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Financial Terms Beginning with: S   Jump to:   sa  sc   se   sh   si   so   st   su

S
S Corporation
S&P
S&P 500 Composite Index
S&P Phenomenon
S&P Rating
SA
Safe Harbor
Safe Harbor Lease
Safe Harbor Rule
Safekeep
Safety Cushion
Safety-Net Return
SAIF
Salary
Salary Freeze
Salary Reduction Plan
Salary Reduction Simplified Employee Pension Plan (SARSEP)
Sale
Sale And Lease-Back
Sales/Receivables (Receivables Turnover)
Sales Charge
Sales Contract
Sales Forecast
Sales Invoice
Sales Literature
Sales Load
Sales Multiple
Sales Order
Sales Proceeds
Sales Tax
Sales-Type Lease
Sallie Mae
Salomon Brothers Non-U.S. Dollar World Government Bond Index
Salomon Brothers World Equity Index (SBWEI)
Salvage Value
Same Store Sales
Same-Day Funds Settlement (SDFS)
Same-Day Substitution
Samurai Bond
Samurai Market
Santa Claus Rally
Sao Paulo Stock Exchange
SAP
SAR
Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002
Saturday Night Special
Saucer
Savings And Loan Association
Savings Association Insurance Fund (SAIF)
Savings Bank
Savings Bond
Savings Deposits
Savings Element
Savings Incentive Match Plan For Employees (SIMPLE) 401(k)Plan
Savings Rate
SB
SBD
SBIC
SC
Scale
Scale in
Scale Order
Scale-Enhancing
Scaling
Scalp
Scalping
Scattered
Scenario Analysis
Scenario Analysis
Schedule
Schedule 13d
Schedule C
Scheduled Cash Flows
Scienter Theory
Scorched-Earth Policy
SCORE
SCR
Screen Stocks
Scrip
Scripophily
SD
SDCF
SDD
SDR
SE
SEAQ
Search Costs
Seasonally Adjusted
Seasoned
Seasoned Datings
Seasoned Issue
Seasoned New Issue
Seat
SEC
SEC Fee
Secret Ballot
Second Market
Second Mortgage Lending
Second Pass Regression
Second Round
Secondary Distribution/Offering
Secondary Issue
Secondary Market
Secondary Mortgage Market
Secondary Offering
Secondary Stocks
Second-Preferred Stock
Second-To-Die Insurance
Section 16(A)
Section 16(B)
Section 423
Section 482
Section 83(B) Election
Sector
Sector Allocation
Sector Diversification
Sector Fund
Sector Rotation
Secular
Secured
Secured Bond
Secured Debt
Secured Liability
Securities
Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
Securities Act of 1933
Securities Acts Amendments of 1975
Securities Analysts
Securities And Commodities Exchanges
Securities And Exchange Commission Rules
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Securities Exchange of Thailand (SET)
Securities Fraud
Securities Industry Association (SIA)
Securities Industry Committee on Arbitration (SICA)
Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC)
Securities Loan
Securities Markets
Securitization
Securitization
Security
Security Characteristic Line
Security Deposit (Initial)
Security Deposit (Maintenance)
Security Industry Automated Corporation (SIAC)
Security Interest
Security Market Line
Security Market Plane
Security Ratings
Security Selection
Security Selection Decision
SED
Seed Money
Seek a Market
Segment Revenue
Segmented Market
Segregated Fund
Segregation of Securities
SEHK
Seigniorage
SEK
Select Ten Portfolio
Selected Dealer Agreement
Selective Hedging
Self Tender
Self-Amortizing Mortgage
Self-Contruct Assets
Self-Directed Ira
Self-Employed Income
Self-Employment Tax
Self-Liquidating Loan
Self-Regulatory Organization (SRO)
Self-Selection
Self-Similar
Self-Supporting Debt
Self-Tender Offer
Sell Hedge
Sell Limit Order
Sell Off
Sell Order
Sell Out
Sell Plus Order
Sell Price
Sell the Book
Seller Financing
Seller's Market
Seller's Option
Seller's Points
Selling Climax
Selling Concession
Selling Dividends
Selling Group
Selling On the Good News
Selling Short
Selling Short Against the Box
Selling Syndicate
Selling the Spread
Selling, General, And Administrative (SG&A) Expenses
Sell-Side Analyst
Semistrong-Form Efficiency
Semivarialble Cost
Send It In
Senior Debt
Senior Debt/Note
Senior Mortgage Bond
Senior Refunding
Senior Security
Seniority
Sensex
Sensitive Assets
Sensitive Liabilities
Sensitive Market
