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Business Buzzwords: Casino Operations

1 Shares of Las Vegas Sands Corp fell after the on

Wednesday, after the casino operator said its first-quarter

profit fell: LVS.N shares were down 4 percent at $85 in

extended-hours trading

ball

bell

mark

market

2 With the Dow Jones Industrials teetering on the brink of

the 12,000 level, Team commander, Henry Paulson,

issued a buy signal; "The president's economic advisers

are keeping an eye on the markets," said a White House

spokesman, revealing that Bush got a phone briefing from

Paulson that day

Plunge

Poke

Prod

Pump

3 When volume on an exchange is so heavy that the tape

runs more than five minutes behind, the price

interrupts the delayed prices every 5-10 minutes to show

the current price of a heavily traded stock

flash

quick

spot

zip

4 The strategy places bonds only in very short and

very long maturities, making it easy to shift the average

maturity of the portfolio

bottleneck

dumbbell

hourglass

pendulum

5 refers mostly to the stocks on the All Ordinaries

index, which is composed of 280 of the most active

Australian companies

Kangaroos

Kiwis

Koalas

Kookaburras

6 Opinion can adversely affect the independence of

auditors; it is a different activity than obtaining a second

opinion, which has the objective of obtaining the right

answer, and is in fact illegal

combing

gleaning

shopping

trawling

7 The economy is coming in for a landing; optimists say it

will be the much sought after ' landing' when the

economy slows but doesn't skid into recession, but some

economists now are forecasting a bumpy landing, or even

worse

slick

smooth

soft

sweet

8 The pro forma combination of buy-recommended

ConocoPhillips (COP) and buy-recommended Burlington

Resources (BR) would create a new company with a stock

market capitalization of $100 billion thereby qualifying as

the sixth mega energy company in our coverage

bite

buy

cap

corp

9 Having a chest of $11.2 billion gives Google

freedom to make strategic acquisitions, even overpaying if

necessary, and to take a longer-term view with its

products and acquisitions, enabling it to push new

services out the door now and figure out how to make

money off them later

game

hope

treasure

war

10 are not intended for public distribution: they are

meant to be a rough introduction to the company about to

issue the new security, thus they are incomplete and not

necessarily accurate

Cheatsheets

Dope sheets

Greensheets

Rap sheets