Area located on the trading floor of an options and futures exchange . Contracts are sold and bought in a live cry out auction.

Area located on the trading floor of an stock exchange where a specialist will conduct a live cry out auction.

Alternate term for operating income or gross profit .

1. Commodities trading. Maximum and minimum limit set by an exchange where a commodity price is allowed to fluctuate on a trading day. 2. Securities trading. Spread from the low […]

Term referring to a normal day of trading excluding trading before and after opening and closing bells.

1. Increasing number of product features, quality improvements , increasing support services to justify a higher price. Trading down is the opposite. 2. Selling type where a customer can be […]

Total number of shares traded in one day for a market security.

A trading corporation is a commercial corporation engaged In buying and selling. The word “trading,” is much narrower in scope than “business,” as applied to corporations, and though a trading […]

Lat In the civil law . Delivery ; transfer of possession; a derivative mode of acquiring, by which the owner of a corporeal thing, having the right and the will […]

Delivery. A close translation or formation from the Latin “traditio.” 2 Bl. Comm. 307. The tradition or delivery is the transferring of the thing sold into the power and pos- […]

Balance sheet considering only tangible assets and not any intangible assets.

Common method of contracting where the client chooses service providers for design of work and asks for bids on construction work.

Economy using various means of social support.

Tax qualified account for savings allowing the account holder to put aside money for retirement.

UK sold option where there isn’t a secondary market but is able to be sold back to the original principal or a counter party.

evidence that is based on what a dead person has said many years before.

In old English law . A traitor; one guilty of high treason. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 21,

In old practice. Is delivered to bail. Emphatic words of t-ie old Latin bail-piece. 1 Salk. 105.

Commerce; trade; dealings in merchandise , bills, money, and the like. See Iu re Insurance Co. (D. C.) 96 Fed. 757; Levine v. State, 35 Tex. Cr. R. 647. 34 […]

Attractions or promotional campaign that is aimed at increasing shopper numbers passing through a mall or store in business hours .

The carrying on of an illegal commercial activity such as selling drugs or substances that are banned.

Archetypal phenomenon that attempts to exploit the system that will turn out to be self-defeating.

Lat. In French law . The drawer of a bill. Story, Bills,

Justices of trail-bas- ton were justices appointed by King Edward I., during his absence in the Scotch and French wars, about the year 1305. They were so styled, says Ilollingshed, […]

Evaluating an investment for a set period of time no longer than a year.