Dividend Yield (Stocks) Predicted/ probable yield (latest yield x 4) calculated by dividing annual dividends by stock price at current time. … [Read more...]
Dividends Per Share
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Dividends Per Share Payouts in the form of dividends, made over the past one year period divided by total outstanding common shares. Usually reported by the company by calculating number of shares over the reporting period by using weighted averages. … [Read more...]
Doctrine of Sovereign Immunity
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Doctrine of Sovereign Immunity States that one nation cannot undergo trail in another country’s court without getting its consent first. … [Read more...]
Documented Discount Notes
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Documented Discount Notes Also called LOC or letter of credit paper. CP or commercial paper that has the backing of conventional bank lines and in addition, has a bank’s letter of credit guaranteeing repayment on maturity date if borrower defaults. … [Read more...]
Dollar Auction
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Dollar Auction Basic dollar auction involves auctioning of a $1 bill among two parties. Demonstrates that rational acts can lead to unfavorable outcomes. … [Read more...]
Dollar Bonds
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Dollar Bonds Revenue bonds issued by municipality where dollar price quotes are available. Distinct from "U.S. Dollar" bonds- term used with Eurobond trades. … [Read more...]
Dollar Duration
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Dollar Duration Modified/ changed duration multiplied by price quoted initially. … [Read more...]
Dollar Price of Bond
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Dollar Price of Bond Quoted price of bond denoted as percentage value of bond’s face value. … [Read more...]
Dollar Return
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Dollar Return Return achieved from a portfolio for any period considered, including all distributions made from the portfolio during such period and any variation in the portfolio’s market value. … [Read more...]
Dollar Roll
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Dollar Roll Comparable to repos. An agreement to make a portfolio security sale at the same time as a purchase of similar security at predetermined price at a future time. … [Read more...]
Dollar Safety Margin
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Dollar Safety Margin Equivalent value in dollars in a contingent immunization strategy of the safety cushion of the portfolio. … [Read more...]
Dollar Shortage
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Dollar Shortage Occurs when one country lacks adequate dollar reserves to conduct international trade. To accumulate dollars, the country may export more goods that are bought with dollars than it imports. In case of critical dollar shortage, temporary liquidity assistance may be … [Read more...]
Dollar-Weighted Rate of Return
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Dollar-Weighted Rate of Return Alternatively termed internal rate of return (IRR). Denotes the rate of interest that equates present value of the flow of cash over every sub period in the period considered plus final or terminal portfolio market value with the portfolio’s initial … [Read more...]
Domestic Market
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Domestic Market Refer external market, foreign market. Segment of the country’s internal market encompassing the systems used for trading and issuing securities of business entities that have domicile in this nation. … [Read more...]
Don’t Know
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Don't Know Also known as DK or DKed. Abbreviation for "Don't know the trade." Wall Street expression that represents lack of knowledge of a trade or that is used when contradictory orders are being given by the second party to the trade. … [Read more...]
Double-Declining-Balance Depreciation
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Double-Declining-Balance Depreciation Accounting technique of considering higher depreciation for the early life of asset and lower depreciation later. … [Read more...]
Double-Dip Lease
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Double-Dip Lease Lease across borders wherein the difference in regulations in lessor's country and lessee's country allows both to be considered owner of the leased item when tax is calculated. … [Read more...]
Double Top
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Double Top Technical analysis term that describes the movement of a stock characterized by a rise, a drop, a second rise that matches the first and at last, a drop. … [Read more...]
Doubling Option
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Doubling Option Provision that comes with a sinking fund to enable repurchase of double the number of bonds as required at the call price quote for the fund. … [Read more...]
Dow Jones Industrial Average
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Dow Jones Industrial Average Most well known stock index in U.S. that comprises of about 30 NYSE listed stocks. Called the Dow, this index indicates the performance of shares of some of the largest companies in U.S. … [Read more...]
