spinning n.— «Handing out chunky pieces of a hot IPO has led to trouble in other markets. Several years ago, U.S. regulators cracked down on a practice known as spinning, in which investment banks steered hot IPO shares to preferred...
spinning n.— «Westly’s personal fortune also has proved something of a campaign liability. He has been criticized for engaging in a practice known as “spinning,” in which investment banks gave high-tech executives special...
cold shell n.— «Two of the buildings with about 350,000 square feet are unfinished, or in what the industry calls “cold-shell” condition and would require additional investment of about $100 a square foot before they could be...
chuppy n.— «Take the “Chuppies” into account when rounding out your investment portfolio, advises investment strategist Dr. Bob Froehlich. Chuppies, Froehlich explains in his new book “Investment Megatrends,” are...
barbecue risk n.— «Late in 2005, MLC Investments coined a phrase destined to pass into the investment vernacular: “barbecue risk.” It neatly sums up the pressure we feel when we hear that someone else’s investments have done...
duster n.— «Wells, rigs, drilling and dusters all appear in greater force than they did in the proceeding [sic] month. The latter class however are not in quite as strong force as the public outside of this field evidently anticipated...