Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• YIELD (%) - The rate of return, usually dividend or interest payments, on an investment, expressed as a...
  
  
• YIELD ADVANTAGE - The advantage gained by purchasing convertible securities instead of common stock, wh...
  
  
• YIELD BURNING - The IRS's name for the dealer's crime of overcharging state and local governments and a...
  
  
• YIELD CURB - Applies mainly to convertible securities. Difference in current yield between the converti...
  
  
• YIELD CURVE - A graph showing the relationship at a selected point in time between the available maturi...
  
  
• YIELD CURVE MODEL - See term structure model.
  
  
• YIELD CURVE OPTION-PRICING MODELS - Models that can incorporate different volatility assumptions along ...
  
  
• YIELD CURVE RISK - The risk to a holder of financial instruments that a change in prevailing interest r...
  
  
• YIELD CURVE SLOPE - Yield curves also describe the amount of difference between short-term and long-ter...
  
  
• YIELD CURVE SMOOTHING - See smoothing.