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Business English Lesson – Advanced Level's archive

Business Buzzwords: High Valuation

1 High valuation means a bigger potential price fall for a

stock

bungee

parachute

submarine

torpedo

2 The leader is a pricing strategy which involves

selling products/services at a price that will generate little

or no profit and in some cases not even cover all

associated costs (marketing, overheads, direct costs, etc)

bargain

discount

loss

sale

3 Comes Off Starbucks: Shares in Starbucks fell to

their lowest level since late 2005 as investor concerns

about slower sales and profit growth continued to chip

away at the once highflying stock

Fizz

Fluff

Foam

Froth

4 Not all these houses are ugly and shoddy: though most

are badly proportioned pastiches of different styles, some

are built with attention to detail and materials, but, as the

epithet suggests, they're just too big-for their lots, for

their neighborhoods and for the number of people who

actually live in them

Gargantuan

Humonghouse

Lilliputian

McMansion

5 American bankers for decades operated by the

rule; they could afford to be that precise because federal

and state laws set the strict rules by which they operated

and protected them from competitors, and the power and

prestige of bankers remained as secure as their vaults,

while profits were steady and certain

2+2

3-6-3

9/11

24-7

6 Going public with a bear is a great strategy for

acquiring a target whose management isn't inclined to sell;

it forces a corporate board to consider any reasonable bid

because directors have a responsibility to provide

shareholders with the best financial returns

flattener

hug

spread

trap

7 The good and bad of : Tax refunds may be

welcome to most taxpayers, but technically speaking, it's

not wise to give the government interest-free loans

indemnification

intaxification

intensification

investigation

8 On the negative side, the market is a stone's throw from

refreshing the overvalued, overbought, overbullish,

yields-rising condition we've dubbed ' '

boyoboy

oabooby

onobobby

ovoboby

9 Life expectancy for men aged 60 is more than five

years' longer in 2005 than it was anticipated to be in

mortality projections made in the 1980s, and this problem

threatens the solvency of the life and pensions industries;

the amounts exposed to risk in the UK pensions

industry alone are estimated to be 2,520 billion

liveability

longevity

senility

seniority

10 We have taken a direct sentiment measure, i.e.,

market sentiment index constucted by 'Investors

Intelligence': each week weekly newsletter opinions on the

future market movements are grouped, and we use the

ratio as a proxy of sentiment

bull-bear

buy-sell

gain-loss

hawk-dove