Business buzzwords

..... Accounting Principles (LGAP) will supersede generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) as companies 'come clean' in post-Enron Wall Street.

....., the company best known for the insider-trading scandal that sent founder Samuel Waksal and domestic diva Martha Stewart to prison, received more bad news this week when a U.S. judge ruled that the patent for its only product was actually owned by three Israeli scientists.

Nasdaq data indicate that 94% of the share volume from 4:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. resulted from after-hours transactions rather than ..... from the regular trading session.

The rule of thumb for the ..... indicator is that whenever its stock price fails to make a new high within any given four month period, it harbingers economic recession for the U.S.

Purchasing power parity theory states that the exchange rate between two countries should ultimately move toward the rate that equalizes the prices of an identical basket of goods and services in each country; the Economist has suggested that the 'basket' is a ....., which is produced in about 120 countries.

Altria has long been considered a classic widow-and-..... stock: great for its stability and big annual dividend, currently about 4.1 percent.

The 'ring .....' around the profits of North Sea companies is designed to prevent losses from non-North Sea activities from being set against profits of North Sea activities; one of the rules is that interest can only be deducted from North Sea profits if the capital has been borrowed for a North Sea oil purpose.

Energy exchanges offer ..... spreads as futures, where both legs of the combination (crude oil and an oil product) can be traded in one single transaction; these derivatives help refineries to offset or manage their risks, but investors can also use these instruments.

SAP tech ..... Agassi resigns: The world's largest enterprise software application vendor announced on Wednesday that Shai Agassi is departing at the end of the week as president of SAP's product and technology group.

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