Financial Crisis - Glossary

Came across this post in bbc.com which explains all the complex jargon's of the Financial world. Useful for laymen to understand the terminologies they across business news pages

AAA-rating Administration Assets Basis point Bear market Bond Bull market Capital Carry trade Capitulation Chapter 11 Collateralised debt obligation Commercial paper Commodities Correction Credit crunch Credit default swap Currency peg Dead cat bounce Deflation Derivatives Dividends Equity FTSE-100 Fundamentals Futures GDP Hedge fund Hedging Inflation Investment bank Junk bond Keynesian economics Limited liability Leveraging Source : http://news.bbc.co.uk

Libor Liquidity Loans to deposit ratio Mark-to-market Money markets Monoline insurance Mortgage-backed securities Naked short selling Nationalisation Negative equity Ponzi scheme Preference shares Prime rate Profit warning Quantitative easing Rating Recapitalisation Recession Retained earnings Rights issue Securities lending Securitisation Security Short selling Spiv Stagflation Sub-prime mortgages Swap Tier 1 capital Toxic debts Underwriters Unwind Warrants Write-down Yield spread