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Business English Lesson – Advanced Level's archive
Business Buzzwords: High Valuation
1. High valuation means a bigger potential price fall for a
stock.

bungee
parachute
submarine
torpedo
2. The leader is a pricing strategy which involves
selling products/services at a price that will generate little
or no profit and in some cases not even cover all
associated costs (marketing, overheads, direct costs, etc).

bargain
discount
loss
sale
3. Comes Off Starbucks: Shares in Starbucks fell to
their lowest level since late 2005 as investor concerns
about slower sales and profit growth continued to chip
away at the once highflying stock.

Fizz
Fluff
Foam
Froth
4. Not all these houses are ugly and shoddy: though most
are badly proportioned pastiches of different styles, some
are built with attention to detail and materials, but, as the
epithet suggests, they're just too big-for their lots, for

their neighborhoods and for the number of people who
actually live in them.

Gargantuan
Humonghouse
Lilliputian
McMansion
5. American bankers for decades operated by the
rule; they could afford to be that precise because federal
and state laws set the strict rules by which they operated
and protected them from competitors, and the power and
prestige of bankers remained as secure as their vaults,
while profits were steady and certain.

2+2
3-6-3
9/11
24-7
6. Going public with a bear is a great strategy for
acquiring a target whose management isn't inclined to sell;
it forces a corporate board to consider any reasonable bid
because directors have a responsibility to provide
shareholders with the best financial returns.

flattener
hug
spread
trap
7. The good and bad of : Tax refunds may be
welcome to most taxpayers, but technically speaking, it's

not wise to give the government interest-free loans.

indemnification
intaxification
intensification
investigation
8. On the negative side, the market is a stone's throw from
refreshing the overvalued, overbought, overbullish, yields-
rising condition we've dubbed ' '.

boyoboy
oabooby
onobobby
ovoboby
9. Life expectancy for men aged 60 is more than five
years' longer in 2005 than it was anticipated to be in
mortality projections made in the 1980s, and this problem
threatens the solvency of the life and pensions industries;
the amounts exposed to risk in the UK pensions
industry alone are estimated to be 2,520 billion.

liveability
longevity
senility
seniority
10. We have taken a direct sentiment measure, i.e.,
market sentiment index constucted by 'Investors
Intelligence': each week weekly newsletter opinions on the
future market movements are grouped, and we use the
ratio as a proxy of sentiment.

bull-bear
buy-sell
gain-loss
hawk-dove