buzzwords are used in the world of finance. In general terms, a buzzword is a word or a phrase used in a
particular field like finance or information technology (and for almost all the fields of human activities
like management, administration, technology and so on), and the user uses the buzzword to give a stylish
and trendy tinge to that particular word or phrase and the meaning conveyed through that word or phrase.
The purpose to use a buzzword may be varied: from impressing the laypersons to convey a meaning in an
indirect or subtle way. A buzzword is different from a jargon – a jargon carries a well defined meaning
whereas a buzzword has no such defined meaning, rather it may be used sometimes with cloudy and
indicative meanings.
Over a period of time, in the world of finance, personal as well as corporate, many buzzwords have come
into vogue. A list of buzzwords, widely as well as rarely used, is appended below in a separate section.
You are welcome to update the list and add buzzwords about which you may have read or heard
somewhere. Some interesting buzzwords used in financial sector are given below with brief comments
words to indicate their meanings and the contexts in which they are used.
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A Ton Of Money
Accounting Noise
Across The Board
Active Box
Affluenza
After The Bell
Air Pocket Stock
Alligator Property
Alligator Spread
Angel Bond
Ankle Biter
Anonymous Trading
Antitrust
Arbitrageur
Aspirin Count Theory
Assimilation
Asymmetric Information
Automatic Stabilizer
Away from the Market
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Baby Bells
Baby Bills
Back Up the Truck
Baptism of Fire
Barriers To Entry
Big Board
Big Uglies
Black Friday
Black Knight
Black Market
Black Swan
Blitzkrieg Tender Offer
Bo Derek
Boomerang
Boomernomics
Boon
Booster Shot
Boston Snow Indicator
Bottom Fisher
Bottom Line
Bottom-Up Investing
Bracket Creep
BRIC or Brazil, Russia, India And China
Bubble
Buck
Buck the Trend
Bucket Shop
Bucketing
Bulge
Bulge Bracket
Bull
Bull Market
Bullpen
Bunching
Burn Rate
Busted Convertible Security
Buy Side
Buydown
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Camouflage Compensation
Capitulation
Carbon Trade
Cardboard Box Index
Cash Cow
Casino Finance
Catalyst
Cats and Dogs
Chameleon Option
Channel Stuffing
Chasing Nickels Around Dollar Bills
Chasing the Market
Chastity Bond
Cherry Picking
Chill
Chinese Wall
Christmas Tree
Churning
Circuit Breaker
Circular Trading
Clientele Effect
Clinton Bond
Closing Price
CNN Effect
Cockroach Theory
Coiled Market
Contagion
Control Stock
Cook The Books
Cookie Jar Accounting
Core Holding
Corner
Corner A Market
Corporate Cannibalism
Corporate Kleptocracy
Coverage Initiated
Cowboy Marketing
Crack
Crack Spread
Crash
Creation Unit
Creative Destruction
Credit Crunch
Critical Mass
Crossover Investor
Crown Jewels
Curb Trading
Cutoff Point
Cutting a Melon
Cyber Monday
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Dalal Street
Dead Cat Bounce
Death Spiral
Deceased Alert
Deer Market
Dialing and Smiling
Diamonds
Dirty Float
Disgorgement
Diworsification
Dog
Dog And Pony Show
Dog Eat Dog
Dogs Of The Dow
Doing the Reverse Desk
Dollar Roll
Doomsday Call
Dotcom
Double Barreled
Double Dip Recession
Double Dipping
Double Witching
Dove
Downside
Downstream
Dragon Bond
Drill-Bit Stock
Drip Feed
Dry Powder
DEWKS or Dually Employed With Kids
Dummy Shareholder
Dutch Auction
Dwarf
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Eat Your Own Dog Food
Echo Bubble
eCommerce or Electronic Commerce
Elephants
Elevator Pitch
Elves
Empire Building
Enron
Evergreen Funding
Exit Strategy
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Fair Funds for Investors
Fallen Angel
Falling Knife
Fast Market
Fast Market Rule
Fat Cat
Fighting the Tape
Financial Blog
Financial Porn
Fire Sale
FISH or First In, Still Here
First Mover
Flash Price
Flat On A Failure
Flight To Quality
Fool's Gold
Footsie
Forensic Accounting
Fortune 500
Foul Weather Fund
Found Money
Friendly Hands
Friends and Family Shares
Front Running
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Garbatrage
Gazelle Company
Gazump
Gazunder
General Motors (GM) Indicator
Ghosting
Godfather Offer
Going Concern
Going Public
Going-Concern Value
Gold Bug
Goldbrick Shares
Golden Handcuffs
Golden Hello
Golden Life Jacket
Golden Parachute
Golden Share
Goldilocks Economy
Good Faith Money
Gorilla
Graveyard Market
Gray Knight
Greenback
Greensheet
Greenspan Put
Grey Market
Gridlock
Grinder
Gun Jumping
Gunslinger
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Hammering
Handle
HDD or Heating Degree Day
Herd Instinct
High Close
Hit The Bid
Hockey Stick Bidding
Hot Money
Hounding Analysts
Housing Starts
Hurdle Rate
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Iceberg Order
IMCL or ImClone
Impression
In And Out
In the Penalty Box
In the Pink
Index Hugger
Industry Bet
Infant-Industry Theory
Inflection Point
Invest, Then Investigate
Investment Climate
IOU
iShares
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January Barometer
January Effect
Japan Inc.
