1. Relating to, or involving, money or finance.
2. Pertaining to public revenue; such as, financial concerns or operations.
3. Referring to monetary receipts and expenditures; or relating to money matters; pecuniary.
2. A descriptive term for those who are commonly engaged in dealing with money and credit.
Recently revised financial terms
- CEO: Chief Embezzlement Officer.
- CFO: Corporate Fraud Officer.
- Bull Market: A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius.
- Bear Market: A 6 to 18 month period when the kids get no allowance and the wife gets no jewelry.
- Value Investing: The art of buying low and selling lower.
- P/E Ratio: The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the market keeps crashing.
- Broker: What my broker has made me.
- Standard and Poor: Your life in a nutshell.
- Stock Analyst: The idiot who just downgraded your stock.
- Stock Split: When your ex-wife and her lawyer split your assets equally between themselves.
- Financial Planner: A guy whose phone has been disconnected.
- Market Correction: The day after you buy stocks.
- Cash Flow: The movement your money makes as it disappears down the toilet.
- YAHOO: What you yell after selling it to some poor sucker for $240 per share.
- Windows: What you jump out of when you’re the sucker who bought Yahoo at $240 per share.
- Institutional Investor: A past year investor who’s now locked up in a nuthouse.
- Profit: An archaic word no longer in use.
—From "Revised Financial Terminology for 2008";
Posted in Banking News by Johns Wu; October 8, 2008.
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