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Silver Lining

A metaphor that denotes a positive side to an otherwise negative aspect or occurrence. The positivity emerging alongside, or from...

White Hat Hacking

An individual, highly trained skilled, that employs hacking know-how and skills to spot security flaws in software and hardware, or...

Milli Vanilli Concert

An idiomatic term that describes something (object, act, idea, etc.) as  unreal, false, fraudulent or not truly disclosed in a...

Low-Hanging Fruit

An easy investment opportunity that a bank attempts to take up before delving into other more demanding opportunities. This involves...

Nuclear Waste

In Wall Street parlance, it refers to the investments or instruments that involve risks requiring sophisticated mathematical skills to comprehend....

Losing One’s Shirt

A very bad investment/ project that wipes out all money expensed to establish it, while producing no sufficient profits to...

Fall Out of Bed

A slang for a very rapid decline in price. A stock or security is said to be falling out bed...

Falling Knife

An idiomatic phrase that describes a security whose price or value has rapidly decreased in a very short period of...

Pot Securities

The portion of securities from a new public offering issue that are returned to the lead underwriter by syndicate members...

Pot

The portion of securities from a new public offering issue that are returned to the lead underwriter by syndicate members...