Jekyll and Hyde
Jennifer Lopez or J.Lo
Jitney
Joseph Effect
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Kangaroos
Keiretsu
Kickback
Kicker
Kicking the Tires
KIPPERS or Kids In Parents' Pockets Eroding Retirement Savings
Killer Application
Killer Bees
Kiting
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LGAP or Lady Godiva Accounting Principles
Lady Macbeth Strategy
Lame Duck
Late-Day Trading
Leading Lipstick Indicator
Leakage
Legacy Costs
Legislative Overkill
Lemming
Lemon
Leprechaun Leader
Let Your Profits Run
Letter Security
Load
Loan Sharking
Lobster Trap
Locked Market
Long Jelly Roll
Losing Your Shirt
Love Money
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Macaroni Defense
Mad Hatter
Main Street
Managed Money
Manipulation
Margin Pressure
Market Cannibalization
Market Jitters
Market Overhang
Marlboro Friday
Marquee Asset
Material Insider Information
Mega Cap
Mid Cap
Mine and Yours
Minus Tick
Mom and Pop
Momo Play
Monday Effect
Money Laundering
Moral Suasion
Most Active
Mothballing
Mr. Copper
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Nervous Nellie
Net Debt Per Capita
Net Revenue Pledge
Netback
Netscaped
New Economy
New Paradigm
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October Effect
Offering Price
Offshore
Oil Sands
On Stream
One Night Stand Investment
One-Stop Shop
Opening Price
Opinion Shopping
Order Book Official
Ostrich
Outperform
Over-The-Counter Market
Overstay
Overvalued
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Painting the Tape
Panic Buying
Panic Selling
Paper Millionaire
Paper Profit, and also Paper Loss
Parking
Parking Violation
Partial Redemption
Pay Yourself First
Perp Walk
Phishing
Pig
Pit
Ponzi Scheme
Poop
Pork Chop
Portfolio Turnover
Pot
Pot Is Clean
Power Ratio
Preliminary Prospectus
Presidential Election Cycle (Theory)
Price Transparency
Pricing Power
Problem Child
Profit Taking
Public Offering
Puke
Pump And Dump
Punter
Pure Play
Pyramid Scheme
Pyrrhic Victory
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Quadrix
Quadruple Witching
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Raider
Rainmaker
Ramp Up
Razor or Razorblade Model
Reaganomics
Red
Red Chip
Redlining
Related-Party Transaction
Restructuring
RevPAR
Riding the Yield Curve
Ring Fence
Risk Averse
Risk Capital
Risk Management
Risk-Free Return
Road Show
Robber Barons
Rocket Scientist
Rollercoaster Swap
Round-Trip Trading
Rubber Check
Rule Of 18
Rule Of 72
Rumortrage
Rump
Runoff
Rust Bowl
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S&P Phenomenon
Safe Harbor
Salad Oil Scandal
Same-Day Substitution
Sandwich Generation
Santa Claus Rally
Saturday Night Special
Scalping
Scorched Earth Policy
Scripophily
Securitize
Seed Capital
Shakeout
Shark Watcher
Sheep
Shingle Theory
Shock Absorber
Short And Distort
Short Squeeze
Shotgun Clause
Shrinkage
Sideways Market
Signaling Approach
Silicon Valley
Siliconaires
Silver Parachute
Sinful Stock
Skirt Length Theory
Sleeping Beauty
Slippage
Sluggish Economy
Slush Fund
Smoking Gun
Soccer Mom Indicator
Social Responsibility
SOES Bandits
Soft Dollars
Soft Landing
Soft Money
Soft Patch
Spark Spread
Speculative Bubble
SPDRs or Spiders
Spike
Squawk Box
Squeeze
Stalking-Horse Bid
Stalwart
Stem The Tide
Sterile Investment
Stock Basher
Stock Idea
Stock Jobbing
Stop Hunting
Stopped Order
Stopped Out
Story Stock
STP or Straight Through Processing
Streetable
Stripper
Strong Hands
Style Drift
Suicide Pill
Sunrise Industry
Sunshine Laws
Super Bowl Indicator
Supernormal Growth Stock
Survivorship Bias
Sushi Bond
Sushi Roll
Sweat Equity
Sweetener
Sweetheart Deal
Swing Trading
Swissie
Synergy
Synthetic
Synthetic Lease
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Take A Bath
Take A Flier
Taking the Street
Tape Is Late
Teaser
Tech Street
Ted Spread
Telephone Booth
Tenbagger
Tequila Effect
The Wealth Effect
Ticker Tape
Tip from a Dip
Tombstone
Top Line
Topple Rate
Toxic Waste
Trading Below Cash
Trading Curb
Trading Dollars
Triangular Arbitrage
Trilateral Commission
Turkey
Two Dollar Broker
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Unsubscribed
Upstairs Trade
Upstream
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Value Proposition
Venture Capitalist
Visibility
Voodoo Accounting
Voodoo Economics
Vulture Capitalist
Vulture Fund
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Wall Street
Wallflower
Wallpaper
War Babies
War Chest
Warren Buffett
Wash
Wash Trading
Weak Hands
Weak Sister
Whistle Blower
White Elephant
White Knight
White Squire
White-Shoe Firm
Whoops
Widow-and-Orphan Stock
Wild Card Option
Wild Card Play
Wildcatting
Windfall Shares
Winding Up
Window Dressing
Winner's Curse
Woody
WorldCom
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Yard
Yellow Knight
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Zombies
ZZZZ Best
See also
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