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A period of slow economic growth and high unemployment with rising prices (inflation).
Industry:Financial services
When a company creates a special-purpose entity to arrange for a loan to purchase property, and then leases the property from the entity.The synthetic lease therefore keeps the loan off the company's balance sheet, while the company provides enough income to the special-purpose entity to cover the interest rate on the loan.
Industry:Financial services
Occurs when a portion of directors are elected periodically, instead of all at once. Board terms are often staggered in order to thwart unfriendly takeover attempts, since potential acquirers would have to wait longer before they could take control of a company's board through the normal voting procedure.
Industry:Financial services
A strategy equivalent in risk to purchasing a put option where an investor sells stock short and buys a call.
Industry:Financial services
Relationship between interest rates on bonds of different maturities, usually depicted in the form of a graph often called a yield curve. Harvey shows that inverted term structures (long rates below short rates) have preceded every recession over the past 30 years.
Industry:Financial services
Hedging against interest rate movements by investment in short-, medium-, and long-term bonds.
Industry:Financial services
An option strategy that is equivalent to the underlying stock. A long call and a short put is synthetic long stock. A long put and a short call is sythetic short stock.
Industry:Financial services