Sensitivity Analysis
Sentiment Indicators
Separate Customer
Separate Tax Returns
Separate Trading of Registered Interest And Principal Securities (STRIPS)
Separation Property
Separation Theorem
Serial Bond
Serial Bonds
Serial Covariance
Serial Entrepreneur
Serial Redemption
Series
Series Bond
Series E Bond
Series EE Bond
Series HH Bond
Service Business
Service Charge
Service Charge Accounting
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Set of Contracts Perspective
Set Up
Set-Aside
Setoff
Settle Price
Settlement
Settlement Date
Settlement Options
Settlement Price
Settlement Rate
Settlement Risk
Setup Cost
Severally But Not Jointly
Severance
Severance Tax
SG
SG&A
SGD
SGD
SH
Shadow Calendar
Shadow Stock
Shadows
Shakeout
Sham
Shanghai Stock Exchange
Share
Share Application Money
Share Broker
Share Buy-Back
Share Capital
Share Premium
Share Repurchase
Shared Appreciation Mortgage (SAM)
Shareholder
Shareholder of Record
Shareholder's Equity
Shareholders' Equity
Shareholders Fund
Shareholders' Letter
Shares
Shares Authorized
Shark Repellant
Shark Watcher
Sharpe Benchmark
Sharpe Ratio
Shelf Offering
Shelf Registration
Shell Corporation
Shenzhen Stock Exchange
Ship In Place
Shipper's Export Declaration (SED)
Shipping Documents
Shipping Notice
Shirking
Shock Absorbers
Shogun Bond
Shootout
Shop

 Shopped Stock
Shopping
Short
Short Against the Box
Short Bias
Short Bonds
Short Book
Short Coupon
Short Covering
Short Exempt
Short Hedge
Short Interest
Short Interest Theory
Short Position
Short Ratio (Or Short Interest Ratio)
Short Sale
Short Selling
Short Settlement
Short Squeeze
Short Straddle
Short Tender
Short Term Asset
Short Term Liability
Shortage Cost
Shortfall Risk
Short-Form Registration
Short-Run Operating Activities
Short-Sale Rule
Short-Short Test
Short-Term
Short-Term Bond Fund
Short-Term Capital Gain
Short-Term Debt
Short-Term Financial Plan
Short-Term Gain (or Loss)
Short-Term Interest Rates
Short-Term Investment Services
Short-Term Reserves
Short-Term Solvency Ratios
Short-Term Tax Exempts
Short-Term Trend
Show And Tell List
Show Me Buyer/Seller
Show Stopper
SHP
Shrinkage
Shrinkage
Shut Out the Book
SI
SIAC
SIC
Sic (Standard Industrial Classification)
Side Effects
Side-By-Side Trading
Sidelines
Sideways Market
Sight Draft
Sight Letter of Credit
Signal
Signaling Approach
Signaling Approach (On Dividend Policy)
Signature Guarantee
Signature Loan
Signatures On Proxies
Significant Influence
Significant Order
Significant Order Imbalance
Silent Partner
Silent Partnership
Silver Parachutes
SIMEX
Simple Compound Growth Method
Simple Interest
Simple IRA
Simple Journal Entry
Simple linear regression
Simple linear trend model
Simple moving average
Simple prospect
Simple rate of Return
Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) Plan
Simulation
Singapore International Monetary Exchange (SIMEX)
Single European Act
Single Life Annuity
Single Option
Single-Buyer Policy
Single-Country Fund
Single-Entry Bookkeeping
Single-Factor Model
Single-Index Model
Single-Payment Bond
Single-Premium Deferred Annuity (SPDA)
Single-Premium Life Insurance
Single-State Municipal Bond Fund
Sinker
Sinking Fund
Sinking Fund Requirement
SIPS
SIT
Sit Tight
Size
Size Out the Book
SJ
SK
Skewed Distribution
Skewness
Skill
Skip Person
Skip-Day Settlement
Skip-Payment Privilege
SKK
Skort-Swing Transaction
SKU
SL
SLA
SLD Last Sale
Sleeper
Sleeping Beauty
Slippage
Slippage
SLL
SLR
Slump
SM
SMA
Small Business Policy
Small Investor
Small Issues Exemption
Small Order Execution System (SOES)
Small-Cap
Small-Capitalization (Small Cap) Stocks
Small-Capitalization (Small-Cap) Fund
Small-Firm Effect
Smart Money
SMBS
Smidge
Smithsonian Agreement
SN
Snake
Snowballing
SO
Social Entity
Social Security Benefits
Social Security Disability Income Insurance
Socially Conscious Mutual Fund
Society For Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (Swift)
SOES
Soes (Small Order Execution System)
