually was

cross-wiring

double-dealing

round-tripping

shadow-boxing

8 Asset size explains in part why funds become index

: DeGroot thinks most funds need no more than 50

stocks to be well diversified, after which they begin

behaving increasingly like an index fund

huggers

matchers

stalkers

trackers

9 Examples of leaders are the executives of Enron,

who stowed away millions of dollars until they were finally

caught

honeybee

leprechaun

squirrel

stevedore

10 Ten or more years ago was all the rage, spurred

by the theories of David Foote; among the many things we

were told by its various advocates was that aging baby

boomers would invest lots of disposable income in the

markets, driving them to dizzy heights

Babyshares

Babybaiting

Boomeranging

Boomernomics