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Business buzzwords: Listed for destruction
1. With the approval of the SEC, the DTCC will be taking
the first steps of a multi-year initiative to eliminate non-
transferable certificates and help lower expenses for
holding such certificates in custody; once an issue is listed
for destruction, DTC said it would all activity on that
issue.

cease
chill
freeze
gel
2. stripping is a type of predatory lending brought on
by the housing boom: as housing prices and property
taxes skyrocket, many homeowners are forced into
default; the stripper, in one way or another, satisfies the
loan and usually takes the title.

Equity
Mortgage
Property
Wallet
3. The Minister of Finance pays the Royal Canadian Mint
to produce and distribute all coins; it costs the Mint about
12 cents to produce and distribute a dollar coin, which
generates for the government approximately 88 cents in
on each $1 coin sold to financial institutions at face
value.

emoluments

numismatics
remuneration
seigniorage
4. Reminiscent of the 'Asian ' triggered by Thailand
in 1997, which became a full-blown financial crisis, other
Asian stock indices reacted to the Thai news with sharp
falls on Tuesday: the Bombay Stock Exchange's Sensitive
Index dropped 2.5% and Indonesia's Jakarta Composite
Index lost 2.9%.

contagion
domino
epidemic
plague
5. Yoshiaki Murakami flouted convention once again by
launching a hostile takeover bid against Shoei Co., a little-
known electronics and real estate company; this
Knight, who heads his own M&A consulting firm, MAC
Corp., lambasted Shoei's managers for the company's
sluggish stock price.

Black
Grey
White
Yellow
6. These organizations may award capital for
especially promising projects that meet their guidelines:
this money can be used for initial investment in a project
or startup company, for proof-of-concept, market research
or initial product development.

birth
egg
growth
seed
7. For a company, being ' ' means that it is of high
enough quality to have the respect of the financial district;
although individuals are the ones who come to eventually
own companies, a company must first impress the
investment bankers and those on Wall Street to make it to
the market.

marketable
stockable
streetable
wallable
8. A is a situation in which two events or actions
have the effect of nullifying each other; in terms of
investment, this could be when the gains in a portfolio
equal the losses.

deadend
stalemate
tie
wash
9. companies build and sell or lease commercial
real-estate, software, or applications for wide-scale
commercial use; they are also referred to as business-to-
business (B2B) companies.

Biz-con
Com-dev
Con-biz
Dev-com
10. Joe invests in XYZ Corp. because the stock is
undervalued; it doubles in price in two months, but Joe
holds on to the whole investment, hoping it will double
again in the next two months, instead of selling a portion
to realize a gain — Joe is a investor because he is
greedy for huge gains and allows his greed to supersede
his original investment strategy.

bullish
piggish
sheepish
swinish