Financial Market - Financial Market Slang

Financial Market Slang

  • Poison pill, when a company issues more shares to prevent being bought out by another company, thereby increasing the number of outstanding shares to be bought by the hostile company making the bid to establish majority.
  • Quant, a quantitative analyst with a PhD (and above) level of training in mathematics and statistical methods.
  • Rocket scientist, a financial consultant at the zenith of mathematical and computer programming skill. They are able to invent derivatives of high complexity and construct sophisticated pricing models. They generally handle the most advanced computing techniques adopted by the financial markets since the early 1980s. Typically, they are physicists and engineers by training; rocket scientists do not necessarily build rockets for a living.
  • White Knight, a friendly party in a takeover bid. Used to describe a party that buys the shares of one organization to help prevent against a hostile takeover of that organization by another party.
  • round tripping
  • smurfing
  • Spread, the difference between the highest bid and the lowest offer.

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