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Business Buzzwords: Japanese Automobiles
1. The ' ' structuring of assembler-supplier relations
historically enabled Japanese auto assemblers to remain
lean and flexible while enjoying a level of control over
supply akin to that of vertical integration.

kaizen
keiretsu
zaibatsu
zamindari
2 the yield curve, the fixed-income strategy of
purchasing a longer-dated security and selling before
maturity, is a popular means to achieve excess returns
compared to buying-and-holding, despite its implicit
violations of market efficiency and the pure expectations
hypothesis of the term structure.

Bumping
Driving
Riding
Tracking
3. Resident Market Makers would be able to vote to
reduce the commission charge for the (OBO) who
keeps the public limit orders in the relevant class of
options.

Official Book Orderly
Old Boy Official
Option Book Officer
Order Book Official

4. shops' are firms that entice people through
various tactics to open trading accounts with them
(including misleading job advertisements that promise
quick, unrealistic returns), but on contractual terms that
are favourable towards these firms.

Bucket
Bully
Cadge
Cellar
5. industry theory posits that small or less
productive firms in developing countries require protection
to catch up to foreign competitors, and this theory is often
cited as a validation for government-sponsored protection
from trade and foreign direct investment.

Infant
Initial
Spoonfed
Subsidy
6. Small capitalization public companies need access to
savvy investors in micro and small cap stocks who are
actively seeking the next , but the typical investor
thinks that he should avoid the small cap market, that he
would never have the insight, inside knowledge, skill or
luck to find a blockbuster performer.

threebagger
fourbagger
sevenbagger

tenbagger
7. Bankruptcy courts are receptive to granting certain
protections for the horse bid because of the risk and
expense incurred in making the first bid and the interest it
generates for the assets.

bucking
racing
rocking
stalking
8. A persistent growl from the bear camp two years ago
was that the U.S. economy was headed for a 'double-
recession', meaning the economy was in danger of
sliding back into a period of negative growth after having
climbed out of it.

bubble
dip
scoop
trouble
9. Ultimately, Louis Rukeyser's TV show, 'Wall Street
Week', made investing look too easy: you can't rely on
to tell you when to be in or out of the market.

elves
entertainers
ghosts
hosts
10. Nicknamed "The Junk Bond King", Michael is
credited with founding the high-yield debt market but was

banned for life from the securities industry.

Faraday
Fox
Milken
Moore