Soft Capital Rationing
Soft Costs
Soft Currency
Soft Dollars
Soft Landing
Soft Market
Soft Spot
Softs
Sold Away
Sold-Out Market
Sole Propriertorship
Sole Proprietor
Sole Proprietorship
Solvency
SOS
Sound
Sour Bond
Source Documents
Source of Funds Seller
Sources And Applications of Funds Statement
South African Futures Exchange (SAFEX)
Sovereign Risk
SOXS
Span
SPDRs
SPE
Special Arbitrage Account
Special Assessment Bond
Special Bid
Special Bond Account
Special Dividend
Special Drawing Rights (SDR)
Special Journal
Special Meeting
Special Memorandum Account
Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV)
Specialist
Specialist Block Purchase And Sale
Specialist Market
Specialist Unit
Specialist's Book
Specialist's Short-Sale Ratio
Special-Purpose Entity
Special-Purpose Entity (SPE)
Specific Issues Market
Specific Research
Specific Return
Specific Risk
Spectail
Speculation
Speculative
Speculative Demand (for Money)
Speculative Motive
Speculative Stock
Speculative-Grade Bond
Speculator
Speed
Spending Level
Spider
Spike
Spinning
Spin-Off
Spin-Off Ruling
SPINs
Split
Split Commission
Split Offering
Split Order
Split Payment
Split Print
Split Rating
Split Stock
Split-Coupon Bond
Split-Fee Option
Split-Interest Agreement
Split-Off Point
Split-Rate Tax System
Spoken For
Sponsor
Spontaneous Assets
Spontaneous Current Liabilities
Spontaneous Liabilities
Spot Commodity
Spot Exchange Rates
Spot Futures Parity Theorem
Spot Interest Rate
Spot Lending
Spot Markets
Spot Month
Spot Price
Spot Rate
Spot Rate Curve
Spot Secondary
Spot Trade
Spot Transaction
Spousal IRA
Spousal Remainder Trust
Spread
Spread Income
Spread Option
Spread Order
Spread Position
Spread Strategy
Spreadsheet
Spreadsheet
Sprinkling Trust
SPV
SPX
Squeeze
SR
SRG
SRO
SS1
ST
Stability
Stabilization
Stable Paretian, or Fractal Hypothesis
Stag
Stagflation
Staggered Board of Directors
Staggering Maturities
Stagnation
Stake
Stakeholders
Stale Check
Stalking Horse
Stalking Horse Bid
Stamp Duty
Stamp Tax
Stand Up To
Stand-Alone Principle
Standard & Poor's Midcap 400 Index
Standard & Poor's Smallcap 600 Index
Standard And Poor's (S&P) 500
Standard Cost
Standard Cost System
Standard Deduction
Standard Deviation
Standard Error
Standard Industrial Classification (SIC)
Standard Rate And Data Service (SRDS)
Standardized Normal Distribution
Standardized Value
Standby Agreement
Standby Commitment
Standby Fee
Standby Letter of Credit
Standing
Standstill Agreement

 Start-Up
Startup Cost
State And Local Government Series (SLUGs)
State Bank
State Tax-Exempt Income Fund
State Unemployment Tax Act (SUTA)
Stated Annual Interest Rate
Stated Capital
Stated Conversion Price
Stated Maturity
Stated Value
Statement Billing
Statement of Additional Information (SAI)
Statement of Affairs
Statement of Cash Flows
Statement of Condition
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 52
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 8
Statement of Retained Earnings
Statement-of-Cash-Flows Method
Static Return
Static Theory of Capital Structure
Stationary Time Series
Statistical Arbitrage
Statistical Tracking Error
Statutory Account
Statutory Debt Limit
Statutory Investment
Statutory Law
Statutory Lien
Statutory Merger
Statutory Surplus
Statutory Voting
Staying Power
Std
Steady State
Steamship Conference
Steenth
Steepening of the Yield Curve
Step Aside
Step Lease
Step Up
Step-Down Note
Stepped Costs
Step-Up Bond
Step-Up Swap
Sterilized Intervention
Stewardship
Sticky Deal
Stochastic Models
Stochastics Index
Stock
Stock Ahead
Stock Appreciation Right (SAR)
Stock Bonus Plan
Stock Buyback
Stock Certificate
Stock Dividend
Stock Exchange Automated Quotation System (SEAQ)
Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (SEHK)
Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES)
Stock Exchange of Thailand
Stock Exchange, Mumbai (BSE)
Stock Exchanges
Stock Index
Stock Index Future
Stock Index Option
Stock Index Swap
Stock Insurance Company
Stock Jockey
Stock List
Stock Market
Stock Option
Stock Power
Stock Purchase Plan
Stock Rating
Stock Record
Stock Replacement Strategy
Stock Repurchase
Stock Right
Stock Sale
Stock Selection
Stock Split
Stock Symbol
Stock Ticker
Stock Turnover Period
Stock Turns
Stock Watcher (NYSE)
Stockbroker
Stockholder
Stockholder Books
Stockholder Equity
Stockholder of Record
Stockholder's Equity
Stockholder's Report
Stockholm Stock Market
Stockout
Stocktaking
StockWatch
Stop Basis
Stop Order (or Stop)
Stop Payment
Stop Transfer
Stop-Limit Order
Stop-Loss Order
Stop-Out Price
Stopped
Stopped Out
Stopping Curve
Stopping Curve Refunding Rate
Story Stock/Bond
Straddle
Straight
Straight Bill of Lading
Straight Discount
Straight Term Insurance Policy
Straight Value
Straight Voting
Straight-Line Depreciation
Straight-Line Depreciation Method
Stranded Plant
Strange Attractor
Strangle
Strategic Alliance
Strategic Asset
Strategic Buyout
Strategic Performance Management
Strategic Planning
Strategy
Stratified Equity Indexing
Stratified Sampling Approach To Indexing
Stratified Sampling Bond Indexing
Straw Man
Stray
Street
Street Name
Strike Index
Strike Price
Striking Price
Striking Price Intercal
Strip
Strip Mortgage Participation Certificate (Strip PC)
Stripped Bond
Stripped Mortgage-Backed Securities (SMBS)
Stripped Yield
Strong Currency
Strong Dollar
Strong Form of the EMT
Strong-form efficiency
Structural Adjustment Loan Facility (SAL)
Structured Arbitrage Transaction
Structured Debt
Structured Note
Structured Portfolio Strategy
Structured Settlement
Stub
Student Loan Marketing Association (SLMA)
Stumpage
Subchapter M
Subchapter S
Subchapter S
Subject
Subject Market
Subject to a (NY) can
Subject To a Print/Execution/Trading
Subject To Opinion
Subjective Probabilities
Subledger
Sublet
Subordinated
Subordinated Bonds
Subordinated Debenture Bond
Subordinated Debt
Subordination Clause
Subpart F
Subperiod Return
Sub-Prime Credit Cards
Subrogation
Subscription
Subscription Agreement
Subscription Price
Subscription Privilege
Subscription Right
Subscription Warrant
Subsidiary
Subsidiary
Subsidized Financing
Substance Over Form
Substantially Equal Periodic Payments (SEPP)
Substitute Sale
Substitution Swap
Subvention
Success Tax
SUI
Suicide Pill
Suitability
Suitability Rules
Suitable
Summary Plan Description (SPD)
Sum-Of-The-Years Digits (SYD)
Sum-Of-The-Years'-Digits Depreciation
Sundry Account
Sunk Cost
Sunk Costs
Sunrise Industries
Super Bowl Indicator
Super DOT
Super Majority
Super Message
Super Sinker Bond
Supermajority
Supermajority Amendment
Supervisory Analyst
Supervisory Board
Supplemental Security Income
Supplier Credit
Supply Shock
Supply-Side Economics
Support
Support Level
Supporting Documents
Suppressed Inflation
Surcharge
Surety
Surety Bond
Surplus
Surplus Funds
Surplus Management
Surtax
Surveillance Department of Exchanges
Sushi Bond
Suspended Trading
Suspense Account
Sustainable Growth Rate
Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR)
SUTA
SV
SVC
Swap
Swap Arrangements
Swap Assignment
Swap Book
Swap Buy Back
Swap Fund
Swap Option
Swap Rate
Swap Reversal
Swap Sale
Swaption
Sweat Equity
Sweep Account
Sweeping Accounts
Sweetener
SWIFT
Swift Code
Swingline Facility
Swiss Electronic Bourse (EBS)
Swiss Exchange
Swiss Options And Financial Futures Exchange (SOFFEX)
Swissy
Switch Order
Switching
Switching Options
Swot Analysis
SY
Sydney Futures Exchange (SFE)
Symbol
Symbol Book Special
Symmetric Cash Matching
Synchronous Data
Syndicate
Syndicate Manager
Syndicated Eurocredit Loans
Syndicated Loan
Synergistic Effect
Synergy
Synthetic Convertible
Synthetic Forward Position
Synthetic Lease
Synthetic Lease
Synthetic Put
Synthetic Stock
Synthetics
SYP
System Noise
Systematic
Systematic Investment Plan
Systematic Return
Systematic Risk
Systematic Risk Principle
Systematic Withdrawal Plan
Systemic Risk
SZ
SZL